Who has not heard on at least one occasion that breakfast is the most important mal of the day? The demands of everyday life have made this crucial meal fall to modern conveniences and for many of us our morning feed is limited to pouring cereal out of a box. With 500 Breakfasts & Brunches, breakfast need never be the bland and unsatisfying experience that so many settle for. From delicious homemade power bars, protein shakes, and vitamin-packed juices to exquisite egg dishes and fibre-rich muffins, the options are unlimited for nutritious and fulfilling breakfasts that carry you through the morning alert, energized and sated. With 500 recipes for very sort of morning – from lazy brunches with friends to power breakfasts – you’re sure to find the right recipe for every occasion, making this the only cookbook you need to put an end to those boring breakfast moments.
The smell of freshly baked bread in your own kitchen is truly heavenly. Warm and crusty, wholesome and delicious, bread is eaten all over the world in many different forms. Whether you love a fluffy white loaf, hearty bagel, flaky croissant, or spicy naan, there is a bread for everyone and all occasions. 500 Breads is your complete collection of scrumptious bread recipes, easy to make and always welcome on the family table. In a fast paced world, you’ll be grateful to find that baking bread is both simple and rewarding, the most satisfying kind of cooking. Using natural ingredients without artificial flavorings, colors, or preservatives, you know exactly what has gone into it. Bread can be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, with an enormous array of vegetables, fruit, and nuts from all around the world to add for variety. You can even freeze most breads, or prepare the dough in the evening, leave it the refrigerator overnight to prove, and then bake it fresh in the morning.
What’s the best thing to snack on while you watch a movie? Popcorn! The world’s favourite snack has been with us for thousands of years, but now it has just got interesting. Popcorn! is packed with more than 100 original, mouth-watering recipes from Dark Chocolate & Whisky Popcorn Balls to Popcorn-breaded Southern-fried chicken, from sticky marshmallow popcorn to classic toffee. The perfect book to make this quick, easy, and fun snack food for yourself or for friends. Each recipe is accompanied by a recommended film (such as the Molly Ringwald film Pretty in Pink for our Pink Mallow Popcorn recipe) and stunning, bright photography. Popcorn is a healthy, sugar-free, wheat-free, dairy-free snack that is an ever-present in every food trends survey in 2011. Why buy gourmet popcorn packs when you can make your own a-maize-ing food in minutes at home?
100 A-maize-ing recipes to make at home!Sweet, savoury, sticky, salty or spicy - the classic crunch of homemade popcorn can take on almost any seasoning you can imagine. A store cupboard staple and easy crowd pleaser, homemade popcorn is crying out for a fun and delicious makeover. From familiar flavourings to exotic combinations, creative home and professional cooks are reclaiming and personalising the versatile family favourite like never before.
An efficient, economical, countertop appliance, the halogen oven combines the speed of a conventional fan oven with the instant heat of halogen to bake, grill, roast, steam, toast, brown, broil, and defrost all of your favorite foods. It's the ultimate tool for making your food faster and healthier. With more than 100 delicious recipes for meals of all kinds, Everyday Cooking with the Halogen Oven will change the way you prepare food.
It is three days before Christmas, and two young girls have disappeared from the local academy. This hasn’t happened for fifteen years, since Rouge Kendall’s twin sister was murdered. The killer was found, but now Rouge, twenty-five and a policeman, is forced to wonder: Was he really the one? Also wondering is a former classmate named Ali Cray, a forensic psychologist with scars of her own. The pattern is the same, she says: a child called out to meet a friend. The friend is the bait, the Judas child, and is quickly killed. But the primary victim lives longer...until Christmas Day. Rouge doesn’t want to hear this. He’s spent the last fifteen years trying to avoid the memories: drinking alone, lying low, washing out of school and a promising first career. Now he might abandon law enforcement too—but something won’t let him, not yet. A little girl has haunted his dreams all these years—and he has three days finally to put her to rest.
Featuring over 750 full-color illustrations, this text gives surgeons a thorough working knowledge of anatomy as seen during specific operative procedures. The book is organized regionally and covers 111 open and laparoscopic procedures in every part of the body. For each procedure, the text presents anatomic and technical points, operative safeguards, and potential errors. Illustrations depict the topographic and regional anatomy visualized throughout each operation. This edition has an expanded thoracoscopy chapter and new chapters on oncoplastic techniques; subxiphoid pericardial window; pectus excavatum/carinatum procedures; open and laparoscopic pyloromyotomy; and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.
Scarsdale, New York, is a small community with a large reputation. Long before it had gained general recognition as a source of fad diets and the presumed site of sensational murders, it was well-known in upper-middle-class circles for the rigor of its zoning, the excellence of its schools, the splendor of its houses, and the wealth of its residents. Indeed, Scarsdale is, what one observer has called, "a sort of utopia"--a capitalistic version of the ideal community. In this clear and well-written study, Professor Carol O'Connor explains how Scarsdale came to be the classic rich suburb. Using a wide range of sources--from local newspapers, to village and school board records, to real estate deeds and census tracts--she shows how its residents have invested time, effort, and their own tax dollars in making Scarsdale a wealthy, attractive, convenient community. She also discusses the question of who rules in Scarsdale and examines one group, its domestic servants, who, at least in the past, have played an important but invisible role. Professor O'Connor analyzes the reaction of residents to national events, from their unquestioning nationalism in the First World War to the deep divisiveness of the Vietnam era. What emerges in these pages is not simply a chronicle of what occurred in Scarsdale, but an insightful perspective on many national trends of the twentieth century.
A study of post–World War II plays set in “total institutions” such as hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military bases Plays of Impasse probes the structure and significance of the numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society’s dead ends—the hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Irving Goffman as “total institutions.” Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to exclude the audience, turning an encompassing stage structure—a closed, controlling, absolute system—into a protagonist that overwhelms the characters. In discussions ranging from Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse to Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, she further maintains that the impasse of characters in reductive environments supplies a unifying image for post–World War II drama in general. This state of impasse pervades contemporary drama. Everyday activities and attempts to endure life in a parenthesis are vacated of traditional social or moral meaning onstage. The pain of this kind of survival, spatially fixed, is at the heart of Endgame, for example, an extreme instance of this mode of drama at the edge of existence. In plays such as Peter Nichols’s The National Health, Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists, David Storey’s Home, Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow, Jean Genet’s Deathwatch, and David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, the splintered self, like the divided society, strives to endure against enormous, codified odds. Even in plays not depicting the rigidity of institutions, the contemporary dramatic mode is finally characterized by sparse, introspective action in a closed system—an onstage model of a world gone awry, a world at an impasse. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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