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The year is 1976, and South Africa is gripped by a terrible lockdown – apartheid. Nelson Mandela is in prison on Robben Island; South Africa is isolated from the rest of the world, and revolution is in the air. Against this background, a young student at Johannesburg’s Wits University decides to try and take control of his life, and his destiny, and give himself a sense of purpose. He challenges himself to run South Africa’s most famous long-distance race, the grueling 90-kilometre Comrades Marathon. Little does he know that five years later he will win this most iconic of races and he will go on to be considered one of the greatest Comrades runners in the history of the race. In Winged Messenger, Bruce shares this 1976/77 training diary so that raw novices and experienced runners alike can follow the journey he took to his first Comrades. Novices particularly will enjoy reading about how he took his first stumbling, rudimentary steps and how, as an ordinary runner, he began to understand the demands of the race. He documents his mistakes, his successes and his progress towards his date with destiny in May 1977. Using his own experiences, he guides others, but particularly novices, on their quests to become winged messengers. This is a unique blend of both a training guide and a fascinating glimpse of the life of a young man in his quest to conquer both himself and South Africa’s greatest race.
Amidst a backdrop of political unrest and voter disillusionment, South Africa finds itself at a crossroads, challenging its resiliency like never before. Bruce Whitfield, leveraging his deep connection with the nation's most innovative minds, presents The One Thing: Small Ideas, Big Outcomes, A Brighter Future for South Africa. This book is a clarion call for focused action, inspired by the wisdom that when everything is a priority, nothing truly is. Through exclusive insights from business leaders to pioneers in various fields, Whitfield orchestrates a compelling narrative on the transformative power of single, impactful ideas. 'The One Thing' is not just a book; it's a blueprint for individual and collective commitment to propelling South Africa towards a brighter, more potent future.
Enjoy the first-ever air fryer cookbook featuring step-by-step photos of every dish–with 125 delicious time-saving recipes showing how to make the most of any machine. In this new collection from bestselling appliance cooking gurus Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, unlock the potential of your favorite at-home appliance with 125 recipes for every occasion. Capture the perfect crunch in every bite with less oil and minimal clean up, while enjoying crunchy mozzarella sticks, crispy fish fillet sandwiches, cheesy chicken flautas, and more. Now, for the first time ever in an air fryer cookbook, follow along with photographs for every step, as you explore everything this device has to offer as well as the tips and techniques to get the most out of your Air Fryer. You'll never be without inspiration for dinner again, with recipes like:
Enjoy the crispiest, crunchiest, and tastiest air-fried foods for every meal with the Look and Cook Air Fryer Bible.
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr. Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, “what happened to you?” rather than “what’s wrong with you?” Through wide-ranging, and often deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood – both good and bad - influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on, “What’s wrong with you?” or “Why are you behaving that way?,” to asking, “What happened to you?” This simple change in perspective can open up a new and hopeful understanding for millions about why we do the things we do, why we are the way we are, providing a road map for repairing relationships, overcoming what seems insurmountable, and ultimately living better and more fulfilling lives. Many of us experience adversity and trauma during childhood that has lasting impact on our physical and emotional health. And as we’re beginning to understand, we are more sensitive to developmental trauma as children than we are as adults. ‘What happened to us’ in childhood is a powerful predictor of our risk for physical and mental health problems down the road, and offers scientific insights in to the patterns of behaviors so many struggle to understand. A survivor of multiple childhood challenges herself, Oprah Winfrey shares portions of her own harrowing experiences because she understands the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma at a young age. Throughout her career, Oprah has teamed up with Dr. Bruce Perry, one of the world’s leading experts on childhood trauma. He has treated thousands of children, youth, and adults and has been called on for decades to support individuals and communities following high-profile traumatic events. Now, Oprah joins forces with Dr. Perry to marry the power of storytelling with the science and clinical experience to better understand and overcome the effects of trauma. In conversation throughout the book, the two focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves in the context of personal experiences. They remove blame and self-shaming, and open up a space for healing and understanding. It’s a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it’s one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future - opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way. Grounded in the latest brain science and brought to life through compelling narratives, this book shines a light on a much-needed path to recovery – showing us our incredible capacity to transform after adversity.
Malcolm is a geek who's into old-school rap and finds himself in the middle of an adventure involving shady drug dealers, offbeat weirdos and a backpack that can make or break his chance of getting into Harvard.
What do you need to do to retire in comfort? What are the right choices to make before and after you retire? What are the mistakes that you need to avoid? How can you secure a sustainable income for the rest of your life? This book, co-written by well-known semi-retired journalist Bruce Cameron and respected financial planner Wouter Fourie, answers all these questions and more. It provides straightforward, comprehensive and practical information on the vital issues that impact on retirement, such as taxa tion, investments, healthcare, estate planning and where to live when retired. And it also identifies warning signs to look out for in order to avoid financial troubles. This fully updated edition is based on the 2023 Budget figures and takes account of changes in legislation, tax and retirement products. This is the ultimate guide to help you achieve a secure and successful retirement.
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material. Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to their country's polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-colour photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders - one Black and one white - looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself. It includes:
Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favourite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way, they reveal their passion for - and the occasional toll of - telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how their fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity.
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr. Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, “what happened to you?” rather than “what’s wrong with you?” Through wide-ranging, and often deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood – both good and bad - influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on, “What’s wrong with you?” or “Why are you behaving that way?,” to asking, “What happened to you?” This simple change in perspective can open up a new and hopeful understanding for millions about why we do the things we do, why we are the way we are, providing a road map for repairing relationships, overcoming what seems insurmountable, and ultimately living better and more fulfilling lives. Many of us experience adversity and trauma during childhood that has lasting impact on our physical and emotional health. And as we’re beginning to understand, we are more sensitive to developmental trauma as children than we are as adults. ‘What happened to us’ in childhood is a powerful predictor of our risk for physical and mental health problems down the road, and offers scientific insights in to the patterns of behaviors so many struggle to understand. A survivor of multiple childhood challenges herself, Oprah Winfrey shares portions of her own harrowing experiences because she understands the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma at a young age. Throughout her career, Oprah has teamed up with Dr. Bruce Perry, one of the world’s leading experts on childhood trauma. He has treated thousands of children, youth, and adults and has been called on for decades to support individuals and communities following high-profile traumatic events. Now, Oprah joins forces with Dr. Perry to marry the power of storytelling with the science and clinical experience to better understand and overcome the effects of trauma. In conversation throughout the book, the two focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves in the context of personal experiences. They remove blame and self-shaming, and open up a space for healing and understanding. It’s a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it’s one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future - opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way. Grounded in the latest brain science and brought to life through compelling narratives, this book shines a light on a much-needed path to recovery – showing us our incredible capacity to transform after adversity.
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The world's bestselling Grand Prix handbook is back for the new season. This is the definitive guide to Formula 1 in 2024. A complete examination of all the teams racing this season (from Red Bull and Mercedes to Ferrari and McLaren), every driver (including Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc) and all the tracks featured in the packed Grand Prix calendar. Also including a full review of the 2023 season and a breakdown of the new rules and regulations for 2024, this indispensable guidebook features a full breakdown of last season's drivers' and constructors' world championship results - as well as a fill-in chart for 2024, so each book becomes your own personalised guide to the year's action. Written by bestselling F1 author Bruce Jones and containing dozens of breathtaking photographs and detailed circuit illustrations plus a statistics section highlighting the major records in F1 history, this is the only guide you'll need for the racing action ahead.
