**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR 2026 TASTE CANADA AWARDS"A must-read for baking at home, or anywhere!" CHEF DANIEL BOULUDAn accessible guide to all things BREAD--from sourdough to yeasted dough, pizza dough and more--by expert bread baker, professor, and chef Matthew James Duffy.**Bread Etc. distills the complex art of mixing, shaping, and baking dough into clear explanations and easy-to-read instructions. You’ll begin with an overview of brea...

A landmark study in colonial history, Portugal in Africa explores the pivotal role of Portugal's empire on the African continent. James Duffy offers a sweeping, incisive analysis of the political, economic, and cultural legacy of Portuguese colonialism from the 15th century to the 20th, focusing particularly on Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. With meticulous research and an unflinching eye, Duffy examines how Portugal's colonial strategies evolved under the Estado Novo regime and ho...

Zoé Nóima:Born into a family of renowned street artists, Zoé Nóima was destined for a life immersed in color and creativity. Her early years were a whirlwind of paint-splattered joy, learning the craft from her parents who were celebrated for their murals that brought life to the city's walls.Tragedy struck when she was just 12, with the loss of her parents in a car accident leaving her orphaned. The once vibrant city now seemed a cold and unwelcoming place. Raised by her grandparents, Zoé...

AD 63: The long arm of the Roman Empire stretches across the European continent and the gladiatorial games are awash in blood and glory. For Quintus Honorius Romanus, son of one of the richest men in Rome, everything is as it should be—as long as he can sneak off to the arena for a little entertainment. Things go drastically wrong, however, when Quintus loses his family, his social standing, and his name to an imposter. Faced with a life of menial slavery, Quintus joins a gladiatorial scho...

University can be a psychologically distressing place for students. Empirical studies in Australia and the USA highlight that a large number of law students suffer from psychological distress, when compared to students from other disciplines and members of the general population. This book explores the significant role that legal education can play in the promotion of mental health and well-being in law students, and consequently in the profession. The volume considers the ways in which th...

2020 became the year that no one will forget as the coronavirus roared into East Hollywood lives. City College artists, reporters and editors capture life in quarantine and the consuming story of our time from Madrid to Salvador, from Guangzhou to L.A.

Continuing the adventures of Quintus Honorius Romanus (a.k.a. Taurus)—legendary gladiator of ancient Rome—this second book in the series picks up in AD 68, when the emperor is dead and the throne is up for grabs. Three contenders square off to take control of the government, and as civil unrest begins to build, Quintus and his friends, the beast hunter Lindani and the gladiatrix Amazonia, are forced to fight with the legionaries of Rome in what will soon become bloody civil war. Meanwhile,...

Dog Bites Man is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailing the House-That-Jack-Built downfall of Eldon Hoagland, an innocent Columbia University professor who has become New York City's good-government mayor. The hilarious spiral begins when Hoagland, after an evening of drinking with his old Princeton roommate, staggers out of a Fifth Avenue apartment house, steps on a dog relieving itself alongside the mayor's car, and gets badly bitten. His cop-bodyguards shoot the dog and in the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Bob Harper, the bestselling author of The Skinny Rules and Jumpstart to Skinny and the star of NBC’s ongoing smash reality show The Biggest Loser, comes 100 delicious new recipes (all of them under 330 calories!), a month of new menu plans, and indispensable shopping lists and cooking tips that all follow Bob’s practical strategies for getting thin!THE TASTIEST MEALS FOR HELPING YO...

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five cen...

A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . .The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers' Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done, plus a rogues' gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and cr...

Enjoy this comprehensively updated, expanded, and redesigned paperback version of the original bestseller, which was one of the first primal/paleo cookbooks ever published back in 2010. The all-new design features stunning photography, an overview education on primal eating, shopping and lifestyle elements, updated recipes with macronutrient breakdowns and metric conversions, do-it-yourself preparations for the popular Primal Kitchen brand salad dressings and mayonnaise's, and icon designa...