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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to understand what other people are really feeling - even before they do! To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. If you cross your legs are you relaxed or tense? What does it mean if you stroke your chin? Do you know the meaning behind a friend lowering their eyebrows? Would you know how to greet an inhabitant of Greenland? How would...
2) Dreams
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to understand, record and interpret your dreams. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy two-color format with expert tips and advice throughout. This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide for people looking to interpret and analyses their dreams. It looks at common dreams, and the more bizarre, teaching the dreamer to read between the lines, and control their dreams. The book starts with...
3) First Aid
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to give first aid safely and with confidence. It comes in a handy format with colour illustrations and expert advice throughout.
This invaluable first aid guide has been compiled by and with the advice of experts responsible for training the emergency services - fire, ambulance and police - to ensure its practical focus.
It is easy to navigate and comes in a handy package, ready to provide a reassuring...
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This one-stop practical guide will show how to understand the allergies of yourself, your family and your friends. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy two-colour format with expert tips and advice throughout. Food allergies are on the increase and are becoming more severe and complex. This is an easy-to-read guide that provides advice on living with a food allergy or intolerance and how to diagnose them. More specialist topics such as...
5) NLP
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to use neuro linguistic programming to improve your communication skills and quality of life. To make your progress easier, it comes with handy expert tips and advice throughout. This book gives a complete overview of the fascinating power of the mind, helping the individual to better not only their own life, but consequently the lives of others around them. Carolyn Boyes takes a straightforward approach...
6) Running
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to run - for health, fitness or fun. To make your progress easier, it comes with handy expert advice throughout. Eager to start running? Want to run your first race? Or need to improve your speed and stamina? Collins need to know? Running is the one-stop guide to everything from setting a training plan to dealing with injury to keeping motivated. Written by experienced runner and journalist Alison Hamlett,...
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The new, fully-updated edition of Collins Tracing Your Family History is the definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past.
Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use while tracking down their family origins.
New and up-to-date content helps you make the most of your resources - such as how...
8) Islam
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Understand the religion behind the headlines.
Do you want to understand the world's fastest-growing religion? Are you interested in knowing who Muhammad was and why he had such as lasting influence?
This book, which features color photographs throughout, is the essential overview for everyone who wants to understand what Islam is and what it means today.
9) Pregnancy
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to prepare week-by-week for a relaxed and confident birth. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with color photos and expert advice throughout.
This book gives a complete overview of baby development through pregnancy and birth. Its combination of conventional mainstream and complementary medical info reflects the way most pregnant women approach their care today. There's also plenty...
10) Calorie Counting
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No matter what kind of diet you follow, you will have to consume fewer calories than you burn off. Easy to say and more difficult to do, so this book covers the theory, the planning and living with a low-calorie diet, complete with recipes and detailed information on the nutritional values of many foods.
Fed up or left hungry by fad diets? This book really is the best method for weight loss. Controlling calories is the key to long-term success, because...
11) Cardmaking
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to say whatever you want creatively with hand-made greeting cards. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy ebook format with colour photos and expert advice throughout.
Why spend a small fortune on generic high street greeting cards when you can create your own personalised message with just a few pieces of paper and the right book to guide you?
This book is your essential companion to making...
12) Cartooning
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This practical step-by-step guide provides an ideal introduction to the exciting and fun world of cartooning, covering a wide range of cartoons, caricatures, comic strips and manga.
Would you like to draw cartoons like those you see in comic books, on TV, or on the big screen? Ever wondered how to draw caricatures of your friends or famous people? Do you want to know how to draw manga-style characters? Collins need to know? Cartooning is the one-stop...
13) Dog Breeds
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From Afghan and Airedale to Westie and Wolfhound, Collins need to know? Dog Breeds profiles all the most popular breeds. Whether you're choosing a new pet or just want to know more about a variety of breeds, this is your one-stop guide to dogs of all shapes and sizes. Contains everything you need to know about choosing the right dog for you and your family. All the most popular dog breeds are featured, with appealing colour pictures of each and a...
14) GI + GL Diet
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Whilst GI (Glycaemic Index) diets are very popular, it is also important to know the GL (Glycaemic Load) per portion to get the full picture on how a meal or snack will affect you. This clear introduction to GI and GL explains how following a low GI/GL diet can help you lose weight and keep blood sugar levels under control. Do you want a food programme that will keep you healthy and boost your energy levels? Want clarification on good carbs and bad...
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to own or look after a horse or pony. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with color photos and expert advice throughout. Owning and caring for a horse or pony is fun and rewarding, but there are many responsibilities and procedures to remember too. From choosing and housing a horse to saddling up and checking the hooves, 'Collins Need to Know? Horse and Pony Care' contains all the...
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to lose weight in the way that's best suited to your body and lifestyle. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour illustrations and expert advice throughout.
The basics of all the different diets are explained - from Atkins to the Glycemic Index diet, together with their pros and cons. There are several 28-day plans to suit different personalities, offering readers a flexible...
17) Jazz
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The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music.
Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?
Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists and the best recordings to listen to.
From the beginnings of jazz to the years of swing and satchmo, Bob Blumenthal introduces jazz legends such as...
18) Mushroom Hunting
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to identify, pick and cook edible mushrooms. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. From identifying and picking edible mushrooms to growing your own mushrooms, from recipes for seasonal dishes to important information on poisonous species, this book provides all the helpful information you need to relish the exhilarating experience of...
19) Riding
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This practical and accessible book is the ultimate guide to riding safely and confidently. Produced in association with the British Horse Society, this book will appeal to beginners of all ages, as well as more experienced riders who want to improve their horsemanship and expand their knowledge.
Collins need to know? Riding is full of expert advice and specially-commissioned colour photographs to explain and demonstrate all aspects of riding. From...
20) Stargazing
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This ebook has been optimized for tablets. This fully illustrated one-stop guide will show you how to look at and understand the night sky. To make your progress easier, it comes with color illustrations and expert advice throughout. Full color charts, photographs and illustrations show the planetary motions and offer information on astrological events, while detailed diagrams help to explain the movement across the sky and what stars are visible...
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