Fusion cooking broke the rules first––now Gower's breaking fusion's rules with The Breakway Cook. Despite the explosion of farmers' markets, ethnic grocers, and creative restaurants in America, lots of home cooks remain puzzled by the bewildering array of choices, and don't have the confidence to break away from tradition. Eric helps home cooks everywhere approach unfamiliar ingredients from different global regions and combine them for some amazing results of flavor. "Breakaway" cooking pays homage to culinary traditions yet uses innovative techniques and ingredients to give home cooks a new approach to their dishes, marrying unintimidating flavors with the old standards. Sample his Miso Orange Pepper Roasted Chicken, or tease your tongue with his take on Fluffy Herby Eggs, and you'll be convinced. It's not fusion––it's fusion that makes sense. And the cardinal rule is to season with authority. Don't be afraid of the spice cabinet anymore, and use presentation to create a simple, appealing meal. Spend less time fussing about the preparation and clean–up, and more time enjoying food and its huge role in our daily lives. To further this quick and mindful approach to cooking, Eric will take us shopping in local and ethnic markets, teach the importance of table setting and presentation, and stress visual aesthetics, especially regarding pottery and ceramics. Eric helps you reconstruct your approach to the kitchen, highlighting the seasonings and essential ingredients or "Global Flavor Blasts," such as tamarind, pomegranate molasses, miso, yuzu, green tea, Chinese plum sauce, mole, among many others, that will liberate your cooking and provide a lifetime of fantastic eating. Using Gower's recipes as broad outlines, you can be creative as you go, and within his framework you will discover your own genius in the kitchen. We feel better when we eat better, and it's easier to be productive, creative, and relaxed when the food part of life is under control. Enter The Breakaway Cook. In addition to the recipes, The Breakaway Cook includes stunning, full–color photos by Annabelle Breakey throughout the text; a guide to using flavored salts in your dishes; sidebars on wine, tea and sake; and ideas for even shorter–cuts on Gower's easy–to–follow recipes.

When it comes to Asian desserts, most Americans think of fortune cookies. But, in fact, the Far East is home to a dazzling array of sweets rich with tropical fruits, crunchy nuts, aromatic spices, and, yes, even chocolate.In The Sweet Spot, renowned pastry chef Pichet Ong presents a collection of one hundred recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, puddings, ice creams, candies, and more. There are traditional Asian desserts with innovative twists, such as Sesame Balls, Mango Sticky Rice, and Almond Tofu, and classic American favorites, like Spiced Coconut Brownies, Banana Cream Pie, and Cream Puffs, livened up with Asian ingredients and cooking techniques. Eschewing the heavy use of butter and sugar, Ong instead highlights the vibrant flavors of Asia—jasmine, lychee, orange blossom water, passion fruit, yuzu, mangosteen, and sesame, to name just a few. And despite the complexity of flavors and textures, all of the recipes are easy enough to make in home kitchens, requiring minimal effort for maximum results. Dazzle dinner-party guests with elegant showstoppers—Thai Tea White Chocolate Tart, Coconut Cream Pie with Toasted Jasmine Rice Crust—or delight the family with simple weeknight treats—Pomegranate Sherbet, Ginger Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.The Sweet Spot includes lush color photographs of almost all of the finished dishes, and a foreword from legendary restaurateur and chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Savory Asian cuisine has been popular in America for years. Now it's time to embrace the enticing range of exotic desserts.

