What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one's meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author's anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.
In Reach for Your Star, the author takes readers on a journey through life using the art of poetry. With pieces that range from humorous to serious, these poems capture the many facets of the human experience and the ways in which we express ourselves. Whether through the arts, sports, academics, charity work, or dedication to a cause, we all seek out paths that allow us to be our authentic selves. This collection of poetry is a celebration of the unique journey that each of us embarks on as we strive to reach for our own star.
A detailed study of the Syrian and Lebanon campaign of World War II.In June 1941, Australian, British, Indian, and Free French forces invaded the Vichy French-controlled Mandate of Syria and Lebanon. They were outnumbered, and faced an enemy that had more artillery, tanks, and aircraft. They fought in rocky, mountainous terrain, through barren valleys and across swollen rivers, and soon after the initial advance faced a powerful Vichy French counterattack on key strategic positions. Despite these difficulties, the Allies prevailed, and in doing so ensured that the territory did not fall into German or pro-German hands, and thus provide a springboard from which Axis forces could attack British oil interests in Iraq, or the key territory of Palestine. This book examines the high military and political strategy that lay behind the campaign, as well as the experiences and hardships as endured by the men on the ground. The battles in Syria and Lebanon were complex actions, often at the battalion level or below, and this work uses extensive war diaries and records available to make sense of the actions and examine how they affected the wider campaign.
Cyber security has never been more essential than it is today, it's not a case of if an attack will happen, but when. This brand new edition covers the various types of cyber threats and explains what you can do to mitigate these risks and keep your data secure. Cyber Security explains the fundamentals of information security, how to shape good organisational security practice, and how to recover effectively should the worst happen. Written in an accessible manner, Cyber Security provides practical guidance and actionable steps to better prepare your workplace and your home alike. This second edition has been updated to reflect the latest threats and vulnerabilities in the IT security landscape, and updates to standards, good practice guides and legislation. - A valuable guide to both current professionals at all levels and those wishing to embark on a cyber security profession; - Offers practical guidance and actionable steps for individuals and businesses to protect themselves; - Highly accessible and terminology is clearly explained and supported with current, real-world examples.
Focusing on the principles of information risk management, this book offers practical guidance for developing a strategic IRM program. It emphasizes the processes of identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and treating risks to ensure information security and availability. As the sole textbook for the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Information Risk Management, it serves as an essential resource for professionals seeking to enhance their understanding and implementation of IRM practices.
Spanning a writing career of over half a century, David Sutton has written poems which sing with the traditional values – clarity, lyric precision, an ear attentive to the nuances of form – allied to a sensibility desiring to communicate experience fully and intimately with the reader.Yet beneath the unfussiness, the refusual to be drawn into the wildernesses of pretension and obscurity, there lies a passionately engaged observer of the quotidian. These poems – eschewing the ficklenesses of poetic fashion – were written to last. Be the lyrics about love, loss or mortality, the joys and failings of personal relationships, the wonder of landscape and nature, Sutton’s poems are unified by the simple purpose of seeing it straight and saying it true.Taken together his poems present not just a formidable body of work but one demanding critical and popular attention.
The author of Cigar Box Guitars shares his amazing photo gallery of handmade
musical greatness. Obsessed with Cigar Box Guitars, 2nd Edition includes a new
step-by-step project for building your own tenor ukulele, and instructions for
playing homemade guitars using both innovative and traditional techniques.
Aimed at both the general reader and the amateur naturalist, this guide presents 150 of the best known species of wild flowers common to Britain and Europe. Each species is described in detail and is illustrated with a colour painting. The introduction contains advice on identifying wild flowers, the different families and a detailed key to flower species.
Proposing that the 'forbidden fruit' eaten by Adam and Eve was in fact a fig
rather than an apple, this book explores the history of the fruit in
fascinating detail, from the Crusaders to the wonderful fig festivals of the
modern world.
