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Afternoons in Ithaka

Author : Spiri Tsintziras
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743099142
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Afternoons in Ithaka written by Spiri Tsintziras and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection and the power of a tomato. 'I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit on a stool in my grandmother's house. It is the height of summer in a seaside village in the south of Greece. We little Aussies devour 'tomato sandwiches' as the family chats and laughs and swats flies ...' From the first heady taste of tomatoes on home-baked bread in her mother's village in Petalidi, to sitting at a taverna some 30 years later in Ithaka with her young family, Spiri tsintziras goes on a culinary, creative and spiritual journey that propels her back and forth between Europe and Australia. these evocative, funny and poignant stories explore how food and culture, language and music, and people and their stories help to create a sense of meaning and identity.

My Ikaria

Author : Spiri Tsintziras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369355195
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book My Ikaria written by Spiri Tsintziras and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years ago, Spiri Tsintziras found herself mentally, physically and spiritually depleted. She was stretched thin - raising kids, running a household and managing a business. She ate too much in order to keep going and then slumped in front of the telly at night, exhausted, asking herself 'What is it all for?' Spiri's quest for a healthier, more nourishing life took her from her suburban home in Melbourne to her family's homeland of Greece, and to the small Greek island of Ikaria. The people of Ikaria - part of the famous 'Blue Zones' - live happy, healthy and long lives. Inspired by their example, Spiri made some simple lifestyle changes and as a result lost weight, gained energy and deepened the connection to those closest to her. Best of all, she didn't have to give up bread or wine! Spiri's heartwarming memoir, which includes delicious family recipes, will console and entertain anyone bogged down in the daily grind - encouraging you to put your health and happiness first.

North of Ithaka

Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466823909
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book North of Ithaka written by Eleni N. Gage and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving behind a sparkling social life and a successful journalism career, Eleni Gage moved from New York City to the remote Greek village of Lia. Lia is the same village where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, and which her father, Nicholas Gage, made famous twenty years ago with his international bestseller Eleni. Her four aunts (the diminutive but formidable thitsas) warned Eleni that she'd get killed by Albanians and eaten by wolves if she moved to Lia, invoking the curse her grandmother placed on any of her descendants who returned to Greece. But Eleni was determined to rebuild the ruins of her grandparents' house and to come to terms with her family's tragic history. Along the way, she learned to dodge bad omens and to battle the scorpions on her pillow and the shadows in her heart. She also came to understand that Greece and its memories were not only dark and death-filled, and that memories of the dead can bring new life to the present. Part travel memoir and part family saga, North of Ithaka is, above all, a journey home.

Everything Is Under Control

Author : Phyllis Grant
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374720754
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Everything Is Under Control written by Phyllis Grant and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Esquire's Best Cookbooks of 2020 and one of The Washington Post's Best Food Books of 2020 "In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." --The New York Times Book Review “What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is . . . Like the best chefs, Phyllis Grant knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth, taste, poignancy, and love.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat, Pray, Love Phyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant’s story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California, where her children are born. All the while, a sense of longing pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself. Written with the transparency of a diarist, Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried-and-true recipes from Grant’s table—a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood, motherhood, and a life in the kitchen.

Ithaka

Author : Adèle Geras
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152061043
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Ithaka written by Adèle Geras and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors demanding that Penelope choose a new husband, as she patiently awaits the return of Odysseus from the Trojan War.

Ithaka

Author : Sarah Saffian
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 9780385334518
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Ithaka written by Sarah Saffian and published by Delta. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice on the other end of the line was soft, yet forthright: "Sarah, my name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother." The phone call, wholly unexpected, instantly turned Sarah Saffian's world upside-down, threatening her sense of family, identity, self. Adopted as an infant twenty-three years before, living happily in New York, Sarah had been "found" by her biological parents despite her reluctance to embrace them. In this searing, lyrical memoir, Sarah chronicles her painful journey from confusion and anger to acceptance and, finally, reunion--but not until three soul-searching years had passed. In spare, luminous prose, Sarah Saffian crafts a powerful story of self-discovery and belonging--a deeply personal memoir told with grace, eloquence, and compassion. At once heartbreaking and profoundly uplifting, Ithaka is sure to touch anyone who has grappled with who they are.

Debussy and His World

Author : Jane F. Fulcher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691090429
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Debussy and His World written by Jane F. Fulcher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalised, politicised, and litigious. This text aims to capture the complexity of the composer's restless personal and artistic identity within the context of fin-de-siècle Paris.

