From classic comfort food to specialized diets, the electric pressure cooker can do it all!Pressure cooking is a cooking technique that has been around for decades and it's gaining more and more terrain with modern cooks nowadays. And why wouldn't it?! It's easy and quick and just as safe as any other type of cooking. In addition to this, it's versatile and you can cook any ingredients you can think of, from the cheapest cuts of meat to the more expensive one.Are you familiar...

LA RÉFÉRENCE COMPLÈTE+100 EXERCICES10 PROGRAMMESCe guide de référence propose une approche complète de l'entraînement et de la compétition en powerlifting, ou force athlétique :Plus de 100 exercices illustrés étape par étape sur les trois mouvements principaux le squat, le développé couché et le soulevé de terreDes routines d'échauffement dynamique et des techniques de ré...

The mental and physical demands of powerlifting are unlike any other sport. Athletes must be committed and focused on success. In Powerlifting, Second Edition, powerlifting hall of famer Dan Austin, winner of 10 world powerlifting championships and 18 national championships, teams with strength and conditioning expert Dr. Bryan Mann to offer the most comprehensive powerlifting resource available.This no-nonsense approach to training and competing in the sport offers over 1...

This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety of cultural representations—visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual—created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public and shared...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambit...

Two alien black obsidian pyramids sat on a ringworld deep in unknown space in the centre of a human city. With a large obsidian circle between them. Five hundred years ago, it was a gate that connected Mars and Earth, but it has since fallen silent. On the eve of Princess Alina's wedding, she will find that the ringworld is home to more than just humanity. Will she be able to uncover the secrets hidden within the ringworld's wall that holds the key to saving humanity and maybe even a way t...

Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846), a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, journeyed to Texas on three separate occasions. Her first visit, in 1831, resulted in the publication of her book, Texas. Her second and third trips, in 1835 and 1837, were depicted in her diary. This witty, observant, and highly perceptive woman captured the infant Texas in her journal—the Mexican state moving toward rebellion and the new Republic, dynamic and struggling with a great destiny. The Holley diary is an important insi...

Milanni anticipates a routine summer holiday at her grandparents' house, but she soon discovers that this visit might alter her perception of reality and fantasy forever. As everyday objects mysteriously transform before her eyes, Milanni begins to question the existence of magic. Could these bewildering events be more than mere coincidences? She wonders if her grandfather holds deeper knowledge about these strange occurrences, or if it's all just a figment of her vivid imagination. The co...

How many times have you stood outside your door, or looked out the window and realised that all you see is just a little piece of sky? There is so much more than what you see above where you are. Under every little piece is a different culture, a different way of life, new experiences, places to see and a world of opportunity. Travelling is perhaps one of the greatest opportunities to live a fulfilled life. Experiencing different cultures or moving to a different country where nobody knows...

Having lived in New Zealand, Britain and Germany, the author is amply experienced to comment on various aspects of British, New Zealand and German culture. Currently living in Germany, he visits Britain frequently. His interests include indigenous cultures and music sponsorship in Britain and abroad. Here is a book of poems that will amuse and educate adults as well as older children. The poems cover a range of topics from young children to threatened species, and poems from classical Gree...

Join Roger on his adventures as he is being blasted back into the past. He meets many famous people, is imprisoned, and gets into other scrapes. He is helped through his ordeals by taking modern technology (his mobile phone) with him. He also meets girls along the way, although it could be the same girl throughout the ages. His life is peppered with trips to the past and sometimes characters from the past end up in the present day, they become his friends. There are relationships, some tra...

The hero is Adrianus and follows his posting to the very edge of the Roman Empire to Caer Amon (Cramond), an outpost to the Antonine Wall on the Forth Estuary. A man of uncertain parentage who with his family must not only face the Caledonian tribes at his fort gate but also the treachery within from those wishing to discredit the new Emperor. For every hero there should also be a heroine as history has neglected the heroines. Mine is the young and spirited Selinda, Queen of the Venicones,...