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Caviar

A Global History

By: Nichola Fletcher

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Served up with a mother of pearl spoon and alongside a crystal flute of champagne, caviar is the ultimate culinary symbol of wealth, luxury, and decadence. But how did tiny fish eggs—which many might regard as an unwanted, throwaway food—become such an international delicacy? In Caviar: A Global History, renowned food writer Nichola Fletcher answers this curious question, examining the rise of caviar as an indulgence and its effect on the lives of the people who seek and sell it today. Fletcher takes the reader on a tour of the main areas of caviar production—Russia, Iran, Europe, and America—and investigates how the industry has contributed to the decline of the sturgeon population, the fish most associated with caviar. As Fletcher details, many efforts are underway to create sustainable sturgeon farming, which would make it possible to enjoy caviar with a clear, environmental conscience. Featuring vibrant illustrations and many fascinating anecdotes, Caviar also offers advice on purchasing and serving caviar. This is the perfect food book for everyone in need of a little opulence and glamour.

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Reaktion Books

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1861897316

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The Meat Cookbook

Know the Cuts, Master the Skills, over 250 Recipes

By: Nichola Fletcher

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The Meat Cookbook

Know the Cuts, Master the Skills, over 250 Recipes

By: Nichola Fletcher

A meat feast awaits! Become an expert on buying, preparing and cooking meat. From discovering why cuts matter to learning how to recognize top-quality meat, this is your one-stop, practical guide. It contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about meat. Inside the pages of this meat recipe book, you’ll find: • A comprehensive course in preparing and cooking meat with over 250 recipes. • Recipes feature timing and temperature charts to help you create the perfect flavor, plus help you choose which herbs go with different dishes. • A unique “How to Butcher” section provides illustrated step-by-steps and focuses on cuts of meat that can be easily butchered at home. • Expert advice from butchers on the best cooking techniques, as well as tips on how to use a meat thermometer, how to test for “doneness” and how to experiment with flavor pairings. Whether you want to learn how to slow-cook for maximum flavor or create the perfect Sunday roast, this cookbook has all the answers for meat lovers eager to try working with different meats and cuts. Get the best from your meat with step-by-step preparation and cooking techniques, and learn key home butchery skills, like needling, frenching, rolling and tying. Find out everything there is to know about well-raised meat — where to buy it and why it tastes better. Cook more than 250 of the world's best poultry, pork, beef, lamb and game dishes like Jamaican Jerk Chicken, Portuguese Pork with Clams, Kerala Beef and Barbecued Moroccan Lamb. With The Meat Cookbook, you’ll become a connoisseur in no time!

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Penguin

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0744057094

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9780744057096

The Social Psychology of Facial Appearance

By: Ray Bull,Nichola Rumsey

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The Social Psychology of Facial Appearance

By: Ray Bull,Nichola Rumsey

Several years ago Coleman (1981) reported that in 1979 one of the many in ternational cosmetics companies had an annual sales figure of $2. 38 billion, nearly 1. 25 million sales representatives, and over 700 products, the majority of these being for the face. Cash and Cash (1982) noted that in 1979 U. S. consumers spent over $4 million on cosmetic products. They stated that, "Although this practice would seem to be a fascinating aspect of human be havior on the basis of its generality and resilience, social-behavioral scientists have largely ignored the phenomenon so plainly (or pleasingly) in front of their eyes. " Why should people be so concerned with their facial appearance? Many psychologists have argued (e. g. , Kleck & Rubenstein, 1975) not only that facial information is usually the first that is available to the perceiver, but also that it is continuously available during social interaction. Maruyama and Miller (1981) stated that "appearance is often the first dimension upon which a stranger can be evaluated. Since people tend to see others as integrated and consistent units, rather than as collections of situation-specific behaviors, a potent and immediately evident basis for an evaluation, such as physical appearance, should intrude into and affect any overall and subsequent evalua tion.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461237823

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9781461237822

Gender and the American Presidency

Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced

By: Theodore F. Sheckels,Nichola D. Gutgold,Diana B. Carlin

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Gender and the American Presidency

Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced

By: Theodore F. Sheckels,Nichola D. Gutgold,Diana B. Carlin

In Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin invite the audience to consider women qualified enough to be president and explores reasons why they have been dismissed as presidential contenders. This analysis profiles key presidential contenders including Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Kassebaum, Kathleen Sebelius, Christine Gregoire, Linda Lingle, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, and Olympia Snowe. Gender barriers, media coverage, communication style, geography, and other factors are examined to determine why these seemingly qualified, powerful politicos failed to win the White House.

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Lexington Books

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0739166794

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9780739166796

Mental Disorder

Anthropological Insights

By: Nichola Khan

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Mental Disorder

Anthropological Insights

By: Nichola Khan

This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality are constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442635355

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9781442635357

Elizabeth Hanford Dole

Speaking from the Heart

By: Molly M. Wertheimer,Nichola D. Gutgold

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Elizabeth Hanford Dole

Speaking from the Heart

By: Molly M. Wertheimer,Nichola D. Gutgold

As a politician, what you say and how you say it is almost as important as what you do. Political careers are made based not only on substantive achievements, but also on style, presentation, speeches, and debates. Dole's is no exception. After a career in government service spanning six presidents, from Lyndon B. Johnson to George H. W. Bush, she became widely recognized as a leading Republican politician in her own right after her 1996 speech at the GOP convention. In 1999 she spent six months campaigning for president before dropping out of the race due to a lack of adequate funds, and in 2002 she was elected U.S. Senator from North Carolina. In this biography of Dole, the authors show how she has been able to advance the causes she cares about, as well as her political career, through her consummate skills as a public speaker. Dole's career included service in two cabinets, as Secretary of Transportation (Reagan) and Secretary of Labor (Bush), and she also served as president of the American Red Cross. The authors quote liberally from her speeches and interviews to illustrate the events of her political career and to place her choices—personal, career, and political—in the context of the times and places in which she grew up and came of age. Her trajectory—from Southern belle debutante to Harvard Law School student and from political wife to presidential candidate and U.S. senator—is fascinating, and the deftness with which she has been able to deflect the criticisms thrown her way is instructive for women of both political parties and for politicians of both genders.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313018189

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9780313018183

The Psychology of Appearance

By: Nichola Rumsey,Diana Harcourt

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The Psychology of Appearance

By: Nichola Rumsey,Diana Harcourt

Appearance-related concerns and distress are experienced by a significant proportion of people with visible disfigurements, and are also reaching epidemic proportions in the general population. In the light of these developments, this book includes: A comprehensive summary and critical evaluation of research and understanding concerning the psychology of appearance A historical review of research to date A review of the methodological challenges for researchers in this area An overview of current understanding of appearance-related concerns and distress in the general population and among those with acquired or congenital disfigurements such as burns, clefts of the lip and/or palate, scarring and acne Exploring the psychosocial factors which are protective and those which exacerbate distress, The Psychology of Appearance offers a vision of a comprehensive approach to support and intervention and addresses the following questions: Are attractive people at an advantage in life? What are the challenges presented by having a visibly different appearance? What are the psycho-social factors playing a part in individual differences in levels of adjustment and distress in relation to appearance? How can interventions meet the needs of those affected? The Psychology of Appearance provides essential reading for psychology students, health and clinical psychologists, health professionals, employers and policy makers interested in the ramifications of appearance concerns.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335227686

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9780335227686

The Social Instinct

How Cooperation Shaped the World

By: Nichola Raihani

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The Social Instinct

How Cooperation Shaped the World

By: Nichola Raihani

Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly "Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another’s offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish from another species? A biologist by training, Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behaviour most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that makes us so distinctive–and so successful.

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St. Martin's Press

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125026281X

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9781250262813

Carne (The Meat Cookbook)

By: Nichola Fletcher

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Carne (The Meat Cookbook)

By: Nichola Fletcher

Todo lo que necesitas saber para preparar y cocinar los distintos tipos de carne y cortes a la perfección. Aprende a reconocer la carne de primera calidad y a seleccionar los mejores cortes, descubre por qué es tan importante el reposo, cómo destacar el sabor de la carne obteniendo el punto perfecto y ¡mucho más! El libro de cocina definitivo con el que sacarle jugo a tus cortes de carne y llevar tus recetas a otro nivel: -Consejos de cocción y tablas de tiempos y temperaturas para lograr resultados perfectos. -Diagramas de corte y descripciones de despieces. -Técnicas de preparación paso a paso con ilustraciones sobre cortes tradicionales y técnicas básicas de carnicería casera. -Recomendaciones de expertos sobre maridaje con otros alimentos y sabores. -Con más de 250 recetas internacionales con carne de ave, cerdo, buey, cordero y caza. A la parrilla, a la sartén o a la plancha... Descubre los mejores trucos para cada tipo de carne y disfruta de deliciosas recetas: paletilla de cerdo asada con salsa de sidra, buey al estilo de Kerala, pierna de cordero a la barbacoa al estilo marroqu텠 Una guía gastronómica indispensable para aquellos que disfrutan saboreando una buena carne. —------------------------------------------- With this informative guide to cooking meat, choose the best cuts, perfect your prep, and confidently rustle up delicious dishes. Get the best cooking tips and techniques, and learn how to prepare, cut, and cook from home. With this guide, you will learn how to recognize top-quality meat, why well-raised meat tastes better, and reliable checking methods to know when meat is cooked. Whether you are a meat expert or want to try making new tasty dishes, The Meat Cookbook will help you produce dishes like Jamaican jerk chicken, Portuguese pork with clams, Kerala beef, and saddle of roe venison with celeriac purée. Here's what you'll find inside the pages of this Meat Cookbook: -250 of the world's best poultry, pork, beef, lamb, game, and offal dishes. -Beautifully curated recipes include timing and temperature charts for perfect results every time. -A "How to Butcher" section provides illustrated step-by-step and focuses on cuts of meat that can be easily butchered at home. -Expert advice on pairing meats with other foods for exciting flavor combinations. Get the best from your meat with step-by-step preparation and cooking techniques, and learn key home butchery skills, such as needling, frenching, rolling, and tying. With this butchery and cookery book in one, you'll become a connoisseur in no time! Looking as good on your coffee table as the dishes you can create with its content, The Meat Cookbook is the perfect gift for any meat lover.

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0593972074

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9780593972076

Charlemagne's Tablecloth

A Piquant History of Feasting

By: Nichola Fletcher

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Charlemagne's Tablecloth

A Piquant History of Feasting

By: Nichola Fletcher

Feasts, banquets, and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious, and spread joy at family celebrations. They lift the spirits, involve all our senses and, at times, transport us to other fantastical worlds. Some feasts have given rise to hilarious misunderstandings, at others competitive elements take over. Some are purely for pleasure, some connect uncomfortably with death, but all are interesting. Nichola Fletcher has written a captivating history of feasts and entertaining throughout the ages that includes the dramatic failures along with the dazzling successes. From a humble meal of potatoes provided by an angel, to the extravagance of the high medieval and Renaissance tables groaning with red deer and wild boar, to the exquisite refinement of the Japanese tea ceremony, Charlemagne's Tablecloth covers them all. In her gustatory exploration of history's great feasting tables, Fletcher also answers more than a few riddles, such as "Why did Charlemagne use an asbestos tablecloth at his feasts?" and "Where did the current craze for the elegant Japanese Kaiseki meal begin?" Fletcher answers these questions and many more while inviting readers to a feasting table that extends all the way from Charlemagne's castle to her own millennium feast in Scotland. This is an eclectic collection of food and feasts from the flamboyant to the eccentric, the delicious to the disgusting, and sometimes just the touchingly ordinary. For anyone who has ever sat down at a banquet dining table and wondered, "Why?" Nichola Fletcher provides the delicious answer in a book that is a feast all its own.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466864400

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9781466864405

The Venison Bible

By: Nichola Fletcher

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The Venison Bible

By: Nichola Fletcher

Forty years of experience are condensed into this pocket-sized book. Nichola Fletcher offers tips on how to cook venison (grilling, roasting, barbecuing, braising, slow-cooking etc.) and also explains different kinds of venison (wild, farmed, red deer, roe deer). In addition to a host of inspiring recipes, covering both the much-loved traditional approach as well as some exciting contemporary dishes, she also includes recipes for sauces and useful ideas for vegetable accompaniments.

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Birlinn

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1780272820

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9781780272825

The Scottish Oats Bible

By: Nichola Fletcher

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The Scottish Oats Bible

By: Nichola Fletcher

Oats are one of Scotland's most iconic foods and their versatile qualities are once again being appreciated. The perfect grain for a wheat-free diet, oats have many health benefits. But they also pair deliciously with many other ingredients. In this imaginative book, award-winning food writer Nichola Fletcher presents 50 recipes both traditional and innovative."--Page [4] of cover.

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The Meat Cookbook

Know the Cuts, Master the Skills, over 250 Recipes

By: Nichola Fletcher

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The Meat Cookbook

Know the Cuts, Master the Skills, over 250 Recipes

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The Meat Cookbook

By: Nichola Fletcher

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The Meat Cookbook

By: Nichola Fletcher

Your master guide to cooking meat - now available in PDF Know the cuts and master the skills, The Meat Book will help you conquer cooking meat, with over 300 meat recipes combined with expert advice about getting the best from quality meats and experimenting with more unusual cuts. With butchery courses on the rise and people wanting quality cuts of meat at a good price, The Meat Book is here to help you learn everything about cooking meat, from top to tail. You can try meat recipes such as oxtail stew, beef carpaccio and pork stir-fry, plus over 50 step-by-step techniques on how to cook a turkey, how to make sausages and more. All the mouth-watering recipes for pork, lamb, beef, poultry, game and offal include timing and temperature charts to make sure you get the perfect flavour, plus help with choosing which herbs go with different meats. To help you create tasty meat dishes there is a unique 'How to Butcher' section which provides illustrated step-by-steps and focuses on cuts of meat that can be easily butchered at home. You also get tips on how to use a meat thermometer, how to test for 'doneness' and how to experiment with flavour pairings. With expert advice from butchers on the best cooking techniques, The Meat Book is the perfect guide to help you prepare and cook delicious cuts of meat.

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0241188288

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Caviar

Caviar

The Meat Cookbook

The Meat Cookbook

The Social Psychology of Facial Appearance

The Social Psychology of Facial Appearance

Gender and the American Presidency

Gender and the American Presidency

Mental Disorder

Mental Disorder

Elizabeth Hanford Dole

Elizabeth Hanford Dole

The Psychology of Appearance

The Psychology of Appearance

The Social Instinct

The Social Instinct

Carne (The Meat Cookbook)

Carne (The Meat Cookbook)

Charlemagne's Tablecloth

Charlemagne's Tablecloth

The Venison Bible

The Venison Bible

The Scottish Oats Bible

The Scottish Oats Bible

The Meat Cookbook

The Meat Cookbook

The Meat Cookbook

The Meat Cookbook

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