Can`t imagine living without cheese? Convinced that dairy-free baked goods just don`t cut it? Hate the taste of tofu & not a fan of boring salads? EXCUSES, BE GONE! Blogger-author extraordinaire Kristy Turner deliciously refutes every excuse you`ve ever heard with 125 bursting- with-flavor vegan recipes for every meal of the day
- including dessert! ” All those special ingredients are way more expensive.” Not when you can make your own Homemade Seitan, Barbecue Sauce, Zesty Ranch Dressing, & Tofu Sour Cream. ”I could never give up cheese!” You won`t miss it at all with Tempeh Bacon Mac `n` Cheese with Pecan Parmesan, Tofu Chevre, Citrus-Herb Roasted Beets with Macadamia Ricotta, or Mushroom Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. ” What about brunch?” Chickpea Scramble Breakfast Tacos, Lemon Cornmeal Waffles with Blueberry Sauce, & Caramel Apple-Stuffed French Toast are vegan breakfasts of champions! ” My friends won`t want to come over for dinner.” They will when they get a taste of Carrot Cashew Pate, Portobello Carpaccio, & Gnocchi alia Vodka. ” But I scream for ice cream!” Then you`ll shriek over Dark Chocolate Sorbet, Mango Lassi Ice Cream, & from-scratch Oatmeal Raisin Ice Cream Sandwiches. If you`re a waffling vegan newbie, on-the-fence vegetarian, or veg-curious omnivore, this book will banish your doubts. You`ll find you can get enough protein, fit in at a pot luck, learn to love cauliflower, & enjoy pizza, nachos brownies, & more
- without any animal products at all. (Even vegan pros will discover some new tricks!) Colourful photographs throughout will have you salivating over Kristy`s inventive, easy-to-follow recipes. So what are you waiting for? Get in the kitchen & leave your excuses at the door!

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A runaway best-seller in France, But You Did Not Come Back is the deeply moving memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust. `I was quite a cheerful person, you know, in spite of what happened to us.` In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Pol&. When they arrived, they were forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle a last note to her via an electrician, she never spoke to him again. But You Did Not Come Back is Marceline`s letter to the father she would never know as an adult, to the man whose death has enveloped her life. With poignant honesty, she tells him of the events that have continued to haunt her, of the collapse of their family, & of her efforts to find a place in a changing world. This is a breathtaking memoir by an extraordinary woman, & an intimate & deeply moving message from a daughter to her father. ...

Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for more than 200 years. Foreign invaders have continually fought across its beautiful & inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided & bloody. A century ago, the common sneer about how British soldiers treated Afghan tribesmen was that they would `butcher` them, then `bolt`. ” Butcher & Bolt” recounts this violent history, beginning with the very first British mission
- an encounter that ushered in two centuries of conflict littered with misunderstandings & broken promises, in which the British, the Russians & later the Americans repeatedly underestimated the ability of the Afghans & the power of the Frontier tribes. In a new final chapter that brings the book right up-to-date, David Loyn draws on the unique access he has had to Afghanistan over the past two decades to address the emerging threat of the Pakistani Taliban & the challenges that face those now fighting on the most dangerous frontier in the world.
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Full of adventure, mishaps & audacious attempts at cheating, the first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, & amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before. Dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L` Auto, cyclists of the time were wary of this `heroic` race on roads more suited to hooves than wheels, riding hefty fixed-gear bikes for three full weeks. ` With a few francs you could win 3, 000`, the paper declared in desperation, eventually attracting a field comprising a handful of the era`s professional racers &, among other hopefuls, a butcher, painter & decorator, & a circus acrobat. Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France`s rutted roads & cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, &, all thanks to a marketing ruse, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began. ...

The first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair full of adventure, mishaps & audacious attempts at cheating. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, & amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before. Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France`s rutted roads & cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, &, all thanks to a marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L` Auto, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

The campaign serving tray in lustrous French finish & brass-bound corners. Connecting to a rich & interesting past this timber tray is a new classic. Warm & rich looking. Soft & easy to the touch as if waxed & polished by generations of housemaids. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra traveled through the small towns of India & found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash & ostentatious, kitschy & clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man in Gujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihar trying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacation in London
- Mishra captured, with irony & humor, a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. ' Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a marvelous travel book about small-town India, where the village & the city, the folk & the kitsch, & the comic & the violent threaten to converge'
- Ashis Nandy. 'A love-letter to the real republic. No other book defines as clearly, & with such troubled irony, our last decade of change'
- Amitava Kumar.


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` On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before`... This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a stranger`s apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress & her stockings & panties. When she takes a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she sets in train a series of events that will lead to tragedy. A bestseller on its first publication, ”BUtterfield 8” is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars & bedrooms. ...

The truly pocket-sized photographic guide to the butterflies & moths of Britain & Europe. This Collins Gem is being reissued in flexibinding, providing the durability of a hardback with the flexibility of a paperback. The stylish new cover design will enliven this & 70 other bestselling Gems. There are over 160, 000 known species of butterflies & moths & there are over 5000 species in Europe, mostly small & inconspicuous moths. Collins Gem Butterflies & Moths is a fascinating introduction to 240 of the most commonly found species within the British Isles. Each entry
Includes:: A photograph of the butterfly or moth & details of distinguishing features which can help with identification. Information on size, habitat, geographical range & months when the butterfly or moth can be spotted. The names of similar species with which the butterfly or moth could be confused, & details of the differences between them.
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