South Africa and its fraught political economy provide a fascinating case study into how it takes a particular brand of genius to thrive in a difficult domestic environment and to take the ideas and the businesses that deliver them from local to global. Genius tells the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, companies and industries whose ideas, products and raw materials solve problems and add value across the globe. Greatness comes from acting on purpose, and there is a generation of South Africans solving problems for the future. Learn how Pratley beat Armstrong to the moon, how a former Eskom quantity surveyor capitalised on Britain’s obsession with meerkats to create the UK’s most visible price comparison website, how to take a Mediterranean-style food concept to the Mediterranean, and how a device designed to beat diamond smuggling made it from the set of a popular US hospital drama into emergency rooms and pathology labs across the US. Genius examines what it takes to thrive in an increasingly complex, fast-paced and divisive global environment. These are lessons for anyone looking to succeed anywhere against the odds.
In Brandalism, the follow-up to his bestselling, award-winning debut book The Best Dick, Mike Sharman delves into the (start)ups and downs associated with brand building and the need for business to dismantle, and vandalise its perceived, public-facing, persona. The future of PR and influence, when – or if – to launch a new business as opposed to a division, raising capital, the impact of presentations, start-up school fees, and emphasis on a manifesto rather than purpose, are the aspects Mike obsesses over in this insightful read, wrapped in his trademark, comedic, copy. Mike Sharman, the co-founder of the creative, digital agency Retroviral that has made more brands ‘go viral’, globally, than any other agency in Africa, uses his unique storytelling proposition to provide insight into 12 years of building a business from scratch, while elevating his clients to emotional, (commercial) cult status. Life is short. Play naked!
We are all born egocentric. As children we see the world almost entirely from our own perspective. As we grow, we learn that other people have their own perspectives, and we also learn that we can adopt their perspectives to get along. We become more allocentric: more aware of the views, wants and needs of others. But many of us don’t achieve a healthy balance of egocentrism and allocentrism. What the science of happiness tells us is that achieving this balance is key to our wellbeing as adults. When we are too egocentric we become overly concerned with our inadequacies, compare ourselves constantly with others, and fail to see the good in our lives. We become the victim of our ego and we allow it to control us. But we can change for the better. Professor Bruce Hood draws on his expertise in child development, neuroscience and positive psychology to tell a radical new story about the roots of well-being and the obstacles that lie in our path. In this illuminating and inspiring book, he shows how we can harness the findings of the science of happiness to live sustainably happier lives.
L'Empire taskien semble au faite de sa puissance. Mais son edifice est
fragile. L'Empereur immortel se desinteresse des affaires humaines ;
son vice-roi artificiel, le Simulacre de Fer, s'y interesse un peu
trop. Des factions ambitieuses menacent de rompre l'harmonie imperiale,
tandis que les nations voisines cherchent a contrer l'expansion des
Taskiens.
The tribute of the Arakuline Tribe of the northern reaches of the Taskan Empire was lost to bandits many years ago. Now, it is believed to be found, held in the midst of the Tumbrian Forest, well-hidden and well-guarded. The characters are persuaded to mount an expedition to recover this long-lost prize, the heart of which is the fabled King Boar Shield.But the forest belongs to Voka the She Wolf and her powerful allies. Can the characters negotiate such threats?The Arakuline Tribute is set in the world of Thennla. Access to either The Taskan Empire, Shores of Korantia, or the Thennla Sourcebook will be advantageous.
Parallel Lines is a collection of eight very different scenarios set in seven very different versions of Earth. Each mission is self-contained, but the collection can be played as a complete campaign with the characters forming an elite team in Valhalla's Mjollnir Section.The adventures include the Salem Witch Trials, a post-apocalyptic Camargue, an Orwellian Britain, epic journeys by airship and Trans-Siberian Express, a voyage to the bottom of the sea, an investigation through the streets of a disintegrating Edinburgh, and a murder hunt through a dystopian London.Packed with wild ideas and creative locations, along with dozens of colourful NPCs (and some distinctly weird ones), Parallel Lines is transplanar adventuring at its very best.Parallel Lines requires access to both Luther Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallels and Mythras for full enjoyment.
