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'Funny, original and moving' The Sun 'Pick of the Week' December
2022 The perfect festive story for readers aged 8 to 8,888! Meet
the HUMBUG Family! Christmas Elves, but not as we know them... The
Humbugs aren't the kind of family you see on sparkly wrapping
paper, or in snowy storybooks about Santa's grotto. You won't see
them on the front of Christmas cards, and they definitely won't be
knitted on your grandma's favourite festive jumper. Those happy
scenes are only for the likes of the workshop elves and certainly
not the Humbugs. Nope! They manage a much less glamorous part of
Santa's factory, the RPD Department... That's Reindeer Poo Disposal
to you and me. YUCK! But when a mince-pie-related-mishap combined
with an unfortunate letter-losing-incident sees them exiled from
their home, the Humbugs - together with their clumsy Reindeer,
Blister, and wheelie-bin sleigh - go on a great and daring
adventure, where they discover the true meaning of Christmas, and
the real heroes who make it special! "A perfect Christmas stocking
present - a very funny, festive page-turner." - Jacqueline Wilson,
author of The Story of Tracy Beaker "Humbug is that rare book:
funny, original, thought-provoking, and an instant classic." -
Francesca Simon, author of Horrid Henry "An exquisite Christmas
story, full of imagination and heart. For the whole family to read
year-after-year!" - Amy Huberman, author of The Day I Got Trapped
In My Brain "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll need a mince pie - a
new Christmas classic!" - Steven Lenton, author and illustrator of
Genie and Teeny A hilarious, huge-hearted hug of a book; perfect
for all ages. For fans of Matt Haig, The Christmasaurus, and Elf on
the Shelf. With a touching and thought-provoking message to
key-workers who tirelessly toil behind-the-scenes to make
everyone's lives better.
Creating Professional Characters: Develop Spectacular Designs from
Basic Concepts is an inspiring and informative exploration of how
popular professional character designers take the basic concept of
a character in a production brief and develop these ideas into an
original, high-quality design. Suitable for student and
professional character designers alike, this book focuses on how to
approach your character designs in ways that ensure the target
audience and production needs are met while still creating fun,
imaginative characters. This visually appealing book includes
twenty thorough tutorials guiding you through the design and
decision making processes used to create awesome characters.
Replicating the processes used in professional practice today, this
book demonstrates the types of brief a professional designer might
receive, the iterative design process used to explore the brief,
the influence of production feedback on the final design, and how
final designs are presented to clients. This detailed, enlightening
book is an excellent guide to creating incredible imaginative
characters suitable for your future professional projects.
When Barack Obama came into office, the strategic landscape facing
the United States in its overseas counterterrorism operations was
undergoing a shift. Even before the rise of drones necessitated the
articulation of legal doctrine, the Obama administration had to
explain itself. In Speaking the Law, the authors offer a detailed
examination of the speeches of the Obama administration on national
security legal issues. Viewed together here for the first time, the
authors lay out a broad array of legal and policy positions
regarding a large number of principles currently contested at both
the domestic and international levels. The book describes what the
Obama administration has said about the legal framework in which it
is operating with respect to such questions as the nature of the
war on terrorism, the use of drones and targeted killings,
detention, trial by military commission and in federal courts, and
interrogation. The authors analyze this framework, examining the
stresses on it and asking where the administration got matters
right and where they were wrong. They conclude with suggestions for
certain reforms to the framework for the administration and
Congress to consider.
Study Speaking is for intermediate level and above students who
need to speak English in connection with their academic work. It is
intended primarily for use on language programmes preparing
learners of English for study at university or college. The course
is designed to improve students' speaking skills by: * activating
and extending their linguistic competence * increasing their
confidence in using spoken English * developing their ability to
analyse and evaluate spoken performance * sharpening their
strategic competence in face-to-face interaction. Study Speaking is
part of a the Study Skills series.
