This version by Penguin presents De Quinceys original version from 1821 and then his revision notes from 1856. There is also a short section of comments that De Quincey made concerning his Confessions from 1821-1855. The Confessions, in a nutshell, begin b..
It is a thoroughly recommended title for the amateur or professional arborist's shelf. Contents Include: Trial and Error, Pears, Pests and Diseases of the Pear, Medlars and Quinces, Almonds, The Apricot, The Cherry, Pests and Diseases of Cherries, The Peac..
The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness. Fair Exotics develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which ..
How would one begin to prepare such Balkan delights as chorba, cashcaval, borsh, ghiveci, and papanashi? Vladimir Mirodan, a native Romanian, introduces the reader to a world of cooking primarily unknown to the West.The cuisine of Romania, Bulgaria, and Yu..
Although it addresses larger scale production, all of its hints, tips and recipes are equally useful in the smaller kitchen. Contents Include Raw Materials-Fruits, sugars, pectinous or jelly producing bodies, Citric and tartaric acids, preservatives Appara..
Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens of quangos whose primary purpose seemed to be jobs for the boys, the culture of junketry that took hold in the se..
