?Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning jou
Cocktails is your award-winning guide to the art of mixing perfect drinks. Should a martini be shaken or stirred? How do you muddle an impeccable mojito? Find the answers to all your cocktail questions and learn the secrets behind classic drinks with award-winning mixologist Klaus St Rainer as your guide, using ingredients including juices, sugar, syrup, rum, champagne, and even that bottle of Chartreuse left over from Christmas. Try new twists on classic cocktail recipes, and create your own extraordinary mixes.From sophisticated champagne cocktails to spectacular concoctions such as hot buttered coconut rum, you'll find delicious drinks for every occasion. Impress your friends, shake things up, and mix creative twists on your favourite cocktails with this stunning book. Perfect for every aspiring mixologist or cocktail enthusiast, Cocktails is a truly indispensable and stylish guide to the art of mixing great drinks.
Fans of Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy will fall head over heels for Franny K. Stein, who is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the tenth book in the Mad Scientist series.Franny K. Stein has had quite enough of her feelings getting in the way. So she physically removes them with the help of one of her machines. But it turns out that not having feelings can make things even worse, especially when you've accidentally released a virus that's turning everybody into toads. Good thing she has the help of her grandma, Granny Fran, and her Sense of Duty to help her shake the apathy.
Join Princess Truly on a magical Easter egg hunt -- featuring a page full of stickers!It's time for an Easter party! Princess Truly and her dog, Sir Noodles, are on the hunt for eggs and treats. There's a special guest at the party -- the Easter Bunny! But when it's the Easter Bunny's time to go, his wagon gets stuck! Princess Truly knows exactly what to do. With a shake of her magical, sparkling curls, she helps the Easter Bunny get on his way and saves the day!With its sweet rhyming text, adorable illustrations, and a full page of stickers, Princess Truly's Easter Egg Hunt is the perfect Easter basket gift and springtime read!
SOME ANGELS ARE DESTINED TO FALL. Instant. Intense. Weirdly familiar . . . The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except she can't shake the feeling that she ha
This book is jam-packed with more stickers than a peacock can shake its feathers at. You’ll discover birds that soar, hunt, waddle and show off and have all sorts of fun sticking them throughout the b
While traveling through Canada in 1678, a French priest came across the most gigantic waterfalls he'd ever seen. Stricken with both awe and fear, he began to shake, fell to his knees, and prayed. Ever
In this eye-opening, counterintutitive book, economics guru and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan predicts the coming breakdown of globalization and identifies who will benefit and who will lose.The Covid pandemic has been an eye-opening wake-up call for American business and consumers. Shutdowns worldwide disrupted production chains, leading to shortages across industries and higher costs. Now, America is withdrawing from the world. The old agreements and status quos are crumbling. The breakdown of globalization has accelerated, and it's never coming back. In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, Peter Zeihan offers provocative and surprising arguments about this new reality and how it will shake up world trade.Isolationism and realism are becoming the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, Zeihan contends, forcing us to reevaluate the logic that has motivated international relations and global trade for more than a generation. Drawing on deep geographical know
繼佳評如潮的《搭配詞的力量Collocations：名詞篇》後，托福、雅思口說雙料滿分的王梓沅老師，又為你統整了形容詞相關的搭配詞，讓你擺脫台式英文、活用英文，改變一生的學習觀念，不再年年學英文，年年從頭學！◆什麼是搭配詞？什麼時候會用到搭配詞？ 你知道嗎？中文說「機率很大」時，英文用「chances are high」來表示；而中文的「治癒感冒」，英文母語人士常說「shake off a cold」；中文的牛排煎到「很硬」，英文使用「tough」。 上述這樣一個「單字」加上「慣用法」所形成的固定詞組，我們統稱為「搭配詞」，如果搭配詞太少，使用英文容易語塞或出現「台式英文」。◆搭配詞如何給你力量？為何搭配詞那麼重要呢？ 在學習英文的道路上，你曾遇過以下困擾嗎？1. 想要講一句話，但是語塞講不出來，因為「不知道要用什麼字表達心中所想的東西」。2. 有時會覺得自己的英文看似「字字是英文」，但其實「句句不是英文」，不知如何道地、精準地使用英文。3. 知道的單字不少，但是真的用出來的總是那些。 如果以上問題你都感同身受，代表你非常需要這本書！ 有了搭配詞，你不會再害怕開口說英文，說英文就像是呼吸一樣自然；出國在外，跟外國人交談再也不用支支吾吾，很順利地就能講出流利的句子。這，就是搭配詞的力量。 有別於一般搭配詞辭典過度厚重、資訊繁多、不適合學習者研讀，本書系統性地整理出台灣人最需要的搭配詞用法，從此擺脫「字字是英文，句句非英文」！◆台式英文OUT！搭配詞改變你學英文的習慣！ 本書是搭配詞的形容詞篇，以詞彙的開頭字母分類，分成A～W，每個形容詞詞彙又囊括了以下架構：1. 搭配詞 當形容詞後加上了名詞及慣用法，就形成了一個固定詞組，也就是搭配詞。學會了搭配詞，英文自然脫口而出，不再東拼西湊出錯誤的句子。每個搭配詞，作者皆提供例句，以下線提示重點，並附上中文翻譯，教你快速活用。 例： Empty 空的、無人的；空虛的、空洞的、無意義的 empty gesture / promise / word 空話、空頭支票His repeated promises to pay me back were just empty words. 他再三保證會還我錢，結果都只是空話。 empty suit 虛有其表的政客、專業人士He acts like a big shot
In the nineteenth Heidi Heckelbeck adventure, Heidi looks for the perfect sport to play.It’s time to sign up for sports at school and Heidi is excited (and a little nervous) to find the perfect fit. Lucy is great at soccer. Bruce is great at baseball. Heidi, well, the only thing she’s great at is being awful at every sport she plays! Can Heidi shake off her slump with a little magic or will Melanie’s teasing make her throw in the towel for good?With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
"So uplifting and powerful - so, so good." Cathy Cassidy"Brave, honest, and heart-breakingly funny." Ben Miller"A beautiful, relevant story of courage, strength, and not letting other people decide who you are." Kate WestonAmelia Bright wants to be the best at everything. But when it comes to popularity, she is dead last. No matter what she tries, she can't shake her reputation as a maggoty nobody.When she meets cute new boy Evan, Amelia wonders if he can help her lose her loser status. And in a moment of hope, she agrees to something she quickly regrets - something that goes viral at school. Now she's not just called "maggot", she's a "bad influence" - and worse.But Amelia's determined not to let one mistake define her...she's so much more than the image everyone sees online. A powerfully real and funny new story from the rising queen of teen, about first kisses, learning to be true to yourself and how one click can last for ever...
