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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Each chapter begins with a primer that describes the style of baked goods, as well as an explanation of essential ingredients, equipment, and baking methods. You'll learn why the flour you choose is key, how to tell if you've kneaded your bread dough long enough, why the temperatures of butter and eggs are critical in cake making, what equipment you need to accurately measure dry and wet ingredients, how an icing spatula can perfect your finished...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This essential guide to starting and running a nonprofit organization includes practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions. It explains how to develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market an organization to a target audience; raise money-including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website and use social media strategically; and adopt policies that are...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Quick & Legal Will Book provides the forms and step-by-step instructions to create a simple, valid will that protects family and property after death. This book explains how to name beneficiaries to inherit assets, choose a guardian for young children, set up a trust for minors, name an executor (and a backup), choose appropriate witnesses, finalize a will, and revoke or change the will if necessary. This book also explains basic estate planning,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While the amount of information regarding a breast cancer diagnosis is vaster than ever, online and off, what continues to be missing is the explanation behind the options. Most of the data online on medical sites is generic and often comes from the same source. Then there are the patient sites as well as many social media outlets that provide peer to peer support and information. This is important for emotional support but still leaves out the full...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The History of Jazz, 3rd edition, is a comprehensive survey of jazz music from its origins until the current day. The book is designed for general readers and students, as well as those with more specialized interest in jazz and music history. It provides detailed biographical information and an overview of the musical contributions of the key innovators in development of jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins,...
10) Switzerland
Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Presents an updated guide to the cities, mountain resorts, lakes, hotels, transportation, and restaurants of Switzerland.
Author
Series
The ordinary blessings volume 3
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For many, the season leading up to Christmas is a time of expectations, busyness, joy, and often grief. Ordinary Blessings for the Christmas Season helps us access the deeper meaning of holidays, connect to the ancient story of Christmas, and pause to recognize the sacred ordinary in the season"--
Author
Publisher
Black Sparrow Press, Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A companion to Nina MacLaughlin's luminous Summer Solstice. The year is fading. Light is fading. Solstice means sun-stilled. It's a wild sort of stilling, a thrashing frenzied sort of stilling, a stopping of time, a de-metering, a holding of the breath as the tension builds, as the dark expands, until it cracks and the light drives in. That's the hope. Pomegranate, holly branch, birch switch, mistletoe. We'll leaf with life and pass below the secret...
Publisher
Kaplan North America, LLC dba Kaplan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Offers a comprehensive preparation guide for the nursing school entrance exams students may be required to take prior to their enrollment, including the Kaplan Nursing Admission Test and the HESI exam.
15) The unlikely peace at Cuchumaquic: the parallel lives of people as plants, Keeping the seeds alive
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir, spiritual adventure story, and ecological fable, this book shares the message that plants and humanity are interconnected, and that the survival of one depends upon the other"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a "Neohelix albolabris"--a common woodland snail.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of the genetic age. Four times in the last fifty years, geneticists, frightened by their own technology, have called a temporary halt to their experiments. They ought to be frightened: Now...
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