Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?
The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance (Audio)
A highly actionable blueprint for a better way of working and a more satisfying life The way we're working isn't working. More than 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. We're in a new kind of energy crisis -- and this one is personal. The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance makes a compelling case for a new kind of workplace, a better way of working and a more deeply satisfying way of life.
Words! Words! Words!- Words are fun! Words understood, explained, defined, differentiated, used, abused; words of great writers and poets, words of schoolboys and girls; descriptive, active, perceptive, living words - these are the themes of Dr. Andrew Scotland's book. By examples, suggestions, exercises, narrative, poetry and above all by humour, he seeks to rouse the reader to an interest in and a right use of words. The approach is daring: schoolboy puns jostle with sublime passages from the great masters of words; lighthearted sketches offset thorough and scholarly examinations of the derivations of words, and Greek and Latin prefixes and suffixes.
The authors present an eye-catching assortment of intarsia projects, perfect for gift-giving. Handbags and gorgeous garments for adults, plus adorable doll clothes, hats, and sweaters for children--that's what knitters will find inside this remarkable collection of gifts to knit. They're made using intarsia, an easy-to-work two-color technique that's especially popular with a new generation of knitters. Each item features a pattern in bold geometrics, stripes, or florals, and all the designs are young and fresh and beautiful enough to qualify as wearable art.
The Novel 100, Revised Edition (The Literature 100)
Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each entry provides a plot summary and assessment of a particular novel, with an emphasis on facts about the novel's creation, critical reception, and contribution to literary history.
