The acclaimed food and travel writer brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland in this James Beard Award–winning cookbook.Fast emerging as one of the world's hottest culinary destinations, Ireland is a country of small farms, artisanal bakers, cheese makers, and butteries. Farm-to-table dining has been practiced here for centuries.Meticulously researched and reported by Saveur magazine founder Colman Andrews, this sumptuou...

From the James Beard Award winners: Photos, stories, and over 200 simple Italian recipes rooted in fresh ingredients and rural traditions.Following the success of their James Beard Foundation Best Cookbook of the Year, The Country Cooking of Ireland, Colman Andrews and Christopher Hirsheimer achieve the formidable feat of illuminating the world's most beloved cuisine in an entirely new light. Drawing on more than forty years of experience ...

Jig and Jag, who are eleven-year old twin sisters, are about to turn twelve-years old. Their brother Tag is about to turn eleven-years old. Their parents think they still need a babysitter. But they don't! No matter how hard they try to convince their parents, everything backfires, until something unexpected happens. The action takes place during summer vacation. The kids go through five babysitter and a series of funny, foolish, and scary antics before an unexpected event changes everythi...

From a James Beard Award–winning author, a fresh take on traditional recipes from England, Scotland and Wales.The British Table: A New Look at the Traditional Cooking of England, Scotland, and Wales celebrates the best of British cuisine old and new. Drawing on a vast number of sources, both historical and modern, the book includes more than 150 recipes, from traditional regional specialties to modern gastropub reinventions of rustic fare. Dishes like fish...

"Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America" chronicles the stirring stories of American girls - often in their own words - and highlights their spirit, their will, their courage, and their contributions. Girls from all regions of this country and from all walks of life are given a collective voice in this true story of girls' everyday trials and triumphs. There are stirring stories from the wilderness and the cities, from the fields and the factories, told by girls of different race...

The story of an RAAF Lancaster bomber crew shot down over France in 1944.On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians, two Scots-whose mission was to bomb factories in Schweinfurt, Germany. But J for Jig never reached its target. It was shot down in the night skies over France.This book is about the seven lives on that ...

From the moment he was a bewildered five-year-old, David Colman's life has been haunted by the unexplained. Psychic dreams, heightened intuition, ghostly visitations, episodes of missing time, and close encounters with forces beyond our understanding have followed him for decades.Then came the night that changed everything.Driving through Raven Craig Wood with his wife and two young children, Colman and his family came face-to-face with the being now known as the Silver Man...

A fascinating, lively account of toilets, tubs, and sanitation systems with intriguingly catchy chapter titles from "Splish, Splash, the First Bath," "The Queen's Toilet," "Ugh, Gross!" to "Bathrooms Beyond Belief." Award-winning author, Penny Colman traces the fascinating history of the bathroom, starting thousands of years ago on the Orkney Islands of Scotland where hollowed-out slabs of stone with a crude drain served as the first indoor bathroom, to the ancient Egyptian city of Tel el ...

This is an earlier edition. A new edition is available for purchase.Chinese commandos in a lightning raid have seized the vast, under-populated, resource-rich lands of Northern Australia. Thousands of Australian soldiers are held hostage.International realpolitik has left Australia abandoned by its supposed allies and its brittle social fabric is rapidly unwinding as the people panic.A Chinese ultimatum demands the annexation of the country's top half in te...

"A great source of inspiration," this cookbook is a stunning, mouthwatering homage to the unique, beloved, and healthy cuisine of Catalonia (Alice Waters, chef/owner of Chez Panisse).Once an undiscovered gem among Europe's culinary traditions, the cuisine of Catalonia, a province of northeast Spain, has become an inspiration to some of the world's top chefs. Catalan Cuisine is the definitive guide to authentic Catalan cooking—the book that introduced this ...

Orphaned at an early age, Madam C. J. Walker, who was born Sarah Breedlove, told people, "I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it!" A washerwoman who turned herself into a powerhouse, Madam revolutionized the business of hair-care products for black women. As her business grew, she moved from Denver to Pittsburgh and then to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she established a beauty school, a laboratory, and a factory where her products were developed and made. In 1913...

Michael Kough finds a cure for the common cold. Suddenly every crook, crime boss and corrupt politician wants to steal the secret in this witty, entertaining, satirical medical thriller.Michael Kough is an Australian virologist and degenerate loser who accidentally discovers a cure for the common cold. And a vaccine to neutralise all the world's deadly viruses.He becomes the richest man in the world. And the most hunted.Dictators, multinational drug...