Tara Austen Weaver, "The Butcher and the Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1605299960 | 240 pages | EPUB | 0.28 MB
Growing up in a family that kept jars of bean sprouts on its windowsill before such things were desirable or hip, Tara Austen Weaver never thought she'd stray from vegetarianism. But as an adult, she found herself in poor health, and, having tried cures of every kind, a doctor finally ordered her to eat meat. Warily, she ventured into the butcher shop, and as the man behind the counter wrapped up her first-ever chicken, she found herself charmed. Eventually, he dared her to cook her way through his meat counter. As Tara navigates through this new world-grass-fed beef vs. grain-fed beef; finding chickens that are truly free-range- she's tempted to give up and go back to eating tempeh. The more she learns about meat and how it's produced, and the effects eating it has on the human body and the planet, the less she feels she knows. She embarks upon a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening whirlwind tour that takes her from slaughterhouse to chef's table, from urban farm to the hearthside of cow wranglers. Along the way, she meets an unforgettable cast of characters who all seem to take a vested interest in whether she opts for turnips or T-bones. The Butcher and the Vegetarian is the rollicking and relevant story of one woman's quest to reconcile a nontraditional upbringing with carnal desires.
The Buddha for Modern Minds: a non-religious guide to the Buddha and his teachings by Lenorë Lambert
English | August 23rd, 2021 | ISBN: 0645065021 | 247 pages | True EPUB | 4.08 MB
How can the Buddha's teachings help me? Here? Now? In MY life?
David Morton, K. Bo Foreman, Kurt Albertine, "The Big Picture: Gross Anatomy, Medical Course & Step 1 Review, Second Edition"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1259862631 | PDF | pages: 492 | 326.9 mb
More than 400 full-color illustrations along with brief, memorable text help you understand gross anatomy in the context of healthcare
The Betrothed: A Novel by Alessandro Manzoni, translated by Michael F. Moore
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0679643567 | True EPUB | 704 pages | 3.1 MB
The timeless masterpiece from Alessandro Manzoni, the father of modern Italian literature, in the first new English-language translation in fifty years, hailed as "a landmark literary occasion" by Jhumpa Lahiri in her preface to the edition
The Best of New Orleans Cookbook: A Celebration of Bold Flavors by Tyler Sweet
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BDDLQPN2 | 88 pages | EPUB | 4.07 Mb
No cuisine is as recognizable as the bold Cajun and Creole cooking of New Orleans. It cannot be mistaken for anything else. The Creole influence came from early French settlers and is a fusion of French and African ancestry. The Cajun effect is French Canadian, brought by those who sought to make a home in Louisiana. Both styles of cooking are known for deep, bold flavors and seasonings. New Orleans is a city that appreciates good food and won't settle for anything else.
Anthony Boundy, "The Best Udon Recipes: A Complete Noodle Cookbook of Ingenious Dish Ideas!"
English | ISBN: 1095502948 | 2019 | 65 pages | EPUB | 1,5 MB
Do you love udon noodle dishes? You probably think you need to spend hours online, searching for authentic recipes. But you don't!In Japan and other areas in Asia, cuisine using udon noodles is an important part in their traditional, as well as modern, diet. Udon noodles are made using wheat flour, and they are versatile, being used in many types of noodle dishes.Would you like to learn to integrate udon noodles into your recipes at home?If so, you've come to the right place.This cookbook has all kinds of udon noodle ideas for you.The media has been exploring Udon cuisine more in recent years, since people are becoming more conscious of their health. Udon noodles are a great source of healthy carbohydrates, they are free of trans-fats and they have almost no overall fat. The condiments, soups and sauces used in udon noodle cooking offers a wide array of healthy ingredients and subtle flavors.Learn to include healthy udon noodles in your diet today!
The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection) edited by Valeria Luiselli
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 059346754X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 0.9 MB
The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.
The Best American Poetry 2022 edited by David Lehman, Matthew Zapruder
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1982186690, 1982186682 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.77 MB
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).
