This isn't just another Italian cookbook. There are no pictures, no frills, no dramatic or artistic culinary statements requiring professional expertise. This is a book of over 240 recipes codified from the oral traditions of immigrant Italians who came to America in the great wave of the early 20th century with one cooking credo, waste nothing, use everything and make it all taste good. Unlike cookbooks that make a similar claim, the recipes in this book aren't taken from someone's memory of what Grandma used to make, nor are they products of variations on or “healthy” perversions of the original cuisine, they are the original cuisine as compiled by a man with the keenest foresight.While a student at Ithaca College in the 1930s, the author's father, Michael C. Fusco would often return home to Binghamton, New York to work in his father's restaurant. With itinerant cooks and myriad chefs coming and going all the time, he realized the necessity of keeping their recipes in-house for the sake of consistency as well as popularity. The “pinch of this” and “a little of that” way most cooks of the day prepared their dishes guaranteed the opposite outcome, so he began the tedious process of shadowing the “professionals”, including his mother, father and other relatives as well as the cooks and chefs, measuring the ingredients they used, observing their techniques and writing everything down in a notebook he kept until the day he passed away in 1992. Thus the recipes in “My Father's Book Of Southern Italian Peasant Food” are true and accurate renditions of those prepared in the early part of the 20th century with some additions of Peter Fusco's which he believes reflect the spirit of the book and also the realities of a changing world when it comes to ingredients.If you are a serious foodie, someone who wants to taste Italian food the way it was originally intended, this cookbook will become your treasured kitchen companion. After cooking with it you will agree, the great beauty of Southern Italian peasant food rests in the fact that a king would not know that it is.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on mid-twentieth century urban steroids, meet Danny Manzi who will win your heart and challenge your perceptions of life, love and hate. A boy with a philosopher's heart, a sage's sensibilities and an intellect to match, Danny's outlook on the world is forged in a sterile relationship with his mother, a healthy fear of his father, cautious interaction with his older brothers and care for his younger sisters. Seduced and abused by an alcoholic widow, Danny grows up very quickly. But when teenage novitiate, Sister Claire enters his life the question becomes who is predator and who is prey. At times funny and sad, The Eight-Block Rule is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale unlike any other. First in a trilogy, some critics have labeled the story "unnerving" and "disturbing," but by any measure it will leave you drained of emotion and glad that you were.
A comprehensive addition to the acclaimed “Running: How To Design And Execute A Winning Political Campaign,” the “Tea Party Edition” is Peter J. Fusco's response to the overwhelming number of requests for a manual which addresses the Tea Party phenomenon. In the all new section Mr. Fusco shows candidates and their staffs how to find local organizations, how to open discussions with them, and how to garner their support. He discusses the philosophy and goals of Tea Party patriots, then shows how candidates with the same beliefs can best structure their message to gain Tea Party votes. This is the first book of its kind, the only one you will ever need to run and win.
Totally alone in the world, hunted by assassins, a mobster on the run from the mob, Frank Tomaino aka Frankie Boy Tomatoes is a man in need of a miracle. What he gets becomes the poignant story of how sometimes even the worst among us can bring out the best in all of us.
Pete Fusco is a captain on Boeing 737s for a major US airline. He has had two aviation careers, In between which he worked as a newspaper reporter. He lives in Kingwood, Texas and writes when the mood strikes him, which is all the time.As Pete Fusco moved from one wretched flying job to another in the early days of his aviation career, he displayed a knack for elevating the most ordinary situations to grand debacle. He maintains that it wasn't entirely his fault. He assigns part of the blame on the Gods of Aviation Misfortune, who seemed to stalk him for their own entertainment. The gods had help; along the way they enlisted the services of an ex-biker named Moondog, The Cleveland Mafia, a mythical beast known as the Curtiss C-46, a Miami smuggler of shrunken heads and a con artist named Three-fingered Hank. Fusco's story is the story of all pilots who ever chanced the long odds against making a living flying airplanes and lived to laugh about it.
Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples’ lives are threatened and / or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of security studies - war, deterrence and terrorism - are analyzed alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime, disease, disasters, environmental degradation and human rights abuses to provide a comprehensive survey of how and why people are killed in the contemporary world. Key concepts of International Relations and globalization are defined and explained, prominent political thinkers and activists are profiled in short biographies and the human impact of the various security threats considered graphically illustrated in ‘top ten’ tables. Hence, this textbook introduces students to the full range of security issues in a clear and concise format that is easy to follow. Specific updates include: A refresh of the evolving theoretical literature on security including more analysis of feminist and post-colonial thought Key recent international political developments- such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan - are appraised and incorporated A new section on hybrid warfare is included in Chapter 2, misogynistic terror is profiled in Chapter 3, whilst gun-smuggling and cybercrime are considered in more depth in Chapter 10 Chapter 5 features analysis of the rise of ‘genocide diplomacy’ The rise of private legal challenges to governments for failing to implement commitments to the Paris 2015 Climate Change Accords is reviewed and analysed Greater evaluation of global governance, in the face of populist nationalist challenges to international cooperation, is offered User-friendly and easy to follow, this textbook is designed to make a complex subject accessible to all. Key features include: ‘Top ten tables’ highlighting the most destructive events or forms of death in those areas throughout history Boxed descriptions elaborating key concepts in the fields of security and International Relations ‘Biographical boxes’ of key individuals who have shaped security politics Further reading and websites at the end of each chapter guiding you towards classic texts and the most up-to-date information on the various topics Glossary of political terminology This highly acclaimed and popular academic text will continue to be essential reading for everyone interested in security.
This new and updated edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies to illustrate theoretical debates. In addition to presenting the major theoretical perspectives, the book examines a range of important and controversial topics in covering both traditional military and non-military security issues such as WMD proliferation, humanitarian intervention, food security and environmental security. The volume also offers a wide range of case studies providing detailed analyses of important global security issues. The 37 chapters contain pedagogical features and recommended further reading and are divided into five thematic sections: Conceptual and Theoretical Military Security Non-Military Security Institutions and Security Case Studies Updates for the second edition include: New chapters on cybersecurity and the insecurity of the LGBT community. Substantial revisions to existing chapters to incorporate analysis of important international political developments, including the Trump Presidency; ‘Brexit’; North Korean nuclear standoff; the Syrian Civil War; Yemen Civil War; Mediterranean migration crisis; Climate change diplomacy and the Sustainable Development Goals. This textbook will be essential reading for all students of security studies and highly recommended for students of critical security studies, human security, peace and conflict studies, foreign policy and International Relations in general.
This textbook offers a student-friendly survey of the global politics of the environment through the prism of security studies. This book is divided into three thematic sections. The first part sets out the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental and security issues. The second part examines why environmental issues have been framed by some as ‘national security‘ concerns in the context of the effects of overpopulation, resource depletion, climate change and the role of the military as both a cause and a solution to problems of pollution and natural disasters. Finally, the third section explores the case for treating the key issues of environmental change as matters of human security. The chapters have been updated to include the 2015 Paris Climate Change Accords, the Trump and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and there is a new chapter on environmental history. Overall, the book provides a clear, systematic and thorough overview of an area of great academic and ‘real-world’ political interest. This book will be essential reading for students of environmental studies, critical and human security, human geography, development studies, and International Relations in general.
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