Product Description: 'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'...read more

Product Description: A collection of oven dishes both sweet and savory from a Southerner whose passion for them shows no sign of cooling No one knows Southern cooking quite like Jean Anderson. A long-time food editor and the author of such books as A Love Affair with Southern Cooking and Falling Off the Bone, her encyclopedic knowledge of Southern food makes her the perfect author for this delicious down-home collection...read more

Product Description: In this classic work, born of the back-to-the-land movement, Jean Anderson teaches you how to enjoy the bounty of your own garden, farmer's markets, and roadside stands--all year round. With Anderson at your side, you'll learn which fruits and vegetables are best for canning, freezing, and pickling and, along the way, learn how to insure food safety...read more

Product Description: First, a warning: This book isn't the usual kind of book about food; it has no restaurant reviews, and very few recipes. You won't hear about that darling place in Dordogne, but you may learn how to slice a cuttlefish. This is about food as experience...read more

Product Description: In this eclectic compendium of translated international stories, a wide range of voices present connections with different ethnicities and provide an opportunity to see the world in a new light. From Spain and Switzerland to Korea, Tahiti, and Mexico, these multicultural stories include a young boy from a backcountry town who struggles with the mysteries and inconsistencies of adult behavior, a French mayor and his community who try desperately to maintain the appearance of normalcy, a scrawny rooster who turns out to be a champion cock fighter, and a young girl who travels to Seoul and is dazzled and disappointed by what she finds...read more

Product Description: Invented about 13,000 years ago, mud architecture has since been one of the most common, economical, useful, and widespread forms of building. It has been--and is still being--used for grand palaces and temples as well as simple shops and homes...read more

Product Description: Finally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests...read more

A diverse assortment of more than three hundred Southern recipes includes both historical and modern options, features an overview of the region's culinary history, and is complemented by cameo portraits of famous southerners who have shaped local food traditions. 40,000 first printing.

Introduces mud, including an experiment on which kind of soil makes the best mud pies and a description of how to make a miniature mud house.

Product Description: For the past ten years, Jean Anderson has been on a quest: to search out the most popular recipes of the 20th century and to chronicle 100 years of culinary change in America. The result is a rich and fascinating look at where we've been, at the recipes our mothers and grandmothers loved, and at how our own tastes have evolved...read more

A wide range of bread, cake, meat, and meatless loaf recipes by the award-winning author of Process This! streamlines the baking process by introducing two additive-free mixes, one for breads and the other for cakes, that can be used as needed to prepare such options as Barbecued Beef Loaf, Toasted Hazelnut Bread, and Frozen Key Lime Mousse.

A guide to cooking with the most recent food processor models provides 150 recipes for dishes that range from simple to sophisticated fare, offering such options as using a food processor as a bread machine and creating one-bowl cookies and cakes. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Offers a collection of recipes designed to tempt the palate, including Greek chickpea salad, Thai shrimp with snow peas and peanut sauce, and mango stir-fry.

Product Description: Book by Anderson, Jean, Lininger, Linda

Product Description: "Oxford Reading Tree Fireflies" has 60 titles on a wide range of topics linked to the curriculum. There are 10 stages, one for each term from KS1 Year R Term 1 to KS2 Year 3 Term 1 (P1 to P4 in Scotland and N Ireland). Its features include: colour-coded to show "Oxford Reading Tree" and bookband stages; linked to curriculum and "Oxford Reading Tree" themes; Teaching Notes for every stage; and a Guided Reading Card and a Take-Home Card to go with each book...read more

Outlines an easy-to-follow approach to lifelong fitness, presenting a range of exercise options as well as coverage of how to implement a healthy lifestyle, overcome injuries and illnesses, eat for health, maintain fitness during pregnancy, and exercise while traveling. Reprint. (view table of contents)