Presents a collection of more than 500 desserts, biscuits, cakes, and pastries, together with 60 recipes for sauces, custards, icings, preserves, creams, and more. This book features classic desserts, cakes, and pastries, from Charlotte a la Chantilly and Black Forest Gateau to Passion Fruit Sorbet and Danish Cherry Flan.

The Collins Gem Latin Dictionary offers the learner of Latin extensive coverage of Latin and English in a compact, portable format.

Revised edition, includes FREE CD ROM.

This text provides an introduction to the Perl programming language and its culture. This third edition has been expanded to cover Version 5.6 of Perl. New topics include threading, the compiler, and Unicode.

This is one-volume reference to the people, places, events, books, institutions, religious beliefs, and secular influence of the Bible. Embracing a wide variety of perspectives, the multi-volume work offers over 700 entries, ranging from immortality and grace to ethics.

An abridgement of the dictionary of ancient Greek, this work includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and phrases. From Homer downwards, to the close of Attic Greek, it includes almost all words, as well as those used by Aristotle, Plutarch in his Lives , Polybius, Strabo, Lucian, and the writers of the New Testament.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is an abridgement of the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary into just two volumes, providing a comprehensive description of the historical development of English together with superb coverage of the contemporary language.

The latest in the hugely successful Gollancz Parody series

Provides thematically-grouped definitions for terms relating to specific subjects, ranging from the environment and animals to the arts, clothing, and religion.

This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece .

The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.

Contains known facts, names, 'foreign' words, dates, and etymological allusions from Middle Earth. This title includes explanations of various Elvish writing systems, with maps, charts, and genealogical tables.

What really makes the things around us tick? Did you know that the principle behind the zip fastener also governed the building of the pyramids? Or that the dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? The inner workings of hundreds of machines and devices are explained in this fun, colourful and unique look at.

A second edition of the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English.

Features a repertory of foodstuffs, cooked dishes, and food processes, together with entries that cover the food and foodways of the countries of the world, and the literature of food and cookery. This edition includes articles on topics that reflect the development and universal relevance of food studies.

Covering various important diseases and health issues that health-conscious readers want and need to know, this illustrated second home edition is written by nearly 200 medical experts.

The ultimate evocative and detailed guide to the fabulous myths and legends of the Western world, and to the powerful pantheon of gods and goddesses of the East.