Thanks to the ever-increasing number of kosher products available to home cooks, it's never been easier or more satisfying to prepare delicious, wholesome, and healthful kosher meals. In this new collection of exciting recipes, acclaimed journalist, cooking teacher, and cookbook author Faye Levy presents a progressive, upbeat approach to nutritious kosher cuisine that highlights the pleasure of preparing and eating mouthwatering dishes that promote well-being. Kosher foods are being used in more and more American homes, and their abundance and diversity is increasing at an impressive rate. From the traditional to the exotic, from extra-virgin olive oil to tasty cheeses, from spicy condiments to Asian-style sauces, from Latin flavors to Indian, Levy introduces both novice and seasoned cooks to a grand array of international ingredients. By showcasing them in such dishes as Poached Turkey with Mushrooms, Wheat Berries, and Dill; Diced Vegetable Salad with Pepitas and Papaya; Marseilles-Style Fish with Saffron and Fennel; and Turkish Autumn Vegetable Casserole with Chicken, she shows how they will add zest to any menu while maintaining solid nutritional value. With a focus on foods with substantial health benefits, such as nuts, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, Levy revamps old favorites, turning them into updated wholesome creations, including Springtime Chicken Soup with Asparagus, Fava Beans, and Whole Wheat Matzo Balls; Passover Haroset with Pistachios and Pomegranate Juice; Rosh Hashanah Chicken with Dates and Almonds; and Apple Apricot Whole Wheat Noodle Kugel. She introduces new classics to the festive Jewish kitchen, such as Cucumber, Jicama, and Orange Salad with Black Olives; Buckwheat Blintzes with Goat Cheese and Ratatouille; Spicy White Bean Soup with Kale; Purim Baked Turkey Schnitzel with Sweet-Sour Onion Compote; and Macadamia Orange Cake with Red Berry Sauce. Whether you're cooking for yourself and your family any day of the week or preparing a holiday feast for friends and relatives, Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home is bound to satisfy all your culinary needs. Variety is not only the spice of life; it's also the spice of nourishing menus. The two hundred healthful, tasty, innovative kosher recipes in this book are sure to add inspiration to your menus and variety to your daily eating, as well as zest to the lives of those who share your table.

Meet the men and women whose deeply personal philanthropy is dramatically changing the way we think about giving There are 8.6 million millionaires in the United States, and these numbers are set to rise in what will be the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. As $41 trillion dollars (or over three times the national GDP) moves from the World War II generation to their baby- boomer children over the next couple of decades, it will become imperative that the beneficiaries of this wealth—even those not joining the ranks of the superrich—begin thinking about philanthropy, perhaps for the first time in their adult lives. Here they will find the personal journeys of the most successful givers of their generation. This new generation of wealth has already begun to change the face of philanthropy and to reshape the entire nonprofit sector. In Be the Change, bestselling author Lisa Endlich presents eleven compelling profiles of this twenty-first century generosity. Through candid, revealing, and often surprising interviews, readers will venture into the hearts and minds of the top names in philanthropy today—men and women who have chosen to use their immense riches and influence to meaningfully improve the lives of others in the most dramatic ways. These intimate conversations include in-depth interviews with: ?Melinda Gates, one of the driving forces behind the largest philanthropic organization the world has ever seen; ?Bob and Suzanne Wright, he's the former vice chairman of GE and longtime head of NBC Universal and their Autism Speaks has brought awareness of autism onto the national and international stage; ?Paul Tudor Jones, founder of Tudor Investments and the Robin Hood Foundation; ?Peter Bloom, founding chairman of the groundbreaking DonorsChoose.org. From Connie Duckworth, a former Goldman Sachs partner, who brings steady employment to Afghani women and education to them and their children, to Johann Olav Koss, an Olympic gold medalist who now strives to give children in the direst circumstances the chance to play, these philanthropists demonstrate that giving doesn't begin or end with a signed check. They grant Endlich exclusive access to the stories of how they learned from early failures and developed a personal, sustainable way of giving, and they also share the catalyzing moment when they saw a problem so heartbreaking they simply could not turn away. In doing so, these new philanthropists offer valuable lessons—ones that will inspire readers to start giving, keep giving, and become the change they want to see in the world.

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was John F. Kennedy and his young family, who sat for formal black-and-white portraits just three weeks prior to Kennedy's presidential inauguration. Six images appeared in the magazine's February 1961 issue.That same day, Avedon created more informal color portraits of Kennedy and his family at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach. One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazine's February 28 issue, with photographs by Avedon inside. Just before the magazine hit the newsstands and was delivered to over 6.5 million people, a set of photographs, comprised mostly of the LOOK images, was released by the White House and appeared in newspapers across the country.During his lifetime, Richard Avedon donated more than two hundred images to the Smithsonian Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harper's Bazaar. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than seventy-five images from that donation for The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family, making these stunning photographs available for view for the first time. Perich's introductory essay accompanied by a wealth of archival photographs of both Avedon and the Kennedy family provides historical background on the two sittings within a political and cultural context and critically examines the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century. A foreword by Robert Dallek, distinguished historian and author of the bet-selling An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, provides authoritative and compelling insight to one of the most fascinating presidents in American history.

