Discover the brilliant dancers and choreographers who are shaping the art of movement around the world in this documentary series.
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For nearly two decades, On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals has instructed thousands of aspiring chefs in the culinary arts. The Fifth Edition Update continues its proven approach to teaching both the principles and practices of culinary fundamentals while guiding you toward a successful career in the culinary arts.
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An Introduction to Banking provides an introduction to liquidity risk management and asset-liability management. It begins with an overview of modern banking, the goals of a bank, how they operate, and how a breakdown in the banking system contributed to the crisis. Subsequent chapters introduce the fundamental workings of a bank and explore ALM and liquidity risk management in greater detail. As regulators move to enforce liquidity risk management in banks, and ongoing needs to better manage a bank’s assets and liabilities, this book is a must-have reference for all finance practitioners.
In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the nation’s swift embrace of a market economy―a guide whose communitarian ideas resonate with aspects of China’s own rich and ancient philosophical traditions.
From an international expert editor and contributor team, this new sixth edition includes expanded coverage of HIV testing, assessment and routine follow up and new chapters outlining problematic conditions associated with HIV and AIDS. Prevention strategies, early diagnosis and antiretroviral drugs and pharmacotherapy are covered in detail as well as children and women with HIV. It also addresses key psychological and mental health issues, patient perspectives and the role of patient engagement.
After 17 years, a woman returns home with her teenage twins. When she mysteriously vanishes, her children must reckon with a shadowy family legacy.
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After a routine prison transfer crashes in the forest, young Inuit paramedic Melina finds herself surrounded by murderers with a mere 100 feet to climb out of a ditch to escape. When they are attacked by an unseen force in the forest, Melina’s short journey to safety becomes the ultimate contest of wills.
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Rejected after a marriage proposal, Alex finds himself alone on a journey from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia, on what was supposed to be a happy vacation with his new fiancée. Stuck in a mild state of shock, Alex crosses paths with Ronnie – a woman on an adventure of her own – and together they take a grand road trip across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain, on their way to Perth.
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Five college students go urban spelunking in an abandoned insane asylum, and one of them betrays the group for a malevolent ghost.
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Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In Extortion, he uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich themselves. And in Clinton Cash, he revealed the Clintons’ massive money machine and sparked an FBI investigation.
The third book in the bestselling Cook’s Illustrated series, The Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book is an authoritative baking reference and recipe collection for those who want to learn how to bake and for those who want to bring their baking skills to a higher level. Fifteen chapters cover anything you’ve ever wanted to master–from cookies, cakes, pies, and tarts, to biscuits, breads, pastry, and more.
