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Melanie Ward lives her life as a secret agent for a clandestine division of the United States government. After a justly earned promotion is snatched away by her nemesis, Melanie recklessly walks away from everything she has become and tries to build a new life.
Who doesn't want to indulge in a giant s'mores bar layered with a crazy-crunchy graham cracker crust, fudgy chocolate filling and a dreamy mile-high meringue? Desserts brings together the best sweet dishes published by Food & Wine magazine over the past 30 years. It's chockful of tried-and-true keepers, including Stephanie Izard's Skillet Graham Cake with Peaches and Blueberries, Gooey Chocolate Chip Sandwich Bars, and star pastry chef Dominique Ansel's take on marshmallows. Enjoy smart and informative cooking tips and discover recipes from such food aficionados as Ina Garten, Rick Bayless and Jacques Pepin as well as Dorie Greenspan, Tom Colicchio and Joanne Chang. Gorgeous color photographs throughout provide endless inspiration in this expertly curated collection. No matter the dessert—cakes, pastries, cookies and bars, pies and tarts, frozen treats and candies—Desserts has you covered!
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses t...
Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between t...
Ever wonder how to make your own sausage? Or how to fold dough for the flakiest croissants? Get ready to take your kitchen skills to the next level with Food & Wine's first ever compilation of essential pro techniques. Master Recipes is an intrepid cook's guide to dishes you've only ever dreamed about making at home. Based on Food & Wine's long-running Gastronaut column, it breaks down the best way to DIY everything from beef jerky to babka. With step-by-step instructions and photos, star chefs like Jacques Pépin, David Chang, and Dominique Ansel share their foolproof methods for over 180 delicious dishes. Along the way, you'll learn indispensable skills like fermenting pickles, making bread and tempering chocolate. Master Recipes is more than a cookbook; consider it your pass to culinary school—a must-have manual for boosting your cooking game.
Think you'll never win at weeknight cooking? Think again. Your favorite ingredients are deliciously reimagined in Real Simple's latest cookbook that shows you how to spin 35 family staples into hundreds of hassle-free dishes. Organized from apples to zucchini, Dinner Made Simple is filled with 350 easy, quick dishes-many ready in 30 minutes or less-to help you get out of your recipe rut. With 10 ideas for every ingredient, you'll never look at a box of spaghetti, a bunch of carrots, or a ball of pizza dough the same way again. With helpful advice on buying and storing ingredients, genius kitchen tips, nutritional information for every recipe, and a complete dessert section (yes!), Dinner Made Simple is your new go-to resource for creating inspiring dishes all week long.
The Society of Publication Designers' (SPD) annual competition seeks the very best in editorial design work. Judged by a worldwide panel of top designers, the 48th edition of Rockport's best-selling SPD annuals celebrates the journalists, editorial directors, photographers, and other talented individuals who brought events of the year 2013 to our doorsteps and computer screens. Stunning full-page layouts present everything from products to people, and objects to events, in ways that make each palpable and unforgettable. You’ll find featured work published in a wide range of mediums and created by journalistic, design, and publishing talent from around the world.
The book examines the lived experience of worship in early medieval England and Ireland, ranging from public experience of church and stone sculptures, to monastic life, to personal contemplation of, and meditation on, manuscript illuminations and other devotional objects.
The cookbook that proves fast and tasty dinners can be healthy, too! Busy parents want to provide fast and healthy everyday meals for their families without giving up their favorite foods. In Healthy Family Dinners, the editors of Family Circle compile more than 200 mouthwatering yet good-for-you recipes of every kind—including main-dish salads, pasta, meat, poultry, fish, as well as vegetarian dishes, simple slow cooker favorites, and even desserts. 100 luscious full-color photos will whet any appetite while nutrition information and shopping tips help parents make smart food choices day-in and day-out. With no exotic or hard-to-find ingredients, these recipes are more than just nutritiou...
The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic. Scholars track the cumulative power of the slave trade, settlements and plantations, and the continual warfare that reshaped lives in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Importantly, they also analyze the ways these histories reshaped class and social relations, scientific inquiry and invention, philosophies of personhood, and cultural and intellectual production. As European nations fought each other for territories and trade routes, dispossessing...