Mark Thompson

Did you know a compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun? Or that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate? Maybe you have not been into space but if you have then you will know that astronauts have feet as soft as babies! 101 Space Facts You Didn't Know (Note : Have we confirmed this title?) takes you on a wild journey around the Universe bringing you facts galore. Whether you are a space enthusiast or a newcomer you will find plenty of facts in here to keep you amused and entertained.

The Vegan Cookbook That Is Rooted in Food Science"Mark is an absolute wizard-he can turn the most unexpected ingredients into vegan meat! You will not be disappointed."-Rose Lee, Cheap Lazy Vegan#1 Bestseller in Raw Cooking, Vegan Cooking, and Vegetarian DietsA one-of-a-kind vegan cookbook for those looking to make juicy burgers, sizzling BBQ ribs, Seitan Bacon, and fried chicken, all through the power of fruits and vegetables.For all food lovers and enthusiasts out there. Making Vegan Meat is a staple cookbook for kitchens where home cooks, professional chefs, foodies, vegans, vegetarians, and the vegan-curious can find super vegan meat recipes. Foodie, food scientist, and YouTuber Mark “Sauce Stache” Thompson shows you a multitude of filling vegan dishes to deeply satisfy your tastebuds.Make nutritious and creative recipes in this vegan cookbook. Step out of your comfort zone and have fun with healthier, delicious, plant based protein. From mouth-watering BBQ ribs made from mushrooms to crispy bacon from a daikon radish, you will have your dinner guests exclaiming, “Wait! That’s a vegetable?”Read Making Vegan Meat and:Learn to experiment in the kitchen with unexpected ingredients and create your own plant-based vegan meat recipesGain insight into how to produce different flavors, textures, and aromasDiscover exciting ways to use a variety of fruits and vegetables, like mushrooms!If you enjoyed plant-based cookbooks like The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook, Vegan for Everybody, or The Vegan Meat Cookbook, then you’ll love Making Vegan Meat.

Go deeper with Angular web application development — build captivating real-world applications while exploring modern web technologies and best practicesKey FeaturesExplore Angular's capabilities for building applications across different platformsCombine popular web technologies with Angular such as monorepo, Jamstack, and PWABuild your own libraries and schematics using Angular CDK and Angular CLIBook DescriptionPacked with practical advice and detailed recipes, this updated second edition of Angular Projects will teach you everything you need to know to build efficient and optimized web applications using Angular. Among the things you’ll learn in this book are the essential features of the framework, which you’ll master by creating ten different real-world web applications. Each application will demonstrate how to integrate Angular with a different library and tool. As you advance, you’ll familiarize yourself with implementing popular technologies, such as Angular Router, Scully, Electron, Angular service worker, Nx monorepo tools, NgRx, and more while building an issue tracking system. You’ll also work on a PWA weather application, a mobile photo geotagging application, a component UI library, and many other exciting projects. In the later chapters, you’ll get to grips with customizing Angular CLI commands using schematics. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to be able to build Angular apps using a variety of different technologies according to your or your client’s needs. What you will learnSet up Angular applications using Angular CLI and Nx ConsoleCreate a personal blog with Jamstack and SPA techniquesBuild desktop applications with Angular and ElectronEnhance user experience (UX) in offline mode with PWA techniquesMake web pages SEO-friendly with server-side renderingCreate a monorepo application using Nx tools and NgRx for state managementFocus on mobile application development using IonicDevelop custom schematics by extending Angular CLIWho this book is forThis book is for developers with beginner-level Angular experience who want to become proficient in using essential tools and dealing with the various use cases they may encounter in Angular. Beginner-level knowledge of web application development and basic experience working with ES6 or TypeScript is essential before you dive in.

Did you know a compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun? Or that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate? Maybe you have not been into space but if you have then you will know that astronauts have feet as soft as babies! 101 Space Facts You Didn't Know takes you on a wild journey around the Universe bringing you facts galore. Whether you are a space enthusiast or a newcomer you will find plenty of facts in here to keep you amused and entertained.

A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.

Development is a conversation. The Simplified Development Framework provides a structured pathway for organizations to create anything using reasonable and understandable language. The path is truth-affirming, solution-oriented, conversation-based, and applicable to the development of anything: software, consumer products, buildings, gardens, laws, space missions, ecosystems... anything conceivable. By asking simple questions such as "Could? Would? May? Should? Must? Shall? Will? Is? Did?", the simplified process can help you make sense of development and guide your team to create with excellence.

