Travelling physician, salesman, author and self-made man, Dr Chase dispensed remedies all over America during the late nineteenth century, collecting recipes and domestic tips from the people he met along the way. His self-published books became celebrated US bestsellers and were the household Bibles of their day.

William Verral, the redoubtable eighteenth-century landlord of the White Hart Inn in Lewes, Sussex, trained under a continental chef and was determined to introduce the modern and best French cookery to his customers. Gently mocking Englishmen who eat plain mutton chops or only possess one frying-pan, he gives enthusiastic advice on must-have k...

The visible scarring left permanently on the skin after acne itself subsides often causes...

This volume is composed of extensive and detailed notes from the lectures given at the 40th Karpacz Winter School. This school focussed on quantum gravity phenomenology with emphasis on its relation to observational astrophysics and cosmology. These notes have been carefully edited with the aim to give advanced students and young researchers a b...

Black Holes are still considered to be among the most mysterious and fascinating objects in our universe. Awaiting the era of gravitational astronomy, much progress in theoretical modeling and understanding of classical and quantum black holes has already been achieved. The present volume serves as a tutorial, high-level guided tour through the ...

The question of a possible temporal variation of the fundamental constants was raised by Paul Dirac in his "large number hypothesis" in 1937. Today it appears in the context of the search for a unified theory of the fundamental interactions. It touches both fundamental and applied physics, as the postulate of the unalterability of the constants ...

Spectacular experimental advances in observational cosmology have helped raise cosmology to the status of a genuine science, and it is now possible to test many speculative theoretical issues and to obtain reliable values for the key parameters defining our observable universe. This book has emerged from selected lectures given at the Mexican Sc...

Un libro de antropología y espiritualidad, en definitiva de fe y cultura, que pretende ser una invitación a ser creativos en consonancia con la novedad del Reino.  El autor, reconocido experto en estos temas, ilustra de forma magistral lo que supone la llamada a crear la novedad de Dios que es Jesús. Estos tiempos nuevos que están emergiendo son...

Un libro destinado a los educadores en sentido amplio, no sólo a los profesores de la educación reglada, sino también a los padres y monitores. La obra es un acercamiento a la ética menos común y que para algunos puede ser discutido: el de las virtudes. Más allá de los malentendidos que se ciernen en torno a ellas, el autor pretende explorar sus...