The Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook introduces a global spread of delicious low-impact vegetarian dishes. There`s something particularly enticing about a meal made up of several `small` dishes, as with Middle Eastern mezze or Spanish tapas. Troth Wells has taken this style of cooking & enjoying food & given it an exciting global dimension. Western livestock-rearing & industrial production of meat is not a model that can be projected worldwide
- even if it were desirable. Moving towards a more vegetable-based diet is the only sustainable & healthy way to feed the world. Not everyone can or will give up eating meat at once, but this exciting Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook will help the change.
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The Smaller Islands In The British Ocean, an original antique map by R. Morden published in London, 1695-1722-. Copperplate, coloured. Map size 43 x 36 cm, overall mounted size 58.5 x 52 cm. An attractive & popular map of Islands in the British Ocean. Considering the popularity & success of Camden's Britannia, first issued with maps in 1607, it is surprising that it was not until the end of the seventeenth century that a new edition was prepared. Robert Morden (d.1703) was commissioned to engrave a set of county maps for Edmund Gibson's new edition. Morden's first series of maps were rejected as being too small, & these were later published in Morden's New Description & State of Engl&, first issued in 1701, & subsequently re-issued in Cox's Magna Britannia, in the 1720s. Morden finally produced a new set of maps on a larger scale which were used in Gibson's editions published in 1695, 1722 as here, circa 1730, 1753 & 1772. The maps were based on the most up-to-date surveys where available, although some drew on Saxton & Speed, & were engraved by Sutton Nicholls & John Sturt. The maps are plain & simple, invariably with decorative title surround, & charmingly engraved. Their detail, convenient size, visual attraction & antiquity make them among the most popular of all early county maps. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...

In Peter H. Reynolds` whimsical holiday story, young Roland learns that more isn`t always better
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We have all heard talk of the intelligence of dolphins, elephants or great apes, or even, in different ways, ants & bees. But what is this intelligence all about? How do we know which animals are smart, & how do they use this superior intelligence? Written by one of the world`s authorities in this field, this riveting book cover the themes of tool use, language, communication, imitation & social learning, numerical abilities, social cognition, emotion, self-recognition & awareness, drawing together the most recent & remarkable global research relating to almost every ”smart” species. Fully illustrated, & including step-by-step illustrations to show experiments & observations both in the field & in captivity, Covering the core themes of, this book delivers cutting-edge scientific research about a topic fascinating to anyone interested in the natural world. ...

A new, limited edition of the modern classic The Smartest Giant in Town. George wished he wasn`t the scruffiest giant in town. ...

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani`s haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives & a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man`s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery
- these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life`s brevity & intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles & The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, & featuring people & places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac & rueful. This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before. ” Powerful new translations... Bassani began as a poet, & Mc Kendrick`s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance & generosity”. (Ali Smith). ” Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, & one of its great artists”. (Guardian). Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet, novelist & editor. The Smell of Hay is the last in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which received the Viareggio Prize & inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, & Within the Walls (originally published as Five Stories of Ferrara), which won the Strega Prize. Jamie Mc Kendrick is a poet & translator. His translations of Bassani`s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis & The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are already available as Penguin Modern Classics, & he is in the process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle anew.
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Alaska, 1970: growing up here is like nowhere else. Ruth wants to be remembered by her grieving mother. Dora wishes she was invisible to her abusive father. Alyce is staying at home to please her parents. Hank is running away for the sake of his brothers. Four very different lives are about to become entangled. Because if we don`t save each other, how can we begin to save ourselves? Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock`s extraordinary, stunning debut is both moving, & deeply authentic. These intertwining stories of love, tragedy, wild luck, & salvation on the edge of America`s Last Frontier introduce a writer of rare & wonderful talent. ...

'I remember being much amused last year, when landing at Calais, ' wrote Mrs Frances Trollope in her 1835 book, Paris & the Parisians, 'at the answer made by an old traveller to a novice.. .making his first voyage. What a dreadful smell! said the uninitiated stranger.. .it is the smell of the continent, sir! replied the man of experience. & so it was.' Historians James Munson & Richard Mullen examine just what it was about the smell of the continent that so attracted British travellers in the hundred years from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of the First World War. It was the first time in history that the British, en masse, set out to discover Europe. Drawing on contemporary accounts, diaries & letters, Munson & Mullen offer a compelling portrait of the Victorians abroad, many of them convinced that their country was not only vastly superior but also the envy of the world. From the glowing review coverage: ' Pure charm' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest ' An entertaining & sometimes surprising, thought-provoking history' Sunday Times ...

The Smell of Summer Grass is based partly on the long out of print ` Perch Hill`. It is the story of the years spent in finding & building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson & his wife, cook & gardener, Sarah Raven. Adam Nicolson was determined to leave metropolitan life but the rundown farm in the Sussex Weald was not quite what he bargained for. The scenery was breathtaking & the rural neighbours charming but the hard end of real farming life was another matter
- mud, cold, planning regulations & unco-operative livestock. But for the reader the whole enterprise is full of delight thanks to Adam Nicolson`s writing: frank, witty & touching, it is a testament to the importance of holding on to your dreams & turning them into reality.
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This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivating & grim illustrations of the tools & techniques of dentistry through the ages. Organized chronologically, The Smile Stealers interleaves beautiful & gruesome technical illustrations & paintings from the Wellcome Collection`s unique archive of material from Europe, America & the Far East with seven authoritative & eloquent themed articles from medical historian Richard Barnett. A comprehensive review of the development of the trade & discipline of dentistry, it covers topics as diverse as the very first dentures (produced by the Etruscans in the seventh century bce); the smile revolution in 18th-century portraiture; & the role of dentistry in forensic science
- all in one beautifully illustrated volume. Extending the cult of the medically macabre begun by its predecessors The Sick Rose & Crucial Interventions, The Smile Stealers is guaranteed to appeal to lovers of the horrific & the beautiful alike as it probes the growth of dentistry
- from pulling out bad teeth to reconstructing jaws, & from painful action to pain-free interventions & the pursuit of the perfect smile.

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