Bird's Nest Soup

Author: Hanna Greally
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855942103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In Birds Nest Soup Hanna Greally recounts with vivid detail the terrible suffering she endured in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands in the 1940s and 50s. "Mentally well, but unclaimed" sums up her horrendous situation for the best part of twenty years. What she anticipated as a short rest in the `Big House' was repeatedly prolonged as it became clear that after her mother's unexpected death none of her relatives had any intention of applying for her release. She survived this Kafka-esque situation emotionally and physically whole, and when a more enlightened system was introduced, she regained her freedom through a rehabilitation institute in 1962.

International Trade in Swiftlet Nests with Special Reference to Hong Kong

Author: Amy S. M. Lau
Publisher: Traffic International
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A marked decline in some swiftlet populations has been attributed to the harvesting of their nests which are prized in Chinese cuisine and traditional medicines. Documentation is provided on the history and volume of the trade.

Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?

Author: Rita Gray
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054410580X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
In this nonfiction picture book for young readers, we learn just why the mother nesting bird stays quiet and still while sitting on her eggs. Shh. . . .

Avian Architecture

Author: Peter Goodfellow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069114849X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Examines the nests that birds build around the world, including illustrations of each nest type's construction, descriptions of the materials and techniques used during the process, and case studies on specific birds' habitats.

The Chinese Cook Book

Author: Shiu Wong Chan
Publisher: Case Press
ISBN: 1446093689
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World

Author: Joel K. Bourne Jr
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248046
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
“An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.”—Hampton Sides In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our fight against devastating world hunger in dramatic perspective. He travels the globe to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists on the front lines of the next green revolution. He visits corporate farmers trying to restore Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist, the agronomist behind the world's largest organic sugarcane plantation, and many other extraordinary farmers, large and small, who are racing to stave off catastrophe as climate change disrupts food production worldwide. A Financial Times Best Book of the Year and a Finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Bird Builds a Nest

Author: Martin Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406382709
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A beautifully illustrated picture book introducing young children to the concept of forces. Bird is building her nest. She pushes and pulls twigs into place until she's made a cosy cup, ready and waiting ... can you guess what for? This beautiful picture book is the perfect introduction to forces and the concept of pushing and pulling, and is the third in the Science Story Book series from Walker Books. Bird Builds a Nest is illustrated by up-and-coming talent Richard Jones and written by author Martin Jenkins, the award-winning author of Can We Save the Tiger? and Ape. The third book in Walker's Science Story Book series, introducing scientific concepts to young children. The main narrative tells the story of a bird building her nest. The smaller captions point out and explain the scientific concepts behind the story - forces, pushing, pulling, weight, strength and gravity. Complete with an index and an experiment to get children thinking about the science behind the story

1001 Foods To Die For

Author: Corby Kummer
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740770432
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

Book Description
An essential list for food lovers, this culinary catalogue features luscious photographs and descriptions of must-eat foods from soup to nuts--from all over the world.

We Want Plates

Author: Ross McGinnes
Publisher: Prestel
ISBN: 9783791384283
Category : Food presentation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fed up with being served food on planks of wood and pieces of slate, or drinks in jars? How about beef Wellington on barbed wire, a cooked breakfast on a shovel or sausages in a dog bowl? In recent years, the culinary world has been gripped by an epidemic of restaurants and chefs "getting creative" with food presentation--and Ross McGinnes has had enough. In 2015 he founded the Twitter account @WeWantPlates to push back against this trend and document serving travesties, building up more than 130,000 followers and receiving thousands of submissions.

Jake and the Dynamo

Author: D. G. D. Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737573500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Jake Blatowski can't wait for high school--basketball, calculus, and a cafeteria that isn't under investigation by the health department.But he'll have to wait: A computer malfunction has assigned him to the fifth grade!It's bad enough that he bangs his knees on the desks or that Miss Percy is going over long division . . . again . . . but Jake has to sit next to Dana Volt, a perpetually surly troublemaker determined to make his life a living hell.Worse yet, Dana secretly belongs to a coalition of girls that protects humanity from the horde of deadly monsters plaguing the city--monsters that have chosen Jake as their next target!Jake's no hero; he just wants to make it to varsity tryouts. But now the impulsive and moody Dana is the only one who can save Jake from certain death--and Jake is the only one who can save Dana from herself.