The Lebanese cookbook

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Zanna Van Dijk

Ditch the fad diets. Step away from the treadmill. There's another way to get results, and it's all about balance. Being in great shape doesn't mean depriving yourself or running your body into the ground. In STRONG, personal trainer and Instagram star Zanna Van Dijk busts these myths and reveals her no-fail formula for a powerful, lean physique and lasting health and happiness. STRONG gives you all the motivation and practical tools you need to get started on your fitness journey. Zanna's inspiring and achievable approach to eating well and training effectively features a comprehensive guide to lifting weights, detailed workout routines, sustainable nutrition tips and simple principles of health and wellness. After you've worked up a sweat, her mouthwatering, easy recipes prove that nourishing food isn't just fuel - it can be absolutely delicious and bursting with flavour too. Make your body STRONG. Move it. Nourish it. Thrive.

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Virginia Bergman Peters

White men who met and wrote about the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples of the upper Missouri in the 18th and 19th centuries found them prosperous and compelling. Their ceremonies were elaborate; they were colorful subjects for painters such as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin; they bought lots of trinkets and firearms. Women, if mentioned at all, appeared as drudges and slaves in a male-dominated society, for these travelers failed to note the less obvious. Skilled farming by women produced a food surplus which allowed leisure for male ceremony; excess food made possible a continental trade network fostered by the linguistic powers of women traders; men, on the other hand, lived in their mother-in-law's house and gave the trophies from ritual war parties to their mother's lodge. Society was matrifocal, and its activities conformed to the sanctions of religion. In this book, Virginia Peters uses women's accounts, the strong oral tradition of the people, their myths and creation stories, and anthropological and archeological data to examine this vitality. She even follows the life cycle of a representative woman, and explores female farming, trading, and hunting activities, the organization of village life, and the culture of war. Basic to village society, Peters shows, was deep faith in an order where the generative female principle had primacy, sustaining and defining the people and everything in their world from sun to rain to bison, stones, and corn.

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Jodie Shepherd

Budderball can't wait to go to the town fair. When he and the Buddies arrive, there are games to play, rides to go on, and races to win. But Budderball is most excited about the food at the fair. Cotton candy, popcorn, peanuts--it all sounds so delicious! When the hungry pup stumbles upon a pie-eating contest, he knows he's found a fair event made for him.

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Alex Woolf

An exciting series that looks in colourful close-up at the way animals attack their prey and defend themselves against predators. Spectacular photographs and snack on this panels of tasty information make the books excellent for reluctant readers. Ages 7+.