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New York Times bestseller Learn Korean cooking alongside social media star Sarah Ahn as her umma passes down 100+ family recipes and decades' worth of kitchen wisdom. Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her and her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational home life. This collaboration is now a must-have cookbook blending the emotional intimacy of Crying in H Mart with practical culinary advice from Nam Soon's lifetime of kitchen experience. The recipes are framed by mother-daughter conversations that are funny, profound, and universally relatable--plus all the food is backed by the recipe-testing power of America's Test Kitchen. Thorough ingredient guide: Walk through a Korean grocery store with a Korean umma for in-depth guidance on what pantry ingredients and fresh produce and protein to buy. Recipes both traditional and contemporary: Learn to make everything from simple banchan, a variety of kimchi, and foundational stews to an assortment of yasik (midnight snacks) and inventive desserts. Kitchen wisdom from mother to daughter: Shared confidences open a window onto a level of family intimacy rarely seen in cookbooks. The Ahns understand that when generations come together in the kitchen, so much is shared: not only food, but also knowledge, advice, family history, and love.

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This collection of 15 essays illuminates the evolution of political Islam from the era of the Prophet Muhammad to the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. Under the auspices of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, Joseph Morrison Skelly brings together a team of experts to create a compelling, scholarly investigation of the interrelationship of Islam and politics. Divided into several topical sections, including early origins of Islamic politics, the development of jihad in an age of terror, and contemporary politics, Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions is an in-depth exploration of the various dimensions of political Islam--for the international community, the Islamic world itself, and anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad takes an evenhanded approach in considering competing interpretations of political Islam, successfully broadening the scholarly investigation of the topic. The work assesses political Islam across a broad chronological time frame and includes regional perspectives within the contexts of areas in Africa and the Middle East. Skelly and his colleagues tackle controversial issues head-on and provide an intellectual framework for advancing political Islam into new stages of economic development, intellectual renewal, and accommodation with constitutional democracy and human rights. Each contributor lends a unique and specialized perspective to the discussion on this timely topic.

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USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this cozy fantasy debut, hailed as "perfection...a beautiful treasure of a book that will warm your heart and heal your soul."--Sarah Beth Durst, Author of The Spellshop "The warmest, loveliest book I've read in ages."--Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences... Even if it's a lonely life, it's better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they're joined by a baker with a "knead" for adventure, and--of course--a slightly magical cat. Tao starts down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past close in--and she'll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have.

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Over the past two decades the Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book series has brought knowledge and joy to tens of thousands of collectors. This comprehensively updated second edition to volume 1 provides a thorough survey of the non-toy merchandise and collectibles produced from 1977 to 2012. Key Features: - 8,000 items from the pre-Disney era have been added to the first edition's nearly 12,000 - Provides identification, price information, and over 15,000 images - Covers a full range of items, including books, art, trading cards, home decor, clothing and accessories, dishes, bedding, and special packaging for food, beverages, and personal care items An important addition to the bookshelf of every informed collector or Star Wars fan, this easy-to-use directory will introduce collectors to thousands of items to add to their wish lists.

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Weird and amazing facts for curious minds of all kinds Looking for fascinating facts and trivia that readers of all ages can enjoy? The Totally Awesome Book of Useless Information is filled with the oddest and funniest tidbits about history, science, food, animals, and more. A great gift for kids of all ages, this book features: 200+ interesting facts and trivia Engaging illustrations and easy-to-read format Portable size, great for road trips and family vacations This compendium is perfect for trivia buffs, history lovers, and anyone who loves to learn new things. For example, did you know that the Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving? Or that the peach was the first fruit eaten on the moon? Or that there are oysters that can climb trees? You'll find all this and more in this amazing collection of useless information.

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Welding Print Reading (Eighth Edition, Revised): Your Essential Guide to Technical Blueprints Master the critical skill of interpreting industrial prints with Welding Print Reading (Eighth Edition, Revised). This updated, industry-standard text provides a clear, comprehensive foundation for students, apprentices, and professionals who need to read and understand welding blueprints with precision and confidence. In modern fabrication, the ability to accurately interpret technical drawings and welding symbols is non-negotiable. This updated edition is designed to bridge the gap between classroom theory and real-world application, ensuring you can confidently translate 2D blueprints into high-quality finished weldments. Why This Book Is Essential for Your Career Welding Print Reading takes a structured, easy-to-follow approach to complex visual data. Whether you are working toward an American Welding Society (AWS) certification or looking to advance your role in manufacturing, this guide provides the clarity you need. Comprehensive Blueprint Coverage: Learn to interpret lines, views, scales, and dimensions used in modern industrial drawings. Welding Symbol Expertise: Gain deep proficiency in AWS standard welding symbols, including fillet, groove, plug, slot, and spot welds, as well as supplementary symbols. Real-World Application: Work through practical exercises based on actual industry prints, preparing you for the challenges of a fast-paced shop environment. Easy-to-Read Format: Features updated illustrations, clear technical explanations, and focused learning activities that promote fast retention and understanding. Industry Standardized: Fully aligned with current industry best practices and standards, making it the perfect resource for both vocational training and professional reference. Core Topics Covered Fundamentals of Technical Drawing: Lines, views, and projections. Dimensions & Tolerances: Precision reading for accurate fabrication. AWS Welding Symbols: Mastering the language of weld specifications. Structural & Mechanical Prints: Reading drawings for various industrial applications. Workshop Practice: Hands-on activities to reinforce print reading skills. Product Details ISBN-13: 9781685845728 Edition: Eighth Edition, Revised Key Focus: Blueprint reading, welding symbols, technical drawing interpretation, and fabrication standards. Don't let a complex print slow down your production. Invest in your technical proficiency with Welding Print Reading (Eighth Edition, Revised). This guide is the key to minimizing errors, improving weld quality, and advancing your career in the fabrication industry. Add it to your professional library today.

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The landscape of cardiac surgery is changing, as is the field of interventional cardiology. The idea of accessing and replacing a failing valve through the patients vasculature has become the most rapidly expanding therapy of choice in cardiovascular disease. Transcatheter Valve Therapies chronicles the astonishing advances that have taken place in the field and prepares readers for the challenging future of cardiac valve therapies.Designed to meet the growing needs of cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthetists, and general practitioners, the book covers all aspects from logistic needs to clinical outcomes. It provides a comprehensive overview of transcatheter valve therapies and the necessary understanding for a successful clinical introduction at individual institutions. Topics include: Epidemiologic considerations Aspects of balloon aortic valvuloplasty as a stand-alone procedure or as part of the transcatheter valve replacement The history of how transcatheter valve therapies were implemented into surgical practice New imaging modalities The particularities of transcatheter access Aortic root anatomy Emerging technologies and future design improvements Development steps of aortic devices and potential solutions for transcatheter tricuspid, mitral, and pulmonary valve replacement The rigorous testing requirements for endovascular medical devices Clinical results of aortic transcatheter valve therapies in easy accessible text and table formats The future of transcatheter valve therapies All topics are discussed based on the author's own clinical and experimental experience in the field. This volume is essential for anyone involved in transcatheter valve implantation, clinicians wishing to become more involved in improving transcatheter valve therapies, and researchers engaged in building and creating new medical technologies to shape the cardiovascular landscape of the future.

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Your Brain’s Not Broken Lose the shame, love your brain, and take control of your ADHD journey. Living with ADHD can feel like an uphill battle—a constant struggle to manage time, stay organized, and keep up with a world that seems to operate on a different frequency. If you’ve spent years feeling exhausted, scattered, or inherently "broken," it’s time to change the narrative. In Your Brain’s Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD, Dr. Tamara Rosier, PhD, offers a compassionate and scientifically grounded guide designed to help you stop judging yourself and start thriving. Drawing on her extensive experience as an ADHD coach and her own personal journey with the condition, Dr. Rosier provides more than just a list of tips—she offers a roadmap for understanding how your unique brain works. Key Features & Benefits: Actionable Strategies: Packed with practical tools for emotional regulation, energy management, and overcoming daily hurdles like forgetfulness and task completion. Holistic Approach: Goes beyond traditional organization tips to address the interconnectedness of your physical, emotional, and mental health. Compassionate Insight: Move past moralistic judgments and learn why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Relatable & Accessible: Written in a conversational, often humorous style that makes complex concepts easy to understand and apply to your daily life. For Everyone: Whether you have ADHD, are a loved one seeking to support someone with the condition, or a professional working in the field, this book provides the hope and clarity you need. Stop hiding your natural way of thinking and start leveraging your strengths. Your Brain's Not Broken is the essential companion for anyone ready to write their own story and build a more fulfilling life. Product Details: Title: Your Brain’s Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD Author: Dr. Tamara Rosier, PhD ISBN-13: 9780800741334 Format: Hardcover (208 pages) Genre: Non-Fiction / Psychology / Self-Help 

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A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power--and how its legacies shape our world today--told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine."The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler's career and the American ambitions it represented."--The Washington Post Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went--serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism." Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world--from China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal--and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.

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Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs??In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society--those developed by evolution. Modern ideologies are in constant tension with structures inherent in human social behavior, such as the family, the tribe, and male-dominated institutions. This tension plays out in various ways. Sometimes nature prevails over politics, as in the proposal by Marx and Engels to eliminate the family, the basic unit of society. The founders of the kibbutz movement put this radical idea into practice, only to find that the conflict with human nature was unsustainable. In other cases, culture has successfully modified evolutionary behaviors, replacing polygamy with monogamy and dissolving the bonds of tribalism to make way for modern states. But the evolutionary framework of human societies is not infinitely flexible. The nation-state, especially in the case of the United States, is prone to disintegration if disruptive ideologies are allowed to undermine the cohesive affinities that hold its disparate cultures together. The worldwide decline in fertility in most countries except those in Africa signals a severe derangement in the behaviors evolution has devised for ensuring that a population will maintain itself. If the causes of this disruption cannot be understood and reversed, human societies will embark on an unsought path to extinction. Other fraught issues in which human biology and politics conflict include the innate specializations of the sexes, the stratification of society by ability, and the mismatch between the inequalities of wealth-creating societies and the egalitarian ethic inherited from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.We live in an iridescent bubble, the intoxicating richness of modern culture. Shielded from the natural world, we have lost our awareness of the evolutionary forces that still guide our motivations and shape the foundations of our societies. The Origin of Politics explores the risks of underestimating evolution's fundamental role in human affairs. Why do modern political systems so often fail when they conflict with the ancient blueprints of our own biology? Politics and Evolution: A critical look at how modern ideologies are in constant tension with the social structures--family, tribe, kinship--that evolution has wired into our species. The Family Unit: The revealing story of the Israeli kibbutz, where a utopian attempt to abolish the family ultimately failed against the powerful, innate bonds between parents and children. Tribalism to Nation-State: How societies successfully modified deep-seated behaviors, replacing polygamy with monogamy and dissolving ancient tribal bonds to pave the way for the modern state. Inherited Behaviors: An examination of the conflicts over innate sex specializations, social stratification, and the mismatch between modern inequality and the egalitarian ethic from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

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The most comprehensive, visual guide to residential construction ever published--now updated for the modern builder.The Visual Handbook of Building & Remodeling is the definitive "how-to" resource for anyone looking to understand the complex systems of a home.Featuring 1,700 full-color illustrations and 300 quick-reference charts, this 688-page book allows you to visualize the processes and techniques needed for successful building and remodeling projects. It covers every aspect of home design and construction, making it an invaluable reference for both novice and experienced builders.Whether you're designing a new addition, remodeling a kitchen, or troubleshooting a structural issue, this handbook provides the "gold standard" specifications for every major house system.From site-work and foundations to finish carpentry and high-efficiency mechanicals, you will find the precise measurements, clearances, and material data required to do the job right the first time.This updated edition covers the latest in: Building Science: Modern insulation, air-sealing, and moisture-management techniques. Energy Efficiency: Solar orientation, heat pumps, and sustainable material choices. Code Compliance: Simplified visual breakdowns of the most current IRC (International Residential Code) standards. Pro-Level Detailing: Professional-grade framing, roofing, and plumbing layouts for durable, long-lasting construction.

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It has been forty years since The Polar Express made its first trip to the North Pole. Now readers can experience the classic holiday story with gorgeous new reproductions of Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning artwork.The enduring Christmas classic as it was always meant to be seen.For millions of readers around the world, the story of a boy's mysterious journey to the North Pole has become an enduring part of their Christmas traditions. This fortieth anniversary edition of The Polar Express reproduces the book's artwork more faithfully than ever before--a must-have for lifelong fans and the newest generation experiencing the story for the first time!

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