Mediterranean Grilling presents a collection of classic and new recipes for flame-kissed dishes from the regions surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, where the great grilling tradition dates back to ancient times, but the flavors are always fresh.Diane Kochilas takes the familiar and much-loved cooking method of grilling and pairs it with the cuisines of the Mediterranean, introducing home cooks to a whole new world of flavors that can be created in their own backyards. From Turkish kebabs and Spanish-style grilled artichokes to French grillades and Greek vegetable kebabs, Mediterranean Grilling offers an irresistible array of contemporary and traditional grilled specialties.Enjoy Grilled Tomato Soup with Spicy Yogurt, Greek Lamb Biftekia Stuffed with Spiced Feta, and Swordfish Souvlaki with Lemon-Olive Oil Marinade. Many dishes are simple and served right from the grill, while others are the basis for more complex soups, salads, and pastas. With recipes as varied as goat cheese appetizers and charred pita breads, fresh fish and marinated lamb, garden vegetables and juicy peaches drizzled with honey syrup, as well as dazzling full-color photographs, Mediterranean Grilling lets home cooks turn on the flame and turn up the flavor as never before.

One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age 25. A year later, he became a sensation on Broadway with the premiere of On the Town. Throughout the 1950s, his Broadway fame only grew with Wonderful Town, Candide, and West Side Story. And in 1958, the Philharmonic appointed him the first American Music Director of a major symphony orchestra a signal historical event. He was adored as a quintessential celebrity but one who could do it all embracing both popular and classical music, a natural with the new medium of television, a born teacher, writer, and speaker, as well as a political and social activist. In 1976, having conducted the Philharmonic for more than one thousand concerts, he took his orchestra on tour to Europe for the last time.All of this played out against the backdrop of post-Second World War New York City as it rose to become the cultural capital of the world the center of wealth, entertainment, communications, and art and continued through the chaotic and galvanizing movements of the 1960s that led to its precipitous decline by the mid 1970s. The essays within this book do not simply retell the Bernstein story; instead, Leonard Bernstein's brother, Burton Bernstein, and current New York Philharmonic archivist and historian, Barbara B. Haws, have brought together a distinguished group of contributors to examine Leonard Bernstein's historic relationship with New York City and its celebrated orchestra. Composer John Adams, American historians Paul Boyer and Jonathan Rosenberg, music historians James Keller and Joseph Horowitz, conductor and radio commentator Bill McGlaughlin, musicologist Carol Oja, and music critics Tim Page and Alan Rich have written incisive essays, which are enhanced by personal reminiscences from Burton Bernstein. The result is a telling portrait of Leonard Bernstein, the musician and the man.

本套装包括《人类酷刑简史：揭秘文明面具下的恐怖人性》、《腐败：人性与文化》、《性学三论：弗洛伊德三大不朽名作之一》、《贪婪的七宗罪：一部剖析人性的前沿力作》、《跃升：划时代的性格解析巨著，重建人生格局，帮你实现人生的超越！》、《梦的解析（经典畅销版）》、《人性的弱点（插图珍藏版）》、《死亡文化》

元末明初，退隐20年的魔师庞斑，带领门下弟子重出江湖，掀起滔天巨浪。而*能与他抗衡的浪翻云，却自爱妻纪惜惜身故后万念俱灰，剑道至境不再。 江湖腥风血雨，年轻一辈的杰出人物亦正奋勇侠气！出身卑贱的韩柏、慈航静斋传人秦梦瑶、英勇傲气的风行烈……生离死别，爱恨情仇，命运的旋涡将他们卷在了一起。 唯能极于情，故能极于剑！

