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The Professional Chef is the quintessential kitchen companion from The Culinary Institute of America, used by hundreds of America's top chefs. This...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...

Herman/Seiler's UNDERSTANDING MOTOR CONTROLS, Cengage International Edition, is designed for students with no previous motor control experience. It...

Herman/Vigstol's DELMAR'S STANDARD TEXTBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, CENGAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION 8th Edition, combines basic electrical theory with practi...

Silberstein/Obrzut/Tomczyk/Whitman/Johnson's REFRIGERATION & AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY, CENGAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION 10th Edition, provides ...

After retiring to Cyprus and looking forward to a life of leisure, a neighbour told me the donkey sanctuary was losing their farrier and was I inte...

Contemporary Studies and Theories in Gastronomy and Food Science presents a collection of scholarly investigations centered around gastronomy and h...

This book, Theories and Practices in Tourism, Marketing and Management, is a testament to rigorous scientific inquiry in the realm of tourism and h...

Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential...

Did you know that bees have been around for over 100 million years? Or that the Brehon Laws included judgments about the rightful ownership of swar...

This book focuses on creating awareness and detailing the nuances of aesthetic dermatology practice in skin of color. It highlights practical consi...

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big bu...

A gorgeous professional-level guide to the most challenging form of the confectioner's art A showpiece created entirely from sugar is truly a work...

The Book of Yields: Accuracy in Food Costing and Purchasing now in its eighth edition is a chef's best resource for planning and preparing food mor...

The Campaign for Real Ale's (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide - the UK's best-selling beer and pub guide - is celebrating its 52nd edition with not one but t...

The text begins with a comprehensive theory of cuisine in the introduction and moves to the parallel culinary histories of Italy, Mexico, and China...

The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American f...

This fourth edition of the best selling textbook Food & Beverage Management has been updated and revised to take account of current trends with...

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britains inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a...

With photographs spanning Sam McKnight s entire career, this book is a dramatic anthology of looks from retro to androgynous, romantic to ...

2015 James Beard Award nominee 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award nominee Charcuteria: The Soul of Spain is the first book to introduce authentic ...

Britain is a country of craftspeople, yet the nation's heritage crafts and traditional skills are dying out, with some close to extinction. From c...

Reliability and Maintenance of Multi-indenture Systems analyzes and discusses the optimization problems of the multi-indenture system, providing th...

Few decorative crafts can claim to be more ancient than stone carving, with the earliest carved objects being dated well into prehistory. The great...

THE definitive book for food safety training and certification.   Updated to the new 2013 FDA Food Code, the new ServSafe® Manager Bo...

This is the complete book for beer lovers and for anyone wanting to experience the UK's finest pubs. The Good Beer Guide is completely independent,...

Bennett's HEAVY DUTY TRUCK SYSTEMS, CENGAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION 8th Edition, prepares you for your future and helps you gain knowledge and skills...

Thompson/Erjavec's AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH, CENGAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage with updat...

Traditional crafts have been an essential part of Indian history, culture and life. This handbook looks at craft as both a cultural artefact that r...

An important book, brimming with insight. Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer Material is generous, wise, fascinating and fundamentally ...

In this long-awaited reprint - first published in 1967 - the late George Daniels, a master watchmaker of the twentieth century, documents the impor...