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  Bambi Ate My Yen and Other Itchy...

  Sam Letchworth

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  Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers. 
  Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O’Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain—embracing the people, their food, and especially their curiosities. His humor and infatuation with humanity’s diversity fuel each story. 
  Teaching in Korea and Vietnam since 2015, Sam uses his time out of the classroom to explore the rest of Asia. His five-book series, Itchy Feet Travel Tales in Asia, covers his adventures (and misadventures) in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. 
  Narrated by the author, these stories of the sublime and the surreal will have you giggling and gawking as you follow Sam through the weird and wonderful world of the East.

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  Aviation for beginners

  Facundo Conforti

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  This work has been developed to bring the main aeronautical content to aviation enthusiasts, students and future pilots and to anyone passionate about the aeronautical field who wants to learn a little more about this fascinating world of civil aviation. 
  	We will learn the main theoretical concepts of aviation. A summary of each aeronautical area, explained in a simple and pleasant way to read, but at the same time, developing the most relevant content in a professional and highly educational way. 
  	What are the airport runways like? Why does an airplane fly? How do the clouds form? What are the different parts of an airplane? How do the aircraft's instruments work? All these questions and many more, will be answered in this entertaining mandatory aeronautical manual for all those who take their first steps in aviation, or are about to do so. 
  	The Aeronautical Library has more than 60 books published, which makes it the largest Spanish Aeronautical Library in the world!

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  World of Warcraft

  Daniel Lisi

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  At more than 100 million user accounts created and over $10 billion made, it is not only the most-subscribed MMORPG in the world, but the highest-grossing video game of all time. Ten years after its launch, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft is less a game and more a world unto itself, and it's a world Daniel Lisi knows well. More time in his high school years was spent in Azeroth than in his hometown of Irvine, California—a home he happened to share with Blizzard itself. 
   
   
   
  Now that Lisi has founded his own game development studio, WoW remains his most powerful example of just how immersive and consuming a game can be. Based on research, interviews, and the author's own experience in a hardcore raiding guild, Lisi's book examines WoW's origins, the addictive power of its gameplay loop, the romances WoW has both cemented and shattered, the enabling power of anonymity, and the thrill of conquering BlizzCon with guildmates you've known for years and just met for the first time.

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  A Beginner's Guide to Making...

  Laura Reiter

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  A practical and inspirational resource for any visual artist who wants to paint in a less figurative way and take their first steps into the realm of abstract art.
  Through practical projects and easy-to-follow demonstrations, renowned artist Laura Reiter shows you how to create beautiful and unique abstracts in mixed media. Whether you want to simplify a subject into its abstract elements, or experiment with colour, line and form to make something completely new, this book will help you find an approach that works for you.
  It covers how to use materials creatively, focusing on watercolour, acrylics and combining different paint media, and how to have fun with colour and composition to create something unique. The author explains how to find sources of inspiration and build up a mark-making repertoire, bringing in texture and collage, and includes a wealth of playful exercises to help you develop your own individual abstract painting style.
  Beautifully illustrated with the author's vibrant abstract compositions, the book also features stunning examples from other leading artists whose work is partly or wholly abstract. This fascinating book is all any artist needs to successfully make the move into abstract painting.

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  Hello? Who Is This? Margaret? -...

  Dani Alpert

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  Dani Alpert is an expert on the fortitude and delusion required to pursue childhood dreams that just won’t drop dead. Her stories are a case study in the human spirit’s tenacity and its unwavering ability to keep going in the face of crushing rejection. For many years, she toiled in the entertainment business, where the only responses she received were “Almost,” “So close,” or “Not quite.” Humor was the life vest that kept her afloat. A comedic look at blind ambition, stubborn optimism, and perseverance, Hello? Who Is This? Margaret? delivers tales of universally awkward, misunderstood, and human failings through wit, pop culture, and Dani's losses and wins (mostly losses). Her humor, sometimes dark and distorted but always self-aware, is a salve for the messiness and absurdities of life. Dani's candid essays speak to the hopeful in all of us. Some of Dani’s stories dive into the bowels of childhood, the creative psyche, and the birth of an aspiring Broadway baby. Other tales explore crippling adult fears and self-doubt, and what happens when the ingénue becomes a member of AARP. Whether she’s describing her bumpy road trying to get a foothold in Hollywood, her retail adventures shopping for gas masks during COVID, or her idiotic decision to vacation at a romantic couple’s resort after a heart-wrenching breakup, Dani provides gentle shoves—inspiration wrapped in cautionary tales—for anyone still chasing their dreams but feeling stuck.

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  Voice The - The Ultimate Trivia...

  Trivia Hub

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  THE VOICE 
  THE ULTIMATE TRIVIA AND CURIOUS FACTS COLLECTION 
    
  CREATED BY TRIVIA HUB 
    
  The Voice is an American singing competition television series that premiered on NBC in 2011. The show seeks to find unsigned singing talent through public auditions. The competition is open to solo or duet artists aged 13 and up. The winner receives $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group. 
    
  The series features a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and mentor their teams. The coaches compete to have their act win, making them the winning coach. The show employs a "blind audition" format, where coaches select artists based on their voice alone. The coaches' chairs turn towards an artist they want. The coaches also use "blocks" and "replays". 
    
  CURIOUS FACT SAMPLES: 
    
  The Voice is an American singing competition based on the original The Voice of Holland. It is the only version in the franchise that doesn't include its country's name.  
    
  The show's concept involves "Blind Auditions" where coaches select team members based solely on voice, with chairs turned away from the performer. If more than one coach wants the same artist, the artist gets to choose which coach they want to work with.  
    
  In the "Battle Rounds," coaches pair up their team members to perform duets, and then choose one to advance. Celebrity advisors help the coaches with this process.  
    
  The "Knockout Rounds" feature individual performances by paired teammates, who are not told who they are paired with until a few minutes prior to performing. The artists choose their own songs, with continued advice from their coaches.

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