Author: Elena Bondar
Publisher: NeeditReadit
ISBN: 1310071373
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
How 4 lbs of baking soda will save you $90 in just one month! Boost your health and reduce your environmental footprint. Reduce cellulite, lose weight and make your skin glow! 123 really useful applications to improve your life and trim your budget This book will show you a few practical ways you can introduce this powder into your life, promoting health, wealth and happiness, as well as doing a little something for our environment. It will reveal to you the secrets behind a beautiful and slim figure by using soda to promote weight loss and reduce cellulite. Create a spa salon in your own bathroom using colourful and aromatic soda bombs. Replace expensive and chemically toxic commercial cleaning agents with your own powerful and healthy varieties. Use soda to care for your pets and even your car. Do you love gardening and nurturing house plants? Do you have small children or are you expecting a child? You enjoy spending time in nature? Or maybe you prefer a fun party (and how to deal with the hangover)? Then this book is for you. In these days of financial austerity, we are all looking for ways to keep down costs while providing the best and healthiest solutions for ourselves and our families. Once you learn to appreciate the benefits and versatility of this amazing non-toxic white powder, you'll understand why it has been such an important part of our history and culture.
SuperScrimpers Soda
Author: Elena Bondar
Publisher: NeeditReadit
ISBN: 1310071373
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
How 4 lbs of baking soda will save you $90 in just one month! Boost your health and reduce your environmental footprint. Reduce cellulite, lose weight and make your skin glow! 123 really useful applications to improve your life and trim your budget This book will show you a few practical ways you can introduce this powder into your life, promoting health, wealth and happiness, as well as doing a little something for our environment. It will reveal to you the secrets behind a beautiful and slim figure by using soda to promote weight loss and reduce cellulite. Create a spa salon in your own bathroom using colourful and aromatic soda bombs. Replace expensive and chemically toxic commercial cleaning agents with your own powerful and healthy varieties. Use soda to care for your pets and even your car. Do you love gardening and nurturing house plants? Do you have small children or are you expecting a child? You enjoy spending time in nature? Or maybe you prefer a fun party (and how to deal with the hangover)? Then this book is for you. In these days of financial austerity, we are all looking for ways to keep down costs while providing the best and healthiest solutions for ourselves and our families. Once you learn to appreciate the benefits and versatility of this amazing non-toxic white powder, you'll understand why it has been such an important part of our history and culture.
Publisher: NeeditReadit
ISBN: 1310071373
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
How 4 lbs of baking soda will save you $90 in just one month! Boost your health and reduce your environmental footprint. Reduce cellulite, lose weight and make your skin glow! 123 really useful applications to improve your life and trim your budget This book will show you a few practical ways you can introduce this powder into your life, promoting health, wealth and happiness, as well as doing a little something for our environment. It will reveal to you the secrets behind a beautiful and slim figure by using soda to promote weight loss and reduce cellulite. Create a spa salon in your own bathroom using colourful and aromatic soda bombs. Replace expensive and chemically toxic commercial cleaning agents with your own powerful and healthy varieties. Use soda to care for your pets and even your car. Do you love gardening and nurturing house plants? Do you have small children or are you expecting a child? You enjoy spending time in nature? Or maybe you prefer a fun party (and how to deal with the hangover)? Then this book is for you. In these days of financial austerity, we are all looking for ways to keep down costs while providing the best and healthiest solutions for ourselves and our families. Once you learn to appreciate the benefits and versatility of this amazing non-toxic white powder, you'll understand why it has been such an important part of our history and culture.
