Dear Homemakers and Friends, The idea for the suggestion in this book came from both of my previous restaurants, my home catering experiences, and my weekend home entertainment for my friends and their friends. Some of the recipes were collected in my travels and some come from my friends and relatives' kitchens. Restaurant Experience] Jo' Deans Cuisine: Sacramento, California 1979 Jo'Deans Cuisine 2: Mt. Vernon, New York 1986 Home catering experience] Exquisite Dining: Weekend Home Entertainment Sacramento, California 1982 Finding my weekend home entertainment so successful and enjoyable,...

This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.

This book addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research.The book considers how creative practice can lead to research insights through what is often known as practice-led research. But unlike other books on practice-led research, it balances this with discussion of how research can impact positively on creative practice through research-led practice. The editors posit an iterative and web-like relationship between practice and...

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In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization transformed the interests, expectations and values of the entire society, including Party members, the military, women and men, the young and the...

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