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Useful Advice on the Making of Jell-O Molds, the Rules of Petting, and Other Milestones on the Road to Popularity

The major issues of adolescence are covered in this quaintly illustrated handbook, induding such critical information as how to plan a party, dating do's and don'ts, and the joys of making punch, sure to appeal to nostalgic baby boomers or anyone yearning for a return to the good old days.

Tips for Teens

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Great Recipes for Making and Cooking with Hot Sauces

Gathers recipes for piques, sherries, Louisiana-style sauces, Caribbean-style sauces, and appetizers and main dishes featuring spicy sauces.

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Men's Health Training Guide

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QuickBooks 2010 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual takes you beyond QuickBooks' help resources: you not only learn how the program works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense.



QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions.

 * Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company
 * Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income
 * Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks
 * Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center
 * Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center
 * Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit
 * Share information with your accountant quickly and easily

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2010 for Windows.

QuickBooks 2010: the Missing Manual

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Before her death in December of 1993, Estelle Sirowitz ladled out the usual maternal advice--from wearing clean underwear (without holes), to believing in God, and keeping limbs inside windows of moving vehicles.  The difference lay not in her delivery but in the recipient: her son Hal.

Nearly fourteen years ago Sirowitz began turning his mother's advice into poetry--never showing her exactly what came of her ranting and raving about a ketchup jar:

Deformed Finger
Don't stick your finger in the ketchup bottle,
Mother said. It might get stuck, &
then you'll have to wait for your father
to get home to pull it out. He
won't be happy to find a dirty fingernail
squirming in the ketchup that he's going to use
on his hamburger.  He'll yank it out so hard
that for the rest of your life you won't
be able to wear a ring on that finger.
And if you ever get a girlfriend, &
you hold hands, she's bound to ask you
why one of your fingers is deformed,
& you'll be obligated to tell her how
you didn't listen to your mother, &
insisted on playing with the ketchup bottle,
& she'll get to thinking, he probably won't
listen to me either, & she'll push your hand away.

Since then Sirowitz has become a regular in New York City's downtown poetry scene, was awarded a residency at the MacDowell artists colony,  performed live on MTV's "The Spoken Word: Unplugged," appeared on Public Television's "United States of Poetry" series, and received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to continue writing about his mother.  No one, not even Estelle Sirowitz, could have predicted the incredible  allure and success of his dead-pan delivery and dead-on depictions of a mother's words of doom:

from A Bum's Life
You're going to be a bum, Mother said,
if you're not one already, but you'll
soon find out that even a bum
has to work hard convincing people
that he's really poor. When it rains
you can't stand out there holding
an umbrella, & ask for money, but
you have to get wet, because the more
you drip, the more sympathy you'll get....

Like nursery rhymes for adults, the poems included in Mother Said are addictive.  

Read them once and you'll have to read them twice.  Hear Sirowitz read them, and you'll find yourself reciting them to your friends--mimicking as best you can his Queens accent and his dry delivery.   Who knows, you may even find yourself reciting them to your own mother.

Mother Said

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America's First Pirate TV Station and the Catskills Collective that Turned it On

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A new translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English

Tao Te Ching

How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Catering Business

Book and CD-ROM. Do you need a comprehensive book on how to plan, start and operate a successful catering operation? This is it--an extensive, detailed manual that shows you step by step how to set up, operate and manage a financially successful catering business. No component is left out of this encyclopedic new book explaining the risky but potentially highly rewarding business of catering. Whether your catering operation is on-premise, off-premise, mobile, inside a hotel, part of a restaurant, or from your own home kitchen -- you will find this book very useful. You will learn the fundamentals: profitable menu planning, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, and food safety and HACCP. The employee and management chapters deal with how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, and report tips properly in accordance with the latest IRS requirements. The financial chapters focus on basic cost-control systems, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning. You'll also master public relations and publicity, learn low-cost internal marketing ideas, and discover low-and no-cost ways to satisfy customers. One section of the book is devoted to home-based catering entrepreneurs. With low startup costs and overhead, a home-based catering business can be an ideal do-it-yourself part-or full-time business. Another section is for restaurateurs that wish to add catering to their restaurant operation. A successful restaurant's bottom line could be greatly enhanced by instituting catering functions in slow hours or "down time." For example, many restaurants are closed on Saturday afternoons, so this would be an ideal time to create a profit by catering a wedding This book is also ideal for professionals in the catering industries, as well as newcomers who may be looking for answers to cost containment and training issues. There are literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your catering operation. Existