WINNER OF THE IACP AWARD • This classic tome of Italian baking covers everything from breadsticks and cornetti to focaccia, tarts, pastries, and more—now updated with stunning photography, new recipes, and comprehensive tips and tricks.“The Italian Baker takes you deep into the mind and heart of the Italian spirit.”—Peter Reinhart, author of The Bread Baker’s Apprentice and Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Every Day

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this form of creative expression, meditative discipline and/or psychotherapeutic endeavour". You don't need to practice Authentic Movement to get a lot out of this book, but it certainly helps! I defy anyone...

'Real, simple, organic and sustainable food is what Daylesford offers - and these are the recipes for putting it on your table'Raymond Blanc'Now more than ever chimes with the way we want to eat'The TimesA fully updated reissue of the pioneering seasonal cookbook by Carole Bamford, the founder of Daylesford.This book shares over 150 seasonal recipes c...

'Real, simple, organic and sustainable food is what Daylesford offers - and these are the recipes for putting it on your table'Raymond Blanc'Now more than ever chimes with the way we want to eat'The TimesA fully updated reissue of the pioneering seasonal cookbook by Carole Bamford, the founder of Daylesford.This book shares over 150 seasonal recipes c...

With this compact portable reference in hand, crafters can quickly and easily look up any of 100 different sheep breeds, the characteristics of their fleece, and the kinds of projects for which their fleece is best suited. Each breed profile includes a photograph of the animal and information about its origin and conservation status, as well as the weight, staple length, fiber diameter, and natural colors of its fleece. This is a great primer for beginners, and a handy guide for anyone who...

For most people, Christmas is a season of joy. For Emily Carter, it’s a reminder of everything she’s lost. Since her mother’s passing, she’s avoided the carols, the lights, and the traditions that once meant the world to her.But when she’s unexpectedly drawn into helping save the crumbling Midnight Theatre—a tiny community playhouse on the verge of closure—Emily finds herself surrounded by a cast of eccentric locals determined to put on the town’s first Christmas concert in decades...

The go-to field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent—now in a comprehensively updated third editionThe best field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent is now even better. Thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, this third edition of Birds of India features revised color plates, text, and distribution maps, and sixty-four more pages than the previous edition. Comprehensive and definitive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone bi...

If you met a werewolf in a forest at night, would you be able to tell what he really was? Could you resist the dark charms of a vampire or the lure of a fallen angel? Seductive, thrilling and often highly dangerous, you may recognise these inhuman beings in books and movies - but if you came across one in real life, would you know how to escape their clutches?We have already been sucked in by vampires and eaten up by zombies and this year, angels, werewolves and demons of all kinds...

The definitive guide to the birds of Bhutan, Sikkim and Arunachal PradeshThe nation of Bhutan and the Indian states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh together form the eastern arm of the Himalayas, a place of extraordinary ornithological diversity.This field guide covers all 809 species that regularly occur in the region, including most vagrants. There are 152 superb colour plates, with concise text on facing pages for quick and easy reference covering essent...

In Why Draw?, Carol Hendrickson explores the potential of drawing within the context of ethnographic fieldwork. The book aims to inspire readers to immerse themselves in the generative process of thinking while seeing while drawing.To foster visual thinking and encourage experimentation, Hendrickson discusses a range of case studies that show the possibilities of drawing in the field and thinking through the resulting drawings. Richly illustrated, the book focuses on curre...

The withdrawal of black women from field labor in the postwar South is the historical question being addressed with a gender analysis as the theoretical framework. Primary sources used have been drawn from Somerset plantation, North Carolina and Faunsdale plantation, Alabama. This book adds to the literature of women's history, gender studies, black history, and the Reconstruction era of Alabama. It adds to the growing body of knowledge of the way gender relations interact with class and r...

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will me...