A collection of more than 150 recipes by Texas chef and restauratuer Lou Lambert, with an emphasis on regional specialties and ingredients including game meat dishes and Tex-Mex favorites"--
An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything. Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown—so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial “Eddy” for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug-dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of “the beautiful violence of being torn away,” but a vividly rendered portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality.
For a little more than 60 years, from 1904 to 1967, St. Louis was considered the world's air capitol for balloon racers, parachutists, airship aeronauts, air-traffic controllers, scheduled airlines, solo-flight adventurers, fighter pilots, and astronauts. At many times, the United States has led the world in aviation development and technology, and St. Louis was one of the biggest contributors with many aviation firsts. A U.S. president first flew in an aircraft here. St. Louis can arguably be credited with the world's first parachute jump, along with the world's first air-traffic controller. The city was the epicenter for international balloon racing, and of course most people know that the city was home to Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The cold war and subsequent conflicts might have turned out quite differently if a St. Louis aircraft manufacturer had not existed. The world's largest airline may have never gotten off the ground if not for a U.S. mail contract that was awarded to a St. Louis company in the mid-1920s. This book provides a brief view of these firsts in aviation, as well as the development and impact of aviation in the city and beyond.
Honoré de Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850, was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
The Brighton brothers hunt monsters. They formed Purple Squirrel Investigations, an organization dedicated to finding and protecting cryptozoological animals. Book 1: David Brighton travels to Ohio to rid a farmer of a pest that has been eating his livestock. The pest just happens to be an enormous dragon. Will David survive this latest mission? Book 2: Seth Brighton, on vacation in Tombstone, Nevada, encounters what can only be described as a pterodactyl. After having his car for supper, the beast sets its sights on Seth next. With only his intellect and what's available to him in the desert, Seth is in for the fight of his life! Book 3: Something in a small town's bay is scaring away all the fish... Something big.Jonah Brighton is called to investigate a California coastal town where he must use his inventing expertise to find and rid the town of the creature. But he is given only 24 hours before the angry townspeople will take lethal matters in their own hands. In a desperate attempt to find the mysterious animal, Jonah finds both his and the creature's lives are at stake. Book 4: "Violets are blue, roses are red. Give me the codes or your brothers are dead." This note greets Nathan Brighton when he enters the smashed offices of Purple Squirrel Investigations, an agency he and his brothers run that specializes in protecting, finding and extracting cryptozoological beasts so they can live out of harm's way. Phineas Ravenstein, their bitter rival, has somehow broken out of prison and is now demanding access codes to Gauntlet Bay, their secret island animal preserve, by kidnapping Nathan's brothers as hostages. His intent? Revenge and the pillaging of all the animals from the island. It's up to Nathan, the youngest and least experienced in the field, to find his brothers before it's too late.
Termcraft is a world-heritage story. It chronicles the origins of naming, writing, and reasoning through the prisms of terminology science and linguistics. Revolving around Greek philosophy, early mythology, and primitive pottery and rock marking, it reveals how the Term became the keystone of scientific research, knowledge transfer, and economic development. Speech and writing are posited as referential systems used to control space and time, thereby ensuring survival. Ice Age symbols inaugurate 'signs for special purposes', and Balkan Vin an logograms and later Sumerian and Egyptian pictograms point to Languages for Special Purposes, with determinatives marking technical concepts. The doctrines of ideas, naming, and being are scrutinized; their interaction with cosmic order and individuation through boundaries is illustrated with a deified 'Creating Word' from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and The Levant. The logic of the Word's role in self-defining and reasoning, both analogous and prognosticative, is analyzed. A perception-processing tool, the Logos, is identified in the first definition of 'definition' and 'term', and in syllogistic substitutions; when used together with Aristotelian categories of thought, they clarify language and discourse. What emerges is a fool-proof, thought-testing matrix based on a new systemic Word, the Term-the paradigm of today's information bytes.
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