In the early 50s, Maria Grammatico and her sister were sent by their impoverished mother to the San Carlo, a cloistered orphanage in Erice, an ancient hill town on the western coast of Sicily. It was a Dickensian existence - beating sugar mixtures for six hours at a time, rising before dawn to prime[...]

If there is one book that belongs on the shelf of food lovers, it is "Sicilian Food" by Mary Taylor Simeti. This book is a classic, the definitive work on Sicilian cooking and it is full of authentic, hard to find recipes gleaned from the author's friends, family and acquaintances on the island itse[...]

This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years. Human security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1994 Human Development Report. Fill[...]

"Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden--and devastating. And while it doesn't have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down...."
Running the family bakery and living in the store's attic might not be Daisy's dream life, but she's beginning to understan[...]

Biology 1 is a title in the new Cambridge Advanced Sciences series. It has been developed specifically for the new specifications for AS Biology for teaching from September 2000 and has been endorsed by OCR for use with the OCR Biology specification A. It contains all of the core material for the fi[...]

I bok- och webbantologin Feminismens idéer presenteras 200 år av västerländsk feminism med särskild tyngdpunkt på Sverige och Norden. Ambitionen är att lägga ett snitt genom feminismens skiftande idé-historia, samtidigt som kontaktytorna gentemot andra ideologier och teoribildningar görs t[...]