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Learn the Basque (Euskara) language with our comprehensive introductory course designed for complete beginners. Each of the five learning sessions is created to build your confidence and competence in Basque. Through frequent review segments, you can strengthen your learning and ensure a strong grasp of the material covered.This course provides a useful introduction to the Basque language. You'll pick up fundamental vocabulary, essential phrases, and the correct pronunciation techn...

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

Can we really end poverty in Britain?Yes, we can.In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from across Britain to show us that ending poverty in the twenty-first century is possible. She describes the effects of deprivation on our society, institutions, communities, families and individuals – down to their very DNA.By using a combination of compassion, focus and a plan,...

After the death of his godfather, Mikel, a would-be revolutionary, inherits the Basque signet ring, a priceless family heirloom that has fascinated and eluded him since he was a child. How did his grandfather—an indentured Basque peasant—acquire such a valuable ring? Different answers lurk in this rich tapestry of family memoirs. The truth—or versions of it—will test Mikel's beliefs in his cause, his family, and himself. Based on people and events in the author's own family, the overlappin...

'José's recipes take us to the heart of the very best of Spanish cooking.' – Rick SteinIn this compact edition of the award-winning cookbook, Basque, leading Spanish chef, José Pizarro, takes readers on a journey around this magical place, taking inspiration from traditional dishes and local ingredients, and adding his own unique twist.From the delicious bite-sized morsels known as pintxos Basque-s...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Kate and Price Lewis had the perfect marriage―love, fulfilling careers, and a great apartment in the city. But when Price’s work takes him overseas and his plane goes down, their happily-ever-after goes down with it.A year later, Kate is still trying to cope. She’s tied to her grief as tightly as she was bound to Price. When her sister-in-law coaxes her into an extended girls’ trip―three weeks on a remote island in the South Pacific―Kate agrees. At a villa as secluded as the island...

THE study of the recent science of Comparative Mythology is one of the most popular and attractive of minor scientific pursuits. It deals with a subject-matter which has interested most of us at one period of our lives, and turns the delight of our childhood into a charm and recreation for maturer age. Nor is it without more useful lessons. In it we see more clearly than perhaps elsewhere the reciprocal influence, which none can wholly escape, of words and language upon thought, and again ...

"Easy, energetic prose and an intelligent ensemble of accessible recipes offer readers an insider's taste tour of Basque cuisine." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Winner of the Périgueux World Cookbook AwardWinner of the Spanish National Prize for GastronomyJoin award-winning, internationally acclaimed chef Teresa Barrenechea as she takes you on a culinary journey through her homeland, the historic Basque ...

Basque Sports: Histories, Identities, Politics and Landscapes is the first book to offer a systematic review of Basque sport and its historical, political, anthropological, and sociological significance. The Basques have nurtured traditional sports like the ball game pelota, or baserri (farmstead)-inspired herriko kirolak (rural sports) for centuries. Basque soccer clubs were founding members of the Spanish La Liga, and generations of Basque foo...

Chefs Alexandra Raij and Eder Montero share more than one hundred recipes from Txikito—all inspired by the home cooking traditions of the Basque Country—that will change the way you cook in this much-anticipated and deeply personal debut.Whether it’s a perfectly ripe summer tomato served with just a few slivers of onion and a drizzle of olive oil, salt cod slowly poached in oil and topped with an emulsion of its own juices, or a handful of braised leeks scattered w...