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Offering a detailed plan for getting dinner on the table, no matter how busy your day has been, Peter Miller reveals five brilliant ways to cook a group of indispensable ingredients. These versatile, healthy foods-a carefully curated range of vegetables, grains, legumes, pastas, and proteins-form an adaptable toolbox for making simple, delicious meals. With five tried-and-tested methods for a wide range of common ingredients at their fingertips, busy...
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Why Social Innovation & Social Enterprise? Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship is a field that is just heating up. It is a business idea that has been fringe for a number of years, but that is growing more mainstream. Increasingly, the idea of social responsibility will be part of every business person's agenda, especially as the Millennial generations is increasingly of an age to own and participate in business.
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In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts-the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative audio book, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller explains the basic principles of smart swarms- self-organization, diversity of knowledge, indirect collaboration, and adaptive mimicking-to...
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2002
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In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont People and People of the Great Plains, Peter Millers VERMONT FARM WOMEN puts faces and stories to these statistics and shows that this small rural state is setting a national trend. Within the group of forty-four Vermont farm women profiled in these pages, tremendous variety exists among the crops they grow and harvest, the animals they breed and raise, and the products they create. Yet all...
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c2005
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Author and photographer Peter Miller, best known for the classics Vermont People and Vermont Farm Women, has now completed his trilogy of books with the November release of Vermont Gathering Places. The book is a collection of 38 stories that highlight the places in the state where Vermonters gather to meet, discuss their towns, and keep the small-town traditions of the state thriving. The stories in Vermont Gathering Places are as varied as the counties...
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Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture-the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary-rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins...
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As the world's second most popular sport, cricket is much richer and more diverse than many realise. Globally, passionate players give up holidays, time with loved ones and hard-earned money to achieve the extraordinary and play for their country. Afghanistan, whose captain grew up on a refugee camp, will play in the 2015 World Cup not just in spite of the Taliban but partly because of them. In Ireland, cricket has reawakened after a century of dormancy...
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Every school holidays Ezekiel sets off into the rainforest behind his house to explore and to practice his bushman skills. But this school holidays he will discover a lot more then he was expecting!
Amongst this magical rainforest backdrop he makes new and unusual friends, is gifted with unexpected talents... and uncovers a mysterious family secret that will change his life forever!
Ezekiel meets "Spirit", the Guardian of the Border Ranges. A small,...
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In the captivating world of 'Guardians of the Border Ranges - Season Two,' join Ezekiel, a fearless young boy on his extraordinary journey away from his home tucked deep in the Border Ranges. This is the second instalment in a thrilling series that will sweep you away in its fun packed adventure.
Ezekiels world is about to change drastically. From shocking family revelations and an enchanted rainforest, to secrets and magic woven into the very fabric...
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The Animal Intelligence Bundle:
"Minds of Their Own" by Virginia Morell (March 2008)
"Almost Human" by Mary Roach (April 2008)
"The Genius of Swarms" by Peter Miller (July 2007)
In "Minds of Their Own," Virginia Morell provides an overview of the science of animal intelligence. She introduces you to an African gray parrot named Alex, a bonobo named Kanzi, and a border collie named Betsy. Each of these animals tells us something interesting about the...
18) Egg Cream
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EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream-it was a product of necessity and hardship, but a source of joy and sweetness. Through a tour of egg cream establishments led by a filmmaker and his young daughter, exhaustively researched archival imagery (and an eponymous song by Lou Reed!), EGG CREAM examines the Jewish experience...
