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|  | Backyard Livestock by George P. Looby, Stephen Thomas
Description not available.Compiles information on the selection, feeding, housing, breeding, care, and butchering of poultry, rabbits, sheep, goats, pigs, and veal calves AUTHOR: George P. Looby, Stephen Thomas
PUBLISHER: Countryman Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food 
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 | Justin Wilson Looking Back by Justin Wilson
Following more than two decades of producing cookbooks, Justin Wilson has decided that it's time to take a look back. In this book, the culinary trendsetter collects some of his favorite recipes from previous cookbooks and offers commentaries and remembrances that complement them with prosaic style. Photos. AUTHOR: Justin Wilson
PUBLISHER: Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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 | The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, Soun Vannithone
Created by celebrated food writer Alan Davidson and 50 guest contributors, this comprehensive encyclopedia of culinary terms, history, and lore includes such esoterica as the cuisine of Antarctica, the scandalous behavior of Escoffier, the truth about the medieval use of spices with meat, and a thorough discussion of rice and all its uses. AUTHOR: Alan Davidson, Soun Vannithone
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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 | Secrets, Lies & Democracy
Description not available.Presents the ideas of one of America's most influential intellectuals, in a readable interview format that offers Chomsky's views on violence in the United States, what democracy really means, the coming ecocatastrophe, and Clinton's health plan. Original. IP.
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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 | Complete Idiot's Guide to American Government by Melanie Fonder, Sonia Weiss
Description not available.Explains how the government works and the functions of its many parts, covering such topics as the system of checks and balances, the Constitution, and the division of state and federal powers. AUTHOR: Melanie Fonder, Sonia Weiss
PUBLISHER: Alpha Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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 | The Democracy of the Dead by David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames
Will democracy figure prominently in China's future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course of answering them, look to the ideas of John Dewey and Confucius. Those most sanguine about the future of Chinese-Western relations presume that a modernized China will be essentially westernized as well. They believe that in order to enter the family of nations China must be transformed into a liberal democracy, complete with free enterprise capitalism and rational technologies. Only in this manner, so this argument goes, can there be hope for increased rights and freedoms for the individual Chinese. Contrary to this view, the authors argue that it is a mistake to equate modernization with westernization and to believe that individualist, rights-based democracy and its economic and technological accouterments are inevitable consequences of civilized development. Modernity, the authors claim, far from being a universal expression of the human spirit, is a peculiarly Western invention which must be adapted significantly if it is to be useful in a Chinese environment. In The Democracy of the Dead, Hall and Ames argue for the viability of the traditional Chinese cultural sensibility and claim that the China which may well come to dominate the global culture of the twenty-first century will not be a society of increasingly rugged individuals, nor will it be the Netscaped, McDonaldized Theme Park of which Western entrepreneurs have begun to dream. Rather, China is likely to maintain far more of its traditional character than most now suspect possible, and will, therefore, enter the modernworld largely on its own terms. Hall and Ames argue that accommodating the legitimate desires of the Chinese people will require the promotion of a communitarian form of democracy seriously at odds with the liberal democratic model which dominates Western democracies. This will best be accomp AUTHOR: David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames
PUBLISHER: Open Court Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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