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 Louise Foxcroft, "Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years" English | ISBN: 1846684250 | 2012 | 320 pages | MOBI | 3 MB This is an enlightening and entertaining social history of how we have tried (and failed) to battle the bulge over two millennia. Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, "Calories and Corsets" tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to deliberately swallowing tapeworm. This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.  Steve Burns, "Calm Trader: Win in the Stock Market Without Losing Your Mind" English | ISBN: 1517190185 | 2015 | 36 pages | PDF | 389 KB Win in the Stock Market without Losing Your Mind  Rose Atwater, "Cake Decorating for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Decorating Like a Pro" English | ISBN: 1641525894 | 2019 | 168 pages | MOBI | 6 MB Decorate dazzling cakes with this step-by-step guide for beginners!  Edda L. Fields-Black, "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War" English | ISBN: 019755279X | 2024 | 776 pages | AZW3 | 18 MB Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History  Niko Trian, "CHINESE MEDICINE IN CANCER CARE: Herbs-Acupuncture-Qi gong-Nutrition-Prevention" English | ISBN: 1523607548 | 2016 | 284 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a long history and rich experiences in treating tumors and malignancies. The TCM-based treatment can significantly alleviate the clinical symptoms and improve the quality of life. The fundamental purpose of TCM treatment for tumors is not only to attack them, but to restore the balance of the internal environment, enhancing the antipathogen capability, so as to inhibit the growth and metastasis of tumors. The idea is to keep a balance in the treatment principles: Attack the cancer- Clear the toxins- Reinforce vital energy This is the only book that covers with accuracy all the aspects of Chinese Medicine in cancer care: herbs, acupuncture, qi gong, nutrition, prevention. It also points out what is wrong with the Western medical approach about cancer.  Clare Bucknell, "Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy" English | ISBN: 1108842658 | 2021 | 380 pages | PDF | 6 MB For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded in historical moments and places. His poetry, as this volume demonstrates, engaged richly and experimentally with English influences and in turn licenced experimentation in multiple strands of post-Romantic English verse. In Byron Among the English Poets he is seen as a poet's poet, a writer whose verse has served as both echo of and prompt for a host of other voices. Here, leading international scholars consider both the contours of individual literary relationships and broader questions regarding the workings of intertextuality, exploring the many ways Byron might be thought to be 'among' the poets: alluding and alluded to; collaborative; competitive; parodied; worked and reworked in imitations, critiques, tributes, travesties and biographies.  Steve Burns, "Buy Signals Sell Signals: Strategic Stock Market Entries and Exits" English | ISBN: 1519254369 | 2015 | 60 pages | EPUB | 573 KB The Ultimate Guide to Buying and Selling  Bill Mascull, "Business Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers" English | ISBN: 1316628221 | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 12 MB The words you need to communicate with confidence in business today. Vocabulary explanations and practice for advanced (B2 to C1) students and professionals looking to improve their knowledge and use of business English. This book is perfect for both self-study and classroom activities. Inside the book is a code for an ebook that can be used online with Macs, PCs and tablets. It can also be downloaded to iOS and Android tablets using the free Cambridge Bookshelf app. The ebook has the same content as the printed book, plus features such as audio so that you can listen to the words as well as reading them.  Ryan Burg, "Business Ethics for a Material World: An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship " English | ISBN: 1107183014 | 2018 | 392 pages | PDF | 3 MB Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues that material things are fundamental features of moral life, serving as both valuable instruments and guides for responsibility. Unless care is taken for these non-living entities, living things cannot be protected. Viewing the global economy as a network of material transfers, Burg argues that to facilitate object care, professionals must act as stewards. By tracing the origins and disposal of workplace objects through this material network, businesses and employees can discover the outcomes for which they are responsible, and managers can align ethics, sustainability and governance with a truly global formulation of responsibility.  Michael D. Leinbach, "Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew" English | ISBN: 1948924617 | 2020 | 416 pages | PDF | 22 MB Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters |
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