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J.J. Pizzuto's Fabric Science Swatch Kit - Ingrid (fashion Insititue Of Technology Johnson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

J.J. Pizzuto's Fabric Science Swatch Kit - Ingrid (fashion Insititue Of Technology Johnson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

J.J. Pizzuto''s Fabric Science Swatch Kit, 12th Edition reinforces the study of textiles for students in courses such as Fashion Design, Fashion Business, Merchandising, Fashion Retailing, Interior Design, Textile Surface Design, Textile and Apparel Product Development, and Textile Production Management. The kit contains 114 (2"x 3") fabric samples, a fabric key, 32 special assignments, heavy-weight sample sheets to mount and analyze fabrics, and a pick glass--all contained in a three-ring binder. The swatches are organized in the order in which they are covered in the text: fibers, yarns, weaves, knits, dyeing, printing, and finishes. Swatches represent the types of fabrics currently available to fashion and interior designers in the field, making this resource an excellent addition to any professional library. Key Features Include -The text contains instructions and video tutorials that take students through the process of assembling their swatch kit and using a pick glass.-A Fabric Key identifies the swatches by number and fabric name, description, and fiber content.-Assignments are designed to reinforce the text and classroom lectures and have been developed by FIT instructors to broaden students’ understanding of key concepts in textiles through hands-on labs and problem solving activities.-Students will successfully develop keen observation, analysis, and report writing skills.- J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science Swatch Kit is an ideal companion to J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science , 12th Edition (ISBN 9781501367878, available as a separate purchase) or can also be used alone or in conjunction with any textiles textbook. Fabric Science Swatch Kit STUDIO Resources Include -Watch videos with step-by-step demonstrations on how to compile the swatch kit Instructor''s Resources -Instructor''s Swatch Set including 7" x 12" samples of each fabric (ISBN 9781501368059)-Instructor’s Guide provides specific information about each of the swatches in the Swatch Kit, special assignments, questions (with answers), and instructional comments -PowerPoint® presentations include full-color images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion

DKK 615.00
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Racing Green - Kit Chapman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Racing Green - Kit Chapman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly. Motor racing is already one of the most scientifically demanding sports: it involves a combination of peak physical and mental skill, world-class mechanical nous and perennial technological innovation. These innovations, first developed for racing, have been incorporated into everyday car designs to improve their safety – from ABS brakes to crash helmets – and ecological impact, via electric engines and more efficient fuels and tyres. Author Kit Chapman is a lifelong motorsports fan who has previously worked with Virgin Racing’s Formula E team on the chemistry and material science of their cars. With help from his wide range of contacts in the industry, Kit criss-crosses the globe from Ohio to Monaco, Spain to Bahrain. He steps behind the scenes of current engineering breakthroughs, picking up extraordinary tales along the way, such as that of maverick designer Warren Mosler who designed a car so fast it was banned from racing.Part travelogue, part historical retrospective, Racing Green combines visits to the experts with lively retellings of real-life incidents that became milestones in modern car development. Kit looks at the breadth of racing, both its glories and its tragedies, revealing the industry as a driving force for progress, and where it''s on track to take us next.

DKK 137.00
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Burnout Survival Kit - Imogen (writer) Dall - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Burnout Survival Kit - Imogen (writer) Dall - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Work can leave you frazzled – but it shouldn’t. What you need is some sane advice to get you through. Your body aches. Your brain feels like a mouldy wrung-out dishcloth. You can barely get anything done and, hang on, why are you even doing this anyway? Is there something wrong with you? Nope. You’re just burnt out. Burnout Survival Kit offers practical advice for when things are already bad . There’s no mystical magic about unleashing your inner corporate superhero, no weird productivity diagrams, and certainly no crap about working ‘smarter’. Instead, this is the calm inner voice that you need, served with good sense and creativity. As well as helping you to take time to ground yourself, there are brilliant hacks for all the causes of stress and anxiety, from how to approach networking (no one likes it) to practical advice on sleeping better. And the humour helps too. This may not be a cure, but it really does offer instant relief and give you the chance to take a breath. So whether you’re just starting to burn or fully scorched to a crisp, rest easy. You’ve got a Burnout Survival Kit.

