Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information but is their vision realistic? 'Soft Machines' explains why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world that we are all familar with and shows how it has more in common with biology than conventional engineering.
“This collection of the home-style Southern dishes Jones prepares at his Queens, NY restaurant brims with familiar favorites.” —Publishers Weekly Selected for inclusion in Food & Wine’s Best of the Best cookbook 2005 Peppered with stories and memories of his Augusta, Georgia, upbringing, Supper at Richard’s Place: Recipes from the New Southern Table reflects the soulful and homey atmosphere of this Queens-based restaurant. Chef Richard Jones’ love for authentic Southern food, which he calls “the original fusion cuisine,” is palpable here in nearly 150 recipes ideal for anyone with a desire for down-home cooking. From grilled black-eyed-pea patties to potato salad, Southern fried chicken to collard greens, pecan catfish to crabmeat dumplings, Chef Jones has created a collection of authentic Southern recipes—some familiar, others updated and reconsidered to reflect both New York’s diverse influences and the country’s dietary trends—that is sure to delight anyone, anywhere, with a taste for soulful food. The inclusion of recipes for breads and biscuits like Crusty Skillet Corn Bread and Sweet Potato Bread is a refreshing nod to homestyle cooking in this era of carbohydrate restraint, and his chapter on sauces, salsas, relishes and dressings includes some Southern surprises, like watermelon salsa. Chef Jones culminates the collection with his own special recipe for the Southern classic, Red Velvet Cake, among ten savory and simple desserts. Supper at Richard’s Place: Recipes from the New Southern Table will appeal to anyone craving fool-proof, kitchen-tested comfort food. “In depth old-fashioned Southern cuisine.” —Midwest Book Review
Bug zappers were invented for one purpose: to kill mosquitoes, the bane of many summer evenings, camping trips, and exotic vacations. These blood-sucking insects do more than leave us with itchy bites, though. The diseases they carry and inject, such as yellow fever, dengue fever, and the West Nile virus, make them responsible for more human deaths than any other animal. The most deadly of these, malaria, has been mostly eradicated from the northern hemisphere, but it continues to pose a mortal threat in developing countries. It kills nearly 700,000 of the 350 million that succumb to the infection each year, and the majority of the deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on scientific fact, historical evidence, and literary evocation, Mosquito provides a colorful portrait of this tiny insect and the notorious diseases it carries. Richard Jones explores the mosquito’s sinister reputation, tracing its transformation from trivial gnat into a serious disease-carrying menace. While Jones recounts the history of mosquitoes’ relationship with humans, he also offers a persuasive warning against the contemporary complacency surrounding malaria and other diseases in Western society. Mosquito is a compelling look at tropical medicine, diseases, and their connection to one of our smallest adversaries.
A perfect example of modern photography, "Budapest - Photography By Richard J Jones" is photographic homage to the city, it's architecture and history. Through the use of textural overlays, grain, contrast and colour, the photographic infra-red and colour digital images have been pushed into a gritty, grungy, artist world, creating photo surreal landscapes.This will make a great coffee table book, conversation starter or inspiration for budding photographer. For those that love Budapest, this will be a timeless journey through emotion and memories from many of the city's famous landmarks.
A Hill in Lunenburg is a collection of new poems by Richard A. Jones. These poems continue the irreverent, postmodern, ludic playfulness with language that Jones initiated in his previous volumes, Bippie Poems, Iowa Poems, and Black and White Coloring Book. Where there is much to snicker at in these poems, there is also a deeply philosophical and aesthetic subtext- with just enough political edge-that the poems bite. A Hill in Lunenburg takes a critically anxious look at what it means to live in America, New England, and Lunenburg, Massachusetts in the twenty fi rst century. Richard A. Jones taught mathematics and computer science at the high school and university levels. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jones taught philosophy and logic at Howard University in Washington, D.C. for ten years. He has published three previous volumes of poetry, many journal articles, and his latest work of non-fiction The Black Book: Wittgenstein and Race was published last year. Jones is retired and lives with his wife of forty-two years, Carol, on a hill in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.
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