When Veronica left Hong Kong with her daughters, she didn't know the pandemic would keep them locked abroad for over a year, separated from her husband, her dog, and her home. Her first flight home in years ended up taking her on a journey reflecting on life lessons and the nine values they instilled. She takes the readers through a journey of self-discovery where she reconnects with her inner child. Her deep and touching stories talk about a little girl feeling excluded in France because she is different from the other children, her experience as a teenager in Brazil discovering racial injustice, the power of self-love in the Netherlands, and the curiosity that pushed her to move to China as a single woman in the early 2000s.The Flight Home is an inspiring yet confronting read that encourages and empowers readers to reconnect with their values to find their true selves and take ownership of their lives to leave a strong legacy behind.
“Packed with authentic regional recipes, beautiful stories and gorgeous photographs, Muy Bueno is above all else a delicious family love story."—Matt Armendariz, MattBites.com and author of On a Stick!*As featured in Eater, The New York Times, TODAY Food, Taste of Home Magazine, Woman’s World Magazine, Latina Magazine, Leite's Culinaria, People en Español Magazine, Cosmo for Latinas Magazine, Epicurious, and The Kitchn*Siéntate a comer, esta muy bueno! Sit down and eat, it’s very good!This was how Jesusita Mendias-Soza always welcomed guests to her table. The same words served as inspiration for her daughter Evangelina and granddaughters Yvette and Veronica, who wanted to honor her memory and preserve their family's recipes and stories for future generations. They started the Muy Bueno Cookbook blog in 2010 with this idea in mind, and quickly attracted thousands of fans and followers who fell in love with Muy Bueno's flavorful Mexican recipes, heartwarming family stories, and beautiful photography. Now they open their hearts and kitchens to an even wider audience in their first cookbook.Spanning three generations, Muy Bueno offers over 100 recipes: traditional old-world northern Mexican recipes from Jesusita’s kitchen; comforting south of the border home-style dishes from Evangelina; and innovative Latin fusion recipes from Yvette and Veronica. Also includes a chile glossary with photos and step-by-step instructions for roasting chiles, making tamales, and red chile sauce.*GREAT ON KINDLE*Sample recipes:Homemade Flour TortillasTomatillo SalsaPersimmon MojitoMexican Meatball Soup (Albondigas)Pork in Red Chile Sauce (Asado de Chile Colorado)Cilantro Lime RiceMexican Bread Pudding (Capirotada)Mexican Wedding Cookies (Biscochos)Horchata Popsicles (Paletas de Horchata)
Jake and Darius are seasoned homicide detectives that have seen their share of murders. With all their experience, it never gets easier . . . especially when the victim is a child.During one investigation they meet and become intertwined with Jessica, the mother of one of the killer's victims. She reveals a rare gift that may help them catch the killer. Jake is skeptical but Darius puts his faith in her. When the latest child victim is close to one of their own they go into overdrive to find the killer. Will Jessica's gift be what helps them learn the identity of the killer? And for Jessica - is it really a gift or is it a curse?
Nelson Chemistry for the Australian Curriculum Units 3 & 4 is written to address the requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Senior Chemistry. It provides a contextual approach to the teaching and learning of chemistry. Six context chapters (SHE strand) are provided along with chapters addressing SU and SIS strands. Teachers can also choose to provide their own context and still use the chemistry chapters provided. Science Inquiry Skills (SIS) are developed throughout the book in activities, experiments and investigations. A dedicated Scientific Investigation chapter provides students with structured support to enable them to confidently carry out their own scientific research. *Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your education consultant for access codes and conditions.
Nelson Chemistry for the Australian Curriculum Units 1 & 2 is written to address the requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Senior Chemistry. It provides a contextual approach to the teaching and learning of chemistry. Four popular contexts (SHE strand) are provided along with the chemistry (SU strand) that links in with each context. Teachers can also choose to provide their own context and still use the chemistry chapters provided. Science Inquiry Skills (SIS) are developed throughout the book in activities, experiments and investigations. A dedicated Scientific Investigation chapter provides students with structured support to enable them to confidently carry out their own scientific research. *Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your education consultant for access codes and conditions.
Rachel Stenner; Kaley Kramer; Adam James Smith; Georgina E. M. Wilson; Joe Saunders; William Clayton; Jennifer Young; Alan B. Farmer; Benjamin Woodring; Michael Durrant; Verônica Calsoni Lima; Rosalind Johnson
This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade roles including that of the printer, publisher, paper-maker, and bookseller, as well as several specific trade networks and numerous textual forms. The biographies draw on extensive new archival research, with details of key sources for further study on each figure. Chronologically organised, this Element offers a primer both on numerous individual figures, and on the tribulations and innovations of the print trade in the century of revolution.
Architecture is often seen as the creation of the architect alone. However, architecture is a collaborative endeavour involving diverse professionals, from urban planners, building designers and construction labourers to restoration architects, repair workers and maintenance staff. Preserving built heritage depends on stewardship a shared responsibility that involves caring for and steering the future of common goods. In the built environment, stewardship goes beyond maintaining structures to include decisions about access, future use, and redistribution. The Pavilion of Finland in Venices Giardini della Biennale Park stands as a testament to this. Originally designed as a temporary structure by Alvar Aalto and his office for the 1956 International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the delicate wooden building has become a permanent monument. This wouldnt be possible without continuous maintenance and repair. By recounting the Pavilions history, this book illustrates that buildings are not static objects but dynamic processes influenced by human actions, global politics and non-human forces. The title, Architecture of Stewardship, proposes that adopting practices of stewardship enables the architectural profession to respond to the urgent need for change in our built environment with accountability to communities, future generations, the planet, and other species that inhabit it. The collection of essays offers perspectives on stewardship from a range of Finnish and Italian contributors in academia, practice, and activism. The texts explore how people have stewarded land, resources, and communities throughout the Pavilions history and its Venetian context, and how these insights might inspire a different way to approach our built environment. The book is published in conjunction with the Pavilion of Finlands exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, running from 10 May to 23 November 2025. The editors of the book, architects Ella Kaira and Matti Jänkälä, curated the exhibition, The Pavilion Architecture of Stewardship, commissioned and produced by Archinfo Information Centre for Finnish Architecture.
The unexpected friendship between two very different women--Alison, a beautiful young woman struggling to recover from her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader--survives both Alison's reentry into the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS as it has a profound influence on both women's lives. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
On a snowy night in February, at the improbable point in Lower Manhattan where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place, a photographer named Leo meets Veronica for the first time. Starkly beautiful, mysterious, aloof, she leads him into a world where illusion blends seamlessly with reality--a luminously transformed city where powerful underground streams crisscross beneath the streets, a city of dragonpoints and Tibetan mysticism where real time is magically altered. Ten years have passed since Veronica's father, the famous magician Albin White, disappeared while performing a dangerous feat of time travel before a packed theater audience. White's disappearance was no accident: he was sabotaged by his apprentice Starwood, who interfered at a critical moment and sent him hurtling into the past, free to explore other eras but with no means of returning to the present. Until Veronica finds Leo...
A novel of magic, a noir romance and mystery, set in a real and imagined New York which seeks to tap in to the growing New Age market. From the author of "The Soloist".
