Sourdough is the original, the most delicious and the most nutritious bread, and John Downes is Australia's original traditional sourdough baker. In the Sourdough Loaf, John shares the techniques, recipes and insights, gained from over 40 years of artisan sourdough baking. He provides readers of all proficiency levels with a low fuss, step by step approach to baking great sourdough, with tips on ingredients, methods and techniques, as he takes us on a gastronomic journey through the histor...

A Spokane architect's ever-constant struggles with the Establishment, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians, educators, activists, and myriad others, exhibits his bulldog nature, talent, and vision of the future he needed to weather the storms and overcome.

Capture the essence of the Southern drawl with An Actor’s Guide to the Southern American Accent. This course provides you with everything you need to develop a natural-sounding Southern accent, perfect for a wide range of characters, from historical American figures to contemporary personalities. You’ll learn how to create the relaxed, flowing tones and extended vowel sounds that define this iconic American accent.Using detailed instruction and a variety of listen-and-repeat exercis...

The ultimate guide to becoming proficient in Azure Bicep while having a better development experience and making your Infrastructure as Code seamless and error free Key Features • Learn Azure Bicep from an official Microsoft trainer • Master the authoring experience to make your Infrastructure as Code journey seamless • Go beyond writing good templates with the help of advanced tips and tricks Book Description It's no secret that developers don't like using JSON files to declare their reso...

Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and...

John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth’s version of critical research is his passion for living and ‘doing’ what it means to be a critical pedagogue. For him, ‘doing’ is a verb that ...

North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promot...

The Isle of Wight is a geological gem with its 110km (68 mile) long coastline displaying a range of rocks dating from Lower Cretaceous to Oligocene age. Many of the sands and clays yield fossil bivalves and gastropods, and its famous dinosaur footprints attract much attention from geologists and tourists alike. Yet the scenic beauty of the island is the product of its differing strata, former earth movements and the erosive power of the sea and the rivers. The monoclinal fold that crosses ...

John Downing was the pre-eminent press photographer of his generation: he led a life of adventure in wars and hotspots around the world. His memoir, Aperture, offers a unique and first hand insight into life behind the Fleet Street lens during one of the most interesting periods of world history and a golden age of photojournalism.

The Scene Menagerie contains an assortment of fiction scenes and episodes from the novels and short stories of one author, John R. Downes, plus a few excerpts from his nonfictions thrown into the mix. What a range of subjects! War, the Great Depression, Custers Last Stand, FBI, orphans, espionage, US history, gunfighters, bank robbers, Adbiz, growing up, mass merchandising, bad guys, dreams, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, code breaking, salesmanship, Hollywood, and more. Many novels contai...

Two Came Running is a depiction of heroism, talent, and geniusall embodied in one family. A war heros prodigious son and daughter cope with multiple tragedies in their youth but rise to prominence on the world scene. Separately they perform vital roles in the struggle against the twentieth century's greatest menace.Commencing in Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, their journey takes them into the 1930s and 1940s through Hollywood; Washi...

The Accidental Candidate -- A janitor doesn't need to campaign with friends like this. Overheard At a Coffee Shop -- Farfetched, yet oddly believable-or not. Conversation On an Airplane -- A marble champion solves the National Debt. Ocean Mist -- Do clients follow a trusted adviser who opts for a career change? Custer's Witness -- Crow Indian Ashishishe was his scout at the Little Big Horn. Discord In River View Heights -- Border encroachments change everything. Three Days On An Orphan Tra...