You already know the difference between working in your organization and working on it. You have read the books. You understand the concepts. And yet eighty percent of your time still goes to holding things together, deescalating what was going to escalate anyway, running the review that produces the same update it produced last month, and making decisions the system should have been designed to handle. The Systems-Building Leader offers a field guide that moves beyond insight and...

The humble sandwich elevated to culinary art by a Japanese master chef.The Japanese sando is both humble and refined, embodying Japanese culinary excellence and flavor at its very best. For Chef Walter Ishizuka of Yabai Sando, France's trendiest sando restaurant, these cult classics evoke the flavors of his childhood.This groundbreaking cookbook allows you to create dozens of Ishizuka's amazing sando recipes, including:

Tired of expensive doctor visits and copays for problems you could treat at home — if only someone would tell you how? Written by a pharmacist with over 20 years behind the counter, this is the natural home remedies book people over 50 have been asking for: honest, practical, and completely free of hype.You'll find over 100 tested home remedies for the everyday aches, allergies, and illnesses that hit differently after 50 — headaches, arthritis and joint pain, back pain, seasonal a...

George Saintsbury's editorial preface frames this reissue of Sir Walter Scott's great Dryden edition as both a restoration and a refinement: he preserves Scott's structure, corrects errors, adds newly available letters, bibliographic notes, appendices, and other rare materials, and keeps commentary secondary to Dryden's own text. Scott's original preface insists that, after more than a century, Dryden is finally being offered in a complete and uniform form, including even the lesser comedi...

A grand Scottish voyage begins aboard the Royal Mail steamer Dunottar Castle, whose 1890 trial cruise becomes both a feat of modern engineering and a celebration of Highland scenery. With a warm foreword by W. Scott Dalgleish and illustrations by fellow passengers and artists, the narrative traces a sweeping route from the Clyde to the Hebrides, Skye, Orkney, and back to the Firth of Forth, combining travel memoir, nautical adventure, and affectionate companionship. Day by day, the journey...

The Abbot opens with Sir Walter Scott's self-aware meditation on authorship, success, and the risk of following a disappointing novel with another. Framed as a sequel to The Monastery, it is presented as a deliberate second attempt: Scott trims away supernatural machinery, leans less on unexplained marvels, and argues that fiction can feel truer when it is leaner, more selective, and shaped by public taste. He also defends his choice to center the story on Queen Mary, whose beauty, wit, mi...

A Life of TasteHow Anthony Di Cicco Changed the Way Rhode Island Eats Italian Food.This book, The Maestro of Flavors, delves into the life journey of an Italian immigrant hailing from Sant'Ambrogio in Lazio. It begins by vividly depicting his formative years, highlighting the rich culinary culture and family traditions that shaped his identity. The sensory experiences—aromas, flavors, and sounds—of his childhood form the foundation for the values he would later bring to Amer...

This volume of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border opens a window onto a Scotland shaped by war, faith, and memory. Its ballads and historical notes move from Lesley's March and the Covenanters' militant zeal to Montrose's dazzling rise, his victories, and the catastrophe of Philiphaugh, where mist, misjudgment, and divided forces bring his campaign to a tragic end. Along the way, the book traces the fierce struggle between Presbyterian resistance and royal attempts to enforce episcopacy, sh...

Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border opens a vivid gateway into the feud-haunted world of southern Scotland, where ballad legend, clan loyalty, and royal power collide. Set amid raids, outlawry, and cross-border war, these historical and romantic songs preserve the fierce spirit of the marches through tales such as Sir Patrick Spens, Auld Maitland, The Battle of Otterbourne, and Johnie Armstrong. Scott's scholarly notes and antiquarian commentary deepen the atmosphere, linking ...

Set against Sir Walter Scott's years at Ashestiel, Marmion emerges as a poem born from disciplined labor, legal duty, domestic security, and fierce imaginative energy. Scott's life there—shaped by countryside devotion, friendships, horses, volunteer soldiering, and the practical struggle that finally secured his family's future—fed directly into the work's urgency and range. The poem itself is presented as a patriotic historical romance inspired by Scott's long fascination with Flodden, wh...

Sir Walter Scott opens with a memory-laden frame in which a childhood fireside tale is recalled by an elderly kinswoman whose superstition gives it uncanny authority. As the narrator walks toward Aunt Margaret's house, he passes vanished fields, old landmarks, and the graves of brothers, feeling the weight of family decline, lost fortune, and the persistence of memory in places that outlast generations. Aunt Margaret herself emerges as the indispensable household guardian, a woman who has ...

Guy Mannering begins with an astrologer's ominous prophecy at a Galloway country house, where the birth of a long-awaited heir is shadowed by warnings of a crisis at twenty-one. Determined to outwit fate, the boy's father raises him in strict seclusion and religious discipline, only to watch adolescence bring signs of inward distress and spiritual conflict. When the young man finally seeks the old seer's counsel, love and destiny collide in the form of a grave, beautiful maiden, and the no...