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 ...

With Instant Pot sales rising by the day, owners of this special appliance are looking for fresh, inspired recipes to invigorate their cooking routines & save on time.

Enter The Art of Great Cooking With Your Instant Pot! This book helps readers cook meals that sound, look & taste restaurant-quality, but are amazingly easyto prepare.

With the pressure cooking feature of the Instant Pot, dishes that normally take hours in the oven or slow cooker get better flavour in half the time, such as Honey Braised Lamb Shanks & Garlic Herb Pork Loin with Caramelized Apples.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781624144318
• Author: Emily Sunwell-Vidaurri
• Publisher: Page Street Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 191
• Dimensions: 23 x 20 x 1.5cm











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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. ...

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&. ...

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Considered by many to be Dickens finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the books narrator,

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence, There's no better rule. Living with his sister & her husb&, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham & her adopted niece that he begins to hope for something better. When it is revealed that Pip has inherited a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor on the condition that he moves to London to become a gentleman, Pip's adventure really begins. Epic, illuminating & memorable, Dickens' mysterious tale of Pip's quest to find the truth about himself is one of his most enduring & popular novels to date. ...

Robert Powell reads Charles Dickens' classic tale of a blacksmith's apprentice in search of his true destiny. Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister & her husb&, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict who forces Pip to help him. The very next day, he is invited to go & see Miss Havisham, a rich old lady who is seeking a playmate for the beautiful Estella. These two chance events are to change Pip's life in ways he could never have imagined. ...