The Big Book of Potluck: Good Food - and Lots of It - for Parties, Gatherings, and All Occasions

The Big Book of Potluck: Good Food - and Lots of It - for Parties, Gatherings, and All Occasions Review

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Maryana Vollstedt, Queen of the best-selling Big Book series, has put the luck back in potluck with more than 250 delicious, no-nonsense recipes. From Chile Cheese Wheels and citrusy Sunburst Salad, to Moroccan Chicken with Dates and Couscous and luscious Hazelnut-Cappuccino Cake, these crowd-pleasing dishes are perfect for toting to family reunions, book clubs, showers, church suppers, picnics, and parties galore - and have everyone begging for the recipe. With tips for streamlining preparation and suggestions for transporting treats safely, this heartwarming cookbook guarantees that dish will go home empty!

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Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities

Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities Review

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A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael B©rub© has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog.

Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, B©rub© offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.

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Toasts, Eulogies, Introductions, and Other Special Occasion Speeches

Toasts, Eulogies, Introductions, and Other Special Occasion Speeches Review

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Many books on toasts, eulogies, and other special occasion speeches offer you canned speeches that you can memorize. Unfortunately, that's not how great speaking works. Every gathering of friends, family, and professionals is different, and no off the shelf speech will work in every situation.

Having to give a toast at a wedding, or write a eulogy can be a daunting task. Everyone wants their toast to be as good as the one they saw on television, but most people do not understand what their goal is. Kent's manual on special occasion speaking and funeral oratory provides a step by step guide, along with speech samples, and links to online speeches and manuscripts, so that your speeches can be a moving and memorable experience for your listeners. Kent’s book is witty, readable, informative, and comprehensive. His chapters on toasts and eulogies are the best anywhere.

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