The Belt and Road: Industrial and Spatial Coordinated Development
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811921326 | 643 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
This book mainly addresses China's Belt and Road Initiative in terms of the connectivity industrial and spatial development, as well as current world's economic and trade pattern under such synergy development, and focuses on the function and mechanism of industry and geography coordination. Although current research on the value circulation between China and developed economies is relatively adequate, the book focuses on the value circulation between the countries and regions, especially the developing economies. China and other developing countries tie strongly with the production value circulation. The coordination industrial and spatial development in the global value cycle is also the cornerstone of long-term stabilization and sustainable development in China. Therefore, this book provides the theoretical and empirical research on Belt and Road from the perspectives on industrial and spatial synergy. This book proposes several questions: Any inherent inlay between industrial and geographic allocation, i.e., is there any possibility for close integration? This book analyzes the necessity of coordinated development of industry and space perspective of production division. Secondly, from the perspective of historical evolution and current situation, it analyzes the relationship among industry, economic growth and fluctuation and compares realizing paths of synergy of industrial and spatial development. It contains the industry and spatial diffusion mechanism and the effect of synergy development. Moreover, the corresponding policy implication is provided for sustainable development through the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Battle of Kursk: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Tank Battle of World War II by Charles River Editors
English | January 13, 2016 | ISBN: 1523383119 | 62 pages | EPUB | 1.32 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the battle by generals and soldiers on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "The Russians have learnt a lot since 1941. They are no longer peasants with simple minds. They have learnt the art of war from us." - Wehrmacht Generaloberst Hermann "Papa" Hoth at Kursk (Healy, 1992, 90) "On the German side, the reserves which will become so desperately necessary as the war situation develops [...] will be tied down and thrown away uselessly. I consider the operation that has been planned a particularly grave error, for which we shall suffer later." - Colonel Reinhard Gehlen, Wehrmacht intelligence analyst, writing about Operation Citadel (Fowler, 2005, 66). The vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine provided the Eastern Front arena where the armies of Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin wrestled lethally for supremacy in 1943. Endless rolling plains - ideal "tank country" - vast forests, sprawling cities, and enormous tracts of agricultural land formed the environment over which millions of men and thousands of the era's most formidable military vehicles fought for their respective overlords and ideologies. The winner could expect to reap very high stakes indeed. If Hitler's Wehrmacht smashed the Red Army, he could no longer hope for a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for peace on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Army triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed "Nemets" invaders from Russian soil - and perhaps carve out a Soviet empire in Central Europe. Asserting that changes in the military leadership style of the two contending dictators explains the outcome of Kursk oversimplifies the actual situation. Logistics, the emergence of a body of experienced junior officers in the Red Army, American Lend-Lease shipments, German production problems, and other issues all contributed to the observed result. However, the overarching factor tying everything together remained the changing approach of each leader to their army. At the start of the war, Hitler gave his commanders considerable initiative while Stalin fatally micromanaged his, and the Germans ripped vast hordes of Soviets to shreds with comparative ease. In late 1942 and moving into 1943, Hitler commenced micromanaging the Wehrmacht, and Stalin adopted a more "hands-off" approach permitting his commanders considerable initiative: "At the heart of the Red Army's lopsided tank losses was an amateurish and self-destructive style of decision imposed by Stalin [...] In November 1942 there was a subtle shift in the Red Army, as months of military disasters finally caused Stalin to reduce some of his interference [...] and allow quiet professionals such as Vasilevsky, Vatutin and Rokossovsky to prepare proper offensives." (Forczyk, 2013, 257). Though the Wehrmacht remained too formidable and professional to collapse as readily as the appallingly low-quality Red Army had in 1941 and early 1942, the Red Army slowly got the upper hand and achieved strategic offensive momentum. That the shift occurred at the moment when Hitler hamstrung his generals with his melodramatic obstructionism while Stalin gave his some operational breathing room probably represents no accident. Kursk represented the transitional battle during which the Red Army first demonstrated its new capabilities. The Soviets possessed better commanders than at the start of the war, a numerous soldiery, good-quality equipment (in particular, the T-34 tank), and the beginnings of a professional officer corps. Nevertheless, it required personal, ham-handed intervention by Adolf Hitler to transform Kursk from a probable hard-won Wehrmacht victory into a marginal but highly significant defeat.