Turn "Ho ho ho" into "Ha ha ha" with this zany Christmas picture
book featuring Santa, Bigfoot, Little Red Riding Hood, unicorns,
dragons, and more! In Once Upon a Christmas, the Three Bears'
Christmas party gets off to a rocky start: Bigfoot can't stop
photobombing, the dragon burns the fruitcake, and Jack Frost
inadvertently triggers the storm of the century-knocking Santa's
sleigh off course and straight into a lake! A soaked St. Nick finds
eager helpers in the partygoers, a varied cast of mythical
creatures and familiar fictional favorites. The unlikely team
rescues the sleigh, just in time to continue the festivities and
get Santa on his merry way. Humorous twists and action-packed
illustrations will make this story an instant family classic for
the Christmas season.
Study Speaking is for intermediate level and above students who
need to speak English in connection with their academic work. It is
intended primarily for use on language programmes preparing
learners of English for study at university or college. The course
is designed to improve students' speaking skills by: * activating
and extending their linguistic competence * increasing their
confidence in using spoken English * developing their ability to
analyse and evaluate spoken performance * sharpening their
strategic competence in face-to-face interaction. Study Speaking is
part of a the Study Skills series.
What exactly is the United Nations? For that matter, why is there
still a United Nations at all? In Living with the UN, international
legal scholar Kenneth Anderson analyzes US-UN relations in each
major aspect of the United Nations' work-security, human rights and
universal values, and development-and addresses the crucial
question of whether, when, and how the United States should engage
or not engage with the United Nations in its many different organs
and activities. He looks at each UN organ and function and suggests
the form of engagement that the United States should take toward
it, giving workable, pragmatic meaning to "multilateral engagement"
across the full range of the United Nations' work.Cutting through
the "alphabet soup" of UN agencies, as well as the utopian idealism
that, however noble, often clouds analyses of the United Nations,
the book offers principles for a permanent relationship based on
ideals and interests between the United States and the United
Nations-and provides guidance for long-term US policy that runs far
beyond the Obama administration's tenure. Ultimately, Living with
the UN offers a vision of a better, but also more modest, United
Nations-a vision unlikely to be realized but well worth presenting.
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Intensive Care (Paperback)
Arthur Nowlin, Kim Nowlin; Foreword by Kenneth Anderson
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R302
Discovery Miles 3 020
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Harm reduction is the single most effective approach to drug and
alcohol problems because harm reduction uses pragmatic,
evidence-based strategies that work. This book is the first
comprehensive compilation of harm reduction strategies aimed
specifically at people who drink alcohol. Whether your goal is
safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether,
this is the book for you. It contains a large and detailed
selection of harm reduction tools and strategies which you can
choose from to build your own individualized alcohol harm reduction
program. There are many practical exercises to help people change
their behaviors, including risk-ranking worksheets, drinking
charts, goal choice worksheets, and many more. There are also
innumerable practical tips from folks who "have been there" and
have turned their drinking habits around for the better. This book
exemplifies the harm reduction principles of "meeting people where
they are at" and encouraging people to change in ways which they
choose for themselves. This book can either be used as a self-help
manual for people working on their own or by people who are
participating in a harm reduction support group. BETTER IS BETTER
Students progressing to advanced calculus are frequently confounded
by the dramatic shift from mechanical to theoretical and from
concrete to abstract. This text bridges the gap, offering a
systematic development of the real number system and careful
treatment of mappings, sequences, limits, continuity, and metric
spaces.
The first five chapters consist of a systematic development of many
of the important properties of the real number system, plus
detailed treatment of such concepts as mappings, sequences, limits,
and continuity. The sixth and final chapter discusses metric spaces
and generalizes many of the earlier concepts and results involving
arbitrary metric spaces.
An index of axioms and key theorems appears at the end of the book,
and more than 300 problems amplify and supplement the material
within the text. Geared toward students who have taken several
semesters of basic calculus, this volume is an ideal prerequisite
for mathematics majors preparing for a two-semester course in
advanced calculus.
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