David Norman reveals how scientists combine anatomy, genetics, forensics, and even engineering design to build a picture of what dinosaurs looked like, what they ate, and how they moved and interacted with each other. Exploring how animal life evolved on Earth, he highlights the place of dinosaurs in evolutionary history."--Jacket.
Alcohemy offers real, practical advice and a proven solution to those struggling with an alcohol habit. It reveals the extent of the problems alcohol causes globally and the resulting human suffering. David Norman describes how he innocently started down the casual alcohol-drinking path and the ensuing struggle his full-blown dependency caused him and his family. Based on extensive research and proven by personal experience, Alcohemy is unique in its holistic and practical approach that first addresses the psychology of habits before providing a step-by-step plan for you to work through yourself in the privacy of your own home. Alcohemy delivers a practical, proven, and easy-to-follow plan for a permanent alcohol-free life.
The debut cookbook from cult favorite Austin bakery and beer garden Easy Tiger, featuring recipes from author David Norman's time spent exploring bread traditions throughout Europe and North America, plus menu ideas for incorporating homemade bread into everyday meals. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In this highly anticipated cookbook, culinary instructor and baker David Norman explores the European breadmaking traditions that inspire him most--from the rye breads of France to the saltless ciabattas of Italy to the traditional Christmas loaves of Scandinavia. Norman also offers recipes for traditional foods to accompany these regional specialties, so home bakers can showcase their freshly made breads alongside a traditional Swedish breakfast spread, oysters with mignonette, or country pâté, to name a few examples. With rigorous, detailed instructions plus showstopping photography, this book will surprise and delight bakers of all stripes.
The books in this series cover the basic principles and procedures needed to master and enjoy the art of drawing or painting. These user-friendly guides can help artists of any skill level learn to draw or paint with greater confidence. Each includes an informative introduction that provides advice on selecting and using art materials, then addresses essential issues artists are bound to encounter, offering innovative solutions with step-by-step demonstrations and detailed close-ups of finished art. These books are sure to be a valuable reference artists will turn to again and again for years to come.
This informative book, designed for all levels of business management, provides essential information the user needs to determine system requirements and get it up and running. A wide variety of software and hardware tools are discussed, such as network design, existing components vs. additional equipment, LAN printers, add-on peripherals, installation and much more.
This book embodies work stretching over a fifteen year period. As a result· inevitably we are greatly indebted to a number of institutions and a large number of individuals. Over the years considerable administrative and financial help was provided by the Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, the Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the northern states of Nigeria, the Ford Foundation, and more recently, Kansas State University.
They were desperate dreamers--these men and women who journeyed with the wagon train, lured by the powerful promise of wealth and the need for adventure. It made no difference that the nation was being torn apart by war; these strong, brave pioneers were determined to forge their way west. As they traveled toward Montana, the brutal winter set in. Snowbound in the mountains, with drifts over twenty feet high, they were forced to endure hardships never before imagined. Unable to go back or move forward, supplies practically gone, tempers at trigger point--it was certain that they would not survive. But there were always those who refused to die, those with unmatched spirit and courage--the fighting breed who fought for freedom, dared to take risks, those who were called the frontier rakers.
Cole Howland has it good. He has Suzette, his girlfriend of six years; he has his career as a jazz musician and occasional academic; and he has Lily, Suzette's piano prodigy daughter and Cole's musical lifeline. But when he returns from touring to find that Suzette is leaving him for another man, his world disintegrates. Hooked on a vicious cocktail of heartache, jealousy, and jazz, Cole's grip on his life is faltering. Kicked out of his band and with his drinking spiraling out of control, Cole is struggling to hold it together. Things can only get better when Hannah, a scholar and jazz aficionado, comes onto the scene. But Suzette's fiance is set on Cole's destruction, and Lily is slipping through his fingers. Cole will discover those things he could never live without, and he'll have to fight for them.
The Pacific Northwest has always been home to unusual folktales, bizarre legends, and strange goings ons. From the countless UFO sightings and the dense rainforests of Oregon and Washington, to the sprawling network of Shanghai tunnels interlaced beneath the cities, the region is rife with stories of the unexplained and the unnatural. In Evergreen Ape, David Lewis takes a closer look at the origins of the Pacific Northwest’s most beloved and elusive cryptid: Bigfoot. Drawing from newspaper reports, local American Indian legends, and stories passed down from settlers in the 1800s, Lewis explores the true stories that created the modern monster. Discover the various manifestations of the legend and the way he has interacted with society, then read about popular hikes in the area where he has supposedly been spotted, and step onto the path of finding Bigfoot yourself.
COMMUNICATIVE IDEAS takes the idea of student involvement and cooperation and shows teachers how these ideas can be part of their own teaching. It helps students learn in a relaxed, cooperative and genuinely communicative atmosphere. Packed with lesson ideas.
This guide answers all the questions which artists have about getting the best results from their chosen medium. Laid out in a user-friendly way, the book is styled in a question and answer format and illustrated with correct and incorrect ways of using tools and getting the most from different techniques. The authors tackle the problems that serious beginners and amateur artists are likely to encounter and offer a variety of solutions.
As almost every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of "watching a film" is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media, what will happen to cinema--and to cinema studies? In the first of two books exploring this question, Rodowick considers the fate of film and its role in the aesthetics and culture of the twenty-first century.
The high level of unemployment in Britain in the 1980s led many people to believe that it would continue indefinitely, and many arguments were advanced to explain it. After a preliminary examination of the statistics of employment and unemployment in Britain, this 1991 book exposes the major factors determining their trends as a basis for considering the likely developments and policy options. The study covers most of the explanations found in academic debate as well as in popular belief, drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including systematic international comparisons as well as case studies of particular interest. The analysis is carried out under four main headings: structural change; the wage question; macroeconomic policy; and the international dimension. The book concludes with a consideration of the practicability of the different policies which emerge.
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