DKK 119.00
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Victorian Housebuilding - Kit Wedd - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Victorian Housebuilding - Kit Wedd - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Victorian suburbs, now such a familiar element of the British townscape, were once building sites where armies of workmen converged to cover open land with streets of modest, comfortable houses. Despite their large scale and uniform appearance, most developments were built a few houses at a time by small firms operating on the narrowest of profit margins. Everyone on the building site had his place in the hierarchy of trades and the sequence of work, and each craftsman guarded his own tools and trade secrets, the fruits of his years in work that was dirty, strenuous and sometimes downright dangerous. In this lively investigation of the nineteenth-century building industry, Kit Wedd celebrates the work of the men who, plot by plot, translated surveyors'' drawings and piles of materials into streets of dwellings that are as desirable today as when they first appeared.

DKK 112.00
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Images of War in Contemporary Art - Kit Messham Muir - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Images of War in Contemporary Art - Kit Messham Muir - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uroš Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical tropes of trauma, affect, and emotion that have determined how we think of images of war and terror for the last 20 years. Through analyses of visual culture from contemporary "war art" to the meme wars, they argue that the art that most effectively challenges the ethics and aesthetics of war and terror today is that which disrupts this flow—art that makes alternative perceptions of wartime both visible and possible.As a theoretical work, Images of War in Contemporary Art is richly supported by visual and textual evidence and firmly embedded in current artistic practice. Significantly, though, the book breaks with both traditional and current ways of thinking about war art—offering a radical rethinking of the politics and aesthetics of art today through analyses of a diverse scope of contemporary art that includes Ben Quilty, Abdul Abdullah (Australia), Mladen Miljanovic, Nebojša Šeric Šoba (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Hiwa K, Wafaa Bilal (Iraq), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), and Arthur Jafa (United States).

DKK 344.00
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Mental Fight - Ben Okri - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Mental Fight - Ben Okri - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far – art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine and, for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret – racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the reality and the legacy of slavery.In this long, sustained consideration of the state we find ourselves in, Ben Okri invokes the past to explain the present, and sings out a message of hope. The future is still ours to make. This epic poem, an anthem for the twenty-first century, first appeared in The Times in January 1999. Its message could hardly be more relevant to our present condition.Discover this revised edition of an inspiring and extraordinarily tender work.''Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven'' Ali Smith

DKK 106.00
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Anti-Judaism - David Nirenberg - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Anti-Judaism - David Nirenberg - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

In this magisterial history, David Nirenberg explores anti-Judaism from antiquity to the present, from the Ancient Egyptians who resented their Jewish neighbours to the ideas of Voltaire and Marx, thereby revealing it to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. With intolerance and racism on the rise across the West, the central argument of David Nirenberg''s groundbreaking study – that to imagine anti-Judaism to be confined to the margins of our society is to be dangerously complacent – is as urgent and as timely as it has ever been.

DKK 132.00
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The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture - Kit Messham Muir - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture - Kit Messham Muir - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the ‘old world’ of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture , Kit Messham-Muir and Uroš Cvoro analyse the aesthetics that have emerged at the core of 21st-century politics, and which erupted at the US Capitol in January 2021. Looking at this event’s aesthetic dimensions through such aspects as QAnon, white resentment and strongman authoritarianism, they examine the world-wide historical trends towards ethno-nationalism and populism that emerged following the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the dawning of the current post-ideological age. Building on their ground-breaking research into how trauma, emotion and empathy have become well-worn tropes in contemporary art informed by conflict, Messham-Muir and Cvoro go further by highlighting the ways in which art can actively disrupt an underlying drift in society towards white supremacism and ultranationalism. Utilising their outsiders’ perspective on a so-called American phenomenon, and rejecting American exceptionalism, their theorising of the ‘Trump Effect'' rejects the idea of Trump as a political aberration, but as a symptom of deeper and longer-term philosophical shifts in global politics and society.As theorists of contemporary art and visual culture, Messham-Muir and Cvoro explore the ways in which these features of the Trump Effect operate through aesthetics, in the intersection of politics and contemporary art, and provide valuable insight into the current political context.

