Now your kids can bake their cake and eat it too (with a little help from mom and dad). There are so many reasons for a kid to celebrate and this book has desserts for every milestone, from First Day of School Smart Cookies and Family Road Trip Muddy Buddies to Fall Break Snickerdoodles and the Best Birthday Cupcakes.The Ultimate Kids’ Baking Book makes it easy for your child to learn baking basics like how to use a mixer to cream butter and sugar, how to melt chocolate an...

This is the fictional story of a young teacher who meets the fruit man of a bodega and has a brief affair. She is set to wed a lawyer. The lawyer dies in an accident and she meets the fruit man ten years later at the Rockefeller Xmas tree. They find romance again with some twists and turns.

Fire Island is the setting for a host of characters who find love and mayhem as they gather at a beach house for the summer. When Sheila and her friends, along with her college student son, and a gorgeous stripper, share a house on Fire Island for the summer, adventure ensues. Some colorful characters round out the scene, including the strip club owner, a questionable gentleman from Vegas, an Italian deli owner and a handsome widower. Sexual identity, the memory of a young mother's choice,...

Not Your Mama's Bread Machine RecipesWhether you’re unboxing a brand-new bread machine or pulling a well- worn model from the cupboards, Tiffany Dahle’s flavor-packed recipes will get you more excited to bake bread than you thought possible. With this beautifully photographed modern guide, enjoy everything from bakery-style loaves to breads featuring unique fruity fillings, savory mix-ins and streusel swirls. Get creative with your machine's unique features to effo...

The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross AntarcticaThe fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft’s dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all w...

Learn To Cook Amazing Meals with Tons of Fun Family RecipesAre you ready to have a blast in the kitchen and learn how to make the best food you ever tasted? Step by step, this cookbook will show you how to cook the way grown-ups do, but with your favorite flavors! These recipes are perfect for kids because they use simple ingredients, don’t take a lot of work and most cook in just one pot or pan. Along the way, you’ll learn important skills, such as how to cut food...

Learn to Cook Awesome Meals the Way You Like!Kids, are you ready to make the best meal of your life? This cookbook is going to show you step by step how to cook the way grown-ups do, but with your favorite favors! And the best part is that your parents, siblings or sitters are only your helpers. YOU can take center stage chopping ingredients like a pro, stirring the pot and serving the final dish to your family or friends. These recipes are perfect for kids because...

Tourism as a Resource-based Industry presents the conceptual framework of the Norwegian economic geographer Sondre Svalastog and functions as a practical tool for analyzing and identifying resources when working towards a more sustainable tourism industry. Tourism resources and their sustainability are analysed through the lens of a multidisciplinary approach which includes social, economic, cultural and natural dimensions. Contextual awareness is achieved by combining research-based knowl...

Over the past few years, it has become more and more obvious that fish farming will become increasingly important in the future. As fish farming moves into its industrial phase, technology will be an important factor in determining its successful development. It is therefore important for scientists & representatives from the aquaculture industry to meet to define state of the art and explore future development of fish farming technology for different fish species. 81 papers and abstracts ...

The book looks into the recent advances in the ex-situ production routes and properties of aluminum and magnesium based metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs), produced either by liquid or semi-solid state methods. It comprehensively summarizes work done in the last 10 years including the mechanical properties of different matrix/nanoreinforcement systems. The book also addresses future research direction, steps taken and missing developments to achieve the full industrial exploitation of suc...

Understanding the stress state in the earth's crust is crucial for engineers working in rock, particularly with regard to underground construction. Experience shows that an adequately high horizontal in-situ stress has a positive effect in stabilizing large span rock caverns close to the ground surface. On the other hand, high stresses resulting fr

Based on anthropological fieldwork in the 1990s, this book provides an ethnographic perspective in its examination of the politics and policies of cultural tourism as they were played out under the Indonesian New Order regime. The successful New Order tourism policy ensured that tourism development both contributed to, and benefited from, increasing economic prosperity and a long stretch of political stability. However, that success has come at a price; the policy to encourage mainly 'high...