Through a quest to thank everyone involved in producing his beloved morning cup of coffee, AJ Jacobs reveals inspiring truths about how gratitude can make our lives happier, richer, and more

A definitive guide to medical marijuana cultivation and consumption & explains all the essential techniques to grow cannabis. 2,000+ beautiful color images illustrate this book. Medical cannabis history, cannabinoid measurement & medical varieties provide a background for medical patients & caregivers. The Medicinal Concentrates & Cooking with Medicinal Cannabis chapters feature different methods

Christians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Light, the renowned American historian George Marsden illuminates the landscape with wisdom from one such mentor: Jonathan Edwards.Drawing on his deep expertise on Edwards and American culture, Marsden explains

A poignant novel imbued with music from the Giller Prize -- shortlisted author of Like This and Twenty-Six that follows two social outcasts as they navigate through their traumatic pasts. The worst moment of Sam\'s life was captured on video and shared across the Internet for all to gawk at. This is something she has in common with Robot, who just wants to move past the mistakes he\'s made, if only

How to use the insights of neuroscience and the techniques of mindfulness to get a good night\'s sleep. Everyone\'s familiar with the consequences of lost sleep: you\'re groggy and irritable, your focus is off, you don\'t perform at your best, and you\'re likely to dump sugary foods and caffeine into your system for an energy boost. But the effects of poor sleep go way beyond these concerns. Indeed,

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, Volume 102 provides the latest advances on the identification and characterization of emerging bioactive compounds with putative health benefits, along with up-to-date information on food science. Chapters in this new release include Stability of polyphenols in food processing, Contribution of polysaccharides from crustacean on fermented food products, Food

The Gloster Javelin was the UK\'s first line of night and all-weather air defense both at home and in RAF Germany. In the 1950s, when it replaced the Meteor and Venom, this revolutionary bomber interceptor became integral to many great stories told here in terrific detail. With an unorthodox aerodynamic design, the Javelin initially had major production issues, which included a tendency for engines

Since the development of natural philosophy in Ancient Greece, scientists have been concerned with determining the nature of matter\'s smallest constituents and the interactions among them. This textbook examines the question of the microscopic composition of matter through an accessible introduction to what is now called \'The Physics of Elementary Particles\'. In the last few decades, elementary

Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to one another--always brings them back together again. The final round

Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the

The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the nineteenth century, and even though now she was over 2,300 years old, she was still rather beautiful - and desirable. Which is why Lord Francis Powerscourt finds himself summoned

Essential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and grooving, Haring\'s paintings, large-scale public murals, chalk drawings, and singular graffiti style defined an era and brought awareness to social issues

Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air - with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, From Above tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new heights. Taking advantage of the amazing sense of perspective that aerial

When Stockwell Park Orchestra goes on tour to Europe, it proves a challenge for even the most efficient German logistical

New insights into Picasso\'s Blue Period, through innovative technology that reveals hidden compositions, motifs and alterations, plus hitherto unknown information on the artist\'s materials and processThis lavishly illustrated volume reexamines Pablo Picasso\'s famous Blue Period (1901-04) in paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Relying on new information gleaned from technical studies performed

A timely look at the economic revolution that took place in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.The rise of the monetary economy transformed every aspect of medieval Europe, including its values and culture. Medieval Money explores the ways art reflected and reinforced the complex ethical discussions that developed from the widespread role of money in everyday life in the Middle Ages. It traces

Darwin and Evolution for Kids traces the transformation of a privileged and somewhat scatterbrained youth into the great thinker who proposed the revolutionary theory of evolution. Through 21 hands-on activities, young scientists learn about Darwin\'s life and work and assess current evidence of evolution. Activities include going on a botanical treasure hunt, keeping field notes as a backyard naturalist,

In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness. Summary of Main Contents: A personally SIGNED edition of Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars. Limited to 500 boxsets. A specially commissioned full sized film poster for Moss Side Story (sent separately in a tube to avoid folding). A 7\" single of two new and