《猫鱼》是电影人陈冲的非虚构长篇作品。祖辈与母亲的故事、平江路老房子的岁月，“小花”摄制组大篷车的日子，独自踏上异国留学之旅，每一部电影不为人知的幕后，生命中的爱与痛楚、挣扎，经由作者的回望，跃然纸上。写家族故事，是独特的上海叙事、中国知识分子的心灵史；从《小花》到《末代皇帝》《意》《太阳照常升起》等等的银幕前后，是电影艺术家的传记；从上海童年到异国拼，一段段人生旅程，是女性兼具激情与柔情的私语。

　　《哲学史讲演录》是德国古典哲学大师黑格尔的代表作之一，“哲学史”的开山之作，治哲学者之书。黑格尔一方面将哲学史纳入他的客观唯心主义体系的框架中，把哲学史归结为理念回归自身的*精神阶段；另一方面把辩证法贯彻于哲学史研究，深刻地揭示了哲学史的发展规律。20世纪五六十年代，贺麟、王太庆等先生将其译成中文出版，是贺麟先生译述黑格尔的重要成果。本次收入“贺麟全集”出版，解决了之前版本由于出版时间相隔较远而存在的体例不一等问题，更符合当下阅读习惯。

本书从全景式全球变迁角度重新审视冷战，通过讲述一系列重大国际事件，剖析冷战的起源、发展和落幕，以及两大阵营各主要国家的政治、经济、社会制度如何影响了它们的相互关系与冷战的最终格局；跳出两大阵营的窠臼，将视角转向第三世界国家，观察它们的发展道路与内外政策如何影响了冷战的走势；探讨冷战时期的生活方式、文化艺术与科学技术变迁如何成为搅动世界风云的基础性因素。最终，本书试图超越冷战本身，透视当今所谓“新冷战”，追溯在冷战时已埋下种子的今日冲突的根源。 作为冷战的“同龄人”，作者的个人经历与冷战息息相关。在理论之外，作者深纷繁的史实，将冷战化为一个个具体的故事，去关注千百万普通人的过去与未来，从根植于恐惧与痛苦的历史记忆出发，展望一个祛除“新冷战”的时代。

武汉大学出土文献与传统经济研究所，牵头组织靠前各民族契约研究方面的有名专家学者，于2014年申报并承担了国家社会科学基金重大项目“丝绸之路出土各族契约文献整理及其与汉文契约的比较研究”（14ZDB030），合作对一些民族语种契约进行系统的整理，同时开展了对各民族契约文献的多方位研究，2015年10月，在吐鲁番市举办了“丝绸之路出土民族契约研究靠前学术论坛”，与会的四十多位来自靠前外的专家学者，对于古丝绸之路沿线出土的佉卢文、吐蕃文、回鹘文、西夏文、察合台文以及汉文契约文献作了多方位的探讨，对于契约在丝绸之路繁荣中的作用，各民族语种契约与汉文契约比较中的异同以及由异趋同的演变，不同时期丝绸之路路线的调整及其经济活动的比较，契约自身发展中的特点和规律性认识等方面，提出了不少真知卓见。现将这些学术成果汇辑成《丝绸之路各族契约文献研究论集》，以广交流。

《奥德赛》是古希腊语—汉语对照本，为“日知古典丛书”*一种。 本书希腊文本采用洛布古典丛书中《奥德赛》版本，为通行近百年的权威校勘本。由古希腊诗人 荷马创作的不朽英雄史诗《奥德赛》，与《伊利亚特》合称为“荷马史诗”，被公认为西方文学的 始祖、西方文化的源泉。

民国时期是中国机制币的*时期，普遍制作精美，工艺精湛。其中，人像币占所发行机制货币的九成以上，尤以南京政府发行的孙中山像银元和北洋政府发行的袁世凯像银元*为著称。此外还有大量用以纪念、馈赠的人像纪念章，共同形成这一时期蔚为壮观的银元时代。本书以孙中山像、袁世凯像为主，包括政府发行或未发行的全国通用货币，还有政府领导者或军阀的人像纪念章，均纳入研究范围之内。本书附录将近十年的拍卖成交结果进行归纳整理，可直观体现每一品种人像钱币在近十年间的价格走势，便于钱币研究、收藏爱好者参考市场行情。