Parlour Games for Modern Families

Author : Myfanwy Jones
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963026
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Parlour Games for Modern Families written by Myfanwy Jones and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remember when you played cards or knucklebones or noughts and crosses? Or what about charades, murder in the dark, I spy or hide and seek? Or made chatterboxes, those devices made from a square of paper that you flipped open between thumbs and forefingers with wishes and dreams under the flaps.This book has the lot. It may even ween you off the telly. Remember blind man's buff? What about conversations, in which players discuss a topic by starting each sentence with a consecutive letter of the alphabet? Great family fun ' Sun Herald Written by two young mums, Parlour Games for Modern Families sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games.This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, card games, role-play, and rough and tumble. No game requires any equipment beyond a pack of cards, a dictionary, dice, paper, and pen. Games are organised thematically and referenced for age-appropriateness. All are set out with clear rules and instructions. There are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and games that will have you in fits; games that can last all night, and games to fill that empty half-hour before tea; games for adults and older children, and games to keep all the kids at a four-year-old's birthday party happy. Every family and every home needs a copy.

Greece

Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Comstocks of Cornell

Author : Anna Botsford Comstock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740555
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Comstocks of Cornell written by Anna Botsford Comstock and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and her husband's, entomologist John Henry Comstock—both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. Karen Penders St. Clair's twenty-first century edition returns Mrs. Comstock's voice to her book by rekeying her entire manuscript as she wrote it, and preserving the memories of the personal and professional lives of the Comstocks that she had originally intended to share. The book includes a complete epilogue of the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, the book is an essential part of Cornell University history and an important piece of Cornell University Press history.

Greece

Author : Karl Baedeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Greece written by Karl Baedeker and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greece

Author : Baedeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece written by Baedeker and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Well-Being

Author : Daniel Kahneman
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 161044325X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Well-Being written by Daniel Kahneman and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-Being draws upon the latest scientific research to transform our understanding of this ancient question. With contributions from leading authorities in psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience, this volume presents the definitive account of current scientific efforts to understand human pleasure and pain, contentment and despair. The distinguished contributors to this volume combine a rigorous analysis of human sensations, emotions, and moods with a broad assessment of the many factors, from heredity to nationality, that bear on our well-being. Using the tools of experimental science, the contributors confront the puzzles of human likes and dislikes. Why do we grow accustomed and desensitized to changes in our lives, both good and bad? Does our happiness reflect the circumstances of our lives or is it determined by our temperament and personality? Why do humans acquire tastes for sensations that are initially painful or unpleasant? By examining the roots of our everyday likes and dislikes, the book also sheds light on some of the more extreme examples of attraction and aversion, such as addiction and depression. Among its wide ranging inquiries, Well-Being examines systematic differences in moods and behaviors between genders, explaining why women suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than men, but are also more inclined to express positive emotions. The book also makes international comparisons, finding that some countries' populations report higher levels of happiness than others. The contributors deploy an array of methods, from the surveys and questionnaires of social science to psychological and physiological experiments, to develop a comprehensive new approach to the study of well-being. They show how the sensory pleasures of the body can tells us something about the higher pleasures of the mind and even how the effectiveness of our immune system can depend upon the health of our social relationships.

Fast-Forward Family

Author : Elinor Ochs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520955099
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Fast-Forward Family written by Elinor Ochs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. Fast-Forward Family shines light on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and the challenges for parents as they try to reconcile ideals regarding what it means to be a good parent, a good worker, and a good spouse. Though there are also moments of connection, affection, and care, it’s evident that life for 21st century working parents is frenetic, with extended work hours, children’s activities, chores, meals to prepare, errands to run, and bills to pay.

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007545142
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.

They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism

Author : Randall C. Bailey
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589832450
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism written by Randall C. Bailey and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics from three major racial/ethnic minority communities in the United States—African American, Asian American, and Latino/a American—focus on the problematic of race and ethnicity in the Bible and in contemporary biblical interpretation. With keen eyes on both ancient text and contemporary context, contributors pay close attention to how racial/ethnic dynamics intersect with other differential relations of power such as gender, class, sexuality, and colonialism. In groundbreaking interaction, they also consider their readings alongside those of other racial/ethnic minority communities. The volume includes an introduction pointing out the crucial role of this work within minority criticism by looking at its historical trajectory, critical findings, and future directions. The contributors are Cheryl B. Anderson, Francisco O. García-Treto, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Frank M. Yamada, Gale A. Yee, Jae-Won Lee, Gay L. Byron, Fernando F. Segovia, Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Demetrius K. Williams, Mayra Rivera Rivera, Evelyn L. Parker, and James Kyung-Jin Lee.

A Recipe for Gentrification

Author : Alison Hope Alkon
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811378
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book A Recipe for Gentrification written by Alison Hope Alkon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises—including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers’ markets—to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods. A Recipe for Gentrification highlights how the everyday practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century.