A soup cookbook featuring 100 no-recipe recipes!All you have to do is prepare the ingredients, cook them (or not), garnish and serve. No need to sauté, add ingredients in order, or monitor the cooking.Each photograph details the ingredients in detail, everything is explained: quantities and preparation.Pictograms indicate the cooking information (cook in a saucepan, blend, chill in the fridge and strain) and then you're good to go!...

**The most purr-fectly funny book of the year, featuring a grumpy cat who hates Halloween**Cat HATES Halloween. He hates the spidery cobwebs and the spooky pumpkin faces... and he especially hates the trick-or-treaters who come knocking on the door!But somewhere in the moonlit night, magic is stirring. Perhaps Halloween isn't all bad - especially when you can share it with your favourite people.This purr-fectly heartwarming follow-up to Cat's Ch...

The world's most lovable grumpy cat learns to love Halloween in this quirky story, for fans of Grumpy Monkey.Meet Cat, an adorable grump who thinks Halloween is a nightmare.He hates the spidery cobwebs. He hates the horrible pumpkins. And he reallyhates the noisy trick-or-treaters coming to his house.But when Cat ventures into the night, he learns that the holiday is full of surprises. Maybe Halloween isn't so terrible--es...

**A paws-itively delightful story about a cat who hates Christmas. Meow!****A perfectly sweet Yuletide treat - Kirkus Reviews**Cat HATES Christmas.He hates the fancy decorations. He hates the sickly food and the silly presents. And he hates the surprise visitors that come to stay . . .But maybe Christmas isn't ALL bad. Sometimes, if you're lucky, the festive season can surprise you.Get ready to discover the most heart...

The world's most loveable grumpy cat learns to love Christmas in this funny story, for fans of Grumpy Monkey.Meet Cat, an adorable grumpy cat who thinks Christmas is the worst!Cat hates the food. He hates the silly presents. And he hates the noisy visitors stealing his favorite spot.But when Cat looks up at the beautiful night sky, he starts to think that maybe . . . Christmas isn't ALL bad. And just maybe, the magic of Christmas c...

Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant minorities, the legacy of colonialism is now more apparent in France than at any time in the past. How is this upsurge of interest in the colonial past to be explained? Does the commemoration of em...

In this fun and endearing celebration of differences, a dinosaur finds a home with a family of ducks—a fresh twist on the beloved "The Ugly Duckling" tale.Even as an egg, Dino Duckling is different from all the other baby ducks. And when he's born, no one seems to notice that he's actually a dinosaur! Mama Duck knows that there is plenty of room for difference in a loving family, but there's one big problem: How will Dino Duckling fly south for the winter ...

Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to produce an essay of 1,500 to 2,000 words, are, in his words, “all distinguished Canad...

Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bott...

The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture. Miller's groundbreaking book demonstrates exactly why bande dessinee is considered to be a v...

In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap**.**

In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the disciplin...