A stunning survey of modern illustration that uses older styles of artistic expression to evoke a sense of another time & place. ...

The Modern Welsh Dictionary is intended for the growing number of learners of Welsh in all walks of life & is designed with your needs in mind. It contains hundreds of example phrases of spoken & written Welsh so that you can see the language in context. Excellent grammar notes on tricky words & important topics mean that help is always on hand whether you are working in Welsh or in English. The handy paperback format & superior coverage of vocabulary makes the Modern Welsh Dictionary the first choice for beginner- & intermediate-level learners of the language as well as those who want a quick-reference dictionary that can be carried easily. Native Welsh speakers will also find the Modern Welsh Dictionary a useful resource in clarifying questions of vocabulary grammar & usage. You won't need to resort to English to say that you are sending an email or using the Internet as the Modern Welsh Dictionary has comprehensive coverage of contemporary Welsh. Bydd Cymry Cymraeg hefyd yn darganfod bod y Geiriadur Cymraeg Cyfoes yn adnodd defnyddiol i ateb cwestiynau ar eirfa gramadeg a defnydd. Mae'r Geiriadur Cymraeg Cyfoes yn cynnwys triniaeth gyflawn o'r iaith gyfoes
- fydd dim rhaid defnyddio'r Saesneg i ddweud eich bod yn gyrru e-bost neu'ch bod ar y rhyngrwyd byth eto!
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This visually stunning & lavishly produced guide to the great buildings & structures of the modern age from around the world ...

A range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications. This book provides a complete package for centres following the revised GCSE OCR Modern World History Specifications. The book comprises three sections: International Relations 1919
- 1989; the new compulsory core unit British History 1906
- 1918; & the most popular depth study option Germany 1918
- 1945. This lively & accessible text is based around lead questions which match those in the OCR Specifications. Essential knowledge is provided through background briefings analysis of issues through investigations & review sections to provide opportunities for revision.


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Designed specifically for the Modern World History for OCR

Specification 1937 this series concentrates on improving

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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics & genres. Modernism & After focuses on those writers working in English between 1910 & 1939 whose work signalled a dramatic change in the sense of what art could & should be. An overview of Modernism is provided but the book recognises that the term should not become a strait-jacket into which we try to fit a writers individual distinctiveness. Rather siginificant poetry & prose works are explored in the light both of the events of the time & of other modernist developments in areas such as music architecture & the visual arts. ...

A revolution is underway in the art of cooking. Just as French Impressionists upended centuries of tradition Modernist cuisine has in recent years blown through the boundaries of the culinary arts. Borrowing techniques from the laboratory pioneering chefs at world-renowned restaurants such as el Bulli The Fat Duck Alinea & wd~50 have incorporated a deeper understanding of science & advances in cooking technology into their culinary art. The authors & their 20-person team at The Cooking Lab
- scientists inventors & accomplished cooks in their own right
- have achieved astounding new flavors & textures by using tools such as water baths homogenizers & centrifuges & ingredients such as hydrocolloids emulsifiers & enzymes. Modernist Cuisine" is a work destined to reinvent cooking. How do you make an omelet light & tender on the outside but rich & creamy inside? Or French fries with a light & fluffy interior & a delicate crisp crust that doesnt go soggy? Imagine being able to encase a mussel in a gelled sphere of its own sweet & briny juice. Or to create a silky-smooth pistachio cream made from nothing more than the nuts themselves. " Modernist Cuisine" offers step-by-step illustrated instructions as well as clear explanations of how these techniques work. Through thousands of original photographs & diagrams the lavishly illustrated books make the science & technology of the culinary arts clear & engaging. stunning new photographic techniques take the reader inside the food to see cooking in action all the way from microscopic meat fibers to an entire Weber grill in cross-section. You will view cooking-and eating-in a whole new light. It

Includes:: topics such as: why plunging food in ice water doesnt stop the cooking process; when boiling cooks faster than steaming; why raising the grill doesnt lower the heat; how low-cost pots & pans can perform better than expensive ones; why baking is mostly a drying process; why deep-fried food tastes best & browns better when the oil is older; & how modern cooking techniques can achieve ideal results without the perfect timing or good luck that traditional methods dem&. It offers insights into the surprising science behind traditional food preparation methods such as grilling smoking & stir-frying. It is the most comprehensive guide yet published on cooking sous vide including the best options for water baths packaging materials & sealing equipment; cooking strategies; & troubleshooting tips. It features more than 250 pages on meat & seafood & 144 pages on fruits vegetables & grains including dozens of parametric recipes & step-by-step techniques. There are extensive chapters explaining how to achieve amazing results by using modern thickeners gels emulsions & foams including example recipes & many formulas. It also contains some 300 pages of new recipes for plated dishes suitable for service at top-tier restaurants plus recipes adapted from master chefs including Grant Achatz Ferran Adria Heston Blumenthal David Chang Wylie Dufresne David Kinch & many others. It
Includes:: " Volume 1: History & Fundamentals"; " Volume 2: Techniques & Equipment"; " Volume 3: Animals & Plants"; " Volume 4: Ingredients & Preparations"; " Volume 5: Plated-Dish Recipes"; " Volume 6: Kitchen Manual" with example recipes & extensive reference tables printed on washable paper; Modernist Cuisine.com; Modernist Cuisine Brochure (pdf); Modernist Cuisine Press Release (pdf); New Yorker. com; NYTimes.com; NY1.com; & Charlie Rose.com."




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Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual empirical experience a turn that was a repudiation of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality & intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the old" concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task comparing the arguments for a life based on theory & one based on praxis in order to provide a balance sheet of profit & loss. Showing that the Enlightenment did not as often assumed discover rationality but instead a different concept of rationality the book opens one's view to other forms of rationality & new possibilities of reconciliation with one's own
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- history. Modernity & Plato was hailed upon its publication in Germany (2003 revised 2008) as "one of the most important philosophy books of the past few years " as "a book that belongs without any doubt in the great tradition of German philosophy " & as "a provocative thesis on the antiquity-modernity debate." It is a major contribution to synthetic philosophy & philosophical historiography in English for the first time. Arbogast Schmitt is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Greek & Latin Philology at Free University Berlin & Emeritus Professor of Classical Philology & Greek at the University of Marburg Germany. Vishwa Adluri teaches in the Departments of Religion & Philosophy at Hunter College City University of New York."

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The late 1950s was an action-packed often dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain began to take shape. These were the 'never had it so good' years when the Carry On film series & the TV soap Emergency Ward 10 got going & films like Room at the Top & plays like A Taste of Honey brought the working class to the centre of the national frame; when the urban skyline began irresistibly to go high-rise; when CND galvanised the progressive middle class; when 'youth' emerged as a cultural force; when the Notting Hill riots made race & immigration an inescapable reality; & when 'meritocracy' became the buzz word of the day. The consequences of this 'modernity' zeitgeist David Kynaston argues still affect us today. ...

Features the classic stories The Wild Boar Kalis Disciples & The Double Agent
- in which the head of French intelligence is kidnapped;
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