Ever wondered why some of our dishes have the names they do? Where does Caesar Salad comes from? Who was Benedict and what s he got to do with combining poached eggs with ham and hollandaise sauce? In this fascinating journey into culinary history James Winter provides the answers to these questions[...]

""Between Heaven and Mirth "will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God's own goal for us." --Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New YorkFrom "The Colbert Report"'s "official chaplain" James Martin, SJ, author of the "New York Times "bestselling "The Jesuit[...]

A unique, 10-step improvement process for identifying and solving the root causes of supply chain problems using the latest lean manufacturing principles Fully revised to cover the dramatic developments in supply chain improvement methods, Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management, Second Edition [...]

Book Description Welcome to the second edition of Electronica Dance Music Programming Secrets. In the first edition we explored the main styles that constitute Electronica and showed how to produce your own examples. This second edition brings us up-to-date with the latest emergent styles in Electr[...]

For undergraduate or advanced undergraduate courses in Classical Natural Language Processing, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Computational Linguistics, and Human Language Processing.An explosion of Web-based language techniques, merging of distinct fields, availability [...]

NATO is the perennial survivor. Crises come and go, yet still it persists. Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power. From the collapse of the Soviet Union through wars in the Balkans, and interventions in Afghanistan and Libya, the Alliance has ada[...]

With thirty revised and updated chapters the new edition of this classic text brings benefits to professors and students alike who will find new sections on many topics concerning modern food microbiology. This authoritative book builds on the trusted and established sections on food preservation by[...]

Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. Beyond providing a useful overview, it contextualizes CDA theories and methods in accounts of discourse in classroom an[...]

The need for information on program management is more critical now than ever before. PMIs development of a new standard on program management is driving even greater interest. At the same time, there are few books covering the subject, which provide practical answers, benchmarks, and case studies, [...]

This is the second edition of the popular textbook on representation theory of finite groups.