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Cut hidden food toxins, lose weight and get healthy in just 21 days.Did you know you are consuming hundreds of toxins every single day? That a juicy peach sprayed heavily with pesticides could be triggering your body to store fat? Does silly putty, one of the ingredients in McDonald\'s French fries, sound appetizing to you? Chemicals are invading our foods, and they\'re making us gain weight, look old, and get sick. In THE FOOD BABE WAY, activist Vani Hari, a.k.a. the Food Babe, reveals the dangers lurking in our foods, and spells out how to keep toxic chemicals out of your life, explaining what to avoid, what to use instead, and where to get it. Hari shows how to lose weight-without counting calories-and get healthy through a simple, practical, and accessible 21-day program, including easy-to-follow meal plans and mouthwatering recipes. With THE FOOD BABE WAY, you can change your food, change your body, and change the world.\" The rich variety of activities for word retrieval and problem solving in the Workbook for Cognitive Skills has made it a favorite of clinicians over the past twenty years. The second edition of the red book builds on the original by adding 70 pages of entirely new exercises and 1,000 rewritten questions. Responding to the comments and suggestions of longtime users, the second edition of the Workbook for Cognitive Skills also features a sturdy ring binder that allows for trouble-free copying of exercises, a new page layout that is easier to read, and divider tabs that make it simple to find different sections.This book is divided into six different target areas (Word Formation, Familiar Phrases, Definition Usage, Visual Recognition, Letter Placement, and Logical Solutions) with exercises of varying length and complexity that can be completed in any sequence. 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In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America\'s most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered Lucy, the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete reevaluation of previous evidence for human origins.In the years since this dramatic discovery Johanson has continued to scour East Africa\'s Great rift Valley for the earliest evidence of human origins. In 1975 this team unearthed the First Family, an unparalleled fossil assemblage of 13 individuals dating back to 3.2 million years ago and in 1986 at the Rift\'s most famous location, Olduvai Gorge, this same team discovered a 1.8 million-year-old partial adult skeleton that necessitated a reassessment of the earliest members of our own genus Homo.Johanson\'s fieldwork continues unabated and recently more fossil members of Lucy\'s family have been found, including the 1992 discovery of the oldest, most complete skull of her species, with future research now planned for 1996 in the virtually unexplored regions of the most northern extension of the Rift Valley in Eritrea.From Lucy to Language is a summing up of this remarkable career and a stunning documentary of human life through time on Earth. It is a combination of the vital experience of field work and the intellectual rigor of primary research. It is the fusion of two great writing talents: Johanson and Blake Edgar, an accomplished science writer, editor of the California Academy of Sciences\' Pacific Discovery, and co-author of Johanson\'s last book, Ancestors.From Lucy to Language is one of the greatest stories ever told, bracketing the timeline between bipedalism and human language. Part I addresses the central issues facing anyone seeking to decipher the mystery of human origins. In this section the authors provide answers to the basics -- What are our closest living relatives? -- tackle the controversial -- What is race? -- and contemplate the imponderables -- Why did consciousness evolve?From Lucy to Language is an encounter with the evidence. Early human fossils are hunted, discovered, identified, excavated, collected, preserved, labeled, cleaned, reconstructed, drawn, fondled, photographed, cast, compared, measured, revered, pondered, published, and argued over endlessly. Fossils like Lucy have become a talisman of sorts, promising to reveal the deepest secrets of our existence. In Part II the authors profile over fifty of the most significant early human fossils ever found. Each specimen is displayed in color and at actual size, most of them in multiple views. With them the authors present the cultural accoutrements associated with the fossils: stone tools which evidence increasing sophistication over time, the earliest stone, clay, and ivory art objects, and the culminating achievement of the dawn of human consciousness -- the magnificent rock and cave paintings of Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.In the end From Lucy to Language is a reminder and a challenge. Like no species before us, we now seem poised to control vast parts of the planet and its life. We possess the power to influence, if not govern, evolution. For that reason, we must not forget our link to the natural world and our debt to natural selection. We need to think deep, to add a dose of geologic time and evolutionary history to our perspective of who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed. This is the most poignant lesson this book has to offer. In this completely revised and expanded 2020 edition of his classic Home Coffee Roasting, James Beard Award nominated Kenneth Davids reveals the secrets to simple, quality home roasting.In the past decades, home coffee roasting has gone from a small but growing trend to an increasingly mainstream audience. Still, for many in the current generation of coffee lovers, roasting remains a mysterious process.Home Coffee Roasting provides insightful, easy-to-follow guidelines for every step in the process:- The new home roasters: how to evaluate and use them- A resource guide for green beans and home-roasting equipment- Best techniques for storing green beans- Tips on perfecting a roast- How to create your own blendWith Davids\' charming blend of commentary on coffee, the history of roasting and connoisseurship, how-to instructions, copious illustrations, and an invaluable resource guide, this revised, expanded edition of Home Coffee Roasting is the one necessary book for every true coffee lover.Davids\' clearly written instructions make home coffee roasting sound easy and should extend the process to a broad audience.--Booklist Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquorsFrom the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history of rum and the Americas alike, revealing that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the booming sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against demon rum, Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today\'s bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter\'s Punch.In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys, rum--once the swill of the common man--has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating. Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquorsFrom the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history of rum and the Americas alike, revealing that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the booming sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against demon rum, Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today\'s bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter\'s Punch.In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys, rum--once the swill of the common man--has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating. Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms. 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