Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she\'d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha\'s Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz\'s first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve\'s Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California\'s haute bohemians, of outrageously

This book invites readers to discover an exceptional wine grown in the French region of Bordeaux. Chateau Cantemerle, which has been a vineyard since the Middle Ages, has a unique history full of mystery and intrigue. To tell its story, Valerie Labadie has created an original narrative, combining her own insights with the imagined memory of Baroness de Villeneuve, a 19th-century ancestor who signed

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Mart n Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture--how the inability that many of us have to grieve and weep properly for the dead is deeply linked with the inability to give praise for living. In modern society, grief is something

\"D.W. Buffa has taken the legal thriller one step further - endowing it with an eerie and stylish noir sensibility...masterfully crafted and people with characters you won\'t forget.\" --Jonathan KellermanD.W. Buffa\'s first novel, The Defense, left the New York Times \"wanting to go back to the beginning and read it again.\" Lunatic Carnival, Buffa\'s latest riveting and thought-provoking thriller,

The sixth novel in the multimilion-copy bestselling Roy Grace series, from number one author Peter

Since 1974, when the current wave of democratisation began, the movement towards democracy in Asia has remained limited. Many countries in Asia, in fact, are not making a decisive move towards democracy, and find themselves struggling with the challenges of democratic consolidation and governance. Focusing on Indonesia, Thailand and Korea, this book analyses why democratisation is so difficult in Asia.The

From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized violence, graphic sex, substance abuse, unlikeable protagonists, and the extraordinary exploitation of ordinary people. In Uncomfortable Television, Hunter

This suite of resources provide a clear two-year framework to help you and your students meet and exceed AQA\'s mastery goals using content matched to AQA\'s big ideas and enquiry processes. This title is AQA

Detailed advice on writing papers, giving presentations, and refereeing, plus an essential guide to the basics of being a graduate student in economics.This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or undertaking

This book consists of 15 short stories written in Simplified Chinese and pinyin. The purpose of this book is to provide readers with reading materials to practice their reading skills as well as an introduction to more extended sentence structure and longer articles.This book has all the vocabularies in HSK 1. If you finish the book, you would have practiced your reading skill on all the vocabularies

Do you want to bring some magic into your kitchen?In this book, you\'ll find everything you need to know to turn your home into a magical place, perfect for practicing witchcraft. Includes more than 100 delicious recipes, simple spells, and much more.Historically, food has always been associated with magic.Cooking and magic have a lot in common: they combine the use of various elements and natural

The long-term future of the American Social Security system which provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to millions, is uncertain. This is triggering big concerns for many workers who are paying into the system and need to make decisions about their retirement. This book features real-world situations around Social Security and Medicare to help financial professionals provide better

A new collection from one of the leading English poets writing today, Paul

Richard Scarry\'s classic board book is back in print Featuring roosters, frogs, giraffes, monkeys, and many more animal favorites, this tall board book edition - illustrating the variety of ways in which animals get from here to there - will have children hopping, flying, and strutting from page to

We hold many assumptions about police work--that it is the responsibility of the state, or that police officers are given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in The Killing Consensus, Graham Denyer Willis shows how in S o Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitration of \"normal\" killing in the name of social order are actually conducted by two groups--the police and organized

The eleventh book in the Sunday Times-bestselling Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland\'s most celebrated crime

This book is written for anyone who has been inspired by the idea of Team-Based Learning (TBL) through his or her reading, a workshop, or a colleague\'s enthusiasm, and then asks the inevitable question: how do I start?Written by five authors who use TBL in their teaching and who are internationally recognized as mentors and trainers of faculty making the switch to TBL, the book also presents the tips

A lively A-to-Z compendium of the notable drinks, bartenders, and bars that shaped the cocktail world and produced the vibrant spirits culture we enjoy today, from two-time James Beard Award-nominated author and New York Times cocktail and spirits writer, Robert Simonson. How did the Old-Fashioned get its name, and why has the drink endured? What drinks were invented by Sam Ross? What was the Pegu

Calling all carnivores. This at-home butchery cookbook is the authoritative guide to preparing beef, poultry, pork, fish, lamb, goat, and more. Learn how to break down various proteins, from a whole pig to a side of beef and everything in between. With step-by-step instructions, photographs, and a thorough guide to tools, techniques, and handling, this is the only meat cookbook you\'ll ever need.Inside