Business Week
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
Mrs Moneypenny's Financial Advice for Independent Women
Author: Moneypenny
Publisher: Portfolio
ISBN: 9780670923304
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Get a money makeover from the legendary FT columnist, Mrs Moneypenny, author of Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women. Why do personal finances present such a hurdle for women? And what can we do about it? In her bestselling book Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women, Mrs Moneypenny stressed the importance of financial literacy and introduced the idea of a 'financial finish line' - or how much money you need in your lifetime. But how do you know what 'enough' looks like? And how do you get there? In this essential and punchy guide, the hilarious and wise Mrs Moneypenny shows you how to set your own financial finish line, and then how to go about reaching it. From increasing your income to cutting your grocery bills, from starting a business to saving a pension, she gives practical, easy ways to think about your money and take control of your life. Whether you're struggling to remember what interest rate you are paying on your mortgage, or are an entrepreneur trying to raise the finance for your business, this book will inspire you, inform you, and above all, empower you."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Portfolio
ISBN: 9780670923304
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Get a money makeover from the legendary FT columnist, Mrs Moneypenny, author of Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women. Why do personal finances present such a hurdle for women? And what can we do about it? In her bestselling book Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women, Mrs Moneypenny stressed the importance of financial literacy and introduced the idea of a 'financial finish line' - or how much money you need in your lifetime. But how do you know what 'enough' looks like? And how do you get there? In this essential and punchy guide, the hilarious and wise Mrs Moneypenny shows you how to set your own financial finish line, and then how to go about reaching it. From increasing your income to cutting your grocery bills, from starting a business to saving a pension, she gives practical, easy ways to think about your money and take control of your life. Whether you're struggling to remember what interest rate you are paying on your mortgage, or are an entrepreneur trying to raise the finance for your business, this book will inspire you, inform you, and above all, empower you."--Publisher's description.
Cooking on a Bootstrap
Author: Jack Monroe
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509831126
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
'These are wonderful and inspiring recipes' – Nigella Lawson Award-winning cookery writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe is back with Cooking on a Bootstrap: a creative and accessible cookbook packed with affordable, delicious recipes, most of which are vegetarian. Winner of the Observer Food Monthly Best Food Personality Readers' Award. Jack Monroe is a campaigner, food writer and activist and her first cookbook, A Girl Called Jack, was a runaway bestseller. The sequel Cooking on a Bootstrap makes budget food fun and delicious, with 118 incredible recipes including Fluffy Berry Pancakes, Self-Love Stew, Marmite Mac ‘n’ Cheese and Hot Sardines with Herby Sauce. Chapters include Bread, Breakfasts, A Bag of Pasta and a Packet of Rice, Spuds and Eat More Veg. There are vegan meals, sweet treats and what Jack calls ‘contraband’ dishes here, as well as helpful money-saving tips. With her trademark humour and wit, Jack shows us that affordable, authentic and creative recipes aren't just for those with fancy gadgets or premium ingredients. 'She understands first hand what it's like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table' – Nigel Slater
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509831126
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
'These are wonderful and inspiring recipes' – Nigella Lawson Award-winning cookery writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe is back with Cooking on a Bootstrap: a creative and accessible cookbook packed with affordable, delicious recipes, most of which are vegetarian. Winner of the Observer Food Monthly Best Food Personality Readers' Award. Jack Monroe is a campaigner, food writer and activist and her first cookbook, A Girl Called Jack, was a runaway bestseller. The sequel Cooking on a Bootstrap makes budget food fun and delicious, with 118 incredible recipes including Fluffy Berry Pancakes, Self-Love Stew, Marmite Mac ‘n’ Cheese and Hot Sardines with Herby Sauce. Chapters include Bread, Breakfasts, A Bag of Pasta and a Packet of Rice, Spuds and Eat More Veg. There are vegan meals, sweet treats and what Jack calls ‘contraband’ dishes here, as well as helpful money-saving tips. With her trademark humour and wit, Jack shows us that affordable, authentic and creative recipes aren't just for those with fancy gadgets or premium ingredients. 'She understands first hand what it's like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table' – Nigel Slater
Mrs Moneypenny
Author: Mrs. Moneypenny
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749924164
Category : Capital market
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mrs Moneypenny was a launch columnist in the Financial Times weekend magazine The Business , and now continues in Financial News .In 1992, with a newly minted MBA, not long married and with a young child, Mrs Moneypenny embarked on a career in the City. The next nine years were to see her initiated into the way the capital markets really operate. Moving to Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, and producing two more children en route, by the time she left the Square Mile to set up her own business she had worked across most investment banking disciplines and with many extraordinary characters. This entertaining book and enlightening book is a guide to what it's really like working in the City. It opens with Mrs Moneypenny applying for jobs, covers her rise through the ranks to her appointment to run an investment bank in Japan and finishes with her decision to trade the long hours and big bonuses for more control over her life. Along the way readers will learn how the City works, why people are paid so much money, and much, much more.If you want to know what every female stockbroker needs to carry in her handbag to how to survive a dawn raid, Mrs Moneypenny's lively guide to the City will be an eye-opener.
