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  The Jeopardy! Book of Answers

  Barry Garron, Harry Friedman

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  A celebration of thirty-five years of Alex Trebek's show, featuring the Jeopardy! All-Star Games, reminiscences, anecdotes, and lots of answers and questions. In honor of the thirty-fifth anniversary of America’s Favorite Quiz Show®, Jeopardy!’s producers have selected fifteen historic games from over seven thousand episodes that illustrate why the show is every bit as timely—and lively—as it was the moment Alex Trebek first took the stage in 1984. You’ll meet Ken Jennings in his first win, and you’ll be there for the stunning end of his record-breaking run. Experience again the epic battle of Man vs. Machine with IBM’s Watson computer. Follow the Celebrity Invitational Finals with $1,000,000 on the line for charity. Get the play-by-play for championship showdowns, memorable tournaments, and so much more. Each game includes the complete text of the Jeopardy!, Double Jeopardy!, and Final Jeopardy! rounds along with exclusive behind-the-scenes details and photos. Get to know the contestants, and discover previously untold stories from the staff behind some of the most popular players, games, and competitions.  Who knows? It may even inspire you to become the next Jeopardy! champion!

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  Memory Hacks

  Life 'n' Hack

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  Unlock the keys to improve memoryHave you ever wished that you could have a stronger memory? Have you feared losing your memory as you age? Have you ever wished you could recall things simply and easily to increase your productivity? Or maybe you just want to remember where you put your keys at night?If you want to accomplish any or all of those things, try Memory Hacks.We've all had one of those days. "Where did I leave my keys? What did I need at the store? When was that appointment? What did I need at the grocery store?" We all have wished at one point or another that we didn't need to ask ourselves these questions only to get no answer.Sometimes, it seems like our memory is slipping away right before our very eyes. It can be frustrating to walk into a room only to forget what you were doing. It can create anxiety to have someone verbally give you directions only to forget them halfway through. Work can become a nightmare when you can't remember simple tasks such as watering a plant daily or when a meeting is.You say to yourself, "There has to be a better way!" and there is!In Memory Hacks, discover how to:
  
  Freeze thoughts for associative recallLink muscle memory to memorizationCompartmentalize thoughts for an uncluttered mindRefresh your mind with breathing and relaxation techniquesVisualize thoughts for memory enhancementFind solutions and remember details through memory scanningChoose memory-boosting drinksSubstitute symbols for complex actionsPersonalize clues to follow the memory trailCreate stories to link your to-do list...and more for you to unlock!Take possession of your mind and everything in it! Use Memory Hacks to improve your memory and begin being more creative and productive today!

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  Quilter's Academy Vol 1–Freshman...

  Harriet Hargrave, Carrie Hargrave

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  This comprehensive beginner’s guide to quilting skills covers everything from setting up a sewing area to designing your own quilts.   Harriet Hargrave has taught quilting all over the world. Now, with the Quilter’s Academy series of coursebooks, you can learn from her mastery and decades of experience. Volume one of the series welcomes freshman quilters with classes, lessons, exercises, and projects that will build your skills from one project to the next.    Arranged in order of complexity, each quilt offers new challenges and involves new techniques that will help you continually build your skill level. By mastering the techniques presented in Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1, you will be on your way to creating your own quilts with precise, high-quality piecing.  Includes compete instructions for making 13 classic quilts!

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  The Book of Absinthe - A...

  Phil Baker

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  A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink.   La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous “special” ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium, homicidal mania, and death. Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as an herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late nineteenth century. Chronicling a fascinatingly lurid cast of historical characters who often died young, the absinthe scrapbook includes Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, August Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Allais, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. Along with discussing the rituals and modus operandi of absinthe drinking, Baker reveals the recently discovered pharmacology of how real absinthe actually works on the nervous system, and he tests the various real and fake absinthe products that are available overseas.   “Formidably researched, beautifully written, and abundant with telling detail and pitch-black humor.” —The Daily Telegraph

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  Vet Among the Pigeons

  Gillian Hick

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  Vet Among the Pigeons continues the story of veterinary surgeon Gillian Hick's escapades among the animal population. Although by now, not such a green graduate, the animals and their owners keep her challenged in a way never described in the text books. While based in a mixed animal practice in Wicklow, Gillian also travels regularly to inner city Dublin to work in the Bluecross animal welfare clinic but finds that sometimes the two lives are hard to combine. From dairy cattle to turkey cocks, from lofty equines to the not so lofty, from six foot snakes to snuffling hedgehogs, Gillian encounters it all as she struggles to improve her own skills and justify her place in the veterinary profession, along with the help of an ever expanding young family of her own.

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  Pencil Paper and Stars - The...

  Alastair Buchan

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  Today's sailors rely on GPS for position finding and passage making. But what happens if your electronic navigation systems fail?_x000D_ This book provides you with simple, practical, get-you-home navigation techniques that could save you in an emergency. These easy techniques require no complicated mathematics. Learn the principles of navigation and you will have confidence in your decision-making when you need it most. You will also learn how to make simple instruments using materials and equipment likely to be found on every boat, and how to use them at sea. With colourful and clear diagrams to aid learning, you will be confident in continuing your passage in a safe and seamanlike manner if the electronics let you down.

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