The book centres on the handwritten journal of Soong Nyet Yun. Read as a whole, with contributions from writers in the family, it rests on the reader as a layered narrative. Red Packet with 20¢ negotiates the contours of individual perspectives and the grey areas of a family's collective memory. The book delicately explores kinship and pieces together a tender family portrait.
If you're traveling to Italy in search of an authentic culinary experience but don't want to break the bank then skip those expensive ristoranti and head straight to the nearest trattoria, those unassuming mom-and-pop eateries where you'll find home-cooked, regional cuisine for a price that any traveler can afford. Chow Italy: Florence 2014 will guide you to more than 60 trattorie in seven neighborhoods throughout the city where the art and beauty of Brunelleschi and Michelangelo are around every corner. Each restaurant listing contains the address and hours of operation, a description of the eatery's ambiance as well as chef's specials, plus a map to help guide the way. Take Trattoria da Sergio just off the Piazza San Lorenzo, for instance, where you can dig into a bowl of ribollita, a hearty Tuscan bread and vegetable soup for a mere €5. Or, if you find yourself hungry after touring Piazza Santo Spirito, then head to Trattoria La Casalingawhere you can score a slice of polpettone alla carne macinata, the best Italian meatloaf. Ever. The price? Just €8. With Chow Italy: Florence 2014, you'll eat well but spend less. Back matter includes a menu translator as well as an index to all 60 restaurants. Part of the Chow Italy series which also includes Chow Italy: Rome 2013.
If you're traveling to Italy in search of an authentic culinary experience but don't want to break the bank in the process then skip those expensive ristoranti and head straight to the nearest trattoria, those unassuming mom-and-pop eateries where you'll find home-cooked, regional cuisine for a price that any traveler can afford. Chow Italy: Eat Well, Spend Less (Rome 2013) will guide you to more than 80 trattorie in eleven neighborhoods throughout the Eternal City. Each listing contains pertinent information such as address and hours of operation, a description of the eatery's ambiance as well as chef's specials, plus a map to help guide the way. Pull up a fork at Trattoria da Tonino near the Piazza Navona, for instance, and dig into a bowl of rigatoni alla'amatriciana for a mere €5. Or, if you find yourself hungry after a long morning touring the Coliseum, then nothing could satisfy better than fettucine ai funghi porcini at the modest Trattoria da Luzzi. The price? Only €6. With Chow Italy you'll eat well but spend less.
The revised and updated edition of the popular, whole foods cookbook-with more than 80 new recipes...now 100% vegan! With a dash of fun, Christina Pirello introduces whole foods cooking, inviting health-conscious readers to cut out processed and chemically enhanced food, as well as dairy, sugar, and meat, and embrace fruit, whole grains, vegetables, and beans. From savory soups to innovative entrées and delectable desserts, here are more than 500 recipes and ideas for wholesome, gourmet eating. With tips on meal planning, a shopping guide, product resource list, and extensive glossary, Christina makes healthy eating a most delicious adventure.
Whip up dorm-friendly recipes with this easy college cookbook Discover culinary independence instead of relying on the dining hall and takeout for all your meals. With the How-to Cookbook for College, you'll learn crucial kitchen skills and discover methods for preparing quick and healthy meals from the comfort of your dorm or college apartment. Turn any space into the perfect setup for properly storing perishables, preparing ingredients, and cooking meals. Inside this cookbook for college students, you'll find: Cooking techniques—Develop lifelong kitchen skills you'll use beyond your college years, like knife handling, searing, and sauteing. Quick recipes—Create meals and snacks that are easy enough to make between classes no matter how busy your schedule gets. Budget tips—Get practical shopping guides designed for a thrifty student budget—that means no expensive ingredients and no need for fancy equipment. Ditch the instant ramen for something more exciting, delicious, and nutritious with this easy cookbook.
