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Quotes. Our 7 Favorite New Cookbooks for Spring. Better clear some shelf space. These seven titles are our favorites from the flood of spring releases: The Francophiles “We’ll always have Paris—and great books about eating there. My new favorites include approachable cookbooks from young chef Greg Marchand (Frenchie: New Bistro Cooking; $23) and opinionated expat David Lebovitz (My Paris Kitchen; $35), as well as Alexander Lobrano’s culinary tour and cookbook (Hungry for France; $45). I trust anywhere that man sends me!” —CHRISTINE MUHLKE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR AND WANNABE PARISIAN The Irish Trendsetter 30 Years at Ballymaloe ($35) pays tribute to the Emerald Isle’s most influential cooking teacher, Darina Allen. The Heavyweights In Eating with the Chefs ($60), Fool magazine’s Per-Anders Jorgensen visits the best restaurants in the world and sits down for their staff meals. Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s The Bar Book ($30) is the definitive guide to 21st-century cocktailing.

WHITE SUGAR: “The economy car of sweeteners. 50+ Open Courseware Writing Classes from the World's Leading Universities. Although technical courses tend to get more attention, the availability of writing courses online is impressive. Whether you want to learn how to write for business or just brush up on grammar, you're sure to find what you're looking for. We've compiled more than 50 of these classes, and they're open for anyone to take. Introductory Courses Get beginning writing knowledge from these courses. Introduction to Writing: Academic Prose: In this course, you'll learn how to write for an academic audience. [Utah State University] Essay and Report Writing Skills: Learn how to write assignments and reports for academic purposes in this course. [The Open University] Introduction to Literature: In this introductory course, you'll take a look at character, imagery, poetic language, and much more.

Grammar & Language Use these courses to perfect your writing mechanics. English Grammar in Context: This course will teach you about the importance of grammar, features of speech, and more. Research. The Book List. Booklists - 100 Most Influential Books. Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western. As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002. (A revised version of the article is available at author Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site.) This page: Introduction | Western Canon | Eastern and World Canons | Contemporary Canon | Other Lists of Great Books | My Reading Lists | Indexes to these Great Books Lists Introduction Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What are the Great Books?

Western Canon Eastern and World Canons Approaches to the Asian Classics. Contemporary Canon Other Lists of Great Books Other Lists of Great Books - An annotated bibliography of some other sources of Great Books lists, both in books and on the Web My Reading Lists My Reading Lists (Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China, Middle Ages) Indexes to these Great Books Lists. Bookyards.com » Library to the world. Literature Project - Free eBooks Online. 75 Books Every Writer Should Read. Whether you want to make writing your career or just want to know how to improve your writing so that you can pass your college courses, there is plenty of reading material out there to help you get inspired and hone your skills.

Here’s a collection of titles that will instruct you on just about every aspect of writing, from the basics of grammar to marketing your completed novel, with some incredibly helpful tips from well-known writers themselves as well. Writing Basics These books address things like structure, plot, descriptions and other basic elements of any story. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers: You can improve the quality of your writing by adding a mythical quality to them with advice and insight from this book. Advice from Authors Who better to give advice on writing than those who have made a name for themselves doing it? On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King: This is widely regarded as one of the best books for any aspiring author to read. A syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature.

I was going to say that Dune has to be on the list but considering that this is a list for beginners it may be a little dense for newcomers. Is world building in general being left for the 200 level course? @go-falcons: As opposed to PK Dick or Gibson? Neuromancer, for as much as I love it, takes a bit of a mental adjustment to absorb the density of that writing. It's like eating pumpernickel bread and a guiness. I read Dune at 11 or 12 no problem... Bradbury was also mentioned as being more of a 101 writer...

@SupaChupacabra: It's not for young readers - it's more of a university survey course.

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110 best books: The perfect library. BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read? | What Are You Reading Now? 1richardderus Apr 5, 2009, 12:44pm aquascum of the German language LT loosed this list on the English threads, and I can't resist passing it on. Please copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak. What does the list say about your reading habits? Who's first? The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: 2momom248 Apr 5, 2009, 12:53pm Oh wow I feel inferior as I've only read 14 of the above. Ok Richard I can't figure out how to bold my selections on this list. 3SqueakyChu Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 1:08pm 26 finished 1 not finished (The Lovely Bones) Didn't want to copy the whole list!

What does the list say about your reading habits? I've read more books that others have also read than I would have thought! 4DeltaQueen50 Apr 5, 2009, 1:04pm Sorry I am also a computer dunce! 6mckait Apr 5, 2009, 1:20pm 38... cooking and can't post list right now...... :) 7AHS-Wolfy Edited: Sep 18, 2009, 5:42am. LibraryThing | Catalog your books online. The Global Era. Book Beast. Berlusconi’s So-Called Bunga-Bunga Life By Barbie Latza Nadeau In a new authorized biography, ‘My Way,’ there’s an ‘awestruck’ Putin, the sick joke he and Gaddafi made famous—and the Italian playboy PM who remains as slippery as ever. Keep Reading Books Did CIA Director Order the Hit on JFK? By James A. 1519 Shares The Ladybird Book Covers: Grown-up Ed... By William Boot10.13.15 17 Shares U.K.

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By David Masciotra10.10.15 close. A Unified List of the Best 100 Novels « neilb. This list was generated by merging 10 different ‘top 100′ lists from the UK, US, Australia and Canada, to see if the cream floated to the top. The lists are a mixture of public popularity and literary merit. Interestingly, only one book appeared on every list: it’s in first place here. Note that I merged lists from English-speaking countries, so there is undoubtedly a bias towards books originally written in English. I’ve written a separate post on generating a list of best 100 novels, which describes the method, and the specific lists I included.

Where possible, book titles are linked through to the Project Gutenberg free ebook. When the BBC ran The Big Read, I set myself a goal of reading all of the Big Read Top 100. The only editing of the list I’ve done is to collapse series down to a single entry, where appropriate. Like this: Like Loading... John Cartan - 20 Strange and Wonderful Books. 20. The Tolkien Reader by J. R. R. Tolkien The works of J.R.R. As I grow older, it's his short stories I particularly value. Tolkien wrote this story to demonstrate his belief that fairy tales are for adults. UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2006. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyThomas L. FriedmanNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Although the message can be boiled down into fewer pages, a future President should understand that technology has created the opportunity for anyone in the world to perform tasks that used to be limited by geography.

It sounds good for the world; is it good for the U.S.? We are the leader in offshoring. Despite information technology being one of the popular targets, IT jobs and salaries have actually increased. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we have more jobs in IT than in the height of the dot.com boom and IT salaries have grown 8% annually as compared to an annual increase of 2% in the consumer price index. Dave PattersonPardee Professor of Computer Science The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan DidionNew York: Knopf, 2005 Charles FaulhaberProfessor, Spanish and PortugueseJames D. Life and FateVasilii Semenovich GrossmanNew York: Harper & Row, 1986, ©1985. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years. In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years.

Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. Because influence tends to be measured in years rather than months, it’s much easier to put older books (published in the 60s and 70s) on such a list than more recent books (published in the last decade).

We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45. The Books That Changed Your Lives. I have a feeling that many of these are favourite books rather than life-changing.

Certainly I love "The Hitch-hikers Guide ... Jared Diamond's book is very interesting but hardly life-changing. In my opinion "2001: A Space Odyssey" had a huge effect on the way people perceive the benefits of science, undermining the positive attitude created by the Apollo program. "1984" had the biggest effect on me, changing my view of government, communication and words. I have read but cannot recall much of "Zen ...

" but you have inspired me to pick it up again and the two Dawkins books are waiting on my "to be read" pile. Welcome to Open Library. Great Poems « Greatest Books of All Time » Life-Changing Arts. A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry. The poems are sorted by vote. To vote for a poem, click on the left of it. You can read and browse the poems by clicking on their title. Voting is possible once per day. Votes PoemAuthor IfRudyard Kipling EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti If you think the best poem of all times is not even on this list, by all means, let us know which poem it is and why you think it should be added.

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