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Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens is a practical family guide that covers every aspect of essential nutrition to help raise healthy teens. In a super-size-me world, Leslie Beck provides strategies for making healthy food choices and establishing good eating habits for life. Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens includes: How to determine a healthy body weight All the facts on carbohydrates, protein, fat, water, and other fluids Making healthy food choices when eating at home and school, and in restaurants and food courts Nutrition advice for vegetarian teens Weight control strategies for teens Nutrition advice for sports Understanding and dealing with eating disorders Over 60 healthy recipes for breakfasts, school lunches, dinners on the fly, and snacks Product details Format

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech's most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem"--by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users. Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and services remains difficult. Startups face daunting challenges entering the technology ecosystem, including stiff competition, copycats, and ineffective marketing channels. Teams launching new products must consider the advantages of "the network effect," where a product or service's value increases as more users engage with it. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants utilize network effects, and most tech products incorporate them, whether they're messaging apps, workplace collaboration tools, or marketplaces. Network effects provide a path for fledgling

Das Chaos geht weiter »Eins sag ich dir gleich: Das hier ist nichts für schwache Nerven! Es ist der absolute Horror! Der nackte Wahnsinn! Die Hölle!« So sieht das jedenfalls Jan, als er mit Gipsbein im Uniklinikum landet - in einem MÄDCHENzimmer mit DREI Zicken! Der einzige Lichtblick in dem Inferno: Dank eines Irrtums der Rettungs sanitäter verfügt Jan plötzlich über ein iPhone - wer auch immer vor ihm in dem Rettungswagen lag und es dort verloren hat. Jan hat die fatale Idee, anstelle des Unbekannten munter auf die eingehenden Nachrichten zu antworten, mit katastrophalen Folgen: Unversehens wird er zum (erfolglosen) Börsenspekulanten, (wortkargen) Werbetexter, (treulosen) Liebhaber...Echt krank! Product details For ages 11+

Ein Abenteuer aus dem Mittelalter Köln, 1445: Die zehnjährige Johanna riskiert viel, um lesen und schreiben zu lernen. Nur nachts bleibt ihr dafür Zeit, tagsüber schuftet sie als Magd bei einem Kaufmann. Klare Sache, dass sie ihre nächtlichen Aktivitäten verheimlichen muss. Doch als sie im Dom eine Kerze »ausleihen« will, um lesen zu üben, überrascht sie einen echten Dieb - ausgerechnet den Lehrer des Kaufmannssohns. Jetzt sitzt Johanna richtig in der Patsche. Product details For ages 9+ Format Paperback | 123 pages

The art of kinbaku, also known as shibari, is an elegant way to connect with a partner or add erotic spice in your life. Japanese-style bondage artist Shin Nawakiri shares his safe, sexy, and beautiful techniques in this newly-translated book, which contains numerous ties for the beginner artist and for intermediate or advanced players, including: sensual body wrapping without knots, binding one wrist or body column, body harnesses, futomomo (thigh ties), and takate kote (chest and arm binding). Explore the history of kinbaku, practical shibari for graceful and steamy play, the psychology of bondage (for those tying and those being bound), and more. Now is your time to enjoy this delicious form--learning from a renowned rope artist in the privacy of your home. Product details Format

The importance of achieving focus goes well beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment. Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break the cycle of distraction. This volume includes the work of: Daniel Goleman Heidi Grant Amy Jen Su Rasmus Hougaard HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, th

Der vernetzte Superheld Was tust du, wenn du alle Macht der Welt hast? Wenn du alles weißt und alles kannst? Versuchst du, die Welt vor dem Bösen zu bewahren? Oder willst du einfach nur die retten, die du liebst? Eben war Tom noch ein ganz normaler Junge. Jetzt ist er iBoy - ein Superheld, allwissend und unbesiegbar. Ein iPhone hat seinen Schädel zertrümmert und ist mit seinem Gehirn eine Verbindung eingegangen, die es Tom erlaubt, jede Sekunde online zu sein und sich in alle Datenbanken der Welt zu hacken. Mit seiner iHaut als Schutzpanzer und den Elektroschocks, die er austeilt, ist er den Typen gewachsen, die sein Viertel terrorisieren und Lucy überfallen haben, in die er verliebt ist. Für Tom zählt nur eins: Er will den Überfall auf Lucy rächen und sie beschützen - mit allen Mitteln. Aber sein Rachefeldzug bringt Lucy in tödliche Gefahr. Um sie zu retten, braucht es mehr als seine iBoy-Kräfte ... Nominiert für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2012 Auf der Liste 'Die besten 7

Collect the adventures of Mignolaverse enigma Lobster Johnson! After years of captivating fans' imaginations from the pages of Hellboy and B.P.R.D., the pulp-style adventures of Lobster Johnson took the limelight in his own series of comics adventures. From gangsters to Nazis to an army of monkeys, the Lobster faces classic foes in strange new ways. His adventures are now collected for the first time in a hardcover edition, collecting trade volumes The Burning Hand, Satan Smells a Rat, and Get the Lobster and the short story "Lobster Johnson: The Empty Chair" featuring writing by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Tonci Zonjic with art by Zonjic, Joe Querido, Sebastián Fiumara, and more! Product details Format Hardback

#1 New York Times Bestseller The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek. From the author: "For the last two years, I've interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast,The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it's the first time they've agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview, and the show is on the cusp of passing 100 million downloads. "This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and 'inside baseball' you won't find anywhere else. It also includes new tips from past guests, and life lessons from new 'guests' you haven't met. "What makes the show different is a relentless focus on actionable details. This is reflected in the questions. For exa

Diese Köstlichkeiten ließen schon keltischen Fürsten, römischen Gourmets und mittelalterlichen Herrschern das Wasser im Munde zusammenlaufen: Eine Schlemmerreise in die Vergangenheit in 44 leckeren Rezepten zum Nachkochen! Ein köstliches Entree von den Tafeln römischer Feinschmecker, ein knuspriger Zwischengang vom steinzeitlichen Lagerfeuer, dann ein fein-würziger Leckerbissen nach Art der Ritter und zum Dessert eine keltische Köstlichkeit: Schlemmen Sie sich durch die Menschheitsgeschichte von den ersten Bauern bis Barbarossa. Der Autor, der als einer der ersten Experimentalarchäologen die Geschichte der Kochkunst erforschte, stellt elf Epochen mit je vier leckeren Gerichten vor. Die Rezepte für vier Personen basieren auf historischen Forschungen und archäologischen Funden, die zu Beginn jedes Abschnitts erläutert werden. Der Autor hat alle Rezepte in der eigenen Küche getestet und für heutige Gewohnheiten praktikabel umgesetzt.

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England. Product details Format Paperback | 1328 pages Dimensions

In this highly original volume of social history, Karen Anderson makes a provocative claim: the subjugation of women in seventeenth-century New France was linked with the brutal colonization of native Indian populations. Before colonization, the Huron and Montagnais tribes lived in gender-egalitarian societies. The domination of women by men was only one effect of French "civilization"--along with warfare, disease, famine and Jesuit proselytization--which combined to destroy Indian culture and sexual equality. Anderson's is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, feminist case study of the historical and political construction of gender and racial inequality. Product details Format Paperback | 250 pages

Drawing on the teachings of D.W. Winnicott and John Bowlby, who helped revolutionize thinking about relational psychology, To Hold and Be Held integrates the concepts of the 'holding environment' and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. It also uses metaphor to both derive meaning from the language of the therapeutic process and to apply that meaning within a systems framework to effect significant therapeutic change. As the number of children with complex problems increases and the facilities to treat and manage them decrease, schools are left with few resources to cope. Professionals such as teachers, psychologists, social workers, and counselors need a new framework in which to think about and advocate for services for these children. To Hold and Be Held describes the creation of a system of working that not only holds the child and his family, but also holds the larger system as well - a system in which therapeutic services are integra

Esta antología reúne a todos los poetas que participaron en la primera etapa del ciclo de Cornvcopia, organizado en Málaga por El Toro Celeste. Presenta una completa muestra no solo del panorama poético andaluz, sino también del panorama poético nacional e internacional. Product details Format Book | 250 pages Dimensions 150 x 220mm | 385g