An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates—not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, keen insight, and unassailable common sense, Good Calories, Bad Calo...

Earn huge profits in today's business-development startup boomDriving the most successful startups today is Business Development (BD), which includes strategic partnerships, content licensing, product distribution, data partnership, monetization, and acquisitions.Pitching and Closing reveals how to master the specific skills that people in BD at today's startups need to succeed, including forging relationships, pitching a company's product, buildi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom concerning nature - sought to explain the order and composition of the world, and how we come to know it. They were particularly interested in what exists and how it is ordered: ontology and cosmology. They were also c...

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdomAwkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not only with her own family but with generations of readers of Pride and Prejudice. But what was this peculiar girl really doing while her sisters were f...

This textbook is the first part of my first Ebook about English expressions - how to say them in Chinese. As we know,many expressions are universal and exist in many languages. Every language uses its own metaphors and its own method to describe them. English contains many commonly used expressions to express many ideas and contents. The parallel Chinese expression are generally (but not totally) not derived by literal translation word by word. In this second part there are the more common...

This Ebook is dedicated to enrich your knowledge with the most commonly used everyday Chinese slang.every slang word is followed by an example to clarify how to use it. All is writen in Chinese characters following by pinyin and English translation. The slang words were picked by a young native Chinese girl who is very accuanted with the modern most commonly used slang in current China. The Ebook is attached by audio records which ellows you to listen to it again and again in your confort....

Living with chronic illness means medical appointments, unpredictable symptoms, and the exhausting work of managing your health. Relationships often become casualties. Friends drift away. Dating feels impossible. Family dynamics strain under caregiving pressures. The isolation can be as painful as the physical symptoms themselves.In this groundbreaking, compassionate guide, psychotherapist and chronic illness and rare disease expert Jodi Taub-who lives with primary...

Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one...

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdomAwkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not only with her own family but with generations of readers of Pride and Prejudice. But what was this peculiar girl really doing while her sisters were f...

An assignment to monitor pro-gun radio talk show hosts and screen pro-gun publications leads an FBI team to a much broader plot involving an assassination attempt against an anti-gun U.S. Congressman. In the course of their investigation, the agents discover there is an attempt by senior officials in the government to force a repeal of the Second Amendment - The right to bear arms.

The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological.The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly authority in antiquity and illustrates how writers responded to the meteorological...

This Ebook is dedicated to enrich your knowledge with the most commonly used everyday Chinese slang.every slang word is followed by an example to clarify how to use it.All is writen in Chinese characters following by pinyin and English translation.The slang words were picked by a young native Chinese young teacher who is very accuanted with the modern most commonly used slang in current China.