1,947 quotes spanning all time from Aristotle to WildeQuotes of Note is the perfect source for over 1,900 verified, fully-referenced quotations, famous sayings, maxims, mottoes, and speeches. From Aristotle to Shakespeare, Quotes of Note contains the most famous, profound, and inspirational ideas of all history, with complete citations. Quotes of Note topics are diverse, covering everything from Achievement, to Women, to Writing Quotes of Note is fully annotated with* 143 Diverse Topics* Cross-Referenced Subjects* Complete Table of Contents* Complete Authors Index* Fully-referenced Source IndexEach author is organized alphabetically within the chapter by last name, followed succinctly by known written works, proverbs, and finally anonymous authors. Each chapter heading also provides a thesaurus for related but distinct subjects contained in the book.The Table of Contents includes all chapters with similar subjects listed in subheadings.The Author's Index for Quotes of Note is among the most user-friendly reference fields in print today. Each author is carefully referenced by last name, pen name, noble prefix, and noble title.Quotes of Note includes the full name of every author, including middle names. All titles of nobility such as Barons and Dukes are listed after the author's name, and before their known year of birth and death.The Source Index of Quotes of Note clearly and concisely provides a reference of every possible source for known authors. Quotes of Note is carefully cited with every known author and the original work, speech, or volume it was presented in. Finally, the reference source is easy to use, organized by the author's last name or pen name.
A terrific nuts and bolts account of the real business of cooking as told from the trenches. No nonsense. This is what it takes' ANTHONY BOURDAIN 'One of the most informative, funny and transparent books about the restaurant biz ever written' BRET EASTON ELLIS Sous Chef takes you behind the swinging doors of a busy restaurant kitchen, putting you in chef's shoes for an intense, high-octane twenty-four hours. Follow him from the moment he opens the kitchen in the morning, as he guides you through the meticulous preparation, the camaraderie in the hours leading up to service and the adrenalin-rush as the orders start coming in. Thrilling, addictive and bursting with mouth-watering detail, Sous Chef will leave you breathless and awestruck - walking into a restaurant will never be the same again.
2 parts memoir, 3 parts cookbook, 1 part dry humor, a dash of wit; blended for your enjoyment and garnished with anecdotes. Funny, touching, and inspiring tales from a passionate amateur cook, scholar, gardener, classical music lover, and gay man. Join Michael Stugrin on a trip through life and love, world travel, career highs and lows... and the great meals prepared, consumed and shared along the way. * Friendly talk about comfort food; deciphering today's strange foams, reductions, and odd ingredient combinations; plus the centuries' greatest cookbooks and food literature* Reflections about being spiritual-but-not-religious, surviving cancer, and living a contributive life A feast of a read!
The performance tasks in this book are linked directly to instructional strategies and include holistic rubrics, analytic rubrics, and assessment lists. They can be photocopied and distributed to your students.
Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums, this book brings to life the world of that vanished Alexandria, a vibrant, stylish, and cosmopolitan city, the largest port in the Mediterranean, that was the prosperous gateway between Egypt and the world. Seen here in the setting of their homes and gardens, and on the city's streets and beaches, the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks, Italians, Jews, and all those others from around the Mediterranean whose energy and expertise helped modernize and develop Egypt, and who planted their family roots in the city. This was the luxuriant and evocative city celebrated by Constantine Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell, and they too are included in these pages along with photographs of scenes and people that were familiar to them. Vintage Alexandria traces the development and growth of the city, follows its story through the dramatic events of two world wars, and above all provides a background to the city's place in twentieth-century cultural history, through the eyes of Alexandria's cosmopolitan citizens themselves. Those citizens and others who passed through the city and appear in these pages included Antony Benaki (the Greek cotton trader whose collection formed the basis of the famous Benaki Museum in Athens), Robert Koch (who isolated the cholera virus and developed a vaccine in an Alexandria laboratory), the Greek children's writer Penelope Delta, Claude Vincendon (the third wife of Lawrence Durrell), King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Eve Cohen (the second wife of Lawrence Durrell, and the model for "Justine"), Safinaz Zulfikar (later married to King Farouk as Queen Farida), Rudolph Hess (Hitler's deputy, who attended school in Alexandria), Jean de Menasce (the "best translator" of T.S. Eliot), Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), the Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine, the Egyptian and international film star Omar Sharif, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhona Haszard (the post-impressionist painter), Ahmed Hassanein Pasha (the Egyptian explorer and diplomat), and Noel Coward (the English writer and wit, who sang at the Fleet Club in Alexandria and was mobbed by sailors).
It's the start of the 21st century. And a single bullet will change two lives. Raymond is a shy young man. He wishes he'd gone to Uni. But his father wants him in the family business. And his father is a gangster and a killer. Barry wants to be a poet. But he's also - in his own words - a user of the mental health services. And his two best friends are the late John Lennon and the even later Erwin Rommel, Hitler's one-time military boss. In a Yorkshire bus station a shot rings out. It's the shot that brings Raymond and Barry together - and sets off a sequence of violent events that ends in terrible murder and even more terrible poetry.
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