A simple guide to some unusual recipes based on the author's own unique approach to cooking. Guided by inspiration and luck, as well as the variety of items to be found in the back of your kitchen shelves, you too can probe the depths of your creativity and be surprised and sometimes delighted by the originality of what you have cooked. If not, you can try something else.

Do media and violence have an intrinsic relationship? McLuhan, Milton, Marx and Ellul had a lot to say about this hot topic. Other writers' views are also examined in this study based on a Media course the author gave at York University in Toronto. The general reader as well as students in media, communications, literature and philosophy courses should find this work helpful as they attempt to give context to a current burning issue.

Everyone thinks they know what Acton said: "Power corrupts." Actually, he said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The man behind the aphorism led a life full of incident which this screenplay attempts to show for the exciting and surprising process that it was. He lived in a revolutionary time where a fixed order was changing into the dynamic reality of the modern age, and Acton was a principal player in the realms of both ideas and politics. At the same time...

Before there was a MeToo movement, there were MeToo moments. Back in the day you dealt with that the best way you could. In this novel it's the summer of 1956. Three young people, Emily, Alexia and Tyler, spend time together as they try to figure out their places in life. Will talents or money or character ultimately determine their choices? Will one reckless act spoil their friendship? How far should you go to protect a friend from a sexual predator? The backdrop of the Hamptons adds its ...

Diabetes is coming soon to a body near you, perhaps your own or that of someone you know. Such is the prognosis of the medical experts, given an aging population and the unwise life styles of people in the developed world, combined with the rapidly changing diets of the rest of the world, a change which is often for the worse.But if diabetes becomes the new normal, will patients be any less concerned when they first receive the diagnosis? For those who fear the thought of being chr...

These two plays, Henry Had to Go and Evangel, are comical plays involving religion. The first is an edgy satire concerning church real estate and what might be called poorly managed human resources. In addition all the characters have a sometimes mystifying interest in music.Evangel is an imagined disputatious encounter between the writers of the Gospels and the Biblical critics of today. To put it simply, the former would have been flabbergasted by the claims of the latter.

Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further. In doing so it established Fromm as one of the most controversial political thinkers of his generation. Anaylsing how...

Chewing table legs, jumping on visitors, nipping human hands, pulling on the leash are among the common puppy behavior problems addressed.Find your puppy's problem in this alphabetical guide and then read the quick and easy ways to change his behavior.Puppies are so cute that sometimes people think their little nips or other misbehaviors are funny or endearing. If you don't correct these bad actions now, however, you'll have a much harder time correcting them when he's grow...

SECRET AGENT MINISTERSmall-town church secretary Lydia Cantrell has loved her boss, handsome pastor Devon Malone, from afar for years. But her feelings are put to the test when murder-and his past as a Christian secret agent-shake her faith.DEADLY TEXAS ROSEHow much did a little girl see and hear of her secretive father’s murder? No one knows. So widow Julia Daniels takes her silent daughter and flees to the tiny Texas town of Wildf...

What is The Ketogenic Diet?The main goal of the Ketogenic Diet, for fitness and weight loss is because it forces the body to burn fats.In order to get on board with this diet, you will have to reduce carbohydrates and ramp up protein and other supplements.The Ketogenic Diet is not so much about omission as it is about balancing things in a different manner. Instead of focusing on low fat items, and no carbs, it’s about lowering the intake to a different level.

The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual-and everyday-life in the twentieth century.Kolakowski’s extraordinary empathy, humor, and erudition are on full display in Is God Happy?, the first collection of...

Karl Popper 1902-1994The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage 'certainties'. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in what Karl Popper called 'Historicism': the belief that the future could be predicted and that man had to align himself with its bloody progress.Totalitarianism, Popper maintained, was based on ideas implicit in Western philosophy, from Plato to Hegel and Marx....