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  Culinary Reactions - The...

  Simon Quellen Field

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  When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful microbes. And unlike in a laboratory, you can eat your experiments to verify your hypotheses. In Culinary Reactions, author Simon Quellen Field explores the chemistry behind the recipes you follow every day. How does altering the ratio of flour, sugar, yeast, salt, butter, and water affect how high bread rises? Why is whipped cream made with nitrous oxide rather than the more common carbon dioxide? And why does Hollandaise sauce fall for "clarified" butter? This easy-to-follow primer even includes recipes to demonstrate the concepts being discussed, including Whipped Creamsicle Topping (a foam), Cherry Dream Cheese (a protein gel), and Lemonade with Chameleon Eggs (an acid indicator). It even shows you how to extract DNA from a Halloween pumpkin. You'll never look at your graduated cylinders, Bunsen burners, and beakers the same way again.

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  Fortress London: Why we need to...

  Sam Bright

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  A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. 
  ‘Intelligently written and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason 
  ‘Witty, scathing, and entertaining.’ Danny Dorling 
  Journalist Sam Bright is a Northerner living in London. He is just one of the millions of people clinging on to the coattails of the capital, sucked in by the prospect of opportunities that the rest of the United Kingdom does not enjoy. 
  Our capital is a vast melting pot of languages, cultures, and ideas, and rightly celebrated for it. For many, though, there is no other option. The only place to access the opportunities this country offers is London. Banking, law, politics, advertising, architecture, the arts and the media are all concentrated here. It is almost impossible to reach the heights of any profession without joining the grey hoards queuing for the next tube. As the economic, political, and cultural epicentre of the country, Fortress London acts more like a renaissance city-state like Florence or Venice than the capital of a modern nation-state. And the gluttony of London, compared to the malnourishment of our regions, dramatically affects life chances in Britain. 
  Fortress London argues that to address Britain’s manifold problems, we need first to end the hegemony of its capital. Enriched by a vast array of interviews and statistics, it will examine how our individual destinies, from childhood to death, are determined by the disproportionate power of London. It will explain why regional inequality has fallen off the Left’s radar, even as the Right pays lip service to it, and it will draw on international comparisons to show where we have gone wrong and, crucially, how we can fix it. 
  Sam Bright’s clear-eyed intervention will convince you that regional inequality is the problem — and that now is the time for change. 
  Featuring exclusive interviews with: Andy Burnham, Lisa Nandy, Steve Rotheram, Aditya Chakrabortty, David Blunkett, Jess Phillips, Andrew Adonis and more… 
  In Fortress London, Sam Bright masterfully delves into the science of social disparity and the geography of opportunity, painting a vivid picture of a city that is both a beacon of hope and a fortress of inequality. The book is a top pick for anyone interested in public affairs, policy planning, and the human cost of regional inequality. 
  For fans of Chris Bryant (James and John), Rory Stewart (The Places In Between), Ian Dunt (How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't), Graham Smith (Abolish the Monarchy), and Oliver Bullough (The Last Man in Russia). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  PCOS: A Step-By-Step Guide to...

  Jessica Olson

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  1 in every 10 women in the United States are diagnosed with PCOS, yet are still confused with what that even means for their future as a potential mother. Does this sound familiar to you? 
  Many women hear the term "PCOS," but may not know exactly what it stands for, nor what it is. 
  PCOS is short for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, and it is a common hormonal disorder among women between the ages of 20 and 45 years. 
  In PCOS, you will discover:The 4 types of PCOS to be aware of, along with the best ways to treat them effectively at homeThe surprising truth behind what to expect with PCOS symptomsThe #1 type of food to avoid in order to reduce the intensity of your symptomsHow the food you consume can either harm or help your recovery from the disorder, as well as what they are 
  And much more. 
  There are many misconceptions about the condition, often confusing both doctors as well as their patients, but now is the time to put your foot down and demand an explanation. 
  It may not even be the pregnancy issue that concerns you the most, but the frustrating weight fluctuations and constant acne. 
  Do yourself a favor: get down to the bottom of your troublesome condition, and finally, let go of your persistent worry and aggravation. 
  If you want to discover how you can break free from the grasp of PCOS and its burdens, and open up the option of starting a family of your own, then you need this audiobook today!

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  The Prop Trader's Chronicles -...

  Francis J. Chan

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  The Prop Trader's Chronicles will unveil the strategies and techniques used at proprietary trading firms and by other professional stock traders. The book will describe the author's experience as a prop trader in an engaging narrative, but at the same time will provide an in-depth explanation of strategies employed by prop traders utilizing direct access technologies, Level II quotes, time  and statistical arbitrage. The author will describe how to use time & sales data as the modern-day equivalent of "reading the tape." Long the province of professional traders, the price/transaction data and leverage-dependent strategies discussed in the book are now available to individual traders through a select number of direct-access brokers. In short, the book will show active independent traders how to trade at a professional level and will provide a foundation for aspiring professional traders.

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  An Amazing Murmur of the Heart -...

  Cecil Helman

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  This is a searching look at the disappearance of the patient as a person from 21st century medicine, told through the stories of his many patients by the author of best-selling Suburban Shaman*. Cecil Helman - GP, medical anthropologist and acclaimed writer - looks back on a life-time of encounters with patients to ask 'Where has the patient gone?' and answers that patients 'are still here, waiting for their doctors to notice them again, to shift their attention away from all their magic machines and high tech tests, and to listen to their stories again. And hidden away in those stories, to hear the faint, almost inaudible, murmuring of their hearts.' Whether you are on the receiving or the delivery end of health care, Cecil Helman's humane and penetrating account will open your eyes to what happens when patient and doctor meet, and how that interaction might transcend the current focus on single symptoms and test results.

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  The Rare and the Beautiful - How...

  Cressida Connolly

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  Like the better-known Mitfords, the Garman sisters took center stage in Bohemian London during the first half of the twentieth century. Beautiful, flamboyant, and headstrong, they broke away from middle-class conventions, seducing and inspiring a generation of artists. Kathleen, an enigmatic artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover and, later, wife of controversial American-born sculptor Jacob Epstein. Mary married the maverick poet Roy Campbell, whose verse attack on the Bloomsbury group following Mary's affair with Vita Sackville-West was the literary scandal of the epoch. Lorna, the youngest and most beautiful of the sisters, was the lover of both the painter Lucian Freud and the poet Laurie Lee.The Rare and the Beautiful offers the first portrait of a beguiling band of eccentric siblings who possessed an uncanny ability to turn heads, break hearts, and spark creative genius. Set against the exciting backdrop of London's decadent subculture, it evokes their extraordinary milieu of high culture, drama, and scandal.

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