Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 11:42pm CET by adiiliuta
Chinese Characters : Learn & Remember 2,178 Characters and Their Meaning
PDF | 500 pages | 5.09 MB
A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese?how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters?is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings with the characters? visual components. A sequence of numbered panels displays each character in two font styles, and a notation in the adjacent margin describes the character?s pinyin pronunciation. Graphics that identify the components or characters from which the featured characters are drawn, and a listing of both the names of these root components, and the panel numbers that cite their location in the book augment the presentation. Beginners will be best served by using this guide in conjunction with the development
of language skills, while those who are familiar with the language will find this book to be a comprehensive reference and refresher.
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The Great Salsa Book

Since salsa has replaced ketchup as America's number-one condiment, Coyote Cafe chef Miller, with accomplices, introduces even more of this kind of side dish. In 100 recipes, salsas are ranked 0-to-10 on a mild-to-hot scale, and incorporate a variety of backyard and exotic ingredients. Each includes fairly simple cooking instructions, serving suggestions, and variations.
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Self-Working Table Magic: 97 Foolproof Tricks with Everyday Objects

97 mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; pierce balloons without bursting them; plus tricks with dice, rubber bands, eggs, safety pins, pens and pencils, more. 185 illustrations.
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Vegetarian Nutrition (Modern Nutrition Series)

From antiquity, vegetarian diets have been followed for a variety of reasons, albeit with widely differing nutritional outcomes. As a result, numerous scientific and professional questions have arisen. Currently, professional interest in vegetarian nutrition has reached unprecedented levels. This is only partly explained by the growing number of vegetarians and the increased popularity of vegetarian diets. As disease patterns shifted away from nutrient deficiencies and toward diet-related chronic diseases, vegetarian nutrition research also changed emphasis, and the benefits of vegetarian diets have begun to emerge.
* As a practice, vegetarianism dates to quite early times in Western society, at least to Pythagoras, the Greek natural philosopher of the 6th century BC, who founded a religious community in southern Italy in which vegetarianism is supposed to have been part of the rule of life.Pythagoras rejection of the eating of meat seems to have been based on the doctrine of the transmigration of souls: in Orphic tradition, the human spirit was reborn in other creatures. If so, animal souls were of the same quality as human souls, and animals thus of the same moral standing as people. Slaughtering an animal equated to murder, and eating it was akin to cannibalism.
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Cooking the Japanese way

Reiko Weston, "Cooking the Japanese way"
ISBN: 0822548320 | 2002 edition | PDF | 73 Pages | 5.8 MB
Japan is a country proud of its ancient cultural traditions. A distinctive style of cooking is one very important tradition that lives on in modern Japan.Like the cuisine of other countries with long histories, Japanese cooking has grown and changed over more than 2,000 years. Important developments in Japanese history, such as the first contact with Europeans in the 1500s, brought new foods and new cooking methods into Japanese life. Despite these changes, the basic elementsof Japanese cooking have remained the same for a very long time.
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