Royal jubilees, towering pyramids, face painting, & jewelry making? The sky's the limit when you spend the day in ancient Egypt! Picture this: You get out of bed &, as you go to brush your teeth, you suddenly realize that you've traveled back in time over 4, 500 years to ancient Egypt. ...

This book whisks kids back in time over 2, 000 years to spend a special day in Athens. Modern children follow a typical ancient Greek family through their day, & along the way they get to do all the things the Greeks did--from making clothes & jewelry to learning Greek letters to preparing a fabulous Greek feast. ...

Parades, gladiator games, tunic weaving, & coin making! Anything can happen when you spend the day in ancient Rome! Find out what life was like almost two thousand years ago during the height of the Roman Empire. As Rome celebrates its annual Games, you'll spend the day with a family, just back from their own summer vacation. ...

Offers an introduction of the concepts of currency & exchange
- what money is how it is used, & how it can be earned & spent around
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Henry Cimoli & Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until

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' Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?' In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty 20, & a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. How did India come to run world cricket? How did clubs owned by billionaires & Bollywood stars begin to shove international competition aside? How did money unite players & divide administrators, amid allegations of massive corruption? Gideon Haigh has followed cricket's biggest story since Kerry Packer's ' World Series' from the beginning: Sphere of Influence is the result. This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp & disturbing focus. ...

Alexandria, Egypt, 1977, During a dive to an old shipwreck, archaeologist Isabella Warnock uncovers an artefact unlike anything she has ever seen: an astrarium, a mysterious device rumoured to have shaped the destinies of pharaohs & kings since the beginning of time. Bur her discovery comes at a terrible price, & it falls to her husband Oliver to keep the priceless object safe. Up against a shadowy enemy & a powerful cult prepared to do anything for the treasure, Oliver is catapulted into a breakneck race to protect an ancient secret in a dangerous world of conspiracy & Egyptology, where age-old sorcery & legends clash violently with modern-day ambitions. ...

Spices are celebrated the world over for the depth of flavour that they bring to dishes.

The alchemy of roasting & blending

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In this delicious collection of 100 recipes, Levi Roots plunders his spice cupboard to create some exciting new dishes using everyday ingredients. Levi dubs up all of our favourite classic recipes, adding a tamarind & orange glaze to lamb chops, making a lime jerk marinade for chicken, cooking salmon with chilli & dishing up a spiced tropical fruit pilaf. As you would expect from Levi, everything in this book is easy to prepare, & there are lots of ideas for quick suppers. With chapters packed with ideas for spicing up everything from chicken to chocolate, tropical fruit to tea, root vegetables to rum, this book is full of delicious & surprising recipes to add some spice to your life. ...

In this melting pot of different cuisines, Paul Merrett offers dishes inspired by his travels abroad, his home cooking & his experience in some of the UK's top restaurants. His personal collection of recipes in Spice Odyssey is united by a bold & inventive use of spice &

Includes:: such dishes such as Salt & Pepper Squid with a Papaya, Chilli & Coriander Salsa & Sri Lankan Chicken Kotu. Interspersed with anecdotal & amusing stories of his travels to African spice markets & Asian spice gardens (along with discoveries closer to home), it

Includes:: a wealth of tips on storage, buying, grinding, dry-frying, rubs & marinades, as well as fascinating facts on the history of spices. From Zanzibar Fish Curry & 25-minute Veggie Tagine to Coconut & Lemongrass Panna Cotta, the subtle aromas & fiery flavours on offer will inspire you to cook something new.



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