"Explained by the chefs of the famous French culinary school. Recipes for 'French tradition' baguette, leaven bread, festive rolls, focaccia. ciabatta, pitta, challah, croissants, pain au chocolate, Parisian brioche, stollen, panettone, kouign-amann, three Kings' cake...and much, much more. Traditional and regional breads, international breads as well as viennoiseries (Danish pastries) and Bake…
Collects 101 popular idioms and sayings and explains their origins and how their usage has changed over time
"A celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of the world's warships. For 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original res…
Naval Minewarfare: Politics to Practicalities is a comprehensive guide to modern naval minewarfare. From explaining the basic tenets of both naval mining and naval mine countermeasures, then examining the modern history of naval mining, through to the legal, political and statecraft factors that should underpin any decisions to employ naval mines, this detailed analysis provides a contemporary …
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, a New York Times bestseller, is a blueprint of laws to break us free from the shackles of an ordinary life. It makes a case that everything we know about the world is shaped by conditioning and habit. And thus, most people live their lives based on limiting rules and outdated beliefs about pretty much everything -- love, work, money, parenting, sex, health, a…