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Editor-in-chiefMarie-Pierre Moine has over 20 years' experience in the food and wine media. Past editor of Taste and TasteAnatolia magazines, she is a food and travel writer, cookery demonstrator and consultant, a member of the UK Guild of Food Writers, and on the Committee of the Academy of Chocolate. Born and brought up in Paris, she fell in love with the Mediterranean during long childhood summers. Marie-Pierre lives in London but spends ti...

Well, what can I say about Private Dick Melvin C. James? Like the man shouldn't be in the business at all. Mismatch of job a person if ever there was one. Me, I'm dedicated and love my job but James? What an attitude. No respect for the law. Too much respect for crooks, what a softie, so naïve. He's ain't so smart either. Who on this green earth carries 2 guns, one named "Norma Jean" filled with cement and won't shoot or hoot, while the other ...

A plane crash in the frozen wilderness of northern Wisconsin leaves only three survivors, and airline stewardess Diana Forrester must shoulder the heavy responsibility of caring for the two passengers--Urbano Rivera and Casey Morgan. Despite her warnings, Diana can only watch as Urbano and Casey leave the wreckage and trek through the snow and freezing temperatures in search of help. It's not long before Casey returns--alone. Within a few days...

Aliging IT with the business is a key board objective. Better shareholder returns, greater competitiveness and fewer compliance issues are typical benefits of an IT governance framework. This is not a technology book. It has been written specifically for those directors, managers and their professional advisers who want to leverage IT more effectively to compete in our information economy. It argues that getting real value from IT is about lea...

Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror comes when its your turn on the chopping block...Forty six state governments now Out-source jobs and contracts to foreign countries like India, China, and more...American HMOs, Insurance companies, banks, and credit card companies are processing your social security information, your medical and fi...

Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror comes when its your turn on the chopping block... Forty six state governments now Out-source jobs and contracts to foreign countries like India, China, and more... American HMOs, Insurance companies, banks, and credit card companies are processing your social security information, your medical and ...

The present volume, which has been out of print for some time, pertains to matters stretching from the time they entered the Promised Land, under the commanding lead of their anointed ruler, Joshua, until the rule of Queen Esther, including the period of the Judges, the reign of kings Solomon and David, the dividing of the kingdom, the captivity, and the return from exile.

Idioms are the nuts and bolts of English. They add color and zing to make the language more expressive. This book with its humorous illustrations and witty definitions is almost guaranteed to make learning English idioms fun! And as easy as ABC!

Disturbing, family secrets are exposed, as events crescendo into a shocking, final, cliff-hanging chapter--which could rival the nighttime dramas of yesteryear. Written in the old fashioned, soap opera style, this novel is very sexually explicit and, sometimes, quite graphic. The basic elements of the soap genre are all here: including backstabbing, plotting, love affairs, forbidden passions, and raging emotions. Definitely escape, fantasy rea...

Stein attains a new level of achievement that demonstrates his ability to write as well as, and perhaps better than, most of the novelists he publishes... It's the sort of book you hate to stop reading." --"John Barkham Reviews" "If you bury yourself in a Sol Stein book while walking, you will walk into a wall." --"The New York Times" "Brilliantly conceived, highly recommended." --United Press International

Alisa came into my life at a time of great challenge and transition for me. Like a breath of fresh air, the balance of her humble, honest and compassionate nature inspired a deep felt trust within minutes of our conversation. As she spoke of my past and present circumstances, I was dumbfounded by her accuracy. She spoke to my heart and soul with such insight! I found transcendental healing in her words, as though they were setting me free."--B...

This book begins your exploration of the culture and traditions of the Akans of Ghana, West Africa. It introduces the reader to the lifestyle of the traditional Akans living in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, and other West African Countries. Little has been written on the Akan culture and spirituality especially in the style and with the sensitivity of this author. The reader gets a glimpse of the traditional life of the Akan with its protocols, ho...

Lisa means well. She doesn't want to hurt Peggy, a quiet, outsider in her sixth grade class. She befriends Peggy and is invited to Peggy's birthday party where she has a good time with her and her dog, Lucky. But, in the end, Lisa is afraid of being excluded herself and she goes along with popular Susan and the other girls in her class without speaking up. As a result of their cruelty to Peggy, Peggy's father takes her out of school. Lisa pain...

I scraped off the clay...there was no mistaking what I saw...I had found it!"What Mary Anning found in the cliffs in 1811, when she was 13, was the first complete fossil of an ichthyosaur, a marine dinosaur. Mary Anning lived in England in the 1800's. She hunted and sold fossils to save her family from poverty after her father died when she was 11 years old. Despite social disproval of her unfeminine occupation, Mary persisted and became a lea...

The studies assembled in this volume in honor of József Herman address the main areas on which his research has concentrated: the evolution of classical and post-classical Latin, the emergence of the Romance languages, and (from this perspective) more general problems of diachronic linguistics. Over and above the individual problems addressed here in detail, the articles (grouped thematically) outline the concerns of the disciplines involved a...

Roomy speaks about alternatives to warring and also opens up Muslim secular literature and the Grail legend in the West to discover common roots of Muslim and Western peoples.

Fostering Now summarizes the findings of the largest recent study into foster care in the UK. It provides an overview of 16 research projects specially commissioned by the government as part of its Supporting Parents initiative and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process. The research explores the views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, investigating...

Black Woman Blue is story telling at its southern best! Author Jacqueline Akins explores the joys of friendship while examining the painstaking truth behind deceit, and just when evil rears it's ugly head, the reader is rescued and bosomed in a reward of self-discovery, patience and faithfulness. As I pulled into the driveway of the place I knew was ours, I tried to think of when things started going wrong for us. I never wanted a big house, j...

Maximilian Fausto is on a mission. His dead mother set him the task of collecting her personal journals, but he quickly discovers that the elusive journals are not so easy to find. And he begins to suspect that his mother planned this journey for his personal growth. He's suspicious and depressed by nature, and he chafes against any attempt to right himself with the world. Things get rough for Max. He's snared in a destructive love affair, he ...

Maximilian Fausto is on a mission. His dead mother set him the task of collecting her personal journals, but he quickly discovers that the elusive journals are not so easy to find. And he begins to suspect that his mother planned this journey for his personal growth. He's suspicious and depressed by nature, and he chafes against any attempt to right himself with the world. Things get rough for Max. He's snared in a destructive love affair, he ...