A simple guide to some unusual recipes based on the author's own unique approach to cooking. Guided by inspiration and luck, as well as the variety of items to be found in the back of your kitchen shelves, you too can probe the depths of your creativity and be surprised and sometimes delighted by the originality of what you have cooked. If not, you can try something else.

Before there was a MeToo movement, there were MeToo moments. Back in the day you dealt with that the best way you could. In this novel it's the summer of 1956. Three young people, Emily, Alexia and Tyler, spend time together as they try to figure out their places in life. Will talents or money or character ultimately determine their choices? Will one reckless act spoil their friendship? How far should you go to protect a friend from a sexual predator? The backdrop of the Hamptons adds its ...

Diabetes is coming soon to a body near you, perhaps your own or that of someone you know. Such is the prognosis of the medical experts, given an aging population and the unwise life styles of people in the developed world, combined with the rapidly changing diets of the rest of the world, a change which is often for the worse.But if diabetes becomes the new normal, will patients be any less concerned when they first receive the diagnosis? For those who fear the thought of being chr...

These two plays, Henry Had to Go and Evangel, are comical plays involving religion. The first is an edgy satire concerning church real estate and what might be called poorly managed human resources. In addition all the characters have a sometimes mystifying interest in music.Evangel is an imagined disputatious encounter between the writers of the Gospels and the Biblical critics of today. To put it simply, the former would have been flabbergasted by the claims of the latter.

Do media and violence have an intrinsic relationship? McLuhan, Milton, Marx and Ellul had a lot to say about this hot topic. Other writers' views are also examined in this study based on a Media course the author gave at York University in Toronto. The general reader as well as students in media, communications, literature and philosophy courses should find this work helpful as they attempt to give context to a current burning issue.

Everyone thinks they know what Acton said: "Power corrupts." Actually, he said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The man behind the aphorism led a life full of incident which this screenplay attempts to show for the exciting and surprising process that it was. He lived in a revolutionary time where a fixed order was changing into the dynamic reality of the modern age, and Acton was a principal player in the realms of both ideas and politics. At the same time...