Based on the most current nutritional information available, this accessible reference offers new mothers a fresh approach to feeding a toddler. More than a how-to guide, this unique handbook offers innovative elements—from whimsical illustrations to clever recipe names. Colorful devices and asides—“foolish fats,” “funky fruits,” and “meat monsters”—call attention to special topics, making them easy to remember. Assisting parents in developing an approach to food that is easy, organized, and fun, this study offers helpful tips through entertaining features such as “Bistro Basics” and “Chef’s Secrets.” Focusing on the age range of one to three years—when new foods and tastes are typically introduced—this survey also includes tips and tricks for quick shopping, easy recipes, and nutrient and supplement needs. Blending the basics of good nutrition with expert advice and guidance, this comprehensive manual is ideal for both the working and stay-at-home mom.
Based on the most current nutritional information, this concise guide offers new mothers a focused introduction to feeding babies healthy, nutritious foods during their first 12 months of life. With whimsical illustrations and clever recipe names—such as “Cereal Symphony” and “Adam’s Eggless Bananawama Muffins”—this handbook even introduces the concept of becoming the executive chef for any parent’s new 24-hour home bistro. Filled with colorful asides such as “Foolish Fats,” “Funky Fruits,” and “Meat Monsters,” this compendium is ideal for both working and stay-at-home moms, eliminating the stress from a baby’s first year by blending the basics of good nutrition with sound advice. Tips are offered throughout to help parents develop an approach to food that is easy, organized, and fun. Features on shopping and topics such as how to read a food label are also included.
Reservoir quality in fluvial siliciclastic rocks is variable. Permeability is influenced by micron-scale grain coatings or bedding style on the m-/km-scale. Outcrops allow the analysis of depositional environments and diagenesis, thus an investigation of reservoir quality controls. A process-oriented approach is used to understand variability in a meander deposit, compaction and cementation behavior of lithofacies types during burial and the discrepancy between porosity and permeability values.
The main quality challenge of beer is the change in its chemical composition during storage, which alters the sensory properties. The bitter tasting compounds trans-iso-α-acids converse into lingering and harsh bitter tasting tri- and tetracyclic degradation products. Using HPLC-MS/MS analysis, the present study focused on the impact of the pH value of beer on the formation of tricyclocohumol and tricyclohumol as analytical markers of beer ageing. The results exhibited a direct correlation between the pH value and the decomposition of trans-iso-α-acids to tricyclic degradation products. Within this connection, tricyclohumol presented a further analytical marker of beer ageing, in addition to tricyclocohumol.
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's Summer, Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf. Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.
Get swept off your feet by an Internet romance Escape from a war-torn encampment with a mystical healer/princess Witness the murder of a NASCAR driver in the bathroom of local Home Depot Join Miss Della and Chip as they find friendship and a new zest for life in their golden years ORANGE KAREN: TRIBUTE TO A WARRIOR is a collection of 39 stories that explore the strength and resilience of the human spirit. From the monster in the basement to the teddy bear on a young woman's pillow, each story uses the colour orange as a thematic element, revealing the power of love, friendship, and the will to live. Karen DeLabar is a friend, author, and mother. In June of 2012, she was stricken with Toxic Shock Syndrome. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the anthology will be donated to Karen and her family, to assist with her medical expenses, and ongoing recovery. Follow Karen's story at www.karendelabar.com, and learn more about the symptoms, effects, and treatment of Toxic Shock Syndrome at http: //toxicshock.com Acknowledgements by Christina Esdon Foreword by Jennifer Gracen Introduction by Karen DeLabar Contributing Authors: Jesse James Freeman February Grace Cara Michaels Jennifer Gracen Anna Meade Jeff Tsuruoka Patty Blount Steve & Zack Umstead R. B. Wood Taylor Lunsford Anne Baker alex kimmell Elizabeth Ann West Janelle Jensen Gareth S. Young Julie Glover Maureen Hovermale S.G. Lee John Moore Walker Jonathan Gould Benjamin Cain Joseph Schmidt Christina Esdon Andrew F. Butters Mark Ethridge Francis Setnocis D. Savannah George E. Wells-Walker K.D. McCrite J.L. Gentry Shay Fabbro Christopher Cantley Valerie Haight J. Whitworth Hazzard Emmett Spain Tim Queeney Stephanie Fuller Steven Luna Glenn Skinner
In The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition Christina Petterson combines archival analysis with socio-economic change to demonstrate the importance of the Protestant sect, the Moravian Brethren, as an example of the reconfiguration of communities in early capitalism.
How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to provide their readers with the means for orienting themselves there? This book investigates the dynamics of the imaginary diagrams created by cartographers, photographers, and writers of narratives, giving ample evidence of how mapping practices have inspired the imagination of a vast number of authors from Thomas More up to contemporary writers. A special focus is on the effects created by the projection of photographs into the narrative space, and how our seemingly effortless interpretation of photographs and even maps masks complex cognitive processes. The theoretical horizon of this study encompasses the fields of cartography, mental maps, iconicity research, and the spatial turn in cultural studies.
As societies have become ever more complex, coupled with the increased power of the media, electoral campaigns have become a key focus of political communication research. In this important new book, an international team of experts critically examines issues of democratic representation in three culturally diverse nations whose governments are elected under systems of proportional representation - New Zealand, Germany, and Italy. The authors examine the power plays at work in the development and implementation of proportional representation in their respective countries and they consider the ways in which the electoral system has impacted election campaign strategies. The final chapter by Douglas Kellner (George F. Kellner Philosophy of Education Chair, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA) relates the issue to contemporary politics in the United States by using the 2000 U.S. presidential election to investigate the ways in which democracy is served, and disserved, by the electoral system.
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