Awakening their taste buds while taking care of their health: that's what we all want to do for our babies. They start to learn about flavour at the age of 6 months when they are introduced to a variety of new food; they have a surprising ability to accept new tastes and this is the time when they w[...]

Outlandish, surreal and compelling, a murderous porcupine tells all. 'For years I was the double of Kibandi...He died the day before yesterday, so here is my confession'.

All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked.

When Kib[...]

The author takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of a[...]

World-renowned French chef Alain Ducasse believes that food arouses all the senses. In this sumptuous book, he takes us on a culinary journey for both eye and palate. Here he shares the culinary experience, knowledge and love of ingredients he has refined over the past 25 years. Today, Ducassse feed[...]

Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable "Treatise on Evil" in 1272, everything changed. In "Satan the Heretic, " Alain Boureau trains his skeptical eye not on Satan or Satanism, but on the birth of demonology and[...]

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The popular image of the traditional western city has usually been dominated by the cathedral, whose sheer size seemed to create an isolated physical and spiritual focal point. In this iconoclastic study, the author sets out to reverse some of the romantic myths which have accrued about the medieval[...]

(Vocal Selections). 11 vocal selections from the Broadway spectacular, including: The American Dream * The Heat Is on in Saigon * I'd Give My Life for You * The Last Night of the World * The Movie in My Mind * Now That I've Seen Her * Sun and Moon * Why God Why? * and more.[...]

Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as the chief spokesman for the controversial "nouveau roman." This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet in his longer works. These intriguing, gemlike stories represent his most accessible [...]

Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.
This volume presents for the first time in English a [...]