Presents a collection of more than 120 recipes for sweets from around the world, including shortbread, tarts, brownie bites, truffles, marzipan, toffees, and brittles.
SENSUAL AND DELICIOUS DATE DESSERTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. Sticky. Sweet. Gooey. Eating a date is like biting into a caramel cloud, its sweet and soft flesh tinged with molasses and flavor. Dates are
How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian opp
Kolsks, a London tour guide, and Rawson, an attorney with a love of Jewish culture, provide neighborhood walking tours of London's Jewish past and present. In addition to attractions such as the home
Outside of time, the legendary queen Sheherazade tells a little girl a story that has happened, and is yet to happen. Dreams of Maryam Tair brings readers to a Casablanca of myth and metaphor, of curs
A Traveller's History of Turkey offers a full and accurate portrait of the region from Prehistory right up to the present day. Particular emphasis is given to those aspects of history which have left
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Interweaves the author's travels with a history of the American West, discussing historical events, including Louisiana Purchase, Butch Cassidy, and Lewis and Clark, along with stories of the settlers
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Deeply critical of American foreign policy in general and the Bush administration in particular, Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies) surveys the impact of U.S. militarism and neocolonialism on the M
In this collection of 41 stories from West Africa, each country is presented by several stories, a map, and country statistics on size, population, ethnic groups, and languages. An introduction explor
