For peerless coverage of the theory and practice of baking. This edition is packed with new material and features - from six new chapters on pastry, desserts and sugar work to hundreds of colour photographs and a stunning new user-friendly design. Features extensive contributions from the Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School, including procedures, techniques and tempting new recipes. 600 classic and creative recipes with 350 colour photographs.

Product Description: Thomas Mann's three stories Tonio Kröger, Tristan and Der Tod in Venedig are compared with the translations by Helen Lowe-Porter and David Luke respectively. From the comparison, it emerges that Lowe-Porter's translations are so deeply flawed that her oeuvre can be regarded as a scandal in the translation world...read more

Product Description: A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The traditional Eurocentric view of state formation and the rise of civilization is vigorously challeged in this unusually broad-ranging, up-to-date and innovative book. Using research from archaeology, ethnology, and anthropology, the authors examine the dynamics of political centralization, the nature of social inequalities, state formation, the nature of bureaucracy and the role of literacy in a variety of historical and geographical contexts...read more

'An analysis of agrarian reform policies and their impact on the rural poor during the Salinas administration (1988-94). Argues that neoliberal policies must be analyzed through the lens of class-based politics, tied to global economic transformations (including migration), and, at the same time, must be specific to Mexico's unique history and relationship to the US'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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Product Description: This book is part of a series resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense. It emphasised that archaeology is much more than the mere recording of specific cultural events...read more