The last thing she needed was to be among the deceased on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Gwen Truax had the day perfectly scheduled. She was a key asset in her company's upcoming merger. And above all, she was going to ask for a divorce from her simpleton husband. Instead, she finds herself at the desk of the Archangel Michael, demanding for explanations or at least a reserved parking space on a cloud. Much to her dismay, Michael informs her she is being returned to Earth with an assignment to prove herself worthy of admittance to the Hereafter. Specifically, she is to find a new wife for her widower husband, Dan. She must start from ground zero and is given a disturbing makeover into an unattractive typist named Betty Crocker, who now lives above a noisy Chinese restaurant. The once beautiful but cold-hearted executive is reduced to working as a subordinate in the company in which she was once a major player. During this journey Gwen meets an array of odd characters she might have dismissed in her former life as the planet's lowest common denominators. To her surprise she even falls in love again with the man she thought she hated, and starts to believe that this was the purpose of her test. She commands Michael to allow her to return to Dan, but it is not to be. Her test is of greater strength and love, for only in coming to care deeply for others can she truly make a choice that will have their best interests at heart.
Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad argues that Latinx inscriptions require us to read at the edge of materiality and semiosis, charting a nimble method for "reading" various forms of Latinx marks and even the word Latinx across art, performance, poetry, plays, and fiction"--
Illustrated with full-color photos, this collection of more than 1,000 recipes, tips, techniques and health information draws together the best of Christina’s work from the last two decades. Featuring updated and revised selections from her half-dozen or more cookbooks and recipes from her website, Christina Pirello’s Wellness 1000 is more than a cookbook. From basic stocks, sauces and dressings to soup, salads, and main dishes to special sections on tempeh, grains, tofu, and desserts, this comprehensive guide to healthful cooking and living also includes a “kitchen pharmacy” of natural home remedies, an extensive glossary and a guide to kitchen staples. Throughout, Christina offers sound advice and useful information to help readers make the best choices for themselves and their families, and gives them the most important tool available to change their health -- and to change the world: cooking and eating real food.
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto’s gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay. In her long walks around the city, Cho Sum meets new friends, confronts classism and racism, and learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood that is being destroyed and rebuilt, leaving elders like her behind. A poignant meditation on loss, aging, gentrification, and the barriers that Chinese Canadian seniors experience in big cities, Denison Avenue beautifully combines visual art, fiction, and the endangered Toisan dialect to create a book that is truly unforgettable.
I can't wait for readers to explore Hong Kong with Holly-Mei. I have no doubt they will love both as much as I did." —Erin Entrada Kelly, 2018 Newbery Medalist and 2021 Newbery Honoree on The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei Return to Hong Kong in the third book of this charming middle grade series starring Holly-Mei, a girl navigating her new city, new school, and new friendships. Holly-Mei is caught in the middle. Holly-Mei Jones has finally settled into her new friend group in Hong Kong—that is until suddenly everyone starts talking about dating. Which Holly-Mei is not ready for. At least she has her school’s Experience Week to look forward to. Holly-Mei can’t wait to show off Taiwan, where her beloved Ah-Ma is from, to her friends. The trip is going to be perfect…right? Maybe not. On top of the pressure to date, Holly-Mei starts to wonder if maybe being half-Taiwanese isn’t enough. In the face of these big questions, will Holly-Mei be able to finally feel like she belongs? Praise for The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei “Unique and universal all at once.” —Kate Messner, author of Breakout and Chirp “A charming, truthful, and heartfelt middle grade debut.” —Katie Zhao, author of The Dragon Warrior series and Last Gamer Standing “From the very first line, I felt as if Holly-Mei was taking me by the hand and pulling me into her story.” Lauren Child, author and illustrator of the Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean series Read all the books in the Holly-Mei series! The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei The Not-So-Perfect Plan The Not-So-Simple Question
The deluxe edition of Christina Pirello’s Wellness 1000 features the complete text, more than 25 exclusive, original videos featuring cooking techniques, health tips and key nutritional and ingredient information, and more than 70 color photos of dishes from the book. This collection of more than 1,000 recipes, tips, techniques and health information draws together the best of Christina’s work from the last two decades. Featuring updated and revised selections from her half-dozen or more cookbooks and recipes from her website, Christina Pirello’s Wellness 1000 is more than a cookbook. From basic stocks, sauces and dressings to soup, salads, and main dishes to special sections on tempeh, grains, tofu, and desserts, this comprehensive guide to healthful cooking and living also includes a “kitchen pharmacy” of natural home remedies, an extensive glossary and a guide to kitchen staples. Throughout, Christina offers sound advice and useful information to help readers make the best choices for themselves and their families, and gives them the most important tool available to change their health -- and to change the world: cooking and eating real food.