DKK 707.00
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The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture - Kit Messham Muir - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture - Kit Messham Muir - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the ‘old world’ of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture , Kit Messham-Muir and Uroš Cvoro analyse the aesthetics that have emerged at the core of 21st-century politics, and which erupted at the US Capitol in January 2021. Looking at this event’s aesthetic dimensions through such aspects as QAnon, white resentment and strongman authoritarianism, they examine the world-wide historical trends towards ethno-nationalism and populism that emerged following the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the dawning of the current post-ideological age. Building on their ground-breaking research into how trauma, emotion and empathy have become well-worn tropes in contemporary art informed by conflict, Messham-Muir and Cvoro go further by highlighting the ways in which art can actively disrupt an underlying drift in society towards white supremacism and ultranationalism. Utilising their outsiders’ perspective on a so-called American phenomenon, and rejecting American exceptionalism, their theorising of the ‘Trump Effect'' rejects the idea of Trump as a political aberration, but as a symptom of deeper and longer-term philosophical shifts in global politics and society.As theorists of contemporary art and visual culture, Messham-Muir and Cvoro explore the ways in which these features of the Trump Effect operate through aesthetics, in the intersection of politics and contemporary art, and provide valuable insight into the current political context.

DKK 233.00
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Winnetou - Karl May - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Winnetou - Karl May - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Karl May''s most popular work originally published in 1892 and influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Winnetou is the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place in the U.S. Southwest, in the latter half of the 1800s, where the Indian way of life is threatened by the first transcontinental railroad. Winnetou, the only Native Indian chief who could have united the various rival tribes to reach a settlement with the whites, is murdered. His tragic death foreshadows the death of his people. May''s central theme here, as in much of his work, is the relationship between aggression, racism, and religious intolerance.

DKK 339.00
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Superheavy - Kit Chapman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Superheavy - Kit Chapman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the 2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Creating an element is no easy feat. It''s the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousandth of a second – after which it''s gone forever. Welcome to the world of the superheavy elements: a realm where scientists use giant machines and spend years trying to make a single atom of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth.From the first elements past uranium and their role in the atomic bomb to the latest discoveries stretching our chemical world, Superheavy will reveal the hidden stories lurking at the edges of the periodic table. Why did the US Air Force fly planes into mushroom clouds? Who won the transfermium wars? How did an earthquake help give Japan its first element? And what happened when Superman almost spilled nuclear secrets?In a globe-trotting adventure that stretches from the United States to Russia, Sweden to Australia, Superheavy is your guide to the amazing science filling in the missing pieces of the periodic table. By the end you''ll not only marvel at how nuclear science has changed our lives – you''ll wonder where it''s going to take us in the future.

DKK 127.00
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Clamouring for Legal Protection - Robert F (vanderbilt University) Barsky - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Clamouring for Legal Protection - Robert F (vanderbilt University) Barsky - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons. The struggles of Odysseus, Moses, Aeneas, Dante, Satan, Dracula and Alice in Wonderland, among many others, provide surprising insights into current discussions about those who have left untenable situations in their home countries in search of legal protection. Law students, lawyers, social scientists, literary scholars and general readers who are interested in learning about international refugee law and immigration regulations in home and host countries will find herein a plethora of details about border crossings, including those undertaken to flee pandemics, civil unrest, racism, intolerance, war, forced marriage, or limited opportunities in their home countries.

DKK 530.00
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Clamouring for Legal Protection - Robert F Barsky - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Clamouring for Legal Protection - Robert F Barsky - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons. The struggles of Odysseus, Moses, Aeneas, Dante, Satan, Dracula and Alice in Wonderland, among many others, provide surprising insights into current discussions about those who have left untenable situations in their home countries in search of legal protection. Law students, lawyers, social scientists, literary scholars and general readers who are interested in learning about international refugee law and immigration regulations in home and host countries will find herein a plethora of details about border crossings, including those undertaken to flee pandemics, civil unrest, racism, intolerance, war, forced marriage, or limited opportunities in their home countries.