"《读一页就上瘾的三国史》是一套讲述三国历史的通俗读物，共3册。这套书从刘备称帝（221年）写起，到三国归晋（280年）结束，共60年。 三国争霸，英雄辈出，这是一个真正靠实力与谋略取得天下的时代。本书以三国时代的历史背景为主线，以小说的笔法展现了三国时期的英雄辈出和无数英豪的奋斗与陨落。 书中对三国时期的重要人物、事件进行了*的介绍，通过对这些人物的生平和事迹的描述，读者可以更加深入地了解这些历史人物的性格、思想和行动，以及他们在历史进程中所扮演的角色。在这部作品中，作者精心雕琢每一个细节，竭力还原真实的三国历史情景，生动地描绘了三国时期的英勇人物和纷繁复杂的历史事件。 "

我叫斯潘莎·夜影， 成为飞行员是我毕生的梦想。 八十年前，人类的舰队坠落在这颗岩屑星上， 不仅被无数太空残骸包围，头顶还盘旋着克雷尔人， 不断对我们发起袭。 我梦想成为父亲那样的飞行员，抵御外敌， 可他却在一次任务中临阵脱逃，结果被队友落。 自此，我被上了“懦夫之女”的烙印，但依然梦想着飞上天空， 哪怕住洞窟、吃鼠肉，我也要上飞行学校。 克雷尔人的攻势越来越猛烈， 在人类存亡之际，一艘被遗弃的飞船出现在我面前， 我听到了群星的呼唤…… “夺取群星吧，斯潘莎！” 这是父亲留给我的话语，也是我必达的使命。

本套装包括： 《内在勇气：激发内在潜能的15项心理练习》 《隐藏的人格：揭开人格面具的秘密，探寻真实的自我》 《超级大脑的七个习惯：激发大脑潜能，激活高效人生》 《出众，从改变习惯开始：迈向卓越人生的七大习惯法则！》 《深度成长：颠覆思维模式，重新定义成功！》 《如何提升性格优势：9大维度解析性格的奥秘！》 《魔力大脑：一本全面唤醒大脑，释放潜能的“魔法书”》

【美艳戏精傀儡女王vs冷面腹黑掌权国师】 她是世人眼中的天命女王——转世便坐拥万丈荣光，群臣俯首称臣，注定尊享人间富贵。 实则她是悲情的傀儡女王——王朝四分五裂，王权是空壳，她不过是任人摆布的棋子。 身为傀儡，她渴求自由不得，偏爱上清冷国师，注定爱恨交织。 他的权柄是她王冠上的枷锁，她的尊严是他霸业路上的壁垒。 当他以“弑君之罪”为她劈开生路，嘶吼着：“若需尸骨垫道，从我开始！” 她却于帝歌雪夜挥刀斩情，浴血踏碎枷锁，亲手戴上染血的帝冕！ 权谋的游戏里，谁为谁牺牲？谁因谁谋算？ 爱情的幻梦碎成千万片，是随旧朝一同覆灭，还是在灰烬中燃起新的烈焰？ 这场以权谋为骨、爱恨为血的较量，终将在她自立为帝的那一刻，迎来*壮烈的答案。

尖峰岭是海南六大热带雨林地区之一，为我国稀有的热带森林生态系统类型之一，也是我国热带雨林的典型代表，生物多样性极为丰富。本书系统收录了尖峰岭400多种蝴蝶，并选配了大量的蝶类生态照片、标本照片，以图文并茂的形式介绍了每种蝴蝶的分类地位、生物学特性及世界分布情况等。本书全面反映了尖峰岭的蝴蝶资源情况，不仅可为蝶类资源的保护和利用提供科学依据，而且对今后展热带雨林地区蝴蝶多样性及其与全球气候变化关系等研究奠定基础。

本书以广州市 77 种外来入侵植物为研究材料， 提出了以 rbcL+ITS 作为鉴定物种的 DNA 条码形。 另外，本书收集了广州市 131 种外来和 19 种本土共 150 种入侵植物的图片， 并对其形态特征、 生境、 生物学特性、 用途、 原产地和分布以及危害等级等进行了介绍。 本书希望能提醒政府和人们高度重视入侵植物的危害， 并加强对植物有害入侵的预警和防控研究， 以实现人与自然的和谐共生。