Oliver: 3228 books

Mardi Gras is a great time to enjoy great food and drinks! The recipes in this book are full of indulgence and spice Mardi Gras is also known as Fat Tuesday and it's the period of time before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.  Lent lasts for 40 days and is a time of reflection and sacrifice...

Slow cookers are among an array of old kitchen gadgets making a comeback. Most of us are experiencing the joys of cooking delicious readymade meals at home. The extended cooking times allow better distribution of flavors in many recipes. If you want to prepare hot, nutritious, home-cooked...

Marjorie Standish is an iconic figure in the world of traditional New England cooking, known for her popular column, “Cooking Down East” for the Maine Sunday Telegram. She emphasized simple, but good recipes, that could be made with ingredients that can be found in most pantries. Sandra...

Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.

In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care. Their extensive study of and experience with nursing home residents and caregivers reveal...

The Retreat to Corunna was a spectacular defeat for the British Army, yet it managed to save its reputation by carrying out one of the great fighting retreats of military history. In 1808 a British army under Sir John Moore advanced from its base at Lisbon into Spain to aid Spanish armies fighting...

In about the year 1190 monks at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset claimed that they had found the tomb of King Arthur. The discovery is today routinely dismissed as a crude hoax worked by monks greedy for the money that would come from a stream of pilgrims visiting the tomb. But was it a hoax? And if...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Whitman's Ride Through Savage Lands with Sketches of Indian Life. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of...

Revenge is best served with cold iron A young boy is left all alone in a harsh world, when he witness the mindless slaughter of his father and village.... With the weight of the world of the world on his shoulders, he seeks allies in many lands...and perversely obsesses to carve out the hearts...

'An eminent writer has said that regiments great in history have this in common with mortals- through old in glory and honour, they have yet the vigour of youth. To none may the remark be more truthful applied then the Grenadier Guards...' Thus wrote Chichester and Burges-Short in 1900 and, judging...

This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, the second edition of The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching...

Fout geld. Vroeger kon je dat uitgeven aan een auto, een vakantie of een bontjas. Veel meer zat er niet in. Tot een paar bankiers in Londen op een briljant idee kwamen. Zou het niet mogelijk zijn om een plek te creëren waar de belastingdienst je kapitaal nooit zou kunnen vinden? Neem bijvoorbeeld...

Following Oliver Dickinson’s successful The Aegean Bronze Age, this textbook is a synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civilization in the eighth century BC. With chapter bibliographies,...

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that...