Robert Abbot's "The Housekeeper's Valuable Present; Or, Lady's Closet Companion" is a remarkable exploration of domestic management and culinary arts from the 18th century. With a combination of practical advice and insightful reflections on household management, Abbot crafts a text that serves not only as a kitchen manual but also as a moral guide for women in their roles as housekeepers. The book's literary style is both accessible and didactic, enriched by anecdotes and recipes that ref...

"The Housekeeper's Valuable Present Or, Lady's Closet Companion" by Robert Abbot is a comprehensive guide designed for those managing household affairs. It offers practical advice on various aspects of domestic life, including cooking, cleaning, and organization. Abbot's work reflects the social norms and expectations of the time, emphasizing the importance of a well-run household. The book serves as a valuable resource for housekeepers, providing them with tips and recipes that enhance th...

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Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from being knowledgeable stewards of watersheds to becoming wise managers of watersheds.

"Like the appetite for a piece of dark chocolate, risk is alluring, and its taste is savory, dopamine-triggering, life-affirming, delicious."Robert "Bud" Abbott should know. As a young man, he marched with MLK and joined the Peace Corps to avoid having to kill in Vietnam. Instead, posted to Nigeria to teach, he found himself facing down river pirates and fighting deadly snakes. And that's just from a few early years in a long life chock-full of adventure and more near-death experie...

Medical education is a daunting and strenuous endeavor. Less than six months into medical school, my health had deteriorated into an abyss until the unexpected happened.God found His way in.In The Breaking of Our Healers, I share the inexplicable story of how I resurrected my being, and discovered an approach to medicine that I never knew was possible. Together, we’ll walk through my arduous years of medical school and residency, to unearth the deep fractures withi...

For the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of young boys across Africa, looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi's career and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program chooses just a handful of boys each year to train to become professionals; the process is one thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard University.In an extraordinary work of reporting, inte...

We are surrounded. A wealthy man hunts the kaiju that killed his daughter on an island inhabited by mega-fauna. They are everywhere. By the light of a campfire a young girl shares the true story of the epic brawl that caused Hurricane Irene. There is no escape. Sabotage turns an international science competition into a monster and mecha massacre. They Reign. From deep ocean trenches and dense vibrant jungles to alien worlds and other dimensions, the kaiju have returned! This is a collectio...

In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland’s law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city’s lucrative prostitution, gambling, and bootlegging operations. Turner and Lambert blew the cover on the Teamsters’ scheme to take over alcohol sales and distribution and profit from these fringe enterprises. The Rose City was ...

This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith beliefs in disaster response. The earthquake is one of the most destructive on record, and the aftermath, including a cholera epidemic and ongoing humanitarian aid, has continued for years following the catastrophe.Based on dozens of interviews, this book gives primacy to survivors’ narratives. It begins by laying out the Haitian context, ...

From Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg comes, To Open The Sky.The Atom was their God—but there was something stronger…At the beginning of the 22nd century, Earth colonies were established on Mars and Venus. But the ultimate dream - to travel to the stars - was still an impossibility.Cults, fads, madnesses of various kinds swept the population. The maddest--and so far the most permanent--were the Vorst worshipers, the at...

Where schools working in adverse conditions are achieving outstanding learning outcomes, what is it that these schools do to achieve these outcomes? Are there common factors here which could apply everywhere, or at least in the vast majority of circumstances?Drawing on a range of research, including interviews with children, parents, teachers and school leaders in rural and urban contexts in England, Greece, India, Malaysia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, and the USA, the auth...