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Penguin, A Story of Survival
* 150 images from Wildlife Photographer Portfolio Award 2019 winner, Stefan Christmann * The life of emperor penguins in different phases: from finding a partner to raising young penguins * Personal experiences showed by the photographer and his insights into the mystical Antarctic winter There is only one bird species that hunts in summer and rears its young in winter: the Emperor Penguin. These extraordinary animals survive the relentless Antarctic climate, braving an average temperature of -49 degrees Celsius, thanks to their special adaptation to the cold, as well as their loving, attentive, and helpful interaction with each other and with their offspring. For this impressive penguin book, award-winning photographer and geophysicist, Stefan Christmann, accompanied a penguin colony in Antarctica for several months, capturing different stages of their lives.
His sensitive images are a beautiful document of penguin behavior, as well as the rugged, hostile ice landscapes they call home.
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Big Summer
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favour to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time - she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media - so when Drue asks if she will be her maid of honour at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless.
Drue was always the one who had everything - except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend's siren song.
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the peak of the AIDs epidemic, more than die every year from breast cancer, and more Americans than died in the entire Vietnam War. But even though the overdose crisis ravaging our nation seems impossible to ignore, few understand how it came to be.
OPIUM tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing story of how we arrived at today's crisis, a story that begins at the dawn of human civilization with enterprising poppy farmers in Mesopotamia, explores the breakthroughs of too-often forgotten experimental chemists in the Arab world who first refined poppy juice into opium, of colonial powers who spirited opium around the world in the interest of building out empires, of psychiatrists like Freud who ushered opium into modern medicine, and finally the story of the pharmaceutical conglomerates we know today that used opium and its more potent cousin, heroin, as a model for a wave of pills that laid the groundwork for today's overdose epidemic.
Throughout, the book demonstrates how opium has served as a currency that helped develop the global economy. Wielded as a tool with which all kinds of brokers of power--empires like the British Commonwealth setting off China's Opium Wars, titans of modern medicine, and American drug companies, to name a few--could profit and expand, no matter the human cost, opium has proved both a frequent impetus for and obstacle to improving modern life. In its final chapter, OPIUM takes us inside the cutting edge of the opiate epidemic, showing how the nation's top doctors are confronting the crisis head on, in part using the lessons of opium's complex history.
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The Rebel and the Kingdom
The wild story of a college activist's high-stakes attempt to topple the North Korean regime and change the world.
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety.
Meanwhile, Hong's secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government's activities, and its volatile third-generation ruler, Kim Jong Un. Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong Nam, the dictator's older brother, Hong, along with Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Nam's family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions, culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid-an act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the world's most unlikely fugitives.
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quo-to instead live boldly by his principles. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope-who broke numerous details of Hong's operations in The Wall Street Journal-now reveals the full contours of this remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future of the world's most mysterious and unsettling nation.
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All the Words You Need to Know Before You Start School
This delightful book is the perfect way for little ones to improve spoken language skills before they start school. Each page is filled with words to learn, covering everything from shapes, colours and numbers to animals, weather and classroom objects. A friendly book for adults and children to share, read and talk about together.
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Extraterrestrial
Harvard's top astronomer takes us inside the mind-blowing story of the first interstellar visitor to our solar system
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed a strange object soaring through our inner solar system. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb conclusively showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and leaving no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization.
In Extraterrestrial, Loeb takes readers inside the thrilling story of the first interstellar visitor to be spotted in our solar system. He outlines his theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our planet. A mind-bending journey through the furthest reaches of science, space-time, and the human imagination, Extraterrestrial challenges readers to aim for the stars-and to think critically about what's out there, no matter how strange it seems.
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In Memory of Memory
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.
In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms?essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents?Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
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The Power of Geography
'Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding'
- Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography
If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map.
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has.
In this revelatory new book, Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's next battleground; why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning; and why Europe's next refugee crisis is closer than it thinks.
In ten chapters covering Australia, The Sahel, Greece, Turkey, the UK, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Space, delivered with Marshall's trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity's past, present - and future.
The Hero Code
From the bestselling author of Make Your Bed: a celebration of real-life heroes and lessons on inspiring trust, overcoming barriers and becoming a great leader.
What is it that makes a hero?
