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  Mosquito - The Story of Man's...

  Michael D'Antonio, Andrew Spielman

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  Now in audio—a fascinating work of popular science from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter. 
  In this lively and comprehensive portrait of the mosquito, its role in history, and its threat to mankind, Spielman and D'Antonio take a mosquito's-eye view of nature and man. They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die, and introduce us to their enemies, both natural and man-made. The authors present tragic and often grotesque examples of how the mosquito has insinuated itself into human history, from the malaria that devastated invaders of ancient Rome to the current widespread West Nile fever panic. 
   Filled with little-known facts and remarkable anecdotes that bring this tiny being into larger focus, Mosquito offers fascinating, alarming, and convincing evidence that the sooner we get to know this pesky insect, the better off we'll be.

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  Brain Training: How To Improve...

  IntroBooks Team

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  Brain training, which is also known as cognitive training, is a memorandum of normal activities to retain or enhance one's cognitive skills. Typically the term cognitive skills apply to flexible intelligence elements such as working memory function and professional memory. Cognitive training represents the idea that by exercising the brain, cognitive abilities can be retained or improved, similarly to how the exercise of the body enhances physical health.  
  Brain training can take place in several ways, such as physical fitness training, engaging in online games or performing cognitive assignments in conjunction with a training schedule, playing video games involving visuospatial thinking, and participating in distinct activities such as dance, music, and painting. Numerous surveys have shown that life-long facets of brain structure remain plastic to the core. Brain plasticity represents the brain's aptitude to adapt and evolve as an environmental response.  
  Reports in cognitive training often decipher neuroanatomic ideologies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to research how training influences the structure and function of the brain. There is a broad discourse within the scientific clan about the feasibility of brain training systems and controversy as regards the ethics of applying brain training technologies to prospective undefended topics.

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  Cheer Up Jay Ritchie

  Jay Ritchie

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  Ritchie discovers and obstructs truths, like the difficulty of being at the bar and being a lilac bush simultaneously.
  I bought tear-resistant pants
  
  just in case
  
  
  
  I'm not
  
  
  
  a good guy underneath it all,
  
  being honest in discreet doses
  
  to underpaid retail employees.
  
  
  
  With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails - the large and small subjects of daily life. His unflagging sense of humour and aphoristic delivery create a work that is personable yet elevated, witty, and honest.

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  A Taste of Coral Gables -...

  Paola Mendez

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  This ultimate foodie guide to the Florida city “features more than 70 restaurants, and the recipes reflect the diverse, multicultural culinary landscape” (Mitch & Mel Take Miami). 
   
  A Taste of Coral Gables is brimming with all the great food and good vibes that make this sunny city in South Florida such a magnet for food lovers of all stripes. Filled with recipes, restaurant descriptions, menu highlights, chef profiles, wine pairings, and more, this one-stop resource on the Coral Gables food scene doubles as a restaurant guide and recipe resource to the best places the city has to offer. 
   
  There are approximately seventy-five restaurants covered in the book, each with a two-page spread that contains color photographs, informative text on the origins and highlights of the restaurant, what makes it unique, and who the people are behind the restaurant’s unique atmosphere and cuisine. Each also features a recipe for one of the restaurant’s signature dishes for easy preparation at home. 
   
  From such venerable dining establishments as the Palm d’Or at the Biltmore (haute cuisine in Old-World charm with New World sensibilities) to fun and funky specialty joints such as Ms. Cheezious (grilled cheese in every manner imaginable), to ethnic standouts such as Talavera (down-home Mexican), all bases are covered in this comprehensive culinary treasure trove paying homage to the “City Beautiful.”

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  Allied Torpedo Boats

  Les Brown, John Lambert

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  “An inspirational/enjoyable book with excellent representations of a wide variety of [Motor Torpedo Boats] by various modelers in a variety of scales.”—ModelGeek   The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references—books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.   This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class Corvettes where the extent has been doubled to include far more detailed drawings of the many different designs of British MTBs and US PT-boats, including their fittings, sensors and weapons.   “The content is packed with information that makes you want to turn a page, from the history of torpedo boats from 1915-1945, which then goes on to model products, showcase, construction, aftermarket products for scales 1-1200 to 1-100 . . . Not only a reference to torpedo boats, but a wonderful guide to building and getting the best out of a model.”—AutoModeler

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  The Wedding Album

  The Dan Band

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  The Dan Band gets innumerable requests from prospective brides and grooms to be to play their weddings. They are offered compensation ranging from private jets to free beer and pizza, but the band just can’t possibly accept them all. So they have come up with a solution—an album of wedding songs that you can play at your nuptials.  Or anytime for that matter. It’s just like having the Dan Band there with you—you can almost smell them. With special guests ranging from Nicole Scherzinger to Rob Thomas to Bridget Everett, it’s a star-packed event that will make you long for your next wedding.

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