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Answer all your cocktail-making questions in one handy book, with The Little Book of Questions on Cocktails. This book will guide you through the cocktail-making process, including a brief history of cocktails, what equipment you'll need and essential techniques. It also contains a wide variety of recipes to try, from traditional old-time recipes to creative modern twists. For cocktail-making novices, and even those with a little experience, T...

Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi. (16 poems in the English Translation) Leopardi's Canti were written in 1835. This collection of lyric poetry is considered one of the most significant works of Italian literature. The order of the poems here published in the English translations by Alan Marshfield, Tim Chilcott, A. S. Kline, and Frederick Townsend, does not follow their original position within the structure of Leopardi's Canti. The 16 poems...

As online learning continues to become more prominent in K-12 education, it will be important that teachers are knowledgeable about both the potential of online learning and the challenges associated with moving curricula online. This book, written by a former secondary online teacher who now teaches online instructional methods to practicing K-12 teachers, addresses those challenges and offers practical, research-based approaches to creating ...

Many interesting classic cars are ever increasing in value, and the XK120, XK140 and XK150 models are certainly amongst that category. This is the essential guide to those models - an important read for owners, but more crucially, a constant reference guide to keep with you when viewing a potential purchase. It will help you identify the model that suits you, tell you what to look for when inspecting a car, and provide you with all the necessa...

A collection of fifteen magical wonder tales from master storyteller Isabel Wyatt, for children aged seven and up.

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This is a story of two families and their children. Their lives are worlds apart, yet, they live on the same property. One family is extremely wealthy, whereas, the other is of little means. Both families live on the same property, but the obstacles that each one must deal with are unique. Then, you have the older generation who believe that "class" distinction is cemented in position with adherence to duties. The younger generation is open to...

Providing information on a topic which had previously been little researched, this thorough work of 1829 includes meteorological tables to support the author's findings. Examining specific areas of Europe, he offers practical advice for those travelling to benefit their health.

This revised and expanded 1848 textbook includes exercises for class practice of the tonic sol-fa system of teaching singing.

The 1822 second edition of a vividly enjoyable account of the history of gastronomy in Europe since antiquity.

In Education and the Nation State, S. Gopinathan brings together 14 of his key writings in one volume. Starting with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of Gopinathan's career and contextualises his selection, the essays are then arranged thematically, providing an overview not just of his own career, but also reflecting the development and key concerns of education in the nation state that is Singapore.

Knepper criticizes existing efforts in the philosophy of religion for being out of step with, and therefore useless to, the academic study of religion, then forwards a new program for philosophy of religion that is in step with, and therefore useful to, the academic study of religion.

Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.

The economy has crashed (again), the Nanny State is out of control, and software engineer Gimbel O'Hare just wants to do his job. Not easy, given that his boss is out to get him, the Department of Justice has him under surveillance, and one of his co-workers is suing him for sexual harassment. He finds refuge from the stress by indulging in spy movies, his obsession with Jon Dunn, Secret Agent Beta-11, leads him on an off-the-wall journey arou...

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of developments, the legal framework and the current situation of the low-cost carrier phenomenon across the globe. It contains a dozen chapters, each dedicated to a region, all written by highly experienced and renowned experts from around the world. The Low Cost Carrier Worldwide is written primarily for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers and pract...

Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall.

Arguing that social dance haunted the interwar imagination, Zimring reveals the powerful figurative importance of music and dance, both in the aftermath of war, and during Britain¿s entrance into cosmopolitan modernity and the modernization of gender relations. Analysing paintings, films, memoirs, ballet, documentary texts and writings by Modernist authors, Zimring illuminates the ubiquitous presence of social dance in the British imagination ...

In this volume, leading transport history scholars take a fresh look at the impact of the Cold War upon European railways both before and after 1989. As well as addressing the development of eastern and central European railways, the book examines how transport links have been reconnected and reconfigured in the twenty years since the reunification of Europe. In particular, it focuses upon the former communist countries and how they have respo...

A pioneer in comparative philology, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) is credited with popularising the subject in Victorian Britain. His hugely successful Royal Institution lectures, first published in two volumes in 1861-4, explore a range of philological topics and were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century.

First published in 1768, this dramatic account by naval officer John Byron (1723-86) recounts the five harrowing years it took to get home after the wreck and mutiny of HMS Wager in 1741. Aboard the Beagle on Darwin's voyage, the book also influenced Don Juan by the author's grandson.