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Tess and Grant are two tour leaders for a walking holiday in France and need to work together. But they don't get on well with each other - at least at the start.
Curious armchair travelers, nostalgic food excursionists, and inventive home entertainers will adore this tour of Europe's legendary tearooms and salons. A delicious culinary and cultural experience as well as a treasure trove of recipes from top-notch destinations, this little gem lets readers in on the rituals of taking tea. Recipes like the Ritz's cucumber sandwiches, Claridge's famous raisin and apple scones, or chocolate scones from Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel, as well as color photographs of tasty tea fare and European teahouses, bring the charm of afternoon tea to anyone's home.
Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the history of literary movements, enabling students to contextualize a given work within its cultural and historical moment. Specific focus is then given to the use of literary theory and the analysis of: Poetry Prose fiction and novels Plays Films. A detailed unit provides clear and concise introductions to literary criticism and theory, encouraging students to nurture their unique insights into a range of texts with these critical tools. Finally, students are guided through the process of generating ideas for essays, considering the role of secondary criticism in their writing, and formulating literary arguments. This practical volume is an invaluable resource for students, providing them with the tools to succeed in any English course.
This book is a new primary text for use in clinical, externship, legal writing, interviewing, negotiation, counseling, trial/appellate advocacy, and doctrinal courses. This text centers narrative theory as an effective way to teach law school courses and to practice the full range of lawyering skills. Using multimedia examples, as well as exercises drawn from actual lawyering situations, the book describes, explores, and analyzes the interrelationship between narrative and lawyering. The book addresses the broad spectrum of skills and practice areas and fora that the profession increasingly demands. The book contributes to the growing literature on professional identity formation with update...
Surviving at seventeen from a life threatening illness, and emerging from a hospital ward of terminally ill patients, Louise Collins is determined to make the most of life while it lasts. A naturally adventurous nature, combined with this new urgency, soon propels her to England and shipboard romance, fearless hitchhiking alone through Europe, the vagaries of temporary winter work in London in the fifties, and political activism in the age of McCarthy in America and capital punishment in Britain. Back in Australia, she settles to marriage and child-raising, but is soon back in the work force embarked on a career in the world of art and artists. Through Louise's relationships with the four generations of women in her life, the author documents changing morals and mores and the evolving status of women. NO TIME TO WASTE, the first novel by M.G. Johnson, draws on personal experience and is set against the historical events and politics of on life time.
Roughly 44 million Americans of Irish descent, though understandably proud of their heritage, have grown up with a shocking degree of cultural deprivation with regard to the culinary traditions of their ancestors. For most, Irish cuisine means potatoes, corned beef, and cabbage. Now at last, The Irish Heritage Cookbook will set the record straight. Margaret Johnson offers a much-needed fresh perspective on what Irish cooking is all about. She tells stories about the foods of Erin and how these dishes were reinvented by Irish emigrants and their offspring, evolving to include new ingredients and to suit modern circumstances and tastes. Offering a bountiful collection of both traditional recipes and contemporary innovations from a host of chefs and cooks in the Old Country and the New, The Irish Heritage Cookbook affirms at last the place of Irish cooking among the great cuisines of the worldand one to be enjoyed by all who love Ireland.
Alex is thirty and wants just one thing in her life: her boss, Brad. But however hard she tries, things keep on going wrong for her. Then Alex discovers what it is she really, really wants.
When Publisher?s Weekly, after reviewing Margaret Johnson-Hodge?s 2002 Black Expressions Best-selling novel ?True Lies? declared: ?Audiences tired of shallow buppie antics will respond favorably to the earthy dramas she describes,? and readers enjoyed ?True Lies? so much they demanded a sequel, Margaret Johnson-Hodge had no choice but to respond with ?This Time.? When ?This Time? opens, Dajah Moore is still on her road to recovery after a heart wrenching breakup with Rick Trimmons. Determined to get beyond the whole Rick incident, her struggles grow deeper when Rick shows up at her door step, saying all the things she needed to hear from him months before. But what Rick is saying and what Dajah sees for herself are two different things. Rick says Gina is gone from his life, but as far as Dajah is concerned, Gina hasn?t gone far enough. To further complicate things, Dajah meets Jeff Gingham, a man eight years her senior, bringing his own ideas about relationships that don?t match her own. With Rick fast on her trail and Jeff moving slowly into her heart, will Dajah get it right this time?
Modern, original fiction for learners of English.