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These 101 scientific papers reveal... .. cholesterol and saturated fat are in fact essential for a healthy heart... high cholesterol levels help you live longer... high carbohydrate diets promote the factors that cause heart disease... margarine is an industrially produced unhealthy product that should be avoided... the cholesterol/saturated fat causes heart disease hypothesis has never been proved. This book is based on the research of doctors, professors...
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The book, tells stories of heroism and the soldiers will to survive in a hostile environment. The soldiers have to work together through the many hurdles to get themselves safe. While they are fighting some of them become injured and are assisted by their fellow soldiers. Each mission takes endurance, strategy and planning to complete. The soldiers came under fire from the enemy and with strategy and great precision took out the enemy and went on...
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A book of the authors original poetry coupled with his original needlepoint. Many of the poems have been written to be included on the needlepoint work. The author has tried over forty years to push the boundaries of original needlepoint design whilst keeping faith with a British tradition of including words in the design of the sewn work. With forty-nine illustrations (in colour if downloaded to tablet readers) the work takes form in cushions, contemporized...
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Are you worried about high cholesterol? The scientific evidence in this book will shock you! The statistics from the scientific literature actually show that having LOW cholesterol means you are more likely to die earlier. The 101 scientific papers in this book show: Low cholesterol levels are associated with a shorter life. Low levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol are linked to a shorter lifespan. High cholesterol does NOT cause heart disease. Low cholesterol...
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A second volume of memoir by a gay man who, at the age of twenty-nine, left the music business having worked with Cat Stevens, Elton John, Queen, Kiki Dee and many others in the nineteen-seventies and began life again with a lover and a shop full of antiques. After an emotional break-up, the author moved back to his home town of Malvern in Worcestershire and opened a restaurant used as an afternoon haunt by the restless boys and girls of the local...
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Two gay men of later years share their love of needlepoint in a fully colour illustrated volume displaying a body of original work created over the forty year span of their lives from 1977 until 2007. Using stories recounting some of their inspiration and experiences enjoyed on their extensive travels, David Evans and Nigel Quiney celebrate their lives with colour and originality in their work which is revealed as being so much more than merely decorative....
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Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference. Coates's brief comments on Christianity in his highly acclaimed Between the World and Me make clear that religious faith is alien to his own experience. Still, Christian audiences from congregations to theological schools engaged the text for its analysis of the state of race relations in the United States. In September 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates tweeted,...
10) Freddie Mercury - What He Left Behind: The Story of What Happened after the death of Freddie Mercury
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The final part of the Story of Freddie Mercury, one of rock 'n' roll's most unforgettable and most talented creative forces. Peter Freestone and David Evans tie up many loose ends and recall Freddie's last days in 1991 and recount details of the events which followed Queen's lead singer's death involving the people and places Freddie loved and favoured.
11) Another Earth
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Richardson was the astronaut chosen for the test. He had passed every one of the grueling preliminary tests with flying colors, mental and physical, and as far as could be judged by science, he had seemed to be the perfect specimen, mentally and physically, for the job.The job was to be the first man to be sent to space and return safely to Earth. The test was going well until Richarson started talking in a strange language. What was happening? What...
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Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided platforms because they provide physical or virtual platforms for multiple groups to get together. Dating sites connect people with potential matches, for example, and ride-sharing apps do the...
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Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.
“Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology” fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The first generation of books on the topic focused...
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Like Aesop's Fables and Orwell's Animal Farm, The Maze is populated with animal characters who, in their words and actions, reveal truths about human nature. In The Woods, a very popular, clever, and ambitious rat named Sniff-who commands a pack of deputy rats known as The Five-intends to replace the aging leader, Owl, when he retires on election day in two weeks. As a famous athlete of the air in his youth, Owl has established The Tradition of Wings....
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Memoir covering 1947 'til 1976 of a gay man growing up as a teenager in provincial England and, after a spell at the brand-new University of Kent, finding his feet in London in the nineteen sixties and seventies where he worked in the world of music, film and theatre as, at first, lowly gopher and pen-ultimately general manager of an artiste's management company tending the careers of such as Cat Stevens, Colin Blunstone, Mike d'Abo, Twinkle and finally...
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This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the treatment of multisided platforms under U.S. antitrust law. It is based on a series of articles that the authors wrote (either jointly or individually), leading up to and in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision.
The authors consider that the Supreme Court ruling provides valuable guidance for antitrust...
18) Love and Honour?
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Love and Honour? Marriage for Peace exposes the ongoing phenomenon of Romeo and Juliet style romance tragedy, families killing their own and other families' daughters, sons, sisters and brothers in the name of family 'honour". Focused on Northern India and Nepal, the stories illustrate that despite India adopting a democratic constitution in 1950, the public murder of forbidden lovers continues. Media reports of this phenomenon did not surface until...
19) Whitechapel
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The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
20) The sandlot 2
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Ten years ago a quirky group of kids invaded the Sandlot. Now, a new generation of kids are here in a nostalgic return to the dog days of summer, playing America's favorite pastime where dreams begin and heroes are formed.