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749924164
Category : Capital market
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mrs Moneypenny was a launch columnist in the Financial Times weekend magazine The Business , and now continues in Financial News .In 1992, with a newly minted MBA, not long married and with a young child, Mrs Moneypenny embarked on a career in the City. The next nine years were to see her initiated into the way the capital markets really operate. Moving to Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, and producing two more children en route, by the time she left the Square Mile to set up her own business she had worked across most investment banking disciplines and with many extraordinary characters. This entertaining book and enlightening book is a guide to what it's really like working in the City. It opens with Mrs Moneypenny applying for jobs, covers her rise through the ranks to her appointment to run an investment bank in Japan and finishes with her decision to trade the long hours and big bonuses for more control over her life. Along the way readers will learn how the City works, why people are paid so much money, and much, much more.If you want to know what every female stockbroker needs to carry in her handbag to how to survive a dawn raid, Mrs Moneypenny's lively guide to the City will be an eye-opener.
The Forager Chef's Book of Flora
Author: Alan Bergo
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589481
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“In this remarkable new cookbook, Bergo provides stories, photographs and inventive recipes.”—Star Tribune As Seen on NBC's The Today Show! "With a passion for bringing a taste of the wild to the table, [Bergo’s] inspiration for experimentation shows in his inventive dishes created around ingredients found in his own backyard."—Tastemade From root to flower—and featuring 180 recipes and over 230 of the author’s own beautiful photographs—explore the edible plants we find all around us with the Forager Chef Alan Bergo as he breaks new culinary ground! In The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora you’ll find the exotic to the familiar—from Ramp Leaf Dumplings to Spruce Tip Panna Cotta to Crisp Fiddlehead Pickles—with Chef Bergo’s unique blend of easy-to-follow instruction and out-of-this-world inspiration. Over the past fifteen years, Minnesota chef Alan Bergo has become one of America’s most exciting and resourceful culinary voices, with millions seeking his guidance through his wildly popular website and video tutorials. Bergo’s inventive culinary style is defined by his encyclopedic curiosity, and his abiding, root-to-flower passion for both wild and cultivated plants. Instead of waiting for fall squash to ripen, Bergo eagerly harvests their early shoots, flowers, and young greens—taking a holistic approach to cooking with all parts of the plant, and discovering extraordinary new flavors and textures along the way. The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora demonstrates how understanding the different properties and growing phases of roots, stems, leaves, and seeds can inform your preparation of something like the head of an immature sunflower—as well as the lesser-used parts of common vegetables, like broccoli or eggplant. As a society, we’ve forgotten this type of old-school knowledge, including many brilliant culinary techniques that were borne of thrift and necessity. For our own sake, and that of our planet, it’s time we remembered. And in the process, we can unlock new flavors from the abundant landscape around us. “[An] excellent debut. . . . Advocating that plants are edible in their entirety is one thing, but this [book] delivers the delectable means to prove it."—Publishers Weekly "Alan Bergo was foraging in the Midwest way before it was trendy."—Outside Magazine
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589481
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“In this remarkable new cookbook, Bergo provides stories, photographs and inventive recipes.”—Star Tribune As Seen on NBC's The Today Show! "With a passion for bringing a taste of the wild to the table, [Bergo’s] inspiration for experimentation shows in his inventive dishes created around ingredients found in his own backyard."—Tastemade From root to flower—and featuring 180 recipes and over 230 of the author’s own beautiful photographs—explore the edible plants we find all around us with the Forager Chef Alan Bergo as he breaks new culinary ground! In The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora you’ll find the exotic to the familiar—from Ramp Leaf Dumplings to Spruce Tip Panna Cotta to Crisp Fiddlehead Pickles—with Chef Bergo’s unique blend of easy-to-follow instruction and out-of-this-world inspiration. Over the past fifteen years, Minnesota chef Alan Bergo has become one of America’s most exciting and resourceful culinary voices, with millions seeking his guidance through his wildly popular website and video tutorials. Bergo’s inventive culinary style is defined by his encyclopedic curiosity, and his abiding, root-to-flower passion for both wild and cultivated plants. Instead of waiting for fall squash to ripen, Bergo eagerly harvests their early shoots, flowers, and young greens—taking a holistic approach to cooking with all parts of the plant, and discovering extraordinary new flavors and textures along the way. The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora demonstrates how understanding the different properties and growing phases of roots, stems, leaves, and seeds can inform your preparation of something like the head of an immature sunflower—as well as the lesser-used parts of common vegetables, like broccoli or eggplant. As a society, we’ve forgotten this type of old-school knowledge, including many brilliant culinary techniques that were borne of thrift and necessity. For our own sake, and that of our planet, it’s time we remembered. And in the process, we can unlock new flavors from the abundant landscape around us. “[An] excellent debut. . . . Advocating that plants are edible in their entirety is one thing, but this [book] delivers the delectable means to prove it."—Publishers Weekly "Alan Bergo was foraging in the Midwest way before it was trendy."—Outside Magazine