English File's unique, lively and enjoyable lessons are renowned for getting students talking. In fact, 90% of English File teachers we surveyed in our impact study found that the course improves students' speaking skills.
This book explores the theory of abelian varieties over the field of complex numbers, explaining both classic and recent results in modern language. The second edition adds five chapters on recent results including automorphisms and vector bundles on abelian varieties, algebraic cycles and the Hodge conjecture. ". . . far more readable than most . . . it is also much more complete." Olivier Debarre in Mathematical Reviews, 1994.
Despite a plethora of studies devoted to it, the current understanding of al-Qaeda and the threat it poses remains vague and ambiguous. Is al-Qaeda a rigidly structured organisation, a global network of semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an ideology? What role did Osama bin Laden play within the group and its terrorist campaign? What does it mean to talk about the "global Salafi-jihad" threat allegedly confronting the West? In addressing such questions many writers have sought to offer definitive answers, yet overall the truth about al-Qaeda remains elusive. This book moves beyond this traditional approach in order to investigate and critically assess how such answers reflect the particular epistemological frameworks within which they are produced. Its chapters explore the varied contexts within which the obscure entity labelled al-Qaeda is constituted as a comprehensible object of political, strategic, cultural, and scientific knowledge, and within which 'terrorism' is rendered an experience of quotidian life. This volume offers a much-needed critical reflection on Western ways of talking and of thinking about the frightening experience of global terrorism. In trying to know how we know al-Qaeda, it offers us an opportunity to try to know ourselves and our often hidden assumptions about legitimacy, violence, and political purpose.
Millions of readers worldwide have fallen for the sexy, hilarious love stories of Christina Lauren’s New York Times and #1 international best selling Beautiful series. Discover the first three novels—Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Stranger, and Beautiful Player—from the author duo Kirkus Reviews calls “the It Girls of Romance.” Beautiful Bastard: Whip-smart, ambitious intern Chloe Mills is so tempting that her completely infuriating and utterly irresistible boss Bennett Ryan is willing to bend the office rules—or outright smash them—if it means he can have her—all over the office. Beautiful Stranger: All of New York City knows Max Stella loves women. Despite pulling in plenty of lovers with his Wall Street bad boy charm, it’s not until finance whiz Sara Dillon—and the wild photos she lets him take of her—that the ex-pat Brit really thought of keeping someone around. Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private. Beautiful Player: Lectured by her brother for neglecting her social life in favor of grad school, bookish Hanna Bergstrom challenges her brother’s best friend, unapologetic playboy Will Sumner, to turn her into a sultry siren. It’s not long before the innocently seductive pupil is teaching the venture capitalist a thing or two he can’t forget. But now that Sara’s discovered the power of her own sex appeal, it’s up to Will to prove he’s the only man she’ll ever need.
Christina Tree is New England's premier guidebook author" —Yankee Magazine This completely revised, expanded, and updated twelfth edition covers all corners of the Green Mountain State from its vibrant arts scene to its quiet country roads, the austerity of the Northeast Kingdom, and all points in between.
Macau, on the threshold of the twentieth-first century, is perhaps a harbinger of a new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply constrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic clashes. It is thus likened here to the Roman deity Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. By concentrating on the ambivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and the emergence of a creole minority - the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese, and Portuguese sources, she has provided a pathbreaking, multi-focal perspective of the last Portuguese outpost in Asia. In light of the 'decolonization' of Macau in December 1999, the author's analysis challenges the easy assumptions of the causal sequence: colonialism/postcolonialism, and opens up an interdisciplinary purview of a local instance in cross-cultural studies.
Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Provides accurate and well-documented information on the impact of diet and physical activity in the prevention and management of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and healthy aging. This authoritative textbook examines the independent and combined impact of diet and physical activity in the prevention and management of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, with special emphasis on the elderly populations. In this book the authors: Provide the latest data on the association between a suboptimal diet and physical inactivity and chronic disease. Examine the role of epigenetics on longevity. Discuss the fundamentals of healthy aging. Highlight the role of well-known dietary patterns such as the Mediterranean diet and the Nordic diet in favorable health outcomes, including cardiovascular, metabolic health, and healthy aging. Discuss the health outcomes of physical activity and healthy aging. Present the most recent evidence-based data on the independent and synergistic impact of diet and exercise on disease prevention and management including, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, kidney failure, cancer and other conditions. Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease: Diet, Physical Activity and Healthy Aging is an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in medical and health-related disciplines and for health professionals, including dietitians and nutritionists, exercise physiologists, athletic trainers, nurses, physicians, geriatricians, and other health professionals with a special focus in older adults. This book is also a highly useful reference for health professionals interested in introducing diet and physical activity as an intervention for healthy aging as well as the prevention and management of cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases that are prevalent in aging populations.
This study reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration - a distinct chapter in the process of US-led globalization. It shows how US policy makers and intellectuals, created a global culture of integration that represented the growth of US power in Asia.
Disasters happen! These are the stories of love and loss. Many victims died in disasters. These are the stories of how survivors lived to strike back. Survivors were trapped, but then set free when they were rescued!
Presents portraits of thirty of history's greatest gymnastics champions, including such celebrated gold medal winners as Kerri Strug, Dominique Moceanu, Vitaly Scherbo, Jaycie Phelps, Amanda Borden, Bart Conner, Svetlana Boginskaya, Amy Chow, and Mary Lou Retton.
1) How to Make Chinese Casserole Recipes 2-13 Chinese Hamburger Baked Chop Suey Hamburger Chop Suey Chinese Rice Hamburger Casserole Beans Oriental Leftover Bread Dough Pie Chinese Hash Chicken Casserole Chow Mein Casserole Chow Mein Noodle Hot Dish Hamburger Chow Mein2) How to make Noodle Casseroles 14-27 Hungarian Noodles Casserole Supreme Supper Casserole Chinese Roast More-More Talarena Roman Holiday Bake Spaghetti Bake Taglarini "Meal in One" Ground Beef Casserole Beef Noodle Casserole Hamburger Noodle Hot Dish Beef and Cheese Casserole Cavatina
When Baby Makes (Much) More Than Three If you’re a new mom of multiples, it can be hard to find advice and enough people in your life who “get it” or give you the support you need. Luckily, there’s Twin Set: for moms of twins, by moms of twins. Twin Set provides a parent-to-parent support network—based on an exclusive national survey of more than 300 moms of multiples—and shares indispensable, mom-tested, solution-oriented advice . . . and a few laughs along the way. There’s also a Mommy Doc and Daddy Doc onboard, two pediatricians who contribute medical perspectives on various issues, in addition to special features from experts ranging from a financial planner to a nutritionist—many parents of twins themselves! Twin Set includes: • Answers to your biggest twin pregnancy questions • Advice on handling the emotional impact of premature delivery • Lessons on feeding, bathing, and dressing your twins, taking them out, and putting them to bed • Tips from dads of twins, for dads of twins • Solutions for managing twice the laundry, bottles, spills, and other messes • Options for multiples child care, from birth through school age • Insights into twin bonding, development, and safety • Lists of essential twin resources, gear, and equipment This encouraging and essential guide will help you savor—not just survive—life as a time-crunched mom of multiples.
