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Author: Cindy Sigler Dagnan
Publisher: Covenant Pub Incorporated
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781892435286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou can experience life's sweetness everyday! Each day can be a chocolate day, it all depends on your perspective. And if you don't like the piece you pick up? Lick off the chocolate, crumple the wrapper, and move on . . . it's still The Chocolate Side of Life!
Author: Marcos Patchett
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 2024-11-05
Total Pages: 805
ISBN-13: 1801521832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating guide to the history and medical uses of cacao. The Secret Life of Chocolate is a book about chocolate. Not the sweet, mass-produced fatty confection most of us are familiar with, though. This book is about old-school chocolate; pre-Colombian, Central American, bitter-spicy-foamy-intense blow-your-socks-off chocolate; chocolate beverages made with toasted cocoa beans, water, and indigenous plants. Today there are many different forms of drinking chocolate in Latin America, most of which reflect European (Spanish) influence, incorporating sugar, cinnamon, and milk. The aim of this work is to peel back the years of cultural cross-pollination and anatomize the original Cacao-based beverages, which were richer, more complex, more potent, and darker (in every sense) than modern forms of chocolate. This book delves into the ancient history of the human relationship with the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao; it dissects the pharmacological properties of chocolate to the fullest possible extent; and it divulges the mythical and magical associations of human interactions with this incredible plant.
Author: Marcus Anthony Hunter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0520292820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States—a “Black Map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience—all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.
Author: Tara Sullivan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0147515092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor fans of Linda Sue Park and A Long Way Gone, two young boys must escape a life of slavery in modern-day Ivory Coast Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. The higher the number the safer they are. The higher the number the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home. Maybe. The problem is Amadou doesn’t know how much he and Seydou owe, and the bosses won’t tell him. The boys only wanted to make money to help their impoverished family, instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. With no hope of escape, all they can do is try their best to stay alive—until Khadija comes into their lives. She’s the first girl who’s ever come to camp, and she’s a wild thing. She fights bravely every day, attempting escape again and again, reminding Amadou what it means to be free. But finally, the bosses break her, and what happens next to the brother he has always tried to protect almost breaks Amadou. The three band together as family and try just once more to escape. Inspired by true-to-life events happening right now, The Bitter Side of Sweet is an exquisitely written tour de force not to be missed. “A gripping and painful portrait of modern-day child slavery in the cacao plantations of the Ivory Coast.”—The Wall Street Journal “A tender, harrowing story of family, friendship, and the pursuit of freedom.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Author: Jess C. Scott
Publisher: Jess C Scott
Published: 2011-01-09
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1456529048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKONE-LINE SUMMARY: A thieving duo's world turns upside down when an Elven rogue uncovers the heinous dealings of a megacorporation (The Other Side of Life, Book 1).SYNOPSIS: Anya and Leticia are partners-in-crime who steal for a living. Their world turns upside down after a chance encounter with fellow rogue, Ithilnin--the enigmatic leader of an Elven band of thieves.A scuffle to prove who's "the better thief" transforms into more than Anya and Ithilnin ever bargained for. They retrieve the missing piece of an ancient poem, before getting caught in the secret dealings of a megacorporation. What they uncover threatens to alter the very essence of not just human life, but the other side as well.Elven intrigue, cyberpunk action, and a deadly dose of danger come together in The Other Side of Life [Book #1 in the (Cyberpunk) Elven Trilogy].GENRE: Urban Fantasy / Cyberpunk / YA with adult crossover appealREVIEW: "Dear Jess: You are a very good writer - I like your plotting, your concept, the characters...pretty much everything. You are very gifted." - Dr. Uwe Stender, 2010
Author: Steve Toutonghi
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1616958901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in Seattle, Steve Toutonghi’s second novel, Side Life, is a dazzling, intriguing, and philosophical blend of literary science fiction—perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Philip K. Dick and Ex Machina. What if every possibility of every life were within your reach? Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultramodern Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. There is also a dog-eared notebook filled with circuit diagrams, beautiful and intricate drawings of body parts, and pages of code. When Vin decides to enter one of the caskets himself, his reality begins to unravel, and he finds himself on a terrifying journey that raises fundamental questions about reality, free will, and the meaning of a human life.
Author: Don Giannatti
Publisher: Amherst Media
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1608954595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe core goal of photography is representing subjects that have depth and texture in a medium that inherently lacks both those qualities, and this book shows the best way to rise to that challenge: through the careful application and capture of lighting. It demonstrates how to accentuate or minimize textures, add or subtract highlights, and create or combat shadows to showcase the subjects in the best way and create the illusion of a third dimension in the images. Exploring techniques for lighting portraits, still-life subjects, nature images, and architectural shots, both studio and location lighting are covered in detail. The book teaches photographers how to study their subjectsÑwith all of the textures, colors, shapes, and surfaces they haveÑthen visualize the image as a finished photograph before the photography actually begins. With chapters that thoroughly cover the science of lighting and visualization, photographers can apply that knowledge and successfully create artful images.
Author: Esther Groninger
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 160266689X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing up during World War II as the oldest of five children and the only girl was not always easy. Esther's childhood in Switzerland is documented in 38 short stories, which reflect the cultural climate and practices of those years. Her adventures continue during subsequent travels to various countries in Europe, culminating in her crossing the Atlantic to Canada and on to the United States. It was her intention to return to Switzerland some day, but destiny held other plans. She met her husband to be three short weeks after her arrival in the U.S. Throughout the book we are given glimpses of her spiritual journey and her search for meaning in life. She now knows that only God could have engineered circumstances the way they occurred, and she is thankful for his hand of protection over her. Esther Groninger lives with her husband George in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have two grown daughters and one granddaughter, who have chosen to trade Michigan winters with the more moderate climate of the South. Esther still loves to be outdoors whether it is tending her garden or harvesting nature's bounty at surrounding farms and preserving it for later use. During the winter she loves to knit for babies, an art she has perfected over many years. She also volunteers at RBC Ministries on a regular basis.
Author: Shayne Moore
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0830864512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResponding to the sobering reality of modern day slavery, Shayne Moore and Kimberly Yim describe the power that we all have at our disposal (advocacy power, purchasing power, relationship power) to fight for the powerless and take our place among the great abolitionists of the past.
Author: Nathaniel Gould
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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