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The 2 Meal Day
by Max Lowery'I love the 2 Meal Day! I feel healthy, happy and full of energy' Suki WaterhouseWelcome to intermittent fasting - eat just two meals a day, either breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, to burn fat and get fit fast. Rather than grazing on food all day or having to do complicated calorie calculations for the 5:2 diet, simply eat two meals to lose weight, reduce hunger and feel more energised. Choose your two meals from Max's delicious, nutritious and easy-to-prepare recipes; start the day with Salmon Mini Frittatas or a Breakfast Burrito; Lunch on Thai Green Chicken Curry or Tuna Casserole or enjoy Creamy Mushroom and Parmesan Risotto or Sea Bass Sauce Vierge for Dinner. There are even healthier desserts to satisfy your sweet tooth without over-indulging - choose from Two-Ingredient Chocolate Mousse or Banana Pancakes. Max shows how to combine your 2-meal day with High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) - short duration and maximum effort exercises - and resistance workouts to help you drop fat and get fit quickly. So ditch the calorie-counting and the sugar highs and lows and enjoy two meals a day alongside Max's workouts for a leaner, fitter, healthier body.
Amazing Grains
by James GhillieGrains have always played an important part in a healthy diet, but not everyone knows how to cook with them. Ghillie not only discusses all the grains - their provenance, nutritional benefit, how best to cook them - but showcases 120 international recipes that celebrate them. Start the day with Breakfast Quinoa with Raisins and Honey, take Maki and California Rolls to work for lunch, bake some Lazy Courgette & Sundried Tomato Cornbread at the weekend, create a feast of Fragrant Vegetable Biryani for friends, knock up a bulgar wheat Tabbouleh or Fennel Freekeh Pilav for a quick midweek supper or indulge in a Polenta and Ricotta Berry Torte. Everyone should be eating more of these grains rather than relying on staples like pasta and this book is here to inspire and excite.
Around the World in Salads
by Katie Caldesi Giancarlo Caldesi'[One of the top] three best plant-based cookbooks.' You Magazine 'There's a globe full of ingredients to explore and discover.' Food & Travel magazine Salads are fresh, healthy and delicious - and infinitely adaptable. Katie and Giancarlo show how salads are perfect for any time of day and occasion - Watermelon, Feta and Mint for a refreshing breakfast, meat, fish and vegetable-based mains for a complete meal plus recipes for starters and side salads where salad plays a supporting role. They even cover sweet salads such as Roast Black Fruit Salad or Raspberries and Redcurrants with Whipped Ricotta for a healthier alternative to an indulgent dessert. Featuring recipes from around the world you can enjoy Vietnamese Roasted Duck with Five-Spice Fruit Salad or a spicy Mexican Beef Salad, sample Mediterranean flavours with Courgette and Courgette Flower Carpaccio and Greek Lemon Chicken or savour Middle Eastern classics such as Fattoush and Tabbouleh. With a selection of essential dressings to compliment any salad this mouthwatering collection of inspirational recipes will ensure you'll never be stuck with a limp leaf of iceberg lettuce again.
Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief
by Hilarie MorganNew York Times Bestseller The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling author of The Rural Diaries, Hilarie Burton Morgan. Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all.Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus. In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity, and magical thinking that she could pass down, Burton Morgan realized she was crafting a grimoire. In her most intimate book yet, Burton Morgan shares how she’s creating an inheritance of mischief and magic that will outlive her. What’s more, she shows readers how they too can look at the elements of their lives and collect the pieces into a tangible collection of a lifetime of learning. Because in its purest form, a grimoire was a guide to keep you alive.Like the grimoires of old, full of life-saving wisdom, these pages record the people, places, ideas and habits that have kept Burton Morgan alive, in her signature voice that is at once honest, witty, and charming. Accompanied by whimsical two-color illustrations by Olivia Faust, the book also includes Simple Spells, which are ways to bring magic into your daily life: create an altar that delights and inspires, practice candle magic and poetry spells, make an oracle deck, or channel your inner kitchen witch with recipes and potions.So begin creating your own inheritance, take a long look inward and decide...What wisdom will be written on the pages of your Grimoire?
