A guide to selection, purchasing & fabricating produce for professional chefs, foodservice personnel, culinarians, & food enthusiasts. Focusing on kitchen preparation skills, it provides practical information on product identification, seasonality, availability, storage, maturity & ripeness, taste & utilization tactics. ...

Project management is too often considered to be work done only by those called 'project managers'. Responsibility is delegated to individuals who struggle against sometimes impossible odds to bring about a successful outcome. This guide describes how to manage a project & how to ensure that the whole organisation can contribute to its success. ...

A comprehensive guide from the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) that focuses on four inter-related public health areas: healthy people across all stages of life, healthy places & communities, preparedness against infectious, occupational, environmental & terrorist threats & enhanced global health. ...

Coming-of -age drama set in 1980s New York. Returning home to see his sick father (Chazz Palmintieri), Dito (Robert Downey Jr.), reminisces about his youth in the NY borough of Queens. As the action centres on events in his childhood, we follow a younger Dito on the verge of making a tough choice between staying in the gang-ridden streets & the bosom of his family, or breaking free into a wider world, full of possibilities. ...

Countries that embrace free-market reforms experience rapid improvements in living standards. This book examines the political obstacles to reform & identifies ways round them. It shows why reforms are needed & which direction they should take, drawing on the experiences of more than a dozen reformist countries. ...