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The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book
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The Ultimate Frozen Dessert BookThe Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book

In the ninth installment of the wildly popular Ultimate series, cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough churn out more than 500 recipes and variations for all kinds of frosty treats, including a wide range of gelato, granita, sherbet, and semifreddo. And there's a whole chapter on cakes, pies, and other treats made with ice cream or gelato, whether home-made or store-bought! Bruce and Mark prove that when it comes to frozen desserts, ice cream is only the tip of the iceberg!
 
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Challenging Mathematical Teasers
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Challenging Mathematical TeasersChallenging Mathematical Teasers

Challenging story teasers for the jaded. More difficult algebraically than typical puzzles, and ideal for confirmed puzzle fanatic, but appendices help less experienced. Step-by-step solutions to all 100 puzzles. Also 40 new alphametics—solvable by simple arithmetic and logical reasoning—with answers, and two sample solutions.


 
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Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
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Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and PedagogyGenre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy  provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a "genre turn" in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.
 
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The English Language: From Sound to Sense
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The English Language: From Sound to SenseThe English Language: From Sound to Sense

Grounded in linguistic research and argumentation, The English Language: From Sound to Sense  is written to help readers become independent language analysts capable of critically evaluating claims about the language and the people who use it.
 
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Junkie
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JunkieJunkieJunkie (alternative title spelled Junky) is a 1953 semi-autobiographical  novel by William S. Burroughs. It was his first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. Burroughs' working title was Junk. Partly because he saw that becoming a publishable writer was possible (his friend Jack Kerouac had published his first novel The Town and the City in 1950), he began to compile his experiences as an addict, ‘lush roller’ and small-time Greenwich Village heroin pusher.

 
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