I can't wait for readers to explore Hong Kong with Holly-Mei. I have no doubt they will love both as much as I did." —Erin Entrada Kelly, 2018 Newbery Medalist and 2021 Newbery Honoree Packed with humor and heart, this debut middle grade series follows a girl finding her place in a brand-new world of private school and frenemies when her family moves to Hong Kong. Holly-Mei Jones couldn’t be more excited about moving to Hong Kong for her mother’s job. Her new school is right on the beach and her family’s apartment is beyond beautiful. Everything is going to be perfect . . . right? Maybe not. It feels like everywhere she turns, there are new rules to follow and expectations to meet. On top of that, the most popular girl in her grade is quickly becoming a frenemy. And without the guidance of her loving Ah-ma, who stayed behind in Toronto, Holly-Mei just can’t seem to get it right. It will take all of Holly-Mei’s determination and sparkle (and maybe even a tiny bit of stubbornness) to get through seventh grade and turn her life in Hong Kong into the ultimate adventure!
Meet the Wongs, Shengs and Tsuis. Each of these families has its own troubles and secrets—and something the other two want. But the three clans—whose members include a matriarch who talks to dead relatives; her nymphomaniac granddaughter; an old man who reads only decades-old newspapers; and a street punk—share a past and face a common future. Told in a sequence of interwoven stories, Troublemaker “refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers.” (Time) Nominated for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award
Elementals, dragons, and romance … oh my! The first FIVE books of the popular Angelbound Origins series are now in ONE ebook collection! MAXON (Book One) Prince Maxon may be twenty-two years old now, but he’s still haunted by his boyhood abduction and torture in Hell. To deal with his past, Maxon limits his present-day activities to killing demons and seducing women. No long-term relationships. No combat too dangerous. No problem, right? Wrong. Maxon’s about to meet the warrior Lianna, and it’s love at first fight. PORTIA (Book Two) Princess Portia is one of the Marked: someday she’ll transform into a dreaded Void demon. To fight this horrible fate, Portia’s spent her life in libraries, learning magic that might break the dark demonic spell. But when the Void threaten to destroy all of the after-realms—and the handsome dragon Emperor Tempest offers his help—then Portia realizes that she may actually be marked for far more than a demon. Fate is calling the bookworm princess onto the battlefield, and it’s a fight against both demonic enemies and her own heart’s desires. ZINNIA (Book Three) The daughter of Portia and Tempest, Zinnia has always been a musical prodigy. Growing up, her favorite hours are spent with her best friend and musical partner, Rhodes. But when Zinnia is kidnapped, she realizes the power of music and love in an entirely new way. RHODES (Book Four) As dragon shifters, Rhodes and Zinnia should never have fallen in love. Why? Zin’s a princess while Rhodes is only the hired help. Sadly, it isn’t clear what path—if any—will end with Rhodes and his love having a future together. And when old enemies reappear, things get even trickier... KAPS (Book Five) Meet Princess Kaps: renegade, dragon shifter, and general pain in her royal parents' backsides. Although she pretends to love rock and roll, Kaps is actually obsessed with fighting the Audax, a group of shape-shifting vampires. A handsome bounty hunter, Mack, tries to deliver Kaps to her enemies, but sparks fly between stalker and prey... Angelbound Offspring Series 1. Maxon 2. Portia 3. Zinnia 4. Rhodes 5. Kaps 6. Mack 7. Huntress 8. Gage
The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.
Whether you're searching for new or additional opportunities, information security can be vast and overwhelming. In this practical guide, author Christina Morillo introduces technical knowledge from a diverse range of experts in the infosec field. Through 97 concise and useful tips, you'll learn how to expand your skills and solve common issues by working through everyday security problems. You'll also receive valuable guidance from professionals on how to navigate your career within this industry. How do you get buy-in from the C-suite for your security program? How do you establish an incident and disaster response plan? This practical book takes you through actionable advice on a wide variety of infosec topics, including thought-provoking questions that drive the direction of the field. Continuously Learn to Protect Tomorrow's Technology - Alyssa Columbus Fight in Cyber Like the Military Fights in the Physical - Andrew Harris Keep People at the Center of Your Work - Camille Stewart Infosec Professionals Need to Know Operational Resilience - Ann Johnson Taking Control of Your Own Journey - Antoine Middleton Security, Privacy, and Messy Data Webs: Taking Back Control in Third-Party Environments - Ben Brook Every Information Security Problem Boils Down to One Thing - Ben Smith Focus on the WHAT and the Why First, Not the Tool - Christina Morillo
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