Drawing from decades of teaching and writing, Beard presents readers with a masterful book to instruct and inspire in the kitchen.   Featuring 1,000 recipes that reflect Beard’s wide-ranging culinary passions and expertise, The New James Beard offers the amateur chef vital wisdom on mastering escargots, perfecting a homemade tomato sauce, keeping fried chicken irresistibly moist, and much more. Drawing on ingredients and know-how from around the world, Beard whips up innovative dishes like Provençal roasted lamb with anchovies and garlic, and Sharlotka, a Polish bread pudding, while giving old favorites new twists like Mexican- or Madeira-style meatloaf. With easy-to-follow instructions on preparing everything from hors d’oeuvres and salads to desserts and pastries, and some healthier options too, this remarkable compendium will satisfy the needs of any home cook.

    Rucker acquaints us with Godel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which billions of parallel worlds are produced every microsecond. It is in the realm of infinity, he maintains, that mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise from this merging, we can learn a great deal about the human mind, its powers, and its limitations.Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker guides us through such topics as the paradoxes of set theory, the possibilities of physical infinities, and the results of Godel's incompleteness theorems. His personal encounters with Godel the mathematician and philosopher provide a rare glimpse at genius and reveal what very few mathematicians have dared to admit: the transcendent implications of Platonic realism.

    Populated by guys and dolls, show girls and gangsters, Runyon's world captured the imagination of a vast public "more than somewhat," as he would have put it. It is a world of sentiment and surprise, and above all, humor. Runyon intorduced millions of readers to a milieu of colorful smalltime hoodlums and hustlers--the likes of Nathan Detroit, Harry the Horse and Nicely Johnson--and their "dolls," such as Dark Dolores, Madame La Gimp, and Miss Missouri Martin. Runyon described his characters in the inimitable idiom her adapted from real-life street talk. Runyon's ever-present narrator serves as our eyes and ears, whether the scene is Broadway, the racetracks of Miami and Saratoga, football games in Ivy League New England, or even (in his Christmas fable, "The Three Wise Guys") Bethlehem (Pennsylvania). Many readers know Runyon's work better from movies than from his writings--hardly surprising, considering that more than two dozen films have been made from his stories, including Guys and Dolls, The Lemon Drop Kid and Pocketful of Miracles from this collection. This volume once again makes available an outstanding selection of Runyon's hugely entertaining Broadway stories, many of them for the first time in paperback

    This fascinating presentation is profusely illustrated with specially-selected storyboards used in the production. These storyboards are the tools used to craft an incredibly believable panorama of the future. Relive the movie excitement with this collector's edition.In addition, a foreword by Ridley Scott describing the unique metamorphosis of art and story into an inspired cinematic style.

    G. WellsThe Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose BiercePickman's Model • (1927) • short story by H.P. LovecraftYours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert BlochThe Screaming Laugh • (1938) • novelette by Cornell WoolrichA Rose for Emily • (1930) • short story by William FaulknerBianca's Hands • (1947) • short story by Theodore SturgeonThe Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • short story by Fritz LeiberShut a Final Door • (1947) • short story by Truman CapoteCome and Go Mad • (1949) • novelette by Fredric BrownThe Scarlet King • (1955) • short story by Evan HunterSticks • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward WagnerSardonicus • (1961) • novelette by Ray RussellA Teacher's Rewards • (1970) • short story by Robert S. PhillipsThe Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. DischThe Jam • (1958) • short story by Henry SlesarBlack Wind • (1979) • short story by Bill PronziniThe Road to Mictlantecutli • (1965) • short story by Adobe JamesPassengers • (1968) • short story by Robert SilverbergThe Explosives Expert • (1967) • short story by John LutzCall First • (1975) • short story by Ramsey CampbellThe Fly • (1952) • short story by Arthur PorgesNamesake • (1981) • short story by Elizabeth MortonCamps • (1979) • novelette by Jack DannYou Know Willie • (1957) • short story by Theodore R. CogswellThe Mindworm • (1950) • short story by C.M. KornbluthWarm • (1953) • short story by Robert SheckleyTransfer • (1975) • short story by Barry N. MalzbergThe Doll • (1980) • novelette by Joyce Carol OatesIf Damon Comes • (1978) • short story by Charles L. GrantMass Without Voices • (1979) • shortfiction by Arthur L. SamuelsThe Oblong Room • (1967) • short story by Edward D. HochThe Party • (1967) • short story by William F. NolanThe Crate • (1979) • novelette by Stephen King

    An extensive collection of international pastry recipes, with complete instructions for various appetizers, entrees, and desserts, and drawings to illustrate pastry shapes and techniques.

    The straightforward transfer of SE to the broader situations of management was not possible, but by insisting on a combination of systems thinking strongly linked to real-world practice Checkland and his collaborators developed an alternative approach - Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) - which enables managers of all kinds and at any level to deal with the subtleties and confusions of the situations they face. This work established the now accepted distinction between 'hard' systems thinking, in which parts of the world are taken to be 'systems' which can be 'engineered', and 'soft' systems thinking in which the focus is on making sure the process of inquiry into real-world complexity is itself a system for learning. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (1981) and Soft Systems Methodology in Action (1990) together with an earlier paper Towards a Systems-based Methodology for Real-World Problem Solving (1972) have long been recognized as classics in the field. Now Peter Checkland has looked back over the three decades of SSM development, brought the account of it up to date, and reflected on the whole evolutionary process which has produced a mature SSM. SSM: A 30-Year Retrospective, here included with Systems Thinking, Systems Practice closes a chapter on what is undoubtedly the most significant single research programme on the use of systems ideas in problem solving. Now retired from full-time university work, Peter Checkland continues his research as a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow.