From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover’s companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year’s Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authors’ own memories of successes and catastrophes.
Most woodworkers think it would be easier to grow a third arm than to build a chair.
From the outside, it seems like you need to harvest special wood from the forest, buy a bunch of exotic tools, master a lot of crazy angles, and learn high-tolerance joinery to make a chair that is comfortable, strong and approaches sculpture.
Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.
Modern Macrame Style is the ultimate guide into the world of macrame for beginners.
Macrame expert Amaia Martin, from La Terra Macrame, has created 20 unique projects to introduce you to this millenary art and make you fall in love with it!
Taking Intelligence to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business, Crime, Military, and Terrorism Examples examines intelligence gathering and analysis and the significance of these programs. Coverage assumes a basic understanding of the intelligence cycle and processes, and the book builds upon the author’s previous text, Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals—also published by CRC Press—to further address various types of intelligence, the function and increasing usage of intelligence in both the private and public sectors, and the consumption of intelligence products to inform strategic decision-making.
USA Hockey Magazine brings readers inside the American hockey community, covering players, coaches, officials and families with stories on youth hockey, national teams, training, tournaments, equipment and the people shaping the game across the country.
Tiger Rag is the Bible of LSU Sports. Operated as an independent print and online publication by Kingfish Communications, LLC dba Tiger Rag Magazine. Tiger Rag employs writers and one of the best graphic artists in the business to cover LSU sports with excellence that has brought more than four decades of success.
The World of Hospitality delivers breaking news on the topics that are shaping the modern hospitality Sector. Providing guidance and contacts for owners, operators and managers to help develop their business and achieve excellence. The Hospitality Industry is undergoing a period of productive growth. Investment and development are at record breaking levels across the globe whether it’s independently owned or internationally branded. New developments are setting the very highest design standards and existing owners are refurbishing to remain competitive with the demands for creativity and luxurious interiors.
