Larousse French Cooking is the ultimate culinary journey through France. From a Toulouse Cassoulet to a Provençal *Pissaladière*, a northern *Moules à la Marinière* to a southern Pistou Soup, this book brings together more than 130 of the best-loved recipes from every region.Discover everyday classics such as Lyonnais Onion Soup or Quiche Lorraine. Truly impress a crowd with showstopping dishes like a Seven-hour Leg of Lam...

Have you ever wondered what is the purpose of your life? Do you sometimes feel a lack of fulfillment? Do you often have a sense that there must be something more to life? You have all that is necessary: you are born again, filled with the Holy Spirit (or not!) you are happy (or unhappy!). But something is missing. If you are experiencing this prevailing sense of something missing then this book is for you. You will be enabled to look with new eyes at some familiar biblical concepts. Rather...

The book is a quest to discover what happened to British manufacturing in the decades after the Second World War. People say that we don't make things anymore. Is this true?I try to answer this question by exploring what happened in manufacturing sectors and to major manufacturing companies. I seek out manufacturing heroes, and try to map out where we are with the twenty-first century well underway.In 1951, the Festival of Britain was celebrating British manufacturing; we b...

A guide to recovery from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) - a disease that has generally been regarded as incurable, this book is written by a recovered ME/CFS sufferer, whose own experience of near death to near normality gives hope to others who have suffered from this debilitating illness, and perhaps despaired of ever living a normal life again.The author, who has a degree in Chemistry, and a background in Medical Research, Nutritional Diseases and Hazardous ...

If ever South Africans needed hope for their country, it is now! 2025!This book offers not just hope for South Africa but a well-defined process we can all engage in towards the realisation of that hope. Known to be a nation with unique potential due to its diversity of people groups, we stand to gain a great deal from uniting and harnessing our country's rich variety of people resources, skills, cultures and qualities, to optimize its magnificent potential. As a nation, we have re...

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors allowed it to remain top manufacturing dog well into the twentieth century while other countries were busy playing catch up. Through two world wars and t...

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors allowed it to remain top manufacturing dog well into the twentieth century while other countries were busy playing catch up. Through two world wars and t...

At Dunkirk, the withdrawing army left behind most of its equipment, yet only four years later, on D-Day, troops would wonder at the efficiency of supply. This book looks at the lives of some of the men who led the monumental effort which led to this result. The story begins in Victorian south London. It goes out to Portuguese East Africa and then to Malaya, before being caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. Between the wars, its leading characters work at Pilkington, Dunlop and English...

The challenges we face in South Africa require a strong moral compass. A clear and strong moral compass comprises absolute values that guide and govern our behaviour as a nation: the rights and responsibilities that both citizens and leaders at all levels of government adhere to. To achieve this we need a fundamental Bill of Values drawn from the primary values, principles, ethics and moral standards that have stood the test of time, and have characterised historically stable governments t...

A story for kids, computer geeks, software developers, gamers, well, just about anyone who likes a good story with a happy ending ...(eventually).How would things look if everything in existence originated from one robot whose multitudinous ideas brought about a whole universe of robots and other thingamajigs? And if software floating around became a threat to them?

In August 1914, Kitchener's 'Contemptible Little Army' was highly professional but small, equipped with only what they could carry – and they were facing a force of continental proportions, heavily armed and well supplied. The task of equipping the British Army was truly Herculean. Many able men had volunteered to fight in the trenches, and others would soon be called up, so this vital work was to be undertaken by the ordinary men and women left behind. In time, the govern...

In August 1914, Kitchener's 'Contemptible Little Army' was highly professional but small, equipped with only what they could carry – and they were facing a force of continental proportions, heavily armed and well supplied. The task of equipping the British Army was truly Herculean. Many able men had volunteered to fight in the trenches, and others would soon be called up, so this vital work was to be undertaken by the ordinary men and women left behind. In time, the govern...