There are many books on the subject of magic, but Hexagradior is different. While other books quote rituals, spells and traditions, Hexagradior text explains what is the essence of magic, why some spells work while others don't and explains how to make them work. It provides a system of occult exercises, so the reader is no longer left hoping that spells will work. Hexagradior explains how to practice, advance the skills and improve results. The detail that perpetuates Hexagradior's reputa...

Welcome to Pugu's WorldThe series is set on Maple Street, where Pugu, a ten-year-old boy with a questioning mind, lives with his family. The stories center on his journey of growing up—learning that responsibility can feel heavy and that wisdom often comes in unexpected forms, sometimes even from a dog.Stories and LessonsHere is a description of the 12 stories listed in the table of contents:Pugu and the Gift T...

When a failed suicide turns alien abduction, Jack learns he's going to need a bigger hole.Now trapped in a warped space station where capitalism is king, hope is weaponized, and morality is optional, Jack is forced to survive a bureaucratic nightmare known only as the Dominion. Ruled by a mysterious syndicate called the Firm and threatened by a rising rebellion of frog-faced insurgents, Jack becomes the accidental center of a cosmic shitstorm.Along the way, he'll meet a sen...

Dirty and clean never meet: the entire layout of a compliant workshop follows from this principle, from the point where raw materials come in to the one where the finished product goes out.Six chapters: structural requirements, operational flows, essential equipment and how to choose it, raw material management, temperature control, ergonomic design. With the criteria for separating the changing room from the toilets, and for staying clear of domestic equipment that falls short of the rule...

A caramel sphere comes out right once you have understood how alginate and calcium react. The same holds for this whole volume: understand first, then do.Five chapters lead into hydrocolloids applied to desserts, spherification, gels and unusual textures, emulsions and foams, and fermentation applied to patisserie. This is the volume that opens contemporary cooking to those who already have the foundations.

Macarons are the most technical preparation in all of dry patisserie, and the most sensitive to their surroundings: humidity, temperature and resting decide the outcome before the oven has any say. This volume starts there, deliberately.Five chapters: macarons, madeleines and financiers, fine biscuits, confectionery and sweets, dry pastries and petits fours. Once past the first chapter, the rest runs downhill.

Fine dark chocolate has always been plant-based: its history and its tradition are entirely so. This book starts there and moves on to plant-milk chocolate and vegan white chocolate, which are new territory instead.It begins with making chocolate at home and choosing the right one, tackles tempering with the tools of an ordinary kitchen, and arrives at pralines, chocolates, bars with inclusions and spreads. The chapter on tempering should be read before attempting any recipe: it decides wh...

Vegan pastry has found its own routes, and they lead to results that often surpass the traditional ones. Aquafaba whips like egg white, and sometimes better. Cocoa butter crystallises with a precision that butter can only chase.This first volume is the book of foundations: it gathers the reasons why the recipes work. Six chapters go through the raw materials that take the place of egg, butter and cream — aquafaba and plant proteins, fats and their melting points, sugars and sweeteners, pla...

Decoration is part of the preparation, rather than a luxury for those with time and professional equipment: a dessert that looks cared for is perceived as better on the palate too.Five chapters: modelling chocolate and chocolate decorations, vegan sugar paste and fondant, glazes and decorative coatings, natural decorative elements, plating. Techniques you can carry out with ordinary tools and a steady hand.

A business plan serves the person writing it first of all: it forces you to line up figures that, kept in your head, stay comfortably vague.Six chapters: what it is and what it is actually for, context analysis, the business model, the operating plan, the financial plan with three scenarios, and funding instruments across grants, rural development schemes and credit. Closing with the warning that ends the volume: trying to be everything to everyone is the fastest route to being nothing to ...

This memoir/story of my life is about the interactions, confusions, theories, and lies I've encountered throughout my life talking to or working with a girl I've met long ago, and the events that followed.

Great Mature Non-Cheeses takes plant-based cheesemaking into the territory of noble moulds. No longer fresh cheeses to be eaten within days, but wheels that mature for weeks under the control of Penicillium candidum, Penicillium roqueforti and Geotrichum candidum.The book starts with the three protagonists: what each mould does, which curing-chamber parameters it works with, what visual signals it gives week by week, where to buy the starters and how to store them. A chapte...