Learn to prepare delicious Asian dishes from the beloved restaurant at home with this collection of authentic, accessible recipes.When the first Big Bowl restaurant opened in 1997, its founding partners had one mission: to make good, authentic Asian food accessible to American diners. Tired of greasy takeout and soggy egg rolls, they created an entirely different kind of Asian menu-one based on healthy techniques, market-fresh ingredients, and vibrant, traditional f...

Colleges and universities are richer than ever—so why has the price of attending them risen so much?As endowments and fundraising campaigns have skyrocketed in recent decades, critics have attacked higher education for steeply increasing its production cost and price and the snowballing debt of students. In Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education, Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M. Iler reveal how these trends began 150 years ago and why they have ...

JAMES BEARD AWARD FINALIST • IACP AWARD FINALIST • An intimate collection of more than 175 of the finest Vietnamese recipes.When author Andrea Nguyen's family was airlifted out of Saigon in 1975, one of the few belongings that her mother hurriedly packed for the journey was her small orange notebook of recipes. Thirty years later, Nguyen has written her own intimate collection of recipes, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, an ambitious debut cookbook that chroni...

If you're like most business owners or managers, your company got off to a great start. Energy, inspiration, and business smarts hurtled your organization to success. Maybe you cruised on praise and profit for years, dreaming of becoming the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.But suddenly, you're flatlining. Maybe you saw it coming as the economy tanked or competition gained ground but, either way, your books are like flashing red lights at an accident scene. What happened?Durin...

This book presents a wide-ranging view of the benefits available through the intelligent use of manufacturing information systems. Readers benefit from the authors' collective experience in bringing new information technologies into manufacturing companies. Using examples of actual IT implementations, they provide a comprehensive picture of how to cut costs and add valuable new capabilities to IT projects. The book takes a comprehensive look at five major areas where IT systems can play a ...

American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today's concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Bruce Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked t...

The Economics of Access Versus Ownership offers library professionals a model economic analysis of providing access to journal articles through interlibrary loan as compared to library subscriptions to the journals. This model enables library directors to do an economic analysis of interlibrary loan and collection development in their own libraries and to then make cost-efficient decisions about the use of these services.This practical book’s analysis and conclusions are based on 1994/95 a...

All parents live with the fear of the unthinkable: their child going missing. And for Roy and Carla Anders, this nightmare becomes all too real when their ten-year-old daughter Bel disappears without a trace from her Mississauga school. Desperate to get her back, the Anderses engage the services of Tallon, an enigmatic loner with no background and no allegiances who operates in the margins of the law. His only maxim: do whatever he promises to do, no matter what it takes, at any cost....

The word "Cost Reduction" usually sends shivers to any employee as the first thing that comes on their mind is they may be next in line to be retrenched (worst case scenario). Alternatively, the cost reduction exercise may case many existing privileges to be removed. Thus, any cost reducing exercise sends an initial negative response to most.However, in this book, the cost reduction tips and pointers outline how any manufacturing company can reduce their costs significantly by usin...

The Uniform Hides the Scars.It's Time to Reveal the Truth.For years, she poured everything into the badge: honor, respect, and purpose. But what did the job give back? Heartbreak, distrust, and the heavy, silent weight of repeated trauma.The Blue Veil pulls back the curtain on the hidden cost of policing. This is a raw, unflinching look at the inner life of an officer who faced down the risks on the frontlines-only to be br...

The word "Cost Reduction" usually sends shivers to any employee as the first thing that comes on their mind is they may be next in line to be retrenched (worst case scenario). Alternatively, the cost reduction exercise may case many existing privileges to be removed. Thus, any cost reducing exercise sends an initial negative response to most.However, in this book, the cost reduction tips and pointers outline how any manufacturing company can reduce their costs significantly by usin...

Would you like to know everything and learn more about Russian Blue cats as pets?This book covers all aspects of passionate Russian Blue cat owners.Have you ever wondered about the mystic Russian Blues' personality, how to care for and pamper them? Or are you still looking for a perfectly matching name for your Russian Blue?It contains all this!Including Russian Blues habitat, food, shedding, feeding, diet, diseases, lovely pictures and much more.This boo...