Noma
Author: René Redzepi
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714859033
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
" "Noma is the most important cookbook of the year." – The Wall Street Journal René Redzepi has been widely credited with re‐inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recognized as the #1 best in the world by the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards in April 2010 after receiving the "Chef’s Choice" award in 2009. Redzepi operates at the cutting edge of gourmet cuisine, combining an unrelenting creativity and a remarkable level of craftsmanship with an inimitable and innate knowledge of the produce of his Nordic terroir. At Noma, which Redzepi created from a derelict eighteenth‐century warehouse in 2003 after previously working at both elBulli and The French Laundry, diners are served exquisite concoctions, such as Newly‐Ploughed Potato Field or The Snowman from Jukkasjarvi, all painstakingly constructed to express their amazing array of Nordic ingredients. His search for ingredients involves foraging amongst local fields for wild produce, sourcing horse‐mussels from the Faroe Islands and the purest possible water from Greenland. Redzepi has heightened the culinary philosophy of seasonally and regionally sourced sustainable ingredients to an unprecedented level, and in doing so has created an utterly delicious cuisine. At the age of 37, Redzepi is one of the most influential chefs in the world. Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine offers an exclusive insight into the food, philosophy and creativity of René Redzepi. It reveals the first behind the scenes look at the restaurant, Noma, and features over 90 recipes as well as excerpts from Redzepi’s diary from the period leading up to the opening of the restaurant and texts on some the most enigmatic of Noma’s suppliers. The book includes 200 new specially commissioned color photographs of the dishes, unique local ingredients and landscapes from across the Nordic region. It also includes a foreword by the artist Olafur Eliasson. "
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714859033
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
" "Noma is the most important cookbook of the year." – The Wall Street Journal René Redzepi has been widely credited with re‐inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recognized as the #1 best in the world by the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards in April 2010 after receiving the "Chef’s Choice" award in 2009. Redzepi operates at the cutting edge of gourmet cuisine, combining an unrelenting creativity and a remarkable level of craftsmanship with an inimitable and innate knowledge of the produce of his Nordic terroir. At Noma, which Redzepi created from a derelict eighteenth‐century warehouse in 2003 after previously working at both elBulli and The French Laundry, diners are served exquisite concoctions, such as Newly‐Ploughed Potato Field or The Snowman from Jukkasjarvi, all painstakingly constructed to express their amazing array of Nordic ingredients. His search for ingredients involves foraging amongst local fields for wild produce, sourcing horse‐mussels from the Faroe Islands and the purest possible water from Greenland. Redzepi has heightened the culinary philosophy of seasonally and regionally sourced sustainable ingredients to an unprecedented level, and in doing so has created an utterly delicious cuisine. At the age of 37, Redzepi is one of the most influential chefs in the world. Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine offers an exclusive insight into the food, philosophy and creativity of René Redzepi. It reveals the first behind the scenes look at the restaurant, Noma, and features over 90 recipes as well as excerpts from Redzepi’s diary from the period leading up to the opening of the restaurant and texts on some the most enigmatic of Noma’s suppliers. The book includes 200 new specially commissioned color photographs of the dishes, unique local ingredients and landscapes from across the Nordic region. It also includes a foreword by the artist Olafur Eliasson. "
Tin Can Cook
Author: Jack Monroe
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529015294
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award, 2018. A Sunday Times bestseller. Simple and affordable, Tin Can Cook strips away the blinding glamour and elitism of many cookbooks and takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary ingredients. Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients. Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them. Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas. 'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed.' - Great British Bake Off's Ruby Tandoh 'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious.' - Felicity Spector
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529015294
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award, 2018. A Sunday Times bestseller. Simple and affordable, Tin Can Cook strips away the blinding glamour and elitism of many cookbooks and takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary ingredients. Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients. Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them. Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas. 'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed.' - Great British Bake Off's Ruby Tandoh 'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious.' - Felicity Spector
Resistance is Useless
Author: Geoffrey Burch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119950031
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book will show you how anyone can be persuaded to do anything. Geoff Burch has written a book that will change almost everything you ever believed about business and selling. Combining the quick wit of a stand up comedian with the serious thoughtfulness of a psychoanalyst, he explains the value and power of persuasion - a verbal martial art that, if used correctly will always give you the outcome you desire in your business dealings. Resistance is Useless will show you how to: Change anyone's opinion on any subject. Transform a lynch mob into your most devout supporters. Avoid wasting thousands of pounds on customer care while your accounts department is threatening to pulp your customer's fingers with a hammer. Understand how a perfect product demonstration can get you hurled into the street by security. Sell tanks to Genghis khan. Readership: General Business, customer service and sales.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119950031
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book will show you how anyone can be persuaded to do anything. Geoff Burch has written a book that will change almost everything you ever believed about business and selling. Combining the quick wit of a stand up comedian with the serious thoughtfulness of a psychoanalyst, he explains the value and power of persuasion - a verbal martial art that, if used correctly will always give you the outcome you desire in your business dealings. Resistance is Useless will show you how to: Change anyone's opinion on any subject. Transform a lynch mob into your most devout supporters. Avoid wasting thousands of pounds on customer care while your accounts department is threatening to pulp your customer's fingers with a hammer. Understand how a perfect product demonstration can get you hurled into the street by security. Sell tanks to Genghis khan. Readership: General Business, customer service and sales.
Simon Armitage
Author: Ian Gregson
Publisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 9781844717675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Simon Armitage is one of the most compelling figures in contemporary literature, most conspicuously because of his charismatic style, but also because he has brought into poetry an irreverent, streetwise gusto and a kind of knowledge that often seems to come from outside poetry altogether. But this book is organised thematically in order to stress that Armitage is a considerable intellectual who tackles a wide range of issues. Geography is one of these: his poetry represents a shift in paradigm from time to space. So his poems continuously express a spatial awareness which creates the particular kinds of specificity -- of location and imagery -- which give his work depth in the metaphorical sense. Another key concern is gender: Armitage's reflections on masculinity are a consistent feature of all his writing, and he is especially acute about the drives and insecurities that fuel the most obsessive and off-handed, apparently gratuitously destructive behaviour. However serious the issue, though, Armitage retains his affinity for the comic mode. He is drawn to its earthy, unpretentious idioms, and its exhilirating habit of dwelling on the possibilities of renewal and happy endings. That makes the recent ecological turn in Armitage's writing especially promising. I am certain that this is a direction his work will increasingly take; but his fondness for the comic mode ensures that he will approach the subject with a vivid sense of how the ecocentric and the anthropocentric incongruously mingle, and of the still open possibilities for change and regeneration."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 9781844717675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Simon Armitage is one of the most compelling figures in contemporary literature, most conspicuously because of his charismatic style, but also because he has brought into poetry an irreverent, streetwise gusto and a kind of knowledge that often seems to come from outside poetry altogether. But this book is organised thematically in order to stress that Armitage is a considerable intellectual who tackles a wide range of issues. Geography is one of these: his poetry represents a shift in paradigm from time to space. So his poems continuously express a spatial awareness which creates the particular kinds of specificity -- of location and imagery -- which give his work depth in the metaphorical sense. Another key concern is gender: Armitage's reflections on masculinity are a consistent feature of all his writing, and he is especially acute about the drives and insecurities that fuel the most obsessive and off-handed, apparently gratuitously destructive behaviour. However serious the issue, though, Armitage retains his affinity for the comic mode. He is drawn to its earthy, unpretentious idioms, and its exhilirating habit of dwelling on the possibilities of renewal and happy endings. That makes the recent ecological turn in Armitage's writing especially promising. I am certain that this is a direction his work will increasingly take; but his fondness for the comic mode ensures that he will approach the subject with a vivid sense of how the ecocentric and the anthropocentric incongruously mingle, and of the still open possibilities for change and regeneration."--Publisher's description.