DKK 437.00
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Whether Violent or Natural - Natasha Calder - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Whether Violent or Natural - Natasha Calder - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

''Darkly unsettling'' Guardian ''Intoxicating – dark, heady, lyrical’ Daily Telegraph ''Terrifying and inventive'' Observer In a world devastated by antimicrobial resistance, two survivors are thrown into crisis when a woman washes ashore on the remote island where they live __________________________Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss of most human life on earth, Kit and Crevan eke out an existence on a remote island. Under a collapsing castle, they spend their days in an underground bunker packed with emergency stores, venturing out only at night. They are safe. One evening a woman washes ashore, nearly drowned. Crevan wants to keep her alive, but Kit isn’t so sure. The new arrival will implode Kit and Crevan’s world with dire and fatal consequences, churning up the waters of the past and unearthing secrets they have kept from each other and from themselves. Who is really in control – and what are they both capable of doing to protect their haven? Gripping, treacherous and visceral, Whether Violent or Natural is an unforgettably dark and strikingly original work by a major new talent. ''Sly, sharp, and utterly captivating'' Rory Power, New York Times -bestselling author of Wilder Girls ''Hits you like a shot of the very good stuff ... Dark-hearted, complex, and accomplished'' C. A. Fletcher, author of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

DKK 160.00
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Scandalous Alchemy - Katy Moran - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Scandalous Alchemy - Katy Moran - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Thrilling Regency romance, set against an Outlander -like background of passion and war, this will delight lovers of Poldark and Bridgerton . 1825 Cornwall and France Clemency Arwenack never dreamed she would be appointed lady-in-waiting to the notorious, headstrong Princess Royal, heir apparent to the English throne. In fact it''s the last thing she wants. But Clemency dares not refuse, while her scheming godmother is threatening to expose her deepest secret.Worse still, Clemency''s childhood friend, the Hon Lieutenant Colonel Kit Helford is now captain of the royal guard, charged with escorting the Princess Royal to France. If anyone can see through Clemency''s web of deceit, it''s Kit – just as wild and handsome as he''s always been. And just as much trouble.The third novel in the Bridgerton -style Regency world of Katy Moran''s wild and dissolute Lamorna family. Welcome to Kit and Clemency''s story...''Passionate, smart and action-packed'' Sarah Hughes, Guardian ''Lush, dark, utterly real and achingly romantic'' Ruth Ware ''An absolute joy of a book. From the wild beauty of Cornwall to the breathless danger of a teetering peace treaty at Fontainebleau, Katy Moran whisks us on a desperately exhilarating dance through scandal, intrigue and treachery. Like all the best balls, I didn''t want it to end'' Holly Hepburn

DKK 112.00
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Whether Violent or Natural - Natasha Calder - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Whether Violent or Natural - Natasha Calder - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

''Darkly unsettling'' Guardian ''Intoxicating – dark, heady, lyrical’ Daily Telegraph ''Terrifying and inventive'' Observer In a world devastated by antimicrobial resistance, two survivors are thrown into crisis when a woman washes ashore on the remote island where they live __________________________Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss of most human life on earth, Kit and Crevan eke out an existence on a remote island. Under a collapsing castle, they spend their days in an underground bunker packed with emergency stores, venturing out only at night. They are safe.One evening a woman washes ashore, nearly drowned. Crevan wants to keep her alive, but Kit isn’t so sure.The new arrival will implode Kit and Crevan’s world with dire and fatal consequences, churning up the waters of the past and unearthing secrets they have kept from each other and from themselves. Who is really in control – and what are they both capable of doing to protect their haven?Gripping, treacherous and visceral, Whether Violent or Natural is an unforgettably dark and strikingly original work by a major new talent. ''Sly, sharp, and utterly captivating'' Rory Power, New York Times -bestselling author of Wilder Girls ''Hits you like a shot of the very good stuff ... Dark-hearted, complex, and accomplished'' C. A. Fletcher, author of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

DKK 120.00
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Brute New World - Desmond Gregory - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Brute New World - Desmond Gregory - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

British and American soldiers, naval officers, mining engineers, merchants, businessmen and wealthy travellers flocked to the countries of Latin America following their independence from Spain and Portugal. Most such travellers were entirely ignorant of the continent and expected instant success: easy money, the cheap acquisition of fertile land, military glory or vast mineral wealth. Few of them realized their ambitions, for the overthrow of the old regimes had not brought peace, liberalism and the social conditions in which foreign investment could thrive. To their shock and disgust, they encountered the same civil strife, corruption, squalor and "barbarism", religious intolerance and petty jealousies that had prevailed in earlier centuries. The experiences of these travellers, as noted in their diaries, journals and letters, are presented in this book. It should be of interest to modern-day travellers as well as to historians and students of Latin America. A strength of the book is its coverage of political, business and civilian history as well as military life, throughout the continent.