Healthy Gluten-free Eating
by Darina Allen Rosemary KearneyExcluding foods such as wheat, rye and barley need not lead to a boring and restrictive diet. Healthy Gluten-Free Eating contains over 100 completely gluten-free recipes that have been created to tempt your tastebuds whilst managing the symptoms of coeliac disease. Why not try Apple and Hazelnut Muesli for breakfast, Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls with Shrimps and Fresh Herbs for lunch or an Italian Beef Stew for supper? Foods that were previously off-limits are now back on the menu with tempting gluten-free recipes for breads, pizzas, cakes and puddings. Renowned chef Darina Allen has worked with Rosemary Kearney who is a coeliac herself, to prove that gluten-free eating is manageable can be enjoyable for you, your family and friends.
The Italian Diet (Gino D’Acampo)
by Gino D'AcampoEnjoy the best of Italian food whilst still losing weight! The Italian diet combines simple, fresh, good-quality ingredients for an easy way to shed pounds. The Mediterranean diet is renowned for its health benefits (less saturated fats, less processed food, more 'good' fats and omega oils, more antioxidants), resulting in less heart disease and cancer for those that follow it. And you can enjoy truly delicious dishes - this is no starve-yourself diet but a healthy living approach to eating with exceptional recipes that can be prepared for breakfast, lunch or dinner. With a dietitian's advice on what to eat and what not to eat, and daily and weekly menu plans so you can easily follow the diet, this is an attractive, stress-free approach to losing weight.
La Dolce Vita Diet (Gino D’Acampo)
by Gino D'AcampoThink losing weight is all about avoiding your favourite foods and punishing exercise routines? Wrong! La Dolce Diet combines recipes so delicious and exercises so simple that it won't feel like you are denying yourself. From romantic suppers and meals to impress your guests to healthy snacks and not-so-naughty treats, here is everything you'll need to lose weight and tone-up without missing out on your favourite foods. With menu plans from a leading dietitian and advice on what to eat and what to limit, this stress-free approach to slimming will revolutionise the way you think about healthy eating. Be it Fresh Salmon Carpaccio with Chilli and Oregano followed by Amaretti Biscuits with Vanilla Trifle, or a meal of Light Lamb Burgers with Sundried Tomatoes and Pecorino Cheese finished off with Baked Ice Cream in Crispy Meringue, shedding the pounds has never tasted better.
Nadia Sawalha's Little Black Dress Diet
by Nadia SawalhaNadia's Little Black Dress Diet, covering 100 recipes from Breakfast through to Dinner - not forgetting those scrumptious puddings - shows you how to make healthy yet succulent dishes to help you slip into your little black number. From quick and tasty recipes for thinner dinners and sinless snacks, Nadia gives her top tips on how to lose the weight - tricks to 'beat the bloat' and survival tips for the party season. And once you're there, Nadia reveals how to look your finest on the day, from which shoes to wear to the correct posture to adopt, everything you need to complement the new you. This is an essential book for anyone wishing to look and feel fabulous in their LBD.
Nourish: Mind, Body & Soul
by Amber Homan Amber Rose Sadie Frost Holly DavidsonWe get so much more out of life when we feel positive and energised and therefore it is such a shame when the everyday pressures of life build up and we find ourselves doing almost anything simply to get by and end up a long way from the ideal that we still wistfully have in mind. Full of the wisdom and good nourishment that helped Sadie, Holly and Amber through their own personal struggles and setbacks, Nourish promises to restore you to the path of complete well-being. With Amber's delicious food to nourish the body, Holly's exercises to strengthen it and Sadie's beauty recipes to soothe the skin and yoga and meditation routines to still the mind, this beautiful book is the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of modern life, proving that there is always a way to stay nourished and happy.
On Zen Practice
by Taizan Maezumi Roshi John Daishin Buksbazen Robert Aiken Bernie Glassman Wendy Egyoku NakaoThis updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and students. Conceived as an overarching primer on the practice of Zen, chapters in this volume address every aspect of practice: beginning practice, shikantaza, chanting, sesshin, working with Mu, and the nature of koans. In the intervening years since the publication of the earlier edition, countless books have appeared on Zen. Few, if any, have approached the strengths of On Zen Practice as a reference or teaching tool, and the book retains a lively, immediate quality that will appeal to today's readers.
Oriental Fortune Telling
by Jinnmei ShimanoORIENTAL FORTUNE TELLING brings to the Western reader a novel way of using cards, dice, coins, and "subconscious" numbers to arrive at modern interpretations of a fortune telling school that has existed in the Orientfor more than three thousand years. The school-Yi augury-grew out of the teachings of the book Ti King, an ancient classic of China that, accordingto the author, was worked on by none other than Confucius himself. Oriental Fortune Telling is an English translation of Eki Saho, a popular seller in Japan for the past two years. It is a "complete" book in that it gives the reader a brief history of Ti, describes several methods of arriving at the right "key," and finally, uses the "key" to unlock Yi's answers to questions involvingthe future. The instructions are clearly written, easy to understand, and the methods of finding answers are both novel and entertaining. The Ti fortunes answer both specific and general questions, always giving a clue as to when one's pattern of luck will change. The "key" that provides the answers is the listing on the front and back inside covers. When the reader has reached the correct combination, he need only check this listing to find the appropriate page number of his fortune. Whether the reader is a dyed-in-the wool mystic, or sceptic, this book is sure to provide endless hours of entertainment and amusement.
Oriental Fortune Telling
by Jinnmei ShimanoORIENTAL FORTUNE TELLING brings to the Western reader a novel way of using cards, dice, coins, and "subconscious" numbers to arrive at modern interpretations of a fortune telling school that has existed in the Orientfor more than three thousand years. The school-Yi augury-grew out of the teachings of the book Ti King, an ancient classic of China that, accordingto the author, was worked on by none other than Confucius himself. Oriental Fortune Telling is an English translation of Eki Saho, a popular seller in Japan for the past two years. It is a "complete" book in that it gives the reader a brief history of Ti, describes several methods of arriving at the right "key," and finally, uses the "key" to unlock Yi's answers to questions involvingthe future. The instructions are clearly written, easy to understand, and the methods of finding answers are both novel and entertaining. The Ti fortunes answer both specific and general questions, always giving a clue as to when one's pattern of luck will change. The "key" that provides the answers is the listing on the front and back inside covers. When the reader has reached the correct combination, he need only check this listing to find the appropriate page number of his fortune. Whether the reader is a dyed-in-the wool mystic, or sceptic, this book is sure to provide endless hours of entertainment and amusement.
Paleo Monday to Friday: A Diet So Good You Can Take The Weekend Off
by Daniel GreenPaleo: Monday to Friday provides you with the perfect diet. The book is full of delicious, nutritious recipes, using only the fruits, veg, meat, seafood and nuts that our Paleolithic, hunter-gatherer ancestors thrived on when our species evolved. Plus it's written by top chef Daniel Green and with dishes like Salmon & Scallop Ceviche, Seared Honey-Glazed Pork and Kelftiko Greek Lamb, there's no compromise on taste or flavour at all. Additionally, every dish is designed to be low in fat so the weight will drop off effortlessly. All you need to do is follow it for 5 days a week and you can even have the weekend off and relax the rules a little and you will still see great results. This is the diet that Daniel has followed for over 25 years and it works. Low-fat, natural food is the key to losing weight and feeling fantastic and this book shows you just how easy and enjoyable it can be.
Seriously Good! Gluten Free Baking
by Phil VickeryThis is a collection of 70 mouthwatering gluten-free baking recipes that coeliacs have until now only been able to dream about. Baking is often the most difficult aspect of the gluten-free diet to overcome, as it is gluten that gives bread its elasticity and cakes their spring. Recipes for delicious gluten-free cakes, puddings and pastries are hard to find - all too often the results are disappointingly crumbly and dry. But Phil Vickery's easy-to-follow instructions and practical advice, which draw on his Michelin-honed cooking skills, will have you whipping up melt-in-the-mouth Blueberry Cheescake, Chestnut and Roasted Onion Bread, Springy Scones and Squidgy Chocolate Brownies in an instant.
Seriously Good! Gluten Free Baking
by Phil VickeryThis is a collection of 70 mouthwatering gluten-free baking recipes that coeliacs have until now only been able to dream about. Baking is often the most difficult aspect of the gluten-free diet to overcome, as it is gluten that gives bread its elasticity and cakes their spring. Recipes for delicious gluten-free cakes, puddings and pastries are hard to find - all too often the results are disappointingly crumbly and dry. But Phil Vickery's easy-to-follow instructions and practical advice, which draw on his Michelin-honed cooking skills, will have you whipping up melt-in-the-mouth Blueberry Cheescake, Chestnut and Roasted Onion Bread, Springy Scones and Squidgy Chocolate Brownies in an instant.