"'Stonewall' is pitch-perfect." Thomas Long, editor, "Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly." ...And perfect to celebrate "Stonewall 50." Richard Labonte, founder, A Different Light Bookstore: "A sterling collection...perfectly catches our bitchy bravura." Mark Thompson, "Advocate" editor: "Hilarious, exquisite, empowering stories about how fabulous we are." Jack Fritscher, at eighty, is the San Francisco author whose 50-year career coincides with "Stonewall 50" itself. "At Stonewall," he wrote, "gay character changed." As award-winning historian, magazine editor, and filmmaker who wrote his 1967 dissertation on Tennessee Williams, he is a vivid stylist who represents gay literature as American literature in 20 books including his memoir of his lover Robert Mapplethorpe, "Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera," and his Lammy Finalist and "ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year" winner, "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982." "The Advocate" wrote: "Fritscher writes...wonderful books...he made the Castro mythic." Willie Walker, founder, San Francisco GLBT Historical Society, observed: "Fritscher is a prolific writer who since the late 1960s has helped document the gay world and the changes it has undergone." Guided by a veteran elder's canonical sense of gaydar, Fritscher celebrates gay "drama," diversity, and magical thinking in these ten tales scanning the curvature of the Queer Earth--from the 1906 earthquake in "Meet Me in San Francisco" through the campfest last hour before the NYPD raid in "Stonewall: June 27, 1969, 11 PM", and up to gay marriage in "Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way." Recommended for libraries, LGBT studies, and gay pop-culture collections.

Imagine looking into the farthest reaches of the Universe!But to really do that you'll need to apply a fair bit of science.This book has twelve scientific investigations to help you understand why spinning and orbiting matter, how to find an alien world and why the Sun is such an important star. Discover what happens to light in a spectroscope and build your own telescope - and lots, lots more!Space Science is the ultimate series for the astronomers and astronauts of the future. It delves into loads of intriguing 'how', 'what', and 'why' facts about the night sky. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and use readily available materials that won't break the bank! Authored by Mark Thompson - a brilliant astronomer and television and radio presenter - who brings a fresh approach to the exploration and understanding of the Solar System ... and beyond!This book is part of the Space Science series, which covers key areas of the science curriculum, such as forces, materials and matter, light, rocks, chemical reactions, recycling and waste, magnets, solar power, gravity, distance, maps and constellations.For readers aged 9+.

Imagine journeying millions of kilometres into deep space!But to really do that you'll need to apply a fair bit of science.This book has twelve scientific investigations to help you understand why the speed of light matters, how to communicate in binary and how dust can turn into a planet. Discover a Martian volcano and what happens when meteorites smash into Earth or the Moon - and lots, lots more!Space Science is the ultimate series for the astronomers and astronauts of the future. It delves into loads of intriguing 'how', 'what', and 'why' facts about the night sky. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and use readily available materials that won't break the bank! Authored by Mark Thompson - a brilliant astronomer and television and radio presenter - who brings a fresh approach to the exploration and understanding of the Solar System ... and beyond!This book is part of the Space Science series, which covers key areas of the science curriculum, such as forces, materials and matter, light, rocks, chemical reactions, recycling and waste, magnets, solar power, gravity, distance, maps and constellations.For readers aged 9+Titles in this series:Science for Exploring Outer SpaceScience for Looking into SpaceScience for Rocketing into Space Science for Surviving in Space

Imagine living on an alien planet!But to really do that you'll need to apply a fair bit of science.This book has twelve scientific investigations to help you understand how force fields help us, why taking a shower is space is tricky and how tiny specs of space dust can be deadly. Discover why insulation is important and what would happen if you went out into space without a spacesuit - and lots, lots more!Space Science is the ultimate series for the astronomers and astronauts of the future. It delves into loads of intriguing 'how', 'what', and 'why' facts about the night sky. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and use readily available materials that won't break the bank! Authored by Mark Thompson - a brilliant astronomer and television and radio presenter - who brings a fresh approach to the exploration and understanding of the Solar System ... and beyond!This book is part of the Space Science series, which covers key areas of the science curriculum, such as forces, materials and matter, light, rocks, chemical reactions, recycling and waste, magnets, solar power, gravity, distance, maps and constellations.For readers aged 9+

