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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is helpful to the beginner wandering through conflicting and often erroneous information concerning there delectable desserts in a glass. This Italian dessert cookbook shows how much more there is to see and taste at the end of a good Italian meal. "Italian Desserts" is highly recommended. This is a great book for anyone trying to master the art of Italian dessert-making.

I never thought that I would ever make a living from writing or have a career in writing. But I want to publish my short story and poems because I want my voice to be heard. That doesn't happen in my family. I think very differently from my family, so they never approve of, or encourage, anything I do. I also get no support from my friends. I am different from them in the sense that I wanted to be popular and was all into student organizations...

Polo, a six-year-old Golden Retriever, was born in Wayland, Michigan. Leaving his mother, brothers, and sisters, he moved into his foster puppy home. There he learned basic commands and began his socialization training, which lasted one year. He then graduated and went on to receive intense training in Assistance Dog skills for the specific human which was chosen for him. He now lives in Indiana with his human partner. Although Polo is on duty...

This massive, 400+ page phonebook-size volume is both an extraordinary showcase of the artist's talents and wit, and a glimpse into the creative process of developing unique cartoon characters and style. Thousands of the artist's sketches, drawings and cartoons are included in this book - which spans twenty years of creative development - including 4 fully serialized newspaper style cartoon strips and hundreds of single panel magazine and free...

Capture the Memories is a photo journal of many important moments in the life of Linda B. Conner. It is through photography that Linda learned to take a minute and enjoy the sights around her. Photography can capture a single second in time. A second that once remembered will bring back memories of a pleasant scene, a happy occasion or a specific even. These memories can help bring your closer to someone you love or allow you to share an impor...

Este libro contiene poemas inspirados por las experiencias personales del autor. Contiene consejos y poemas de agradecimiento a Dios que ayudan y animan al lector mental y espiritualmente. Tambien incluye poemas especialmente dirigidos a madres, padres y jovenes.

In der neueren fremdsprachlichen Reflexion wird verstärkt die Rolle literarischer Texte betont. Heutzutage erscheint ihr Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht als völlig legitim. Die theoretischen Grundlagen dieser Methodik bedürfen indessen einer Ergänzung. In dieser Studie werden Lese- und Rezeptionsprozesse untersucht, die durch fremdsprachliche literarische Texte ausgelöst werden. Dafür werden existierende Beschreibungsansätze herangezogen un...

Widely acclaimed as the best animated film of all time, Tale of Tales isa poetic amalgam of Yuri Norstein's memories of his past and hopes and fears for thefuture: his post-war childhood, remnants of the personal tragedies of war, thelittle wolf character in the lullaby his mother used to sing, the neighbors in hiscrowded communal flat, the tango played in the park on summer evenings, and thesmall working-class boy's longing to emerge from the...

The city of Dubuque, settled on the west side of the Mississippi River in 1833, has historically been home to four major railways and numerous trolleys and passenger trains. Dubuque's railroad legacy was precipitated by local resident John Plumbe Jr., "the Father of the Transcontinental Railroad, " who proposed a transcontinental railroad in 1838 and promoted the idea throughout the Midwest. The Illinois Central Railroad first reached the east...

The first wave of Chinese immigrants came to Chicagoland in the 1870s, after the transcontinental railway connected the Pacific Coast to Chicago. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented working-class Chinese from entering the U.S., except men who could prove they were American citizens. For more than 60 years, many Chinese immigrants had acquired documents helping to prove that they were born in America or had a parent who was a citizen. ...

The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues which arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and an...

Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult women was still confirmed by marriage and motherhood rather than employment. This book examines the gendered nature of 'career'. Using both written sources and oral history it enters the theoretical debate over the significance of gender by considering the relationship between individual ...

Einzig in der britischen Besatzungszone wurde im Nachkriegsdeutschland der Versuch unternommen, Mitglieder bestimmter NS-Organisationen neben dem bekannten Entnazifizierungsverfahren einem gesonderten Strafverfahren zu unterwerfen. Der strafrechtliche Vorwurf basierte auf der kenntnisbelasteten Mitgliedschaft in einer verbrecherischen Organisation wie etwa SS, Gestapo, SD oder Führerkorps der NSDAP. Von der deutschen Bevölkerung weitgehend ign...

Während philologische Studien in der internationalen Volkserzählforschung auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken können, haben Betrachtungen der Wirkungsweisen und Rezeptionsformen einzelner Erzählungen noch immer nicht jenen Stellenwert erlangt, der ihnen wegen ihrer gesellschaftlichen Relevanz zustehen würde. In diesem Band haben vierzehn renommierte Erzählforscher/innen in einprägsamen Fallbeispielen aus neun europäischen Ländern ein breite...

When Matt Davison made a diving catch on the famous "flea-flicker" play against Missouri in 1997, securing Nebraska's perfect season, the Husker faithful were in football nirvana. And that memorable play was preceded by over a century of Nebraska Football greatness. The team was winning conference championships back in the 1890s, and was an established national powerhouse by the time they joined the Big Eight (later Big Twelve) in 1928. Even t...

Their program was once regarded as a powerhouse, but 25 years ago the Northwestern University football team set records for futility. Defying nearly all expectations, the Wildcats experienced a rebirth in 1995 and have been surprising the college football world since. Northwestern Wildcat Football describes in detail the team's first games in the 19th century, the Wildcats' title runs in the 1930s, the career of NU legend Otto Graham, the 1949...

The Proving Grounds takes place in a small Pennsylvania coal town in 1966. Sixteen-year-old Rose, whose mother is mentally ill and institutionalized, is seduced by a coal miner. Rose becomes pregnant and is struck by an illness no one can understand. Rose's grandmother, Margaret, is her caretaker but she's at a loss to help Rose. What can she do but side with the doctors who label Rose a product of her mother's insanity? Extreme treatments beg...

The Boston & Maine Railroad serviced most of New England as a primary mode of transportation during the 19th and 20th centuries. The birth of this railroad spurred the growth and development of industry in New England. This heritage is captured in Boston & Maine Trains and Services, the fourth volume in Arcadia's Images of Rail series to focus on the history of this railroad. The trains and services included in this book are the Pullman passen...

More than 7, 000 people living in the Chicago area and Michigan City, Indiana, eagerly anticipated Saturday morning, July 24, 1915. This particular Saturday was going to be anything but a routine summer day. Plans had been carefully made for it to be the social and entertainment event of the year, and for some, a lifetime. The fifth annual midsummer excursion and picnic had been organized by the employees of the Western Electric Company's Hawt...