Have you ever tried baking a cake for a birthday or special occasion only to be disappointed when it didn't turn out as planned? This comprehensive illustrated guide to cake baking will provide all the answers you're looking for with tips to ensure you never go wrong again. Here you'll find tried & tested recipes for baking at home that will never let you down. Everything, from the most delicious, rich chocolate cake to scrumptious cookies, is included & all the recipes have been triple tested by the Good Housekeeping Institute. "101 Great Cakes"

Includes:: recipes for all kinds of sweet treats: cakes & biscuits, pastries & tarts. Each recipe is clearly explained so that even the most inexperienced baker will feel confident & inspired to try out something they may not have considered before.

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This delightful anthology gives readers a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat. Some of the characters highlighted are Yeats's Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, & T.S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger. ...

Twenty-six churches in Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside are here featured in a series of captivating photographic portraits by Matthew Byrne. The selection has been made on the basis of architectural distinction, beauty, quality of sculpture, carving or stained glass, historical interest or dramatic setting. Matthew Byrne's text displays a deep understanding & affection for church architecture, & his atmospheric photography captures the spirit of these unique buildings as architectural heritage, as historic monuments & as places of Christian devotion. ...

Step onto the streets of cities around the world, & understand the cultures & civilizations that created them with Great City Maps.

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The book outlines the origins of the world's peoples, their politics & power struggles, wars, conquests & peacemaking, explorations & empires, trade & industry, science & technology, societies & cultures, religions, myths, art & creativity ...

In the middle of the great, global twentieth-century crisis, the Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with its political traditions. This very short introduction to that crisis & those policies provides readers with a summ ...

This book is the first major volume to look at dinosaurs from a historical perspective: from the earliest scrappy finds & best guesses of the early 1800s to the spectacular key discoveries that changed people's minds & brought dinosaurs alive in the public consciousness. ...

Offers an insight into one of the classic questions of history: why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? This book shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product & factor markets, & the strategies of households. ...

Subdivided into hundreds of domaines, often family-run & sometimes covering no more than a few hectares, Burgundy can be offputtingly fragmented to wine experts. This guide

Includes:: descriptions of the microclimates of the region, important grapes & wine styles, as well as tips on buying, storing & tasting wine & a rundown of vintages.

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The Irish have left an indelible mark in the most hostile territory on earth, Antarctica. It was the Irish who pioneered a route to the Antarctic & whose adventures 100 years ago gripped the attention of the world. Their contribution is now told in a single volume celebrating their amazing exploits. The earliest voyages to the Antarctic ice are saluted with due consideration given to present-day adventurers who have taken up the torch."ations from first-hand accounts, photographs of the intrepid men, relics, medals, & sites enhance the poignant text. Explorers included are: * Cork-born Bransfield, Forde & Keohane as well as the only pair of brothers to explore the Antarctic, the Mc Carthys from Kinsale. * Banbridge man, Francis Crozier * Ernest Shackleton from Kildare * Kerryman Tom Crean. * Mike Barry from Kerry, the first Irishman to walk to the South Pole * Clare O' Leary, from Bandon, the first Irishwoman to do so * Mark Pollock, from Down, was the first blind person to trek to the pole. The great Amundsen wrote Shackleton's name would 'for evermore be engraved with letters of fire in the history of Antarctic exploration'. He might well have been speaking of Irel&. ...