Authors:Sarah R. Labensky, Alan M. Hause, Steven R. Labensky
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: textbook, fundamentals, culinary, cooking
Number of Pages: 1440
Published: 2006-02-10
List price: $110.67
ISBN-10: 0131713272
ISBN-13: 9780131713277

Attractively designed and extensively illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, this contemporary introduction to cooking and food preparation focuses on information that is relevant to today’s aspiring chef. Comprehensive and well-written, it emphasizes an understanding of cooking fundamentals, explores the preparation of fresh ingredients, and provides information on other relevant topics, such as food history and food science. This introduction to cooking outlines professionalism, food safety and sanitation, nutrition, recipes and menus, tools and equi

Authors:John E. Bleasdale, Joseph Eichberg, George Hause,
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: biology, medicine, experimental, regulation, phosphoinositides, metabolism, inositol
Number of Pages: 698
Published: 1985-05-20
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0896030741
ISBN-13: 9780896030749

Authors:Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hause
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: brain, bradford, books, symposium, fyssen, human, monkey, foundation
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0262042231
ISBN-13: 9780262042239

The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between human and nonhuman primate brains. From Monkey Brain to Human Brain uses the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to look at the complex patterns of convergence and divergence in primate cortical organization and function. Several chapters examine the use of modern technologies to study primate brai

Authors:George Khoury, Alan Moore, John Totleben, Alan Davis,
Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing
Keywords: companion, miracleman, kimota
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 189390511X
ISBN-13: 9781893905115

Alan Moore’s Miracleman predated Watchmen and Dark Knight as the first of the grim, ultra-realistic strips that changed super-hero comics forever. But whatever happened to Miracleman? For the first time, this trade paperback tells all the behind-the-scenes secrets, from the character’s start as the British strip Marvelman, to the legal and creative hurdles during its 24-issue run at Eclipse Comics, and why you never saw the final Neil Gaiman-scripted issue! Sporting a Mark Buckingham cover and an introduction and back cover by Alex Ross, this book features in-depth interviews with Alan Moo

Authors:Alan Noble, Robert Johnson, Alan Thomas, Paul Bass,
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: series, systems, system, cardiovascular
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-06-22
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0443073082
ISBN-13: 9780443073083

A textbook on the cardiovascular system for medical students, offering an integrated coverage of the basic science and major diseases of the system. * Integrated coverage of the structure, function and major diseases of the cardiovascular system - highly suitable for systems courses as taught in the new medical curriculum. * Coverage of the basic science is clinically driven - a common clinical presentation introduces each major topic. * Clinical cases are used and explained in the chapter rather than merely being present to provide additional interest. * Coverage of major diseases of the card

Authors:Alan R. H. Baker, Robin Alan Butlin, Isin S. Black, I
Publisher: Pr De L’universite Laval
Keywords: alan, baker, geographie, historique, honour, geography, culture, identity, essays, historical, place
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-08
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 2763778070
ISBN-13: 9782763778075

Alan R.H. Baker, of the Geography Department of the University of Cambridge, has played a leading role in the development of historical geography. This book, which features 12 specially commissioned essays, recognizes his influential and innovative contributions. The contributors address the following topics: methodology and ideology in historical geography; historical geographies of state regulation and political discourse; the social and cultural use of public and private space; and the interpretation of images of place in relation to cultural and national identity.

Authors:Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Alan Williams, Alan William
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, verses, spiritual
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140447911
ISBN-13: 9780140447910

The spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition-in a brilliant new translation The longest single -authored "mystical" poem ever written, the Masnavi-ye Ma’navi, or "spiritual couplets," is the masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition. Its author, Jalaloddin Rumi, was a poet and mystic of the highest attainment, but he was first and foremost a spiritual teacher, and his Masnavi is a ladder to the spiritual world, leading the reader to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path-union with God. Alan Williams’s translation into blank verse beautifully conveys the poetry of the origi