Encyclopedias & Subject Guides
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Harland, Gail

Goat’s beard (Tragopogon pratensis) An alternative name for goat’s beard is ‘Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon’ because of the behaviour of its flowers, which come out at daybreak and close by midday. As the ...
( Category: Herbs November 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flude, Kevin [Flude, Kevin]

EDWARD VI Reigned 1547–1553 Edward was born in 1537 at Hampton Court. He was a precocious and rather priggish child – serious, scholarly and dedicated to the Protestant religion. He ...
( Category: Great Britain November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Morris, Ciscoe. [Morris, Ciscoe.]

Don’t get stuck with a dud. Last spring I bought a Japanese maple expecting that it would put on a beautiful color display in fall. Instead, the leaves turned brown ...
( Category: Gardening November 13,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lewis, Dan

THE MADMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE RICHARD NIXON’S CRAZY THEORY ON PREVENTING A NUCLEAR WAR For most of the Cold War, three words dictated the game theory outcomes behind military ...
( Category: History November 12,2014 )
mobi |es | 2008-04-28 | Author:Ferdydurke

IX EL ESPIAR Y CONSIGUIENTE INTERNARSE EN LA MODERNIDAD En silencio me fui a mi cuarto y me acosté sobre el canapé. Tenía que preparar el plan de acción. Temblaba, ...
( Category: Humorous November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-01-10 | Author:John Grisham

Las normas que regulaban las visitas personales eran sencillas. Entre las siete y las nueve de la noche del viernes, los jurados podían recibir en sus respectivas habitaciones a cónyuges, ...
( Category: Suspense November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:H. H. Halley [Halley, H. H.]

* * * Matt. 6–7 HEAVENLY TEACHINGS Secret motives of life (6:1–18). (See on Luke 12:1–12.) Here illustrated in three specific areas are the actions which lead to spiritual growth ...
( Category: Handbooks November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dalai Lama [Lama, Dalai]

The Problem of Greed Versus the Joys of Philanthropy In today's materialistic world there is a trend of people becoming slaves to money, as though they are parts of a ...
( Category: Dalai Lama November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Goldberg

I started making these back in my days at La Tache restaurant in Chicago with Dale Levitski, who turned me on to them. It was great for us as cooks ...
( Category: Cooking November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-07 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson [Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John]

What are violin strings made from? Violin strings are not made of catgut, and never have been. This is a myth started by medieval Italian violin-makers who had discovered that ...
( Category: Trivia November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2011-11-29 | Author:William James

MODO PARA NO IMPEDIR AL TODO Cuando reparas en algo, dejas de arrojarte al todo; porque, para venir del todo al todo, has de negarte del todo en todo; y ...
( Category: Religion November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2011-05-02 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

(3) Se murmura que las consecuencias de esa herida fueron muy graves. (Nota del editor.) (4) Ha sido inevitable, aquí, omitir unas líneas. (Nota del editor.) (5) Ni en los ...
( Category: Short Stories November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Pearsall, Jennifer L.S. [Pearsall, Jennifer L.S.]

Next, I heated up a couple tablespoons of sesame oil, then in went the bacon, which was chopped in the raw. Just as the bacon was done but not crisp, ...
( Category: Meats November 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Old Farmer's Almanac

* * * A time-altering experience In 1938, 43-year-old researcher Nathaniel Kleitman and his student, 25-year-old Bruce Richardson, descended into the belly of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave in a serious quest ...
( Category: Almanacs & Yearbooks November 8,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Mark Bittman [Bittman, Mark]

It used to be more common to cook salmon until it was dry and flaky. (Maybe a more fitting word is crumbly. Even worse: chalky.) But salmon tastes a lot ...
( Category: Cooking November 7,2014 )