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Lead Yourself to Success

Ordinary People Achieving Extraordinary Results Through Self-leadership

by Alan Chambers, MBE ...

Narrated by Levi Squier ...

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5 hours 19 min

Let your lifelong adventure begin todayLead Yourself to Success is your personal guidebook to greatness. Alan Chambers has led many expeditions to the North and South poles, but you don't have to lead a national team or a multinational corporation to be successful, as long as you can lead yourself. The desire to learn is human nature, and lessons from those who have been where you want to go are ... Read more

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Let your lifelong adventure begin todayLead Yourself to Success is your personal guidebook to greatness. Alan Chambers has led many expeditions to the North and South poles, but you don't have to lead a national team or a multinational corporation to be successful, as long as you can lead yourself. The desire to learn is human nature, and lessons from those who have been where you want to go are
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Kong Boys

Seven Friends from Hong Kong Take on Eleven European Cities for Their Thirtieth Birthdays

by Gerald Yeung ...

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Series Audiobook 2 - Wannabe Backpackers
Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

In summer 2006, twenty-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents' dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the "Wannabe Backpackers" persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn thirty. The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan. Gerald chases ... Read more

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In summer 2006, twenty-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents' dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the "Wannabe Backpackers" persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn thirty. The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan. Gerald chases
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Food

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Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roasted in Germany, and distributed in Canada? Whether we know it or not, every time we shop for food, cook, ... Read more

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Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roasted in Germany, and distributed in Canada? Whether we know it or not, every time we shop for food, cook,
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Al Dente

A History of Food in Italy

by Fabio Parasecoli ...

Series series Foods and Nations
Pasta, pizza, parmesan cheese – we have Italy to thank for some of our favourite foods. Home to a dazzling array of wines, cheeses, breads, vegetables and salamis, Italy has become a mecca for foodies. Outside Italy, cities around the world are home to Michelin-starred Italian restaurants and television chefs extol the virtues of Italian cuisine, presenting it as a model of fresh and healthy ... Read more

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Pasta, pizza, parmesan cheese – we have Italy to thank for some of our favourite foods. Home to a dazzling array of wines, cheeses, breads, vegetables and salamis, Italy has become a mecca for foodies. Outside Italy, cities around the world are home to Michelin-starred Italian restaurants and television chefs extol the virtues of Italian cuisine, presenting it as a model of fresh and healthy
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Gastronativism

Food, Identity, Politics

by Fabio Parasecoli ...

Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USAShortlist, 2023 Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In ... Read more

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Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USAShortlist, 2023 Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In
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Gastronativism

Food, Identity, Politics

by Fabio Parasecoli ...

Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USAShortlist, 2023 Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In ... Read more

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Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USAShortlist, 2023 Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In
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Food

by Fabio Parasecoli ...

Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped ... Read more

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A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped
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The Pierogi Problem

Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food

by Fabio Parasecoli, Agata Bachórz, Mateusz Halawa ...

Series Book 86 - California Studies in Food and Culture
The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades ... Read more

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The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades
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Knowing Where It Comes From

Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market

by Fabio Parasecoli ...

Offering the first broadly comparative analysis of place-based labeling and marketing systems, Knowing Where It Comes From examines the way claims about the origins and meanings of traditional foods get made around the world, from Italy and France to Costa Rica and Thailand. It also highlights the implications of different systems for both producers and consumers.Labeling regimes have moved beyond ... Read more

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Offering the first broadly comparative analysis of place-based labeling and marketing systems, Knowing Where It Comes From examines the way claims about the origins and meanings of traditional foods get made around the world, from Italy and France to Costa Rica and Thailand. It also highlights the implications of different systems for both producers and consumers.Labeling regimes have moved beyond
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Delizia!

The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food

by John Dickie ...

Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian food is city food.From the bustle of medieval Milan's marketplace to the banqueting halls of Renaissance ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian food is city food.From the bustle of medieval Milan's marketplace to the banqueting halls of Renaissance
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Core Labour Standards and International Trade

Lessons from the Regional Context

by Kofi Addo ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
This book examines the labour standards provisions in a number of Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements, and assesses the potential of using the relevant clauses in these trade agreements as a benchmark for a multilateral approach. Based on the lessons learned from the Regional model, the book proposes a Global Labour and Trade Framework Agreement (GLTFA) combined with a joint ILO/WTO ... Read more

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This book examines the labour standards provisions in a number of Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements, and assesses the potential of using the relevant clauses in these trade agreements as a benchmark for a multilateral approach. Based on the lessons learned from the Regional model, the book proposes a Global Labour and Trade Framework Agreement (GLTFA) combined with a joint ILO/WTO
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Commodity Trade and Finance

by Michael Tamvakis ...

Series series The Grammenos Library
What affects the supply of oil? How important is the weather in determining grain prices? Why has the price of copper skyrocketed?This unique book analyses the economics of key commodity groups, including energy, agriculture and metals. It examines the supply/demand fundamentals of several major and minor commodities, physical characteristics, production and consumption patterns, trade flows and ... Read more

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What affects the supply of oil? How important is the weather in determining grain prices? Why has the price of copper skyrocketed?This unique book analyses the economics of key commodity groups, including energy, agriculture and metals. It examines the supply/demand fundamentals of several major and minor commodities, physical characteristics, production and consumption patterns, trade flows and
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