Award-winning author Petty Pandean-Elliott tells the story of her Indonesian heritage through 150 much-loved and delicious recipes perfect for home cooks everywhere

The best modern Italian recipes from the largest and most prestigious Italian marketplace in the world

Doe maar gewoon, dan doe je gek genoeg.

Act normally, that's crazy enough.

Nine out of ten people in the Netherlands will quote this well-worn saying if asked to come up with a basic trait of the Dutch character. Expatriates who have been here for a while see it differently. For them, Dutch society is a weird and wonderful maze full of unpredictable people. At times Dutch people will ignore you politely; at others they will go out of the way to help you. You will get into trouble with the aut...

The Lost Industrial Revolution is a revisionist, well researched book, to the point of being the definitive account of the roots of the Industrial Period that began with Ctesibius in 270 B.C. at the onset of the Hellenistic Period.

This publication will arouse new interest in Classic studies and provide a new starting point for a new reassessment of waves of technological development that until now leave few ties between the mechanical genius of Ctesibius and the renaissance of his basic mech...

The Altai region has yielded a cluster of Middle and Upper Paleolithic stratified sites that have been recently excavated using a multidisciplinary approach. These sequences provide key evidence illustrating changes in material culture corresponding to the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic. In Europe, this phenomenon is associated with the replacement of Neandertals by modern humans. Based on this archeological data set, local scholars have put forward a scenario of regional...

Assuming an advanced civilisation possessed the capability to travel interstellar distances at a velocity of 0.1% of the speed of light, it could potentially establish colonies throughout the Milky Way Galaxy within a span of approximately 100 million years. This duration, while significant, is comparatively brief in light of the galaxy’s estimated age of over 13 billion years. And yet we see and hear nothing. The Universe seems empty and dead. However, given the possibility for the rapid g...

Official publication accompanying the largest Vermeer exhibition ever

Johannes Vermeer is the master of tranquillity. His intimate and introvert domestic scenes, with their persuasive illusionism and unique use of clear, colourful light, are counted among the most exquisite paintings ever made. His work has continued to fascinate new generations for centuries. With his world-famous pictures, such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer has achieved legendary status.

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Popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in professional life - the ability to master distraction.

Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana and the twenty-five year career of its chef, Massimo Bottura, 'the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs', voted The World's Best Restaurant 2016.