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O My America!

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After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita” and “The Magnetic North” Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope mother of Anthony and author of the biting “Domestic Manners of the Americans”; the actress Fanny Kemble who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; and the novelist Catherine Hubback niece of Jane Austen who deposited her husband in a madhouse and rode the brand-new rails to San Francisco. Tough-minded outsiders these women’s truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete and tentative as their native land was staid and settled. And they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely. From the swampy heat of Georgia’s Sea Islands to the icy purity of the Cascades Sara Wheeler finds their path and her own.”

Culinary Artistry

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In Culinary Artistry…Dornenburg and Page provide food and flavor pairings as a kind of steppingstone for the recipe-dependent cook…Their hope is that once you know the scales you will be able to compose a symphony.”a Molly O’Neil in The New York Times Magazine. For anyone who believes in the potential for artistry in the realm of food Culinary Artistry is a must-read. This is the first book to examine the creative process of culinary composition as it explores the intersection of food imagination and taste. Through interviews with more than 30 of America’s leading chefsa including Rick Bayless Daniel Boulud Gray Kunz Jean-Louis Palladin Jeremiah Tower and Alice Watersa the authors reveal what defines “culinary artists ” how and where they find their inspiration and how they translate that vision to the plate. Through recipes and reminiscences chefs discuss how they select and pair ingredients and how flavors are combined into dishes dishes into menus and menus into bodies of work that eventually comprise their cuisines.”

Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms

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Printed music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms provides clear succinct definitions of a comprehensive range of the musical terms in English and other European languages that are likely to be encountered in Western music. Over 2 500 A-Z entries range across a spectrum of subjects among them: rhythm metre forms genres pitch scales chords harmony and counterpoint notational systems composition and analysis performance practice tempo expression musical periods artistic movements computer applications acoustics and many more. Entries provide etymologies and are fully cross-referenced. Some are illustrated with music examples and tables. An appendix lists all composers mentioned in the Dictionary with their dates. It is an ideal book for students and teachers of music – it covers all the terms required in the SMAB musical theory exams – as well as for professional musicians those learning to play musical instruments and members of choirs and musical groups. It will also be a useful quick reference book for concert-goers CD-collectors and radio listeners.

Making Children’s Clothes

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Using just a few simple sewing techniques discover the easy way to create fun and stylish outfits for young children (0-5 years). By combining a few easy-to-learn stitches with great fabrics and trims expert seamstress Emma Hardy explains how to make beautiful yet practical clothes for your children. Choose from 25 different projects including party frocks and pinafore dresses simple shirts and elasticated trousers sleepwear and accessories such as hats bibs bootees and aprons. There are clothes for young boys and girls toddlers and babies plus full-size paper patterns that can easily be scaled to suit different ages. Packed with useful tips and sewing techniques Making Children’s Clothes” provides a comprehensive guide to creating fantastic items that your child will love to wear.”

Singing For Dummies