In the course of his distinguished career Admiral William H. McRaven has met some truly exceptional people, from the men and women he served alongside in the Navy SEALS, to inspiring doctors, scientists, politicians and philanthropists. Drawing on stories of their incredible compassion, humility, courage and capacity for hope, Admiral McRaven has distilled the Hero Code - the ten lessons that make ordinary people capable of extraordinary things.
This book will show how we can all persevere to rise above our failures, use humour as a source of strength and inspire trust through integrity, as well as offering practical advice on rising to the occasion and becoming our best selves.
The result is a heartfelt tribute to real heroes and the perfect guide for anyone wanting to overcome barriers, lead by example or reach for their ultimate dream.
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Black Ghost of Empire
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world
To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it.
Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today.
Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?
The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those unengaged with the world. Yet, from its most remote history and deepest purpose, mathematics has served not just as a way to understand and order, but also as a foundation for the reality it describes.
In this elegant book, mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini offers a brief cultural and intellectual history of mathematics, ranging widely from the paradoxes of ancient Greece to the sacred altars of India, from Mesopotamian calculus to our own contemporary obsession with algorithms.
Masterful and illuminating, The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men transforms our understanding of mathematical thinking, showing that it is inextricably linked with the philosophical and the religious as well as the mundane - and, indeed, with our own very human experience of the universe.
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A Clock Of Stars: The Shadow Moth
With all the magic of Narnia and the humour of Mary Poppins, this is a future middle grade fantasy classic - and the beginning of an unforgettable journey...Imogen should be nice to her little sister Marie. She should be nice to her mum's boyfriend too. And she certainly shouldn't follow a strange silver moth through a door in a tree.But then...
who does what they're told?Followed by Marie, Imogen finds herself falling into a magical kingdom where the two sisters are swept up in a thrilling race against time - helped by the spoiled prince of the kingdom, a dancing bear, a very grumpy hunter... and even the stars above them.Thrilling, sharply funny, and with characters you will fall in love with, A Clock of Stars is a timeless fantasy from an astonishing new voice.
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Limitless: The Autobiography
'What surprised me was how entirely serene I felt. I was weightless, no forces exerting themselves on my body. To my left was the Space Station. Below me, gradually going into shadow, was the Earth. And over my right shoulder was the universe.'
In fascinating and personal detail, and drawing on exclusive diaries and audio recordings from his mission, astronaut Tim Peake takes readers closer than ever before to experience what life in space is really like: the sights, the smells, the fear, the sacrifice, the exhilaration and the deep and abiding wonder of the view.
Warm, inspiring and often funny, Tim also charts his surprising road to becoming an astronaut, from a shy and unassuming boy from Chichester who had a passion for flight, to a young British Army officer, Apache helicopter pilot, flight instructor and test pilot who served around the world. Tim's extensive eighteen-year career in the Army included the command of a platoon of soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, deployment in Bosnia, and operations in Afghanistan.
Full of life lessons for readers of all ages, Limitless is the story of how ordinary can become extraordinary.
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Thebes
Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful city in Ancient Greece, Thebes has been overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta.
According to myth, the city was founded when Kadmos sowed dragon's teeth into the ground and warriors sprang forth, ready not only to build the fledgling city but to defend it from all-comers. It was Hercules' birthplace and the home of the Sphinx, whose riddle Oedipus solved, winning the Theban crown and the king's widow in marriage, little knowing that the widow was his mother, Jocasta.
The city's history is every bit as rich as its mythic origins, from siding with the Persian invaders when their emperor, Xerxes, set out to conquer Aegean Greece, to siding with Sparta - like Thebes an oligarchy - to defeat Pericles' democratic Athens, to being utterly destroyed on the orders of Alexander the Great.
In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, the acclaimed classical historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life, and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks' achievements - whether politically or culturally - and thus to our own culture and civilization.
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Esencialismus
Kniha, jejíž název Esencialismus přestože neobvyklý - na první pohled neslibuje marketingový trhák, přesto se za ním skrývá obsahově zajímavý a velmi poučný text, vyznačující se srozumitelností, přístupností a zajímavostí výkladu. Autor svým uměním pracovat s příklady natolik osvěžuje čtení, že mnohdy vzniká dojem zábavného textu. Značná obsahová odlišnost i jiný, atraktivní způsob výkladu je zárukou toho, že kniha přestože pojednává o tématech mnohokrát již zpracovaných bude pro manažery, podnikatele, ale i učitele, právníky, pracovníky státní i veřejné správy, mnohé studenty i všechny ty, kterým leží na srdci racionalizace jejich vlastní činnosti či pracovníků, jež řídí. Kniha je populárně psanou příručkou racionalizace manažerského myšlení a jednání. Je použitelná pro každého člověka, který chce zlepšit své rozhodovací procesy, šetřit svůj čas, lépe se soustředit na hlavní úkoly, zvládnout je kvalitně a v souladu s jasnou perspektivní strategií svého osobního rozvoje. Zároveň učí, jak nepodlehnout tlaku okolí, které by chtělo hřešit na ochotu a laskavost pracovníka a přenášet své problémy a úkoly na něho. Nenechat se rozptylovat, pracovat účelně a jen na správných věcech. Řečeno jednou z mnoha variací výroku P. F. Dru
ckera Dělat správně správné věci, či přímo slovy autorovými Méně, ale lépe. Jak říká sám autor: těžko bychom hledali výstižnější definici Esencialismu. Naše doba je posedlá idejemi jako více toho udělat, více toho stihnout, od čehož není daleko k tomu, abychom nakonec s odřenýma ušima stihli všechno. Za tím se mohou skrývat další soukromé motivy, jako například abychom se zavděčili všem. Bojíme se, že nám něco uteče, že se na nás někdo naštve, že něco prošvihneme. A tak se mnozí z nás řítí od jedné věci ke druhé, život utíká a výsledky nikde. Na světě je mnoho činností a příležitostí, než do kolika máme čas a zdroje investovat. A i když mnoho z nich mohou být dobré, a některé dokonce velmi dobré, skutečností zůstává, že většina z nich je nicotných a jen velmi málo skutečně zásadních. Esencialismus znamená naučit se mezi nimi rozlišovat naučit se je všechny prosít a vybrat z nich jen ty, které jsou opravdu zásadní tedy Esenciální. Esencialismus se nezabývá tím, jak toho stihnout více, nýbrž jak stihnout to podstatné. Nejde o to, dělat toho méně jenom proto, abychom si ušetřili čas a námahu. Jde o to, abychom svůj čas a energii investovali co možná nejmoudřeji, abychom mohli přispívat na co nejvyšší úrovni svých schopností. Esencialismus je disciplinovaný, systematický přístup ke stanovení polohy bodu našeho nejvyššího přínosu a vykonání toho nejpodstatnějšího takřka bez námahy. Esencialisté žijí v souladu s nějakým konceptem, neřídí se nahodilostmi. Záměrně rozlišují několik málo zásadních věcí od spousty trivialit, odsekávají se od nepodstatného a odstraňují překážky tak, aby to zásadní mohli projít předem proklestěnou, hladkou cestou. Jinými slovy, Esencialistický přístup spočívá v zachování si plné kontroly nad svými vlastními volbami. Je to cesta na novou úroveň úspěchu a smysluplnosti. 1.Nemůžete stihnout všechno. Není možné zavděčit se všem, věnovat se všemu, využít všech příležitostí, naučit se všechno, být nejlepší ve všem. 2.V dnešním světě si MUSÍTE stanovit priority. Co opravdu chci? Co je pro mně zásadní.? Pokud si své priority nestanovíme sami, stanoví nám je automaticky jiní lidé. A spokojení, produktivní a opravdu užiteční jsme, pouze když žijeme svůj vlastní život. 3.Nepotřebujete do svého život přidávat pořád další věci. Potřebujete eliminovat to nepodstatné, abyste udělali prostor pro to podstatné. Potřebujete identifikovat to nepodstatné, co jen zbytečně zabírá čas/prostor, a pak to musíte odstranit.. 4.Nepodstatné je skoro všechno. Život se skládá z 90 procent šumu a několika málo činností, na kterých opravdu záleží. Vyjasněte si, které to jsou. Na kom/čem vám nejvíce záleží? Co vás nejvíce naplňuje? K čemu máte největší talent? Čím můžete nejvíce přispět? 7.Vybrat si jednu věc znamená vzdát se jiných. Smiřte se s tím. Mnoho z nás zapomnělo, že máme v životě na výběr říká se tomu naučená bezmocnost. Myslíme si, že něco musíme. Ve skutečnosti tomu jen věříme. Pokud si uvědomíme svou svobodu rozhodnutí, vždy existují alternativy. I když něco skutečně musíme, obvykle se najdou způsoby, jak to dělat jinak a lépe. Abychom rozlišili důležité, potřebujeme PROSTOR udělat si čas na přemýšlení, čas hrát si, čas zkoumat, čas číst. 8.Hledejte esenci informací. Řiďte se intuicí: Které informace vás fascinují? Co cítíte 9.Když se pro něco rozhodujeme, měla by odpověď být buď důsledné ANO, nebo NE. Nedělejte/nekupujte/nevolte si věci, které se vám líbí jen trochu. 10.Esenciální záměr: udělejte jedno rozhodnutí, které eliminuje 1000 dalších: Kterým směrem chci jít? 11.Říkejte NE, jasně a důstojně. 12.Stanovujte si přesně definované, konkrétní záměry (například napíšu 15 stránek o xxx do příštího úterý). Identifikujte, co vám v tom brání, a překážky odstraňte. Určete si přesně a jasně, JAK to provedete. 13.Vizuálně se odměňujte za pokrok, vytvořte si pomůcky, které vám umožní vidět, jak jste se posunuli (např. graf postupu). Povzbudí vás to.
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Solved
Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.
Iceland has topped the gender equality rankings for a decade and counting.
South Korea's average life expectancy will soon reach ninety.
How have these places achieved such remarkable outcomes? And how can we apply those lessons to our own communities?
The future we want is already here - it's just not evenly distributed. By bringing together for the first time tried and tested solutions to society's most pressing problems, from violence to inequality, Andrew Wear shows that the world we want to live in is already within reach.
Solved is a much-needed dose of optimism in an atmosphere of doom and gloom. Informative, accessible and revelatory, it is a celebration of the power of human ingenuity to make the future brighter for everyone.
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As Far As Youll Take Me
From the break-out author of The Gravity of Us comes a heartfelt coming-of-age story about finding your chosen people. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli
Marty arrives in London with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but he's excited to start his new life--where he's no longer the closeted, shy kid who slips under the radar and is free to explore his sexuality without his parents' disapproval.
From the outside, Marty's life looks like a perfect fantasy: in the span of a few weeks, he's made new friends, he's getting closer with his first ever boyfriend, and he's even traveling around Europe. But Marty knows he can't keep up the facade. He hasn't spoken to his parents since he arrived, he's tearing through his meager savings, his homesickness and anxiety are getting worse and worse, and he hasn't even come close to landing the job of his dreams. Will Marty be able to find a place that feels like home?
Looking In Robert Frank
First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their More...
politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself--that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 50 years ago.Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book's construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country on a Guggenheim grant in 1955-1956. Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of The Americans in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from The Americans are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of The Americans, bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography.This richly illustrated expanded edition of Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans contains several engaging essays by curator Sarah Greenough that explore the roots of this seminal book, Frank's travels on a Guggenheim fellowship, the sequencing of The Americans and the book's impact on his later career. In addition, essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Michel Frizot and Luc Sante offer focused analyses of Frank's relationship with Louis Faurer, Edward Steichen, Gotthard Schuh, Walker Evans, Robert Delpire and Jack Kerouac, while Philip Brookman writes about his work with Frank on several exhibitions in the last 30 years. This edition also reproduces many of Frank's earlier photographic sequences, as well as all of the photographs in The Americans and selected later works.In addition, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans-Expanded Edition includes a wealth of additional materials, essential information for all intereste
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Smorgasbord
Effortless entertaining the Scandinavian way.
Relaxed celebrations of food and friends, smoergasbords - of which cripsbreads are always a part - are served throughout the year. This collection of seasonal menus and recipes includes classics such as skagen (prawn salad) and citrus and spice cured gravadlax, but also modern, more informal dishes such as fried chanterelles on toasted sourdough, barbecued zesty cod burgers and orange and ginger waffles with rhubarb compote.
For spring, there are ideas for a bonfire party and for celebrating Easter; for summer a midsummer gathering. Autumn has a feast supper and foraged dinner and Winter a Christmas drinks and New Year's brunch. With the emphasis always on simplicity, but also quality, seasonal ingredients, these are dishes to share and enjoy with those you love.
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