DKK 222.00
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Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

**Selected for Dua Lipa''s Service95 Book Club 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021 A Guardian Book of the Year ‘The highest talent at work’ Sebastian Barry ‘Beautiful … A masterpiece’ Attitude Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz – and together they spend a dreamlike summer falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw. Confronted by the scrutiny, intolerance and corruption of life under the Party, Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive; and in their different choices, find themselves torn apart. ‘An affecting and unusual romance’ Observer ‘A new classic’ Evening Standard ‘A beautiful novel, and at its heart an amazing love story’ BBC Radio 4 Open Book, Editor’s Pick ‘Jedrowski is an authentic new international star’ Edmund White ‘A remarkable, beautiful tale, utterly new and entirely credible ... This book radiates sensuality, humour, and human truths’ Literary Review

DKK 119.00
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River Cottage Gluten Free - Naomi Devlin - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

River Cottage Gluten Free - Naomi Devlin - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Gluten is found in an extraordinary number of foods, yet it can be problematic for so many of us. Whether you need to cut gluten out of your diet or you’re cooking for friends and family with gluten intolerance, River Cottage Gluten Free will provide the tools you need to gain inspiration and navigate mealtimes. Nutrition expert Naomi Devlin gives clear advice for gluten-free eating – including detailed guidance on alternative flours, methods of fermentation and delicious baking ideas.She offers 120 ingenious recipes for breakfasts, bread, pastry, soups, salads, snacks, main meals and puddings, including Prosciutto and egg muffins, Blinis with crème fraîche and smoked salmon, Leek and bacon quiche, Courgette hummus, Blackberry bakewell tart, Luscious lemon cake and Chocolate fondants.With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and helpful tips from Naomi throughout, this definitive gluten-free cookbook will add fresh vitality to your cooking and eating, and a host of recipes to make you feel great.

DKK 241.00
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From a Distance - Raffaella Barker - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

From a Distance - Raffaella Barker - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

One of Britain’s favourite chroniclers of life and the rural dream returns with a compelling story of a family divided by war ''Wonderful writer ... Incredible books'' David Baldacci, New York Times '' She writes beautifully ... Combining, with apparent ease, emotion and admirable precision'' Independent on Sunday Bruised and brutalised by war, Michael returns to England on a troop ship, unable to face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he boards a train heading to the western tip of Cornwall. In doing so he changes his destiny. More than fifty years later, Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance – a decommissioned lighthouse, half hidden in the shadows of the past. Meanwhile Luisa falters in the flow of her life as her children begin to fly the nest and she is left suspended, without direction. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of Michael’s split-second decision made all those decades ago.

DKK 127.00
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Combat Divers - Michael G. Welham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Combat Divers - Michael G. Welham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day. Combat divers are an elite within an elite. Every special forces combat diver is required to pass selection twice – first into the elite military unit and then a combat diving qualification. The combat dive units themselves are tiny and the operations highly classified. The role of a military diver is inevitably a lonely and a dangerous one, whether clearing mines or striking from the sea against enemy-held targets. Fully illustrated with rare and unusual images, Combat Divers reveals their little-known yet fascinating operations, from Dutch Special Forces combat divers covertly operating against Somali pirates to the actions of Soviet Spetsnaz divers in Swedish territorial waters during the Cold War. It also examines how the most famous units, such as the US Navy SEALs and the Royal Navy''s SBS, are currently operating and adapting to threats in a multitude of theatres. Combat Divers gives an insight into specialist kit and vehicles presently used and equipment that is being developed and trialed throughout the world. Covering a variety of kit, from dry deck shelters to mini-submarines and swimmer delivery vehicles, former Royal Marines Commando Michael G. Welham draws on his own extensive diving experience to reveal exactly how this equipment is used by special forces dive teams. As their kit and equipment constantly evolve, so does the nature of their work and even the team element. Combat Divers also details the first female combat divers and includes their own first-hand accounts about their groundbreaking roles within their respective units to create a fascinating history of these elite special forces operatives.

DKK 355.00
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