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This guide to comedy is written in a humorous style, and should appeal to readers interested in the history of stand-up, would-be comedians and wannabe messiahs, as well as those who just like a laugh.
Restaurant entrepreneur Tony Allan and Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli bring the vivacity and humour of their 12-year friendship to a brilliant partnership in the kitchen, combining a professional passion for the best of fresh, affordable ingredients with their home lives amongst family and good friends.
Tony Allan is a rare breed - a masterful chef as well as a great businessman. He is second only to Sir Terence Conran as Britain's wealthiest restaurateur and enjoys celebrity status following his primetime BBC cookery show Tony & Giorgio, with best pal Giorgio Locatelli. Packed with entertaining anecdotes, his inspiring biography and business manual, Making Good, gives a real insight into one of the few remaining characters on the UK's restaurant scene and a template for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to know how it could - but perhaps shouldn't - be done. Making Good is the fly-on-the-kitchen-wall cookumentary of exactly what Tony Allan did and why he did it the way he did. It is essentia...
Text and illustrations provide an introduction to the myths and legends of the Greeks and Romans.
Presenting some of the best of the great mythologies, this title tells about the quests of Gawain in the ancient forests of Britain and the legendary heroism of El Cid in Spain.
Explores key topics involving World War I and shows the causes that led up to the outbreak of war, including France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and Germany's attack on France.
Contains illustrated entries to describe mythological and fantastical creatures from around the world that are organized by habitat; and includes creatures found in fiction such as "Batman," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and others. This guide gives not only a taxonomy of size, appearance, habitat, and powers, but also provides descriptions of the cultures that produced them.
This book is filled with strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests and magic symbols at the heart of African culture.
Filled with trivia and archive photos of writers at their typewriters, Typewriter is a fascinating look at one of the great inventions in history.
Lets the reader travel back in time and explore ancient Egypt.