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The Cafe Brenda Cookbook: Seafood and Vegetarian Cuisine
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The Cafe Brenda Cookbook: Seafood and Vegetarian CuisineThe Cafe Brenda Cookbook: Seafood and Vegetarian Cuisine

With this cookbook, Langton provides cooks and diners with many of her most requested dishes-from her renowned vegetarian croquettes to savory soups (like Roasted Potato & Garlic soup) and stews and imaginative seafood recipes (like Poached Rainbow Trout with Berry Vinaigrette.) And then there are the sumptuous, naturally sweetened desserts, such as chocolate carrot cake, fresh fruit tarts, and maple pot de creme.
 
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Traditional Chinese Foods: Production and Research Progress
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Traditional Chinese Foods: Production and Research ProgressTraditional Chinese Foods: Production and Research Progress

These traditional foods are an important component of Chinese people's diet and the basis for their food habits and nutrition. They also constitute an essential aspect of their cultural heritage and related closely to the Chinese people's historical background and to the environment in which they live.
 
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The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction
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The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change.
 
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When Language Breaks Down: Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts
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When Language Breaks Down: Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts

Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features.
 
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Vygotsky's Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Vygotsky's Developmental and Educational Psychology

Vygotsky is widely considered one of the most significant and influential psychologists of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, true appreciation of his theories has been hindered by a lack of understanding of the background to his thought. Vygotsky's Developmental and Educational Psychology aims to demonstrate how we can come to a new and original understanding of Vygotsky's theories through knowledge of their cultural, philosophical and historical context.
 
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