Discover Claudia Roden`s classic recipes in A New Book of Middle Eastern Food. In 1968, Claudia Roden wrote A Book of Middle Eastern Food for readers who had never eaten an aubergine, let alone cooked one. Her expanded edition, A New Book of Middle Eastern Food, quickly followed & became a perennial bestseller. Today, Middle Eastern cuisine is enjoying amazing popularity, largely thanks to her books. In the years since, Claudia Roden has continued to collect recipes & culinary wisdom from the Middle East, talking & eating with locals, tasting their food & watching them cook. Now with a beautiful new cover, this collectable edition of Roden`s timeless work is the ultimate collection of recipes from the exquisite & varied cuisines of the region, ranging from inexpensive peasant fare to elaborate banquet dishes. Praise for Claudia Roden:` Claudia Roden is no more a simple cookbook writer than Marcel Proust was a biscuit baker. She is, rather, memorialist, historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, essayist, poet.. .` Simon Schama ` Beyond the evocative stories & buoyant style.. . there is always information.. . meticulously collected, compellingly assembled, lovingly told.. . informative, delectable & incredibly useful.` Yotam Ottolenghi` Roden`s great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs` Nigella Lawson` Claudia Roden`s writing has the fascination of her conversation. Her books are treasure-houses of information & mines of literary pleasures` Observer ...

This small chart measures 63x 36cms & covers the English Channel as it was in the 18th century. It not only shows depths, but also details coastal cross sections. Responsible for compiling most of the information here was Astronomer Royal Captain Edmund Halley, whose work with one comet, lead to it being named after him. He also revolutionized cartography with Isolines (the lines connecting points of equal value), more commonly known now as contour lines. ...

A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating & awe-inspiring. With the curiosity & enthusiasm of a great explorer, the award-winning Caspar Henderson celebrates & explains the wonder of light & the origins of the universe, the myriad marvels of the human body & the natural world -- & reveals the wonders to come: the technologies that will transform human experience & change what we will find wonderful. Drawing on philosophy & natural history, art & religion, neuroscience & nanotechnology, A New Map of Wonders is a celebration of life -- a rich & inspiring guide, encouraging us to see the world anew. ...

We live in a world that is known, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder, Caspar Henderson argues, is at its most supremely valuable in just such a world because it reaffirms our humanity & gives us hope for the future. That`s the power of wonder, & that`s what we should aim to cultivate in our lives. But what are the wonders of the modern world? Henderson`s brilliant exploration borrows from the form of one of the oldest & most widely known sources of wonder: maps. Large, detailed mappae mundi invited people in medieval Europe to vividly imagine places & possibilities they had never seen before: manticores with the head of a man, the body of a lion, & the stinging tail of a scorpion; tribes of one-eyed men who fought griffins for diamonds; & fearsome Scythian warriors who drank the blood of their enemies from their skulls. As outlandish as these maps & the stories that went with them sound to us today, Henderson argues that our views of the world today are sometimes no less incomplete or misleading. Scientists are only beginning to map the human brain, for example, revealing it as vastly more complex than any computer we can conceive. Our current understanding of physical reality is woefully incomplete. A New Map of Wonders explores these & other realms of the wonderful, in different times & cultures & in the present day, taking readers from Aboriginal Australian landscapes to sacred sites in Great Britain, all the while keeping sight questions such as the cognitive basis of wonder & the relationship between wonder & science. Beautifully illustrated & written with wit & moral complexity, this sequel to The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a fascinating account of the power of wonder & an unforgettable meditation on its importance to our future. ...

A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubbles & pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading
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This beautiful book reproduces in full the famous & rarely seen British Museum collection of drawings & watercolours made by John White, who in 1585 accompanied a group of English settlers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a colony in ' Virginia', along the tidewaters of coastal North Carolina. White's duties included making visual records of everything then unknown in Engl&, including plants, animals & birds as well as the human inhabitants, especially their dress, weapons, tools & ceremonies. The collection also

Includes:: his watercolours of Florida & Brazilian Indians, & the Inuit encountered by Martin Frobisher. In this landmark catalogue, each work is reproduced in colour & is thoroughly described, supplemented by engravings by Thedor de Bry & other comparable works. The introduction is followed by three specially commissioned chapters covering John White himself, the indigenous inhabitants, & their historical context. The book explores White's role as a colonist, surveyor & artist who not only recorded the plants & animals but also provided a window on a now lost Native American culture & way of life.

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A New Zealand Photographic Journey is experienced photographer Jeff Drewitz's celebration of the landscapes & images of New Zeal&, where he has been taking photos for nearly 20 years. The book covers both of New Zealand's islands & is divided into sub-sections exploring different regions. It incorporates the northl&, central north isl&, lower north isl&, Nelson & Marlborough, the West Coast, Canterbury, Otago & Fiordland & Southl&. Each colour image also has a caption locating where the photograph was taken. ...

In 2005, a group of Afghan actors endeavored to create an unusual dramatic performance--one that would bring theater to a region wounded after years of war with the Taliban & offer hope for healing. ”A Night in the Emperor`s Garden” is the captivating account of their resulting play & a rich exploration of the region`s culture. In preparation, for five months, the group tirelessly reworked Shakespeare`s ” Love`s Labour`s Lost” into their own Dari language while the members brought their own experiences to the interpretation. One actor was a police detective & widow determined to create images of strong women. Another had trained at Kabul University before fleeing to Pakistan as a refugee. A third had played the title role in the acclaimed film ” Osama, ” yet was a beggar who could barely read & write. Joined by a French actress who served as director & several other enthusiasts, these actors performed before royalty & street vendors alike for one night amid the ruins of a magnificent garden laid out five centuries earlier by Emperor Babur. For the first time in thirty years, men & women stood on stage together as they worked toward a new era in Afghanistan. Qais Akbar Omar & Stephen Landrigan, both involved in the production, have captured its exuberance & optimism along with the actors` joys & sorrows in the decade following the play. Revealing a side of Afghanistan largely unknown to outsiders, ”A Night in the Emperor`s Garden” tells the magical story of an artistic achievement with universal appeal. ...

The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised & eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up & toasted. He is famous as the author of ` Auld Lang Syne`, & he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore & the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights & patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest & most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged & contextualised by the award-winning novelist & essayist Andrew O` Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns` timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life. ...

” There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable & nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.” (Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President). On April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world`s largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1, 500 lives. Walter Lord`s classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck & the aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation & the upstairs/downstairs divide. ”A Night to Remember” provides a vivid, gripping & deeply personal account of the `unsinkable` Titanic`s descent. It comes with a new foreword by Julian Fellowes. ...