Seriously Good! Gluten-free Cooking for Kids
by Phil VickeryPhil Vickery believes that he can revolutionise the notoriously restrictive gluten-free diet. Using his Michelin-starred cooking talents and his nurturing of simple, honest ingredients, Phil has created over 150 recipes that coeliacs have until now only dreamed of. Food to enjoy, food that is nutritious, food that will make you feel good. There are recipes for breakfasts, healthy snacks, light lunches, easy suppers and sophisticated dinners, including Crispy Pork Salad with Lemon Dressing and a Lemon and Leek Risotto. Phil also brings his skills to cakes, puddings and pastries - recipes that are the hardest of all to find if you are following a gluten-free diet. The 30 sweet ideas include a Fudgy Almond Cake with Mint Syrup & Frosting, Millionaire's Shortbread with Bramley Apple Dip and a great kids' Birthday Cake Sponge. There are also a number of delicious bread ideas, including Chestnut & Roasted Onion Bread.
The Sourdough School: The ground-breaking guide to making gut-friendly bread
by Vanessa Kimbell'Master the art of sourdough with Vanessa and you will learn how to look after your own gut microbes and health.' - Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth At her renowned Sourdough School, Vanessa has taught countless students the secrets of this healthy, more easily digestible bread, and now she has compiled her teachings for the home baker. From creating your own starter from scratch, you'll then move on to basic breadmaking techniques, before progressing to using sprouted grains and experimenting with flavours to produce Fig and Earl Grey and Cherry Plum loaves. With step-by-step photography, detailed instructions, specialist advice and Vanessa's indispensable encouragement, The Sourdough School celebrates the timeless craft of artisan baking.
Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
by Gordon W. AllportAllport outlines the need for a psychology of becoming, of growth and development of personality, one that can best be discovered by looking within ourselves.
A Garden of Prayer: A Family Treasury
by Jenna Bassin and Jane LahrAn exquisitely illustrated collection of more than 100 beautiful prayers drawn from centuries of Christian faith across the globe. Chosen for their poetry as well as their enduring power to inspire, the prayers collected in this volume reflect the historical and cultural breadth of the Christian tradition. The selection includes prayers from four continents and many centuries—composed in the flower of youth and the fullness of maturity, uttered in sorrow, thanksgiving, doubt, and transcendence. A Garden of Prayer brings together the words of Saints, including Thomas Aquinas and Francis of Assisi, as well as authors ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Merton and from John Donne to Robert Louis Stevenson. It also features powerful, anonymous prayers from the Christian communities of Ghana, Ireland, and elsewhere. The prayers are arranged in five sections that correspond to the changing seasons—spring, summer, fall, winter, and returns to the transcendent spring. The beauty of the prayers is enhanced by illustrations throughout the book, including full-color illuminations that begin each section.
The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche
by Wolfgang Pauli C. G. JungJung's original essay on synchronicity and Pauli's view as a physicist of archetypes and synchronicity.
The True Story of Sounds We Hear
by Illa PodendorfFrom the workings of the ear to how our body can produce sounds and finally to pleasant/noisy sounds, this book is an easy-to-read introduction to the wide world of sound.
Arthritis and Common Sense (3rd edition)
by Dan Dale AlexanderThis book tells the proper diet, the selection and rotation of food, plus a dietetic therapy, so that more of the correct oils in your food can serve the joints. It also shows how these oils can stimulate your adrenal glands--to successfully combat arthritis. In addition to the special diet which the author explains in the book, he also advocates the use of cod liver oil.
Corn-Farm Boy
by Lois LenskiAn Iowa farm boy longs to quit school and join his dad working the land Dick comes home from school early and tells his mother he was sent home with a stomachache. She puts him to bed and tells him to get some sleep, but Dick can't shut his eyes for a second. All his life he's wanted to be a farmer--to quit school and join his father and brother driving tractors across their sprawling property--and today is his chance. His father is getting a 2nd tractor, and he'll need Dick to drive it. Dick is certain that there's nothing on the farm that he can't handle. But when he gets a taste of farmer's work, will he be so sure it's the life for him? This charming novel offers a detailed look at life on a farm and a snapshot of a time when a boy could quit school to work in the fields.
Immortality: The Scientific Evidence
by Alson J. SmithThe astonishing case for life after death as revealed through the revolutionary science of parapsychology
Nature Cure
by M. K. GandhiThis book contains a valuable collection of Gandhiji’s thoughts on Nature Cure etc. and is indeed as rich in its information as it is constructive in its outlook. I commend this book for serious study by all those who are interested in cure of ailments through natural remedies. - Morarji Desai, 30th November, 1954