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Verso Books Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. This tumult, sometimes referred to as 'the literary war', saw an extraordinary outpouring of writing. The conflict opened up a vista of possibilities and tragedies for poetic exploration, and at the same time poetry was a tool for manipulating the sentiments of the combatant peoples. In Germany alone during the first few months there were over a million poems of propaganda published. We think of war poets as pacifistic protestors, but that view has been created retrospectively. The verse of the time, particularly in the early years of the conflict-in Fernando Pessoa or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for example-could find in the violence and technology of modern warfare an awful and exhilarating epiphany. In this cultural history of the First World War, the conflict is seen from the point of view of poets and writers from all over Europe, including Rupert Brooke, Anna Akhmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Rainer Maria Rilke and Siegfried Sassoon. Everything to Nothing is the award-winning panoramic history of how nationalism and internationalism defined both the war itself and its aftermath-revolutionary movements, wars for independence, civil wars, the treaty of Versailles. It reveals how poets played a vital role in defining the stakes, ambitions and disappointments of postwar Europe.
£20.00
Skyhorse Publishing Whole Bowls: Complete Gluten-Free and Vegetarian Meals to Power Your Day
National Recipient of the Gourmand Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook. From the creator of the award-winning food blog Yummy Beet, turn familiar and traditional tastes into healthy, one-bowl meals. Healthful, plentiful, and simple kitchen creations feel at home in a bowl. Whether a meal is enjoyed as a weekday breakfast for one or part of a leisurely dinner with friends, whole foods come to life when presented within the walls of this steadfast kitchen vessel. For Allison Day, the nutritionist and food blogger behind Yummy Beet, meal-sized bowl recipes showcase her love of this cozy serving dish, staying true to her philosophy of eating with visually alluring, seasonal, and delicious food you can feel good about. Along with more than fifty full-meal, vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free recipes (not to mention the dozens of mini recipes-within-recipes), these pages contain an innovative, easy-to-follow “Whole Bowls Formula” to build your own creations for quick, everyday lunches and dinners. Recipes include: Curried falafel and kale salad bowls Black bean bowls with butternut squash, black rice, and chimichurri Oat risotto bowls with soft-boiled eggs, avocado, and hazelnut dukkah Sunny citrus bowls with orange pomegranate salsa and lemon cream Carrot cake bowls with a cream cheese dollop and candied carrots Southern Cheddar Grits with Tomatoes, Kale, and Black Beans Almost Noodle Salad with Radishes and Basil Chili con Veggie with Cornbread Mediterranean Pasta with Arugula, Peas, Yellow Tomatoes, and Feta Greek Mushroom Stifado with Horseradish Mashed Potatoes Tuscan Bean Stew Baked Polenta with Caramelized Onions, Mushrooms, and Marinara Using real, fresh ingredients, Allison offers straightforward and approachable creations that can be made ahead of time, whipped up quickly on a weeknight, or invented off-the-cuff with her Bowl Formula Guide. With vibrant and exciting photography shot by Allison herself, you’ll be eager to cook and eat her fun, foolproof, and inventive whole bowls.
£15.41
Vintage Publishing How To Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Nigella Collection)
Rediscover Nigella's classic food bible this Christmas. 'Cooking is not just about joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. In cooking, as in writing, you must please yourself to please others.' Hailed by chefs, reviewers, cookery writers and millions of home cooks worldwide as one of the best cookery books ever written, How To Eat is more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 delicious, simple recipes. Combining Nigella's down-to-earth, practical cookery advice with a passion for food and a friendly, chatty style, you will need two copies of this glorious classic: one for the kitchen, one for the bedside table. This is Nigel Slater's all-time favourite cookbook: "If I could only keep one cookbook, this would be it. How To Eat suits the way I cook. It is as if Nigella is sitting on a stool next to me in the kitchen as I'm cooking ... With every page you know she loves this stuff, and she wants you to love it too. It's a very, very special book for me. My own copy is falling apart." With gloriously witty food writing, easy recipes, basic cooking tips and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family. Basics - from easy bread recipes and basic roast chicken to sauce ingredients and seasonal foods Cooking in advance - slow cooking, marinades and stress-free, easy recipes One and two - cooking for one and meals for two people, from the practical to the romantic Fast food - easy recipes and quick meal ideas Weekend lunch - Saturday and Sunday lunch menus, for entertaining friends and family meals Dinner - complete dinner menus for any occasion, from an elegant dinner party to a simple supper Low Fat - healthy recipes and low-fat meals that still burst with flavour Feeding babies and small children - weaning recipes, easy family meals and dishes to tempt that fussy eater.Nigella Collection: a vibrant new look for Nigella's classic cookery books.
£27.00
HarperCollins Publishers my cool houseboat: an inspirational guide to stylish houseboats
About 15,000 people live permanently afloat on canals, rivers and coasts in Great Britain alone, but thousands more enjoy holidaying on boats or own them as weekend retreats in the UK and abroad. This book will feature not only static residential boats and floating dwellings but also those used as holiday homes and funky modern businesses – houseboats can range from canal boats, riverboats, narrow and wide beam boats, barges, Dutch barges, static houseboats and even seaworthy cruisers moored in marina. The book will cover stylish boats from the UK, North America, Europe and Australia. The houseboats engage the reader through their history and owners’ stories, which are told in lively text and colourful images. People fall in love with boats and own them for a variety of reasons: out of affordability and necessity; a love of the water; closeness to nature and the environment; or just because they yearn for a different and more relaxed style of living/working space. This book shows how houseboats can offer an attractive, practical and alternative solution, as well as amazing and often idiosyncratic solutions to living successfully in a small space. My cool houseboat covers the following themes: stylish architectural, from San Francisco to Prague; thrifty and eclectic, as an affordable solution to conventional city dwelling; businesses, using houseboats as unusual workspaces, from a book barge to an allotment; modernist, from a Finnish floating office to an Amsterdam watervilla; recycled, ranging from an Ellis Island ferry houseboat to a converted minesweeper; and soulful, covering alternative ways of life, relaxation and recreation, from a New York City houseboat to a stylish Paris home. Word count: 25,000
£13.49
Profile Books Ltd Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: THE TIMES · SUNDAY TIMES · ECONOMIST DAILY MAIL · DAILY MIRROR · NEW YORKER · SPECTATOR PROSPECT · WATERSTONES · IRISH TIMES LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 PRESENTER OF THE BBC RADIO 4 SERIES 'HOW TO STEAL A TRILLION' 'Brilliant' Marina Hyde, Guardian 'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best' Peter Pomerantsev 'Horribly brilliant' James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men? From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to enabling Gibraltar to become an offshore gambling haven, meet Butler Britain... The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. We pride ourselves on values of fair play and the rule of law, but few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts. We are now a nation of Jeeveses, snobbish enablers for rich halfwits of considerably less charm than Bertie Wooster. It doesn't have to be that way.
£20.00
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc One Piece Color Walk Compendium: Water Seven to Paramount War
Gorgeous color art from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece! The first three Color Walk art books collected into one beautiful compendium.Color images and special illustrations from the world’s most popular manga, One Piece! This compendium features over 300 pages of beautiful color art as well as interviews between the creator and other famous manga artists, including Taiyo Matsumoto, the creator of Tekkonkinkreet.This second volume continues to showcase the artful adventures of the One Piece series. From the Water Seven arc, where the Straw Hats encounter the sinister CP9 organization, to the Paramount War arc that follows their journey to Marineford where Luffy’s brother Ace resides.
£29.69
Basic Books The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art
The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years. We have seen a painting of a single black square on a white ground, Kazimir Malevich's Black Square (1915), and a hand-signed porcelain urinal, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917). Mid-century brought us the Abstract Expressionist "drip" paintings ofJackson Pollock. In Piero Manzoni's Artist's Shit (1961), we got a series of 90 sealed tin cans purportedly containing Manzoni's own excrement. A decade later, with Chris Burden's Shoot (1971), we saw a performance in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle. More recently, Damien Hirst exhibited a shark floating in a glass tank of formaldehyde and fellow British artist Tracey Emin-in her autobiographical installation The History of Painting (1999)-displayed, among other items, her own used tampons.It is no wonder, then, that the art-viewing public is perplexed. What's going on here? Do today's renowned artists-like earlier masters such as Giotto, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Matisse-represent the highest achievements of civilization? Or something else entirely? Have viewers always felt this way; or is their confusion a sign of something new-something exclusive to the experience of today's contemporary art?In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund shows that works of Modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem to be. Nor do they represent a dramatic break from the past. He situates more recent movements in the tradition of art and examines the threads that tie the art of the past to that of the present. For instance, Esplund elucidates the similarities between Picasso and El Greco; between the ancient Egyptian Pyramids and sculptor Richard Serra's monumental Torqued Ellipses. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that contemporary art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who think that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.As our expert guide, Esplund has curated a personalized selection of moving and important works, using them as examples to walk the reader through the formal, emotional, and metaphoric experience of art, illuminating how an artist builds and explores a theme. Eager to democratize a genre that can feel inaccessible, Esplund empowers viewers to trust their own eyes, guts, and common sense. With The Art of Looking, readers will have the confidence to evaluate and appreciate galleries and museums for themselves, whether they are looking at a Greco-Roman statue, a Byzantine Madonna, a Rembrandt portrait, a Marina Abramovic performance, or one of Richard Serra's monumental sculptures.
£22.50
Rowman & Littlefield Sailing to Hemingway's Cuba
For Dave Schaefer on his 32-foot sloop Dream Weaver, the urge to see Cuba now and track down Ernest Hemingway's old haunts was too strong to resist. The voyage began on Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vermont. Travelling alone, with friends joining as crew when they could, Schafer sailed through the historic Champlain Canal to the Hudson river, along the East coast and the Intracoastal Waterway, finally arriving at the keys. Leaving Key west, Schaefer sailed 90 miles across the Gulf Stream to Marina Hemingway in Havana. For the entire century, Cuba had been the stage for the glamorous and powerful; Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill, the mob years under Meyer Lansky, Krushchev and Kennedy bringing the world to the brink of war over missile installations, the disaster at the Bay of Pigs, the charisma of che, and endless embargoes. The last year of the millennium marked the centennial of Hemingway's birth and the fortieth anniversary of Fidel's Revolution...
£14.99
Quadrille Publishing Ltd Seared: The Ultimate Guide to Barbecuing Meat
Seared is a one-stop shop for recipes and practical advice that will help you get the most from cooking meat on your barbecue, beginning with the science of why we need to cook different cuts in different ways and the physics of how fire works.Divided into two sections – BEAST and BIRD – and into SLOW and FAST within those sections, live-fire cooking expert Genevieve Taylor covers everything you’ll ever need to know about buying and cooking all kinds of meat, from steaks and fillets, to whole joints and whole birds, and looking at techniques from brining to marinading, smoking to braising, searing super-hot and low and slow cooking.Genevieve provides essential information about setting up your barbecue, sourcing your fuel and lighting your fire, and setting up your grill, with troubleshooting tips throughout. Full of succulent, colourful recipes, Seared is the most useful, practical and comprehensive guide to grilling meat on the market.
£18.00
Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd Imray 2800 Chart Pack: Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Chart Pack: 2021
This edition consists of 11 extra chart sheets, twice the coverage of the previous edition, and incorporates all the latest official bathymetric surveys. Created in association with the Clyde Cruising Club for use alongside their sailing directions, coverage includes detail of this delightful area of Scotland and there is reference to the popular large scale Antares Charts. The 22 chart sheets in this pack provide all the necessary information for passage planning, detailed approach to yacht havens and marinas, and the numerous anchorages and sailing areas recommended for small craft. Coverage includes large scale charts from Kintyre sailing north, with newly included charts of Kintyre, Gigha, Islay, Jura and Colonsay. Large scale coverage continues with Mull, Loch Linnhe, Lock Etive, Lock Sunart Coll, Tiree to Ardnamurchan. Full details of charts and their scales are listed below. Also available wiro bound, see code IC2800-3W. 1st edition charts Y80, Y81, Y82, Y83, Y84, Y85, Y86 and Y87 have been published that replicate charts 2800.4, 2800.10, 2800.11, 2800.12, 2800.13, 2800.15, 2800.17 & 2800.18 respectively and sold individually. These are part of our 'small format Y chart series' that mirror coverage from the corresponding atlas and are A2 size. For details of these please see the relevant page on our website. Charts included: 2800.1 Kintyre to Ardnamurchan (1:350 000) 2800.2 Mull of Kintyre (1:75 000) Plans Campbeltown Loch (1:35 000), Campbeltown Harbour (1:7500), Sanda Island (1:30 000) 2800.3 Port Ellen to the Sound of Jura (1:75 000) Plan Port Ellen (1:25 000) 2800.4 Sound of Gigha (1:25 000) 2800.5 West Islay (1:75 000) 2800.6 Sound of Islay to Colonsay (1:75 000) Plan Scalasaig (1:12 500) 2800.7 Sound of Jura (1:75000) Plans Craighouse Bay (Loch na Mile) (1:25 000), Loch Sween (Tayvallich) (1:25 000) 2800.8 Jura to Oban (1:75 000) 2800.9 Crinan and Loch Craignish (1:30 000) Plan Crinan Approaches (1:10 000) 2800.10 Corryvreckan, Sound of Luing and Garvellachs (1:30 000) 2800.11 Cuan Sound and Loch Melfort (1:30 000) Insh Island to Loch Feochan (1:30 000) Plan Loch Feochan (1:30 000) 2800.12 Sound of Kerrera and Approaches to Oban (1:15 000) 2800.13 Firth of Lorn & Lismore (1:40 000) 2800.14 Loch Etive (1:40 000) Plans Dunstaffnage Bay (1:15 000), Loch Etive Continuation (1:40 000) 2800.15 South Loch Linnhe and Loch Creran (1:40 000) Plan Loch Creran Continuation (1:25 000) 2800.16 North Loch Linnhe, Loch Leven and Loch Eil (1:40 000) Plans Loch Leven Narrows (1:15 000), Continuation of Loch Leven (1:40 000), Corran Narrows (1:15 000), Approaches to Corpach Sea Loch (1:20 000) 2800.17 Sound of Mull (1:40 000) Plan Loch Aline (1:10 000) 2800.18 West Sound of Mull and Loch Sunart (1:40 000) Plans Tobermory (1:20 000), Continuation of Loch Sunart (1:40 000) 2800.19 West Mull to Point of Ardnamurchan (1:75 000) Plan Treshnish Isles (1:37 500) 2800.20 Coll and Tiree (1:75 000) Plans Loch Eatharna (Arinagour) (1:17 500), Gott Bay (1:20 000) 2800.21 Ross of Mull and Iona (1:75 000) Plans Bull Hole (1:25 000), Tinkers Hole (1:25 000) 2800.22 North of Coll Continuation (1:75 000) West Loch Tarbert (1:30 000) Jura Loch Tarbert (1:25 000)
£56.53
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Quick and Easy Air Fryer Cookbook: 100 Keto Friendly Recipes to Cook in Your Air Fryer: Volume 8
Combining a favorite diet with a clean way to cook, the Quick & Easy Air Fryer Cookbook brings delicious keto recipes to an appliance that seems like it was made specifically for it. Organized by favorite types of dishes (Breakfast, Sides, and Desserts) and Star Ingredients (Chicken, Pork, Vegetables) in such a way that discovering your new favorite recipes are only a turn of the page away. Each recipe is complete with keto macros to assist the health-conscious easily find out their percentages of proteins, calories, net carbs, total fat, trans fats, and fiber they consume with each meal. While this book is an excellent addition to the culinary library of keto or air fryer aficionados, introductions to both the keto diet and the air fryer make this a great pick for beginners as well. If you haven’t already heard about what a keto diet is, it involves a diet made predominantly of proteins and excludes carbohydrates. It’s named keto after the raised ketone levels in the blood that curb appetite and increase fat burning. A keto diet comes with strict guidelines, and through air frying your food, you’ll be left with a delectable meal free of any complex carbohydrates and full of flavor. These easy, fast, step-by-step instructions accompanied with mouth-watering photography throughout, are an excellent source of inspiration and portal to delicious weekday dinners as well as quick recipes for easy entertaining. Air fried dinners are quick and tasty, making them a prime choice for families that are on the go and busy working singles as well. By catering to your keto lifestyle and your love for the air fryer, you no longer have to sacrifice health, time, or taste to get a delicious dinner. Along with delicious recipes that stand on their own, separate sections of key keto staples to build out your own recipes, are included in the back of the book. Crumb coating to add a crispy crunch to any recipe is ideal for air frying and can inspire new keto-friendly recipes. Recipes for sweet and savory keto doughs for when you want to treat yourself to a nostalgic pre-diet craving. Not to mention some of the delicious keto-friendly sauces that will please just about everyone, such as: Korean Gochujang Coconut Curry Peanut Sauce General Tso Sauce Tikki Marsala Sauce Tzatziki Sauce Teriyaki Marinade Additional delicious, crowd-pleasing recipes are bound to be instant favorites. Recipes such as: French Toast Egg Loaf Avocado Fries Flank Steak with Chimichurri Chicken Crust Pizza Cajun Shrimp Cheddar and Chive Cauli-tots Jalapeno Popper Zucchini Boat Cheesecake Hand Pie Treat yourself to these crispy, keto, air-fried delights in the Quick & Easy Air Fryer Cookbook. Discover today’s top trending health and wellness topics with the Everyday Wellbeing series from Chartwell Books. From smart eating habits to personal growth advice, these engaging lifestyle guides give you the expert tips and life hacks you need to help you make good choices while practicing mindfulness and self-love. Whether you want to explore cooking with new ingredients like adaptogens and CBD, or make it a priority to incorporate self-care into your daily routine, these brightly colored take-along handbooks have the tools you need to succeed. Other titles in the series include: The Celery Juice Cookbook, Adaptogens, The CBD Handbook, The Complete Guide to Self-Care, Air Fryer Instant Pot Cookbook, and The Plant-Based Cookbook.
£12.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko: To Kill a Mockingbird
In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London's Mayfair by Russian secret agents by the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210, it is hardly remembered by anyone in the West. No wonder, we live in an information-rich world when the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he's got a point there. This book is about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, whose legal case seems to many people like open-and-shut. Even to his widow Marina and their son. To MI6, MI5 and the Special Operations branch of the London's Metropolitan Police who presented it to the public as thoroughly investigated and closed. To judge Sir Robert Owen appointed to hold the inquest into the death of a Russian Spy as the BBC and other media has put it - a terrible mistake. To journalists and writers who had been following this case for as long as a decade, not to mention the prime suspect living a good life in Moscow. But not for me. For me this case remains open.
£22.50
Union Square & Co. Let's Eat: 101 Recipes to Fill Your Heart & Home
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGrossyPelosi is your best friend in the kitchen—actually, he’s family. In his debut cookbook, larger-than-life personality Dan Pelosi offers up a warm hug of home cooking, sharing both comfort food and connection with 101 of his nearest and dearest Italian American recipes. Some have been passed down through his family, and others have been cooked up from scratch—but all are made with love and accompanied by fun, meaningful stories to warm your heart while filling your belly. Read how Bimpy (the 100-year-old grandpa the internet loves to love!) smuggled homemade subs into Yankee Stadium, then craft your ultimate Big Italian Sandwich. Relive the memory of Dan learning how to make his friend’s mom’s stuffed chicken cutlets in their Jersey Shore house (and getting himself adopted into their family), then level up with Prosciutto & Mozzarella–Stuffed Chicken Parm. Learn how Dan’s mom would spring him out of school before the final bell (just to preheat the oven), then make your own Early Dismissal Pot Roast. And rewind to the beginning of Dan’s relationship with his boyfriend, Gus, then recreate the Zabaglione (and the romantic Cheesecake Factory ambiance) that inspired their first “I love you.” In addition to the staple chapters like Eggs, Appetizers, Pasta, Meat & Fish, and Sweets, you’ll also find deep dives on Italian food recipes like Dough and Marinara, presented with hero recipes you can spin into all kinds of deliciousness. (Don’t worry—his viral Vodka Sawce is here!) Also sprinkled throughout this recipe book are Grossy’s Guides to cooking, cleaning, organizing, and everything you need to become intuitive in your kitchen. Approachable and tasty, Dan’s recipes are meant to be shared with the ones you love. Set the table, grab a chair, roll up your sleeves . . . now LET’S EAT!With his warm humor and love for food and cooking radiating off every page, Dan Pelosi is a culinary star in the making. Anyone searching for a new pasta cookbook will find plenty to work with in Dan’s supply of simple “Wednesday night” recipes perfect for weeknight dinners, and the inclusion of his family recipes and traditions make it the perfect Italian cookbook to gift to friends and loved ones.
£22.50