40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
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For the batik-makers, canting, the copper pens to paint batik, are their spirits. At its most glorious moment canting is blown with deep and powerful feelings that are blended with the owner’s breath. But nowadays, hand-painted batik that is made by using a canting is crushed and cornered with the emerging of the new print batik. Hand-painted batik takes months and months to make, but this ne…
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
'Sports Psychology' is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam. The book uses a structure that mirrors t…
"The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing stories of a cross-section of ordinary and extraord…
How people actually experience - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world.
A complete introduction to understanding criminology. Whether you are studying for an important exam or simply want to improve you knowledge, Joyce presents key ideas and case studies for various types of crimes, as well as on criminal justice systems from around the world
60 Questions in 1 hour
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40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
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All the foul facts about the Frightful First World War are ready to uncover, including what the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses, how sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack and why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets
All the foul facts about the Woeful Second World War are ready to uncover, including why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty, what really happened in Dad's Army and how to make a rude noise with a gas mask
"From an up-and-coming screenwriter and New Yorker contributor, a hilarious novel in letters by members of an unconventional family, running the gamut from sardonic to heartfelt. From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine …
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his gri…
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A journey through life, the universe and everything. Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point, have been on top of one another. This d…
Their very names--Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad--evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature of armed combat, advances in technology, shifts in strategy and thought, as well as altered geopolitical l…
Contains instructions for various at-home projects that can be done using technology, including electrified drumsticks, an automatic pet feeder, and a collapsible travel hanger
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
Gripping stories of truth and lies, deception and discovery. Uncover the hidden facts!
40 QUESTIONS IN 1 HOUR
A practical primer for aspiring observers of the planets and other Solar System objects, written by an experienced amateur astronomer
Presents advice for survival techniques that can be used in different types of weather emergency situations, discussing such scenarios as blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes, and drought