Lake Chemong, 1954. Every summer, from June to August, the Fogle family pack up and leave the big city of Toronto, escaping to their white, cedar-clad cottage, the last in a row of a cluster of houses nestled in primordial forest on a wide, ink-blue lake. Mr Fogle, a silent mountain of a man, built the cottage himself. In the mind of ten year old Bruce, his father is brown and green, the colours of the land, his whip smart, gregarious mother, a vivid and fiery red. This year, joining his parents, his older brother Rob and Angus the family dog, is his mother's wise and enigmatic brother, Reub. At first, this summer break seems like any other. Bruce spends his days floating in the row boat with Grace from next door, jumping off the diving raft, eating peach pie, watching the seagulls and herons, observing frogs and turtles and catching crayfish. Relishing the heat of the sun on his bare skin and the sludge of the lakebed beneath his toes, he, even at this young age, understands his life is pretty perfect. But then everything starts to change. Family dynamics are shifting, and over the summer both the harshness of the adult world and the thoughtless cruelty of children leave their mark. By the time the weather turns Bruce will be a different child, and will have chosen his own path to understanding the shifting, fragile wilderness that frames their summer idyll. Teeming with wonderful characters, Barefoot at the Lake is the story of a boy discovering his place in the world and realising his deep connection with nature. It is a memoir that will utterly transport you - you'll feel the sun on your face, the pebbles of the lake under foot and catch the scent of the pine on the wind.
A set of linked adventures, The Book of Quests introduces you to The Realm and the insane schemes of the outlawed sorcerer, Jedakiah.Jedakiah has returned to The Realm. What are his schemes? Who are his allies? What malevolence has he planned? Who can challenge him, defeat him? Can The Realm even win?Book of Quests follows the sorcerer's nefarious plans from one end of The Realm to the other. Seven scenarios that can be played together as a campaign, or run individually, slotting into any Mythras setting. These scenarios take the characters from insect-infested swamps, to political intrigue in the hearts of cities, and thence to the mountain fortress of the Chaos Mother.CaravanJoin Jhonen's caravan as it heads north to Aylesford - there to discover a terrible secret...Beneath the Black WaterLord Drystan's niece has been kidnapped by the vile creatures of the Frogfens. Can the characters save her from She Who Dwells Beneath?Shadows Behind the ThroneKing Myur, ruler of The Realm, harbours a secret of his own. Can the party uncover the truth - and will they save him, or damn him?The Chaos Mother's ChaliceAn ancient temple hides an important artefact crucial to Jedakiah's plans. Can the characters find it before the sorcerer's agents? Can they survive its corrupting influence?Curse of the ContessaThe Contessa, a forlorn beauty, is devoted to her only child. What lies behind her sadness? Who is seeking to control the nobles of The Realm? Are things really what they seem?Raid on Yagelan's BluffAn evil race is rising again in the north; The Realm's only chance of survival is to strike hard and strike fast. The characters must venture into the strange lair of a stranger race, confronting the vile creations being bred to deliver slaughter and mayhem...Reckoning at Distaff PeakThe sorcerer must be defeated; his plans must be stopped. All that stands between Jedakiah's evil are the characters - and the reckoning looms at Dark Child's Tower...
For courses intwo-semester general chemistry. Accurate,data-driven authorship with expanded interactivity leads to greater studentengagement Unrivaled problem sets, notablescientific accuracy and currency, and remarkable clarity have made Chemistry:The Central Science the leading general chemistry text for more than adecade. Trusted, innovative, and calibrated, the text increases conceptualunderstanding and leads to greater student success in general chemistry bybuilding on the expertise of the dynamic author team of leading researchers andaward-winning teachers. MasteringTM Chemistryis not included. Students, if Mastering is arecommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor forthe correct ISBN and course ID. Mastering should only be purchased whenrequired by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson rep for moreinformation. Mastering is an online homework,tutorial, and assessment product designed to personalize learning and improveresults. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities,students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.
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