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Worldwide, 150 million people suffer from asthma. This book explains what happens to the airways when you have an asthma attack. It looks at the allergies and other triggers that cause asthma in a susceptible person. It also studies why asthma is more common in developed countries and why the number of asthma sufferers is increasing. It goes on to describe treatments and self-help. Throughout, case-studies are used to show how this illness affects real people. ... Read more

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Explore all the mouth-watering possibilities of meat-free cooking with The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook. Highly acclaimed chef, food writer, broadcaster and teacher, Sarah Brown has used her 20 years of vegetarian expertise to write this comprehensive guide to vegetarian food. Drawing inspiration from all over the world, the 250 delicious, healthy recipes incorporate a wide range of flavours and ingredients, from which you are sure to find ideas to inspire you. Why not try the avocado gazpacho soup as a starter, or the herb souffle for a light meal, or the grilled peaches with ginger cream for a tempting desert? From quick, on-the-go breakfasts and leisurely weekend brunches, to speedy after-work suppers and indulgent dinner parties, there's something here for every occasion. Packed with masses of practical information on nutrition, ingredients, techniques and equipment, this book adopts a user-friendly and pragmatic approach to cooking. It also includes a guide to entertaining, which offers menu planning advice together with a timetable of preparation - an invaluable aid for every dinner party!Whether you are a vegetarian or you simply enjoy the occasional meal without meat or fish, this is a book which you will turn to again and again for inspiration and advice. ... Read more

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Over 100 colour illustrations and an informed text capture the history and splendour of this collection of painted and stained glass. ... Read more

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Grandparents. - what would we do without them? They come in all shapes and sizes but with their wise words and kind ways they can be a source of inspiration and encouragement like no other.Here Britain-s national treasures share their personal anecdotes about grandparents. Some recollect fond childhood memories of their Granny or Granddad, while others share with us their own experiences of what it is like to be a grandparent.Both hugely entertaining and heart warming, this wonderful celebration is the perfect gift for a much-loved grandparent. ... Read more

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Despite children making up around a quarter of the population, the first edition of this book was the first to focus on a public health approach to the health and sickness of children and young people. It combined clinical and academic perspectives to explore the current state of health of our children, the historical roots of the speciality and the relationship between early infant and child health on later adult health. Child public health is a rapidly developing field, and is increasingly recognised throughout the world as a major area of focus for population health. Targeting the health of children now is essential if we are to achieve a healthy population as adults. For the second edition the text has been revised and updated with new material on health for all children, global warming, child participation, systems theory, refugees, commissioning, and sustainable development.

Child Public Health 2e will be of interest to public health practitioners, paediatricians, general practitioners with a child health and commissioning interest and GP trainees. Whilst pediatricians are given a unique population perspective on their clinical specialty, public health professionals will gain a specialist insight into a specific population group and primary care doctors, nurses and managers will find support for their commissioning and clinical governance agendas. ... Read more

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Cute stories with a British flair
First of all, there is no story by J.K. Rowling in this book. She wrote the Foreward, which is well done, but if you want a new story by her, it's not here. Other than that, it has a lot of fun magic stories, with a British humour and intelligence, and I enjoyed them very much. I had not heard of many of the authors, and will now look into other works by many of them. This book would be good for children as well as adults who are young at heart. ... Read more

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Fun project
We used for homeschooling.Excellent project while teaching Middle Ages and the stained glass that was such a beautiful part of that time period.Not too hard, and cute results with little help on the parent's part.Aren't we all looking for the occasional project like this one? ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world.

It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.

Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics.

In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages - from the thriving to the endangered and extinct - this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World.

* Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes
* Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
* Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose
* Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage
* Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia ... Read more

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Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys his singular erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life and politics to philosophy and intellectuals, from grand architectural designs to human and divine folly. The possible contemporary resonance of Alberti's satire--read variously as a humanist roman-à-clef and as a veiled mockery of the mid-Quattrocento papacy--is among its most intriguing aspects. While his more famous books on architecture, painting, and family life have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of Renaissance culture, Momus has recently attracted increasing attention from scholars as a work anticipating the realism of Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus. This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the first full translation into English. ... Read more

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Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy.

• Looks at a broad range of topics in the field of tragedy in literature, from ancient to contemporary times
  
• Explores the links between writers from different times and cultures
  
• Focuses on the reception of classical texts in subsequent literatures, and discusses their treatment in a range of media
  
• Surveys the lasting influence of the most resonant narratives in tragedy
  
• Contemplates exciting and unexpected combinations of text and topic among them the relationship between tragedy and childhood, science fiction, and the role of the gods

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of pregnancies among adolescents--are not planned. This book offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. It offers specific recommendations to put the U.S. on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. ... Read more