This is the book we've all (certainly every woman between 25 & 75) been waiting for. It is classy chic convincing funny wise well-written & very timely. It's the ultimate non-diet book which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance control & above all pleasure. Chuck out all the radical diet books think about what you eat & why & then enjoy eating the right things (and some of the wrong ones) intelligently & in smaller portions. Eat like a French woman with your head not your stomach. Guiliano French-born & bred gets the tone absolutely right. She succeeds in that rare high-wire act of being really serious about her subject but without taking herself too seriously; manages to encourage & inspire & amuse without being bossy or earnest. This is a book that will make you laugh out loud & yet have you following several of her practical precepts within days
- everyone who reads it becomes evangelical (French women don't go to the gym they climb the stairs). It combines just the right balance of memoir wisdom wit delicious recipes & French common sense. Guiliano emphasizes the virtues of freshness variety personal taste enjoyment & above all portion control (research shows that dishes served in US restaurants are 25 per cent larger than those served in restaurants in France!).
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Now you can have it all all year round...' Who can resist a book that recommends love & chocolate as part of a balanced diet?' asked Allison Pearson in the Daily Telegraph about Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat a mould-breaking book that unlocked the secrets of ' The French paradox' & sold well over a million copies worldwide. By letter by email in person readers have inundated Mireille Guiliano with requests for more advice. Her answer: this buoyant new book full of advice ideas & fresh French recipes for each season. ...

Its never too soon to start teaching boys & girls a second language & this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach French words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its English word followed by its French equivalent. The translated word is followed in turn by a phonetic spelling in smaller type. Words are grouped according to themes such as Sports The Classroom Fruit Vegetables Party Time Weather & many others. For example the nine illustrations on the Sports page show pictures with bilingual labels for football table tennis skiing fishing gymnastics athletics cycling swimming & basketball. Heres a fun way for younger English-speaking children to build a basic vocabulary in French. ...

Look & learn
- the quick & intuitive way to learn & recall everyday vocabulary in French. Whether for business or leisure this
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The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love -- & sweetness even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote Navron looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods & hidden creeks. She finds there the passion her spirit craves -- in the love of a daring pirate hunted by all Cornwall a Frenchman who like Dona would gamble his life for a moment's joy. ...

A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic" is an invaluable tool for all learners of Arabic providing a list of the 5 000 most frequently used words in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as well as several of the most widely spoken Arabic dialects. Based on a 30-million-word corpus of Arabic which

Includes:: written & spoken material from the entire Arab world this dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the 5 000 entries including English equivalents a sample sentence its English translation usage statistics an indication of genre variation & usage distribution over several major Arabic dialects. Users can access the top 5 000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index arranged by Arabic roots. Throughout the frequency listing there are thematically-organized lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports weather clothing & family terms. An engaging & highly useful resource "A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic" will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of modern Arabic vocabulary. A CD version is available to purchase separetely. Designed for use by corpus & computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process & turn into suitable lists for their own research work. Tim Buckwalter is Research Associate at the University of Maryl&. Dilworth Parkinson is Professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University (Provo Utah)."

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Wake up to the aroma of fresh bread wafting through your kitchen every morning! A dream? No. With your bread machine its a reality. Push a button or two & transform what seems like a laborious time-consuming & skilled process into a spectacularly easy affair. So why do you need this book when bread machines come with their own recipes? Well such recipes vary sometimes on the high side in the amount of yeast salt sugar fat & dried milk powder they contain. Annette Yates has set about reducing these ingredients & providing recipes for making loaves that are as natural as they can be. & they are delicious too. Or you can add extra ingredients
- like herbs spices seeds nuts fruit vegetables honey mustard & even chocolate!
- & transform simple bread into something really special. Try it & see...

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This is the book the flower industry has been waiting for! Everyone loves fresh flowers & this book presents the finest details about how to grow them; how to cut them; how to care for them; how to preserve them & in fact the book is filled to the brim with all kinds of information that deals with every imaginable aspect of fresh cut flowers. Anyone who has a passion for gardening & fresh flowers or those who simply like to dabble in their garden will adore delving into the mind of the fresh cut flowers guru Gregory Milner. Filled with illustrations & magnificent coloured pictures; new ideas about fresh cut flowers; how to (or not to) handle fresh cut flowers; explanations ideas the history of fresh cut flowers etc this is going to be a must have" for students of floristry for florists for garden buffs...in fact for everyone who loves their garden & fresh flowers." ...

Did you know that custard fresh fruit & vegetables pancake batter & iced cakes can all be frozen for future use? With more & more of us trying to save money & avoid wastage now is the perfect time to start using your freezer to its full advantage. Fresh from the Freezer" offers remarkable insights into what foods can be frozen & how as well as practical advice on how to cook foods straight from the freezer defrosting times & methods & reheating leftovers safely. Ghillie James provides over 100 foolproof & delicious recipes for every occasion that can be stored in the freezer or prepared from defrosted ingredients. Chapters include Basic Stocks & Sauces Party Nibbles Prepare-ahead Suppers Teatime Treats & Freezer Food for Babies & Toddlers. With mouthwatering recipes such as Dijon Mustard & Poppyseed Sausage Rolls Roasted Vegetable Lasagne Lamb & Prune Tagine Chocolate Pistachio Biscuits & Mojito Sorbets on standby you will never again resort ready-meals or unhealthy takeaways when there just isnt time to cook." ...

Presented in an identical format to Phaidons previous Fruits published in 2001 Fruits Too is a collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from Japans premier street fanzine of the same title. Published every month by Shoichi Aoki who is also the sole photographer for the magazine Fruits was established in 1994 as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last decade the magazine has grown to cult status & is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles & trends. The average age of those kids featured in the magazine is between 12 & 18 years old. Most of the clothes that they wear are a combination of high fashion
- Vivienne Westwood is a keen favourite
- & homemade ensembles which when combined together create a novel if not hysterical combination. This latest publication of the best of Fruits will follow the original Phaidon publication by including translations of the various Japanese captions that were originally attached to the photographs that list the name age & clothing of each person photographed.

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