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Mr Cabbage and Family
Mr Cabbage and Family is a historical and culinary walk through the crucifer family. Gerald and Usanna Stribling uncover surprisingly interesting information about the cabbage family and its development over the ages. They describe its botanical structure and nutritional value, with details of its cultivation and storage, as well as various preserving methods, health values and other uses. Within these pages, readers will find mouth-watering recipes to try out from all over the world, from delicious soups from the American South, to sumptuous curries from India, to Italian and French feasts, along with much more. This comprehensive history of the cabbage family and its usage today will appeal to all food lovers, especially those with a taste for this particularly diverse and delectable vegetable.
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Pants Optional
In her first autobiography, Pants Optional, Carol Steingreaber offers a hilarious, unrestricted insight into her life thus far in Iowa, USA. The reader is a privileged passenger on the journey, invited to buckle up for the ride as Carol shares her stories from the sibling squabbles of childhood, to cringeworthy dating moments, marriage and various stages of motherhood. Her witty, 'tell-it-straight' writing style conjures up images you can't help but laugh at, often accompanied by photos that speak a thousand (usually comical) words.Carol provides the reader with 'UNconventional tips' on a whole range of themes such as housework and hospitals, illness and injury, Nerf guns and nudity, safety concerns and sex, friendship, faith and a great many more. Moments of eternal embarrassment are interspersed with flashes of comic/parenting genius, and every reader will find a nugget or three (or twenty!) to inspire them. A cracking read, and highly recommended.
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QPR Away Day Travels
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Stinking Cleaning
Stinking Cleaning is a small book about housekeeping and how to keep clean the important areas of a home. It follows a young couple, Steven and Clarissa, as they start life together in a one bedroom rental flat and what they learn about cleaning and saving money. Their intention is to purchase their own property to move into as a married couple.The book is set out similarly to a diary-come-recipe book, where either Clarissa or Steven talk about what they have learned from friends and relatives and write it down. They also list the requirements and process of each procedure as they go about cleaning and keeping house.Subjects covered are the usual cleaning areas: the kitchen and bathroom. But the book also touches on other matters, such as providing recipes for natural cleansers as well as the best process for washing and ironing. It even explains how to keep Hi-Fi equipment clean.All through the book are helpful hints on ways to save time and money, and explanations of old systems and strategies for running a home.Stinking Cleaning is the perfect reference book for the younger generations who have not been taught to clean or keep house properly, as it explains the when, where and why of cleaning and house work.
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The Paradox of Ageing
Almost every country in the so-called developed world is facing the paradox of ageing. Thanks to science, more effective medication and higher living standards, more and more of us are exceeding the “three score years and ten” theoretical limits of the past despite the physical and mental impairments that develop with ageing.For those who are spared dementia or chronic pain, a long life is reason to celebrate. We will have a party when we are 80, an even bigger one if we reach 90 and if we hit treble twenty and double tops on life’s “dartboard”, the queen will send us a telegram (a text today perhaps!) of congratulation.For others, it means a slow decline towards a miserable and undignified dying. As economics, care needs and pressure on the availability of hospital beds have become more urgent public issues, the elderly infirm risk becoming marginalised. The social contributions made by care workers and the fact that they have been long de-valued and ill-paid, despite the economic benefits for both the NHS and society at large, is also being given a higher profile.Other difficult and sensitive issues concerning elderly care are assisted dying, better termed the “right” to die and the “quantity over quality” contradictions regarding care agencies and private residential nursing homes.Whatever solutions are offered in the future, it is surely time to highlight the value of carers – a profession that not only requires empathy and compassion but also deserves recognition and respect.
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The Perennial Plants
With this book I would like to share and give inspiration, experience and knowledge on all aspects of perennial plants in landscape architecture, garden design and horticulture. It gives the reader a solid foundation and keys to successful design, cultivation and propagation of perennial plants and is equally useful to the professional landscape architect, the professional nurseryman and the passionate gardener.
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