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  Ships Clocks and Stars - The...

  Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt

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  An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship’s precise longitude at sea. 
   
  A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. 
   
  Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. 
   
  Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. 
   
  Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.

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  Blocks to Diamonds -...

  Cheryl Malkowski

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  The quilt designer shares her technique for turning traditional square blocks into dazzling kaleidoscope star quilts in this guide featuring 12 projects. 
   
  Quilt designer Cheryl Malkowski is always experimenting with new quilting possibilities. In Blocks to Diamonds, she shares 12 kaleidoscope star quilt patterns that use a simple yet ingenious design strategy: skewing traditional blocks into diamonds—and then forming those diamonds into stars. As Cheryl herself put it, “the results were instantly spectacular and very satisfying.” 
   
  Blocks to Diamonds shows you how to create a complex quilt without the headache. With Cheryl’s step-by-step instructions, you will learn how simple techniques can be used to create unique and beautiful kaleidoscope star quilts.

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  The Crazy Wonderful Things Kids...

  Arnold L. Tanis

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  A pediatrician shares accounts of the humorous and heartwarming things his young patients have said to him over the course of his career. 
   
  “Hey, doctor, I want to tell you something!” 
   
  For fifty-four years, kids have shared with pediatrician Arnold Tanis stories, questions, and bold pronouncements about their childhood worlds. In between treating them, the good doctor wrote down what many of them said. Three generations of patients offer memorable and downright funny observations and opinions about all sorts of things: shots, school, their brothers and sisters, growing up, and even Dr. Tanis himself and whether he can sing as well as he thinks he does. The parents also chime in, both to complain about all their kids put them through and to celebrate how well they eventually turn out. 
   
  A tireless, lifelong advocate of child safety, Dr. Tanis’s impact on his patients and their families spans decades. This book is a testament to his career and a memorable glimpse of the warm and sometimes crazy world of a singing pediatrician.

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  ADUs - The Perfect Housing Solution

  Sheri Koones

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  An Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is a smaller housing unit built on the same lot as a primary dwelling (also known as Additional or Auxiliary Dwelling Units) — think granny flat, in-law unit, laneway house). It has an arrangement for sleeping, cooking, and lavatory. An ADU can be detached, attached, a garage conversion, or a basement conversion. The uses are myriad—for family members, guest spaces, rental income, or more.

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  Learn Japanese with Stories...

  Clay Boutwell, Yumi Boutwell

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  For upper beginners of Japanese and higher. 
  Learn Japanese vocabulary while listening to the stories of Momotaro and Usagi to Kame (Tortoise and the Hare). 
  Both stories are presented in four ways: 
  1) Story read slowly 
  2) Story read line-by-line followed by vocabulary in Japanese and English 
  3) Story read normal speed 
  4) Finally, the story read in English to cement your understanding 
  This audiobook was designed to be enjoyed without the need of any written material. 
  Momotaro: Momotaro is perhaps the most famous Japanese folktale. An old couple raise a baby found within a giant peach. This Momotaro grows up to lead a party of animals (monkey, dog, and pheasant) against the terrible oni monsters. 
  Usagi to Kame: This is the well-known Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. You know the story. Now understand it in Japanese! 
  Here's to your Japanese!

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  Taste or Taboo - Dietary choices...

  Michael Beyer

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  This book looks at the way in which food was employed in Greek and Roman literature to impart identity, whether social, individual, religious or ethnic. In many instances these markers are laid down in the way that foods were restricted, in other words by looking at the negatives instead of the positives of what was consumed. Michael Beer looks at several aspects of food restriction in antiquity, for example, the way in which they eschewed excess and glorified the simple diet; the way in which Jewish dietary restriction identified that nation under the Empire; the way in which Pythagoreans denied themselves meat (and beans); and the way in which the poor were restricted by economic reality from enjoying the full range of foods. These topics allow him to look at important aspects of Graeco-Roman social attitudes. For example, republic virtue, imperial laxity, Homeric and Spartan military valour, social control through sumptuary laws, and answers to excessive drinking. He also looks closely at the inherent divide of the Roman world between the twin centres of Greece and Rome and how it is expressed in food and its consumption.

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