Culinary Chemistry: The Scientific Principles of Cookery is a comprehensive exploration of the fascinating intersection between science and the culinary arts. Authored by James Cutbush, this classic work delves into the chemical foundations that underpin everyday cooking processes, offering readers a unique perspective on the art of preparing food. The book meticulously examines the composition…
From the fifteenth century onwards, followers of the Sufi poet Shah Nematullah Vali navigated land and sea routes through Central Asia, Iran, and India. Along the way, they built shrines whose poetry, spatial configuration, and materiality created intimate religious spaces that engaged local audiences, invoked distant places, and brought together pilgrims, itinerant artists, merchants, and cour…
The Fireless Cook Book: A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes, by Margaret J. Mitchell, is a comprehensive guide to the innovative method of fireless cooking, a technique that revolutionized early 20th-century kitchens by allowing meals to be prepared with minimal fuel and effort. This detailed manual provides step-by-step instructions…
An inspiring and practical guide to give you the confidence to draw like you. Drawing helps you see. The more you draw, the more you look, and the more your world opens up. Many of us feel we can't draw even though as children we drew unselfconsciously. Artist Sam Marshall believes we are all inherently creative and through her book she invites you into a welcoming workshop where you will dev…
Il volume raccoglie i contributi presentati al convegno internazionale Donna Arte Società. Pratiche estetiche femministe dalla metà dell'Ottocento a oggi (Varese, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Villa Toeplitz, 7-8 marzo 2024), organizzato in chiusura della mostra Il Gruppo "Immagine". Una storia di artivismo femminista da Varese alla Biennale di Venezia (Varese, Università degli Stud…
HEISSLUFTFRITTEUSEN KOCHBUCH FÜR DIABETIKER: WIE SIE ENDLICH UNKOMPLIZIERT GENUSSVOLL UND GESUND KOCHEN – OHNE KOMPLIZIERTE ZUTATEN UND FRUST IN DER KÜCHE! Sie kennen das Problem: Viele Rezepte für Diabetiker sind langweilig, kompliziert oder erfordern Zutaten, die entweder teuer oder im Supermarkt kaum zu finden sind. Dabei wünschen Sie sich nichts mehr, als köstliche, alltagstauglic…
Cada persona que intenta comprender el mundo actual puede encontrar en Antonio Gramsci reflexiones útiles y adaptables a su propio tiempo y a sus circunstancias; sin embargo, para quien se adentra en su estudio –en especial en cuestiones de arte y literatura–, sus artículos periodísticos y los 'Cuadernos de la cárcel', que conforman el núcleo de su obra, redactados sin recursos de inve…
Fruit de longues années de recherches, d'expériences et d'échanges avec de nombreux spécialistes, Le Chant du Pain rend accessible à tous les amateurs les connaissances et les gestes de l'art boulanger.
This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world. Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of 'Useful Art' is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of our spaces, services and lives. Byrne demonstrates that networks of artist-led activism and commun…
The biography, entitled Mary Cassatt – A Woman's Art, provides an insightful account of the life and career of Mary Cassatt . She was one of a select few women who managed to establish a presence in the male-dominated art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cassatt, originally from the United States, spent most of her life in France, where she became a prominent member of the Imp…