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Combining the best ingredients, brilliant recipes and top tricks and tips, Bart van Olphen (of Jamie Oliver's Food Tube Network) demonstrates the versatility of cooking with the ultimate store cupboard staple. Cooking with Tinned Fish takes you from the pantry to the pan with tasty takes on tuna, salmon, mackerel, mussels and more! "Bart is my fish hero - this book rocks! I'm off to buy some tinned fish." - Jamie Oliver Tinned fish is commonly overlooked and likely not given enough credit – it's delicious, sustainable and just as good as fresh! Tinned Fish
combines the best of both worlds: tinned fish and fresh produce. From simple soups and sauces to sandwiches and wholesome meals find over 44 recipes for Tuna, Anchovies, mussels, salmon, mackerel, sardines, crab, cockles and herring:Tuna: tuna and tomato paste mille-feuilletuna, ailio, bacon and avocado pitta, tacos with fresh tuna saladAnchovy: anchovies with gnocchi and sage, rib eye steak with anchovy butter, anchovy and olive… Read More

"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."—Robert Dallek
Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly.
That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster
is also the first history of the war to look… Read More

An expert in the field of cryogenics, Victor Fries led a relatively normal existence. He worked diligently and married a woman named Nora who then became terminally ill. To stop her degenerative disease from taking her life, Victor put her into suspended animation. But a horrible lab accident transformed the former Dr. Fries into an ice-colored monstrosity incapable of surviving above freezing temperatures. To counteract this, Victor constructed a special, ultra-durable suit to keep his body alive. He embraced his new persona and became Mr. Freeze.Mr. Freeze is on a constant quest to bring back his beloved Nora, and he'll do whatever it takes to succeed. He wields a freeze gun and uses ice and cold to wreak havoc--mostly in Gotham and against Batman. BATMAN ARKHAM: MISTER FREEZE collects some of the villain's greatest stories by some of the industry's greatest creators, including Paul Dini (BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES), Scott Synder (BATMAN), James Tynion IV (DETECTIVE COMICS), Jason… Read More

An expert in the field of cryogenics, Victor Fries led a relatively normal existence. He worked diligently and married a woman named Nora who then became terminally ill. To stop her degenerative disease from taking her life, Victor put her into suspended animation. But a horrible lab accident transformed the former Dr. Fries into an ice-colored monstrosity incapable of surviving above freezing temperatures. To counteract this, Victor constructed a special, ultra-durable suit to keep his body alive. He embraced his new persona and became Mr. Freeze. Mr. Freeze is on a constant quest to bring back his beloved Nora, and he'll do whatever it takes to succeed. He wields a freeze gun and uses ice and cold to wreak havoc--mostly in Gotham and against Batman. BATMAN ARKHAM: MISTER FREEZE collects some of the villain's greatest stories by some of the industry's greatest creators, including Paul Dini (BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES), Scott Synder (BATMAN), James Tynion IV (DETECTIVE COMICS), Jason… Read More

Step outside your door and reconnect with nature. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your connection to the earth and inspire you to develop and strengthen your imagination.The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate and restore our imagination and equilibrium, is infinite.Step into Nature makes nature personal again by stimulating awareness and increasing our understanding of the environment. But being in nature doesn't mean flying off to remote, faraway places. Nature is as close as opening your front door—and opening your heart to the sky above, the miniature gardens that push their way up between the sidewalk cracks in our cities, and the small stream just down the road.Patrice Vecchione demonstrates how nature can support and enhance your creative… Read More

New York Times–bestselling canines Harlow and Indiana, dubbed "the most adorable best friends in the world" by Buzzfeed, are back with a new addition to the family: Reese Lightning!In the beginning, Indiana Thunderbolt learned the ropes from her big sister, Harlow. She had no idea how things worked in her new family, but like any good older sibling, Harlow explained how they celebrated holidays, took family vacations, and remembered their sister, Sage who had gone on to doggie heaven before Indiana was born. Over time, Indi started to get the hang of it all, and she found herself growing up. In Harlow & Indiana (and Reese), it's Indi's turn to be a big sister when baby Reese arrives. Reese is tinier than Harlow and Indiana could ever have imagined, and they have a lot to get used to with a new sibling in the house. Narrated by the sassy and rabble-rousing Indiana, Harlow & Indiana (and Reese) is as adorable and charming as Harlow & Sage, filled with more jokes, more adventures, and even… Read More

Both an architectural feast and field guide for creating new old houses, "Roots of Home "traces the development of today's traditional homes from the earliest colonial styles in a visually stunning journey. Russell Versaci takes you back to the beginning, when our ancestors built homes that reflected their Old World pasts tempered with the New World realities. As they settled new territories, they carried the homes of their forefathers with them like a touchstone. They sowed farms and towns with houses similar to the ones they left behind, but suited to the new climates and materials surrounding them. Each old-house style showcased, though always decidedly American--New England Colonial, Pennsylvania Dutch, French Creole, Spanish Mission--represents the cumulative history of generations adapting to new places. With Russell Versaci as your guide, you will see how yesterday's houses evolved into the classic homes we love today and you will learn how to create a new old house that evokes… Read More

A young girl's greatest wish is fulfilled when a horse is delivered to her New York penthouse--especially since it is a horse with wings

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. "Bernuth...provides a detailed and comprehensive examination of the evolution of some of the best-known Yiddish folk stories--those revolving around the comically foolish men of the town of Chelm--that places those tales in historical and cultural context." ― Publishers Weekly"[Von Bernuth] provides a comprehensive survey of all the collections of Chelm stories and their predecessors published since 1700, shows how the tales explored Jewish identity, community and history, and delivers a few punch lines." ― The Jerusalem Post"von Bernuth succeeds admirably in showing how the mythic locale allowed for the expression of various Jewish fantasies and anxieties over the past century and a half, and indeed continues to do so today." ― Times Higher Education"A beautifully-written work of meticulous scholarship. How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first book in… Read More