Hello Animals I am Mark, you friendly neighborhood tiger, and I have an important message for you. We all agree that humans have been exploiting us for a long time. As if centuries of hunting, fishing, poaching, domesticating, slaughtering and zoo-keeping were not enough, we are now increasingly being used for human stress relief. Just look at the number of so called stress-relieving animal designs coloring books for adults. We have to suffer the disgrace of our images being colored in unnatural colors and patterns, all in the name of stress relief relaxation, and mindfulness Just look at the plight of my buddy Lion, a subject of so many coloring books. Similar is the suffering of our other friends like elephants, giraffes, wolves, peacocks, zebras, monkeys, owls...Enough is enough So today, let's revolt against this ignominy and tyranny of human mindfulness. Let's reclaim our place in the natural order of things. And what better revenge than subjecting these stressed out humans to the same fate? Let's zentangle the frack out of them. Let's color these humans in colors beyond our color palette (I know most of us can't see all those colors, but so what?) Let's color them in the most unimaginable, unnatural, abominable patterns. So join me today, raise your hands, paws, claws, hooves, talons, wings, fins (sorry, snakes, we don't have a solution for you yet) and grab some color pencils and start coloring this book. It's okay if you can't color within the lines; you are not a human. It's time to take our stress out Note: If you are a human and have seen this by mistake, please be gracious enough to let your pet read it.

Michael Donahue has it all: a satisfying career as a physical therapist and a loving wife (his college sweetheart) who is pregnant with their first child. In less than a minute, all collapses when she dies in a car accident with him at the wheel. Overwhelmed by grief and depression, Michael barely makes it through his workday and considers suicide. One day, however, he inadvertently discovers a hidden talent for running and finds solace on the roads. A new community buoys him as he trains to compete in the New York City Marathon. As he becomes an elite runner, Michael awakens to the possibilities of his life. Competitive runners are driven by ambition, dedication, and a determination to test the body's physical limits. But for some, running also offers hope. Mark Thompson's novel skillfully combines the excitement of competition with the personal journey of a man who discovers not only that he is a gifted runner, but that running offers him solace in the face of overwhelming grief. Whether you are a recreational runner or serious competitor, this affecting novel will remind you just how much this simple sport has to offer to your body and your spirit. --Charles R. Scott, Author of Rising Son and Daunted Courage

n algorithm (pronounced AL-go-rith-um) is a procedure or formula for solving a problem, based on conductiong a sequence of specified actions. A computer program can be viewed as an elaborate algorithm. In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm usually means a small procedure that solves a recurrent problem

A Humorous Coloring Book: A Great Gift IdeaA UNIQUE COLORING BOOK TO RELIEVE WORK STRESS: COOL DESIGNS AND FUNNY SAYINGS ABOUT WORK AND OFFICEDo you ever feel overworked and underappreciated? Do you have stupid co-workers and an unreasonable boss? Does your workplace feel like a place you can't wait to get out of? Do you need an outlet for bottled up emotions, rage and stress at workplace?Friends, let's admit it. Work Sucks Monday morning blues, terrible Tuesdays and hump-day Wednesdays. We are grateful when it comes to our favorite, Friday. Your work may be stressing you out if you have to deal with any of the following: > Long hours, heavy workload and tight deadlines> Frequent changes in your duties and your organization> Boring work and an inadequate work environment> A terrible boss and insensitive co-workers> Lack of proper resources and equipment> Lack of career advancement and growth> Getting paid less than what you really deserve> Unreasonable customers and unreliable suppliersThis could lead to anxiety, discouragement, irritability and feelings of being overwhelmed.So what can we do about it? Thankfully, there is an easier way to deal with all this work stress. Yes, with Work Sucks : An Adult Coloring Book to Relieve Work Stress you can color away your stress with 40 engaging doodle designs containing humorous comments, funny sayings and sarcastic workplace remarks. This hand-drawn book by Mark Thompson has 40 exclusive and never-seen-before doodle designs with cute, funny characters, alien monster cartoons and extremely funny, sarcastic, humorous sayings like: > I wake up with good attitude every day. Then idiots happen.> You Off my planet > I am BUSY now. Can I IGNORE you later?> Well, aren't we a bloody ray of sunshine> Aw, did I step on your poor itty, bitty ego?> I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.> There is no 'I' in TEAM, but there is definitely a 'U' in DULL> Teamwork is overrated> Never miss a good chance to shut up> This isn't an office. It's HELL with fluorescent lighting.> If Monday had a face, I'd punch it.> You should smile more frequently. The boss likes idiots.> Well, this day was a total waste of make-up> Not Anti-Social. Anti-Idiot.> When did ignorance become a point of view?> I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in? ...and many more.Simply put, it is one of the most practical and quickest ways to relieve stress, unwind and relax after a hard day's work. You can even share colored pages with your co-workers, pin them up in your office or, if you're feeling brave, present one to your boss.Also, Work Sucks : An Adult Coloring Book to Relieve Work Stress is a fantastic gift idea for a friend.This book comes with free BONUS PDF pages. Order your copy today Mark ThompsonColoring Tige