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The Concise Roget's International Thesaurus (Collins Reference Library)

Barbara Ann Kipfer

Reference

HARPER/COLLINS

A culinary reference packed with thousands of straightforward definitions and fun tips and triviaPerfect for cooks, food lovers, and even trivia buffs, The Culinarian is a wide-ranging kitchen reference that no cupboard should be without. With plain-English definitions of everything from Absinthe to Zucchini, it includes fascinating culinary history, etymologies, and tips on selecting, storing, and using virtually every ingredient and piece of kitchen equipment imaginable.
In addition to vital information like unit conversions and yields and equivalents, the book also includes cooking tips, lists, and trivia, from the heavily practical, such as common meat cuts and labeling terms, to the just plain entertaining, like lists of aphrodisiac foods and fun food cliches.
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<li>Holds the answers to thousands of culinary questions, from how to choose a ripe mango or scale a fish to how they get the cream center inside a chocolate candy</li>
<li>Includes descriptions and definitions of nearly 3,500 food terms, from ingredients and equipment to culinary techniques</li>
<li>Compiled by expert researcher, lexicographer, and food lover Barbara Ann Kipfer</li>
<li>Helpful cooking tips and sidebars on cooking quick meals, as well as shopping, storing, prepping, and garnishing</li>
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If you've ever wondered how to trim an artichoke or what the difference between a sweet potato and a yam is, The Culinarian has all the answers you need.

The Culinarian: A Kitchen Desk Reference

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The authoritative guide to the language of the twenty-first century, completely revised edition.

Dictionary of American Slang

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Collins

Cal 99 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said Calendar

Self-Help

Happiness

Workman Publishing

Help others. Help yourself. Be a better person, and make the world a better place. Using the wisdom of the East to instruct and inspire, Instant Karma is a universe of things a reader can do, right now, to accumulate good karma. And, like pennies going into a piggy bank, each is a seemingly little thing-but feed the bank day after day and feel it grow richer and happier. Created by Barbara Ann Kipfer, the author whose books-including 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and The Wish List-have 1.2 million copies in print, Instant Karma is a compulsive, densely packed, chunky little book of 10,000 or so suggestions, wishes, thoughts, and the occasional heartening quotation. Line after line, page after page, mesmerizing to read and filled with inspiration, it is the best kind of call to action-good for you and good for others.

Instant Karma: 8,879 Ways to Give Yourself and Others Good Fortune Right Now

Personal Transformation

Workman Publishing Company

Don't self-medicate--self-meditate. In a book of thousands of entries, written in the abundant, winningly positive way that's helped her books sell over 1.5 million copies, Barbara Ann Kipfer shows just how we can--and should--meditate anytime, anywhere, and reap the evergrowing list of benefits associated with this practice. 
Created by the author who brought us "14,000 Things to Be Happy About," "Instant Karma," "8,789 Words of Wisdom," and "The Wish List," SELF MEDITATION is a compulsive, instantly accessible list of hundreds and hundreds of meditation practices that can be done during the course of our daily lives. You don't need to go to a mountain retreat, renounce meat, or walk through coals on the soles of your feet--here's a meditation to have with a cup of tea. A waiting-in-line meditation. Meditations while reading, eating, doing sit-ups, working, shopping, or finding yourself stuck in a traffic jam ("especially" while stuck in a traffic jam). There are breaths to take and praises to give, and throughout, ways to slow down and finally smell the roses--or hear the crickets--or see the stars. Drawn from spiritual practices as varied as Zen, yoga, Sufism, and insight meditation, it's a delicious spiritual tonic that includes meditation basics, mantras and koans, tips, and more. A completely portable guide, so that at any moment of the day or night, we can all catch our inner breath.

Self-meditation: 3,299 tips, quotes, reminders, and wake-up calls for peace and serenity

Workman Publishing, New York

14,000 Things to Be Happy About

Provides terms for common phrases, concepts, and definitions, and includes related terms and synonyms.

Writer's Digest Flip Dictionary

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Writers' Digest Books

Offers more than 10,000 multi-word entries and multi-word synonyms to help writers and students avoid repetitions and cliches and make their writing more precise.

Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases

Are You a Word Nerd? Did you know... --Only a human (not an animal or thing) is "able" to do something --The five on dice is called cinque --"K" for strike-out in baseball comes from the last letter of "struck" --To skice is to frisk about like squirrels in spring For word lovers everywhere, Word Nerd is a rich-and fun-compendium of more than 17,000 fascinating facts about words. Bestselling author Barbara Anne Kipfer has spent years compiling little known tidbits about common-and not so common-words in the English language. Filled with interesting information about words, sure to amaze and spark conversation, this incredible collection is perfect for the word nerd in each of us.

Word Nerd: More than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words

Sourcebooks

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