Author: Frances Short
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: everyday, life, cooking, meaning, secrets, kitchen
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-08-07
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1845202767
ISBN-13: 9781845202767

This book explores the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. It provides new and challenging ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often contesting commonly-held beliefs and theories about the role of practical cookery lessons, dinner parties as showcases for culinary flair and the negative effect of convenience foods on home cooking and kitchen skills.

Author: Frances Wilso
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: life, wordsworth, dorothy, ballad
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-02-17
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0374108676
ISBN-13: 9780374108670

Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as “the very wildest . . . person I have ever known,” DorothyWordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her own right, Dorothy was at the center of the Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century. She was her brother William Wordsworth’s inspiration, aide, and most valued reader, and a friend to Coleridge; both borrowed from her observations of the world for their own poems.William wrote of her, “She gave me eyes, she gave me ears.”In order

Author: Frances S Howe
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: women, carriage, miles
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2009-09-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1113583053
ISBN-13: 9781113583055

This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appre

Author: Frances Ashcroft
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: survival, science, extremes, life
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2002-03-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520234200
ISBN-13: 9780520234208

"It is an extraordinary coincidence," writes English physiologist Frances Ashcroft, "that the highest peak on Earth is also about the highest point at which humans can survive unaided." A coincidence, to be sure, and, like many other milestones of the limits of human endurance, one known to us through the joint efforts of scientists, mountain climbers, explorers, and athletes. Ashcroft’s book is a thoroughly engaging survey of those limits and their origins in the nature of things, of what happens to human beings in the most difficult environmental conditions. She writes, for instance, o

Author: Frances E. Ruffin
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: legends, american, truth, sojourner
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2002-08
List price: $21.25
ISBN-10: 0823958264
ISBN-13: 9780823958269

Author: Frances R. Balkwill
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Keywords: things, cells, dna
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1994-03
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0876146388
ISBN-13: 9780876146385

Full-color illustrations and simple explanations help explore some of the wonders of modern genetics and of DNA, such as the genetic code, the double helix, and chromosomes.

Author: Frances Griffiths
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: practice, care, health, methods, research
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-06-03
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1412935776
ISBN-13: 9781412935777

The book guides the researcher through their journey, giving detailed, step-by-step advice on planning and carrying out each stage of the research. Useful examples from health care research are included throughout to illustrate the application of the techniques and methods discussed. The book provides discussion of all the key issues and stages of research, including user involvement in research, research ethics, deciding on a research approach, and data collection and analysis methods.