Publisher: Alter Ego Press
This cookbook grew out of Alter's lifelong love of cooking, the tips and recipes of her mother, and her own experience in a tiny kitchen with no stove. You won't find the Thanksgiving feast here, but you will find recipes from appetizers to skillet suppers, with hints on how to stock the pantry. You can use these if your kitchen is tiny or as big as all outdoors.
Mark's Guardian column attracted tens of thousands of shares, reaching the 'most popular' list across the site - he has clearly hit a nerve. Nothing like it on the market at the moment - a powerful hybrid of literary nature memoir and tech-backlash. A real practical answer to concerns about technology and climate change.Show book
Illustrated and packaged à la Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon, Goodnight '70s turns the classic children’s book into a baby boomer’s ode to the far out 1970s. It’s the perfect gift for anyone nostalgic for the good old days of bell-bottoms, disco balls, and 8-track tapes.Show book
The Giant Book of Trivia: 1000 Questions and Answers to Engage all Minds; picks up right where The Great Book of Trivia left off! Once again, we’ve brought together a host of fresh and intriguing questions that will test the limits of your knowledge across a huge range of subjects.The book is divided into 4 parts:Part 1 presents 50 challenging general knowledge quizzes.Part 2 introduces the “specialist rounds” at three levels of difficulty: medium, challenging and fiendish. Here you’ll find questions on geography, history, sport, science and nature, literature, art and architecture, and movies and TV.Part 3 brings a lighter touch with a selection of “bonus round” quizzes, where you’ll be asked to spot connections, identify years from a series of clues, unravel proverbs, and sort out lists of famous people, places and things.Part 4 contains 20 “family fun” quizzes that will be especially enjoyable for younger minds. There are straightforward general knowledge questions, alongside rhyming and alphabet quizzes.At Elsinore Books we pride ourselves on creating beautiful e-Books, and devote great attention to formatting, and ease of navigation. This book contains a cleanly-styled contents page that permits easy movement between quizzes. Each quiz occupies its own chapter, so you can move between quizzes by pressing a single button on your e-reader.You can access the answers to each quiz by following the links at the top and bottom of the question page. On the answer pages you’ll find each question rewritten and followed by its answer in bold. You can view a full listing of the games inside by clicking on the preview of this book and viewing the contents page. Some of the collection highlights are outlined below: General Knowledge 1 1. Who wears the Ring of the Fisherman?2. What are the six official languages of the United Nations?3. What became the official motto of the United States in 1956?4. In which layer of Earth’s atmosphere do nearly all weather conditions take place?5. What is Iceland’s only native land mammal?6. Who composed the soundtracks for Iron Man, Game of Thrones, and Westworld?7. What is the first drink ordered by James Bond in the first novel of the book series?8. Which US city will host the 2028 Summer Olympics?9. How many characters do the numbers from zero to nine each have in Morse code?10. In Greek mythology, who was the keeper of the winds? Geography: Medium 1. Which city is divided into Asian and European parts by the Bosporus?2. What are the five boroughs of New York?3. Which country is divided into 26 cantons?4. The Tropic of Capricorn is also known as the “Northern Tropic”. True or False?5. What prefix has been conferred to the English towns of Tunbridge Wells, Leamington Spa, and Wootton Basset?6. What is the name of the archipelago which includes Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera?7. What is the largest and second most populous state of Germany?8. What is the largest of the Channel Islands?9. In which country is the Massif Central highland region?10. Which city is home to Croke Park stadium? Rhyming Quiz 1 1. Which Frenchman lost his sight in a childhood accident and went on to develop a writing system for people who are visually impaired?2. Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival attained which legendary object?3. Coturnix coturnix is the Latin name for which ground-nesting bird?4. In humans, which gender has two different kinds of sex chromosomes?5. Which famous cabinet-maker was born in Yorkshire in 1718?6. Complete the quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley: “A poet is a ___________ who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude…”7. Which actor has portrayed Moses, Melvin Purvis, Michael Burry, and Dicky Eklund?8. What is the most common sedimentary rock?9. In computing and graphic design, what is the term for a reduced-size image that represents a larger one?Show book
"Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to our history, core values and individual identities."--Los Angeles Times The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia. In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication. Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg's printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience.Show book
With beautiful photography, Courtney Allison shares the story of her renovation of a 1940s cottage in the California countryside. Courtney's inspiring photography reveals every nuance of her style and home including a muted color palette, antiques, her greenhouse and garden, and an abundance of entertaining and holiday decorating style.Show book
Tess wants you to know that she intends to continue throwing up freely as long as the new baby gets to—fair is fair. Ovid would like to inform you that he’s giving up one of his nine lives in order to avoid a visit to the vet—he’ll miss you and knows you understand. And Quinn assures you that she’ll protect you from whatever it is that’s rolled under the table with all the righteous fury in her little body—even if only turns out to be a dropped olive. Sorry I Barfed on Your Bed Again is full of funny letters and heartwarming photos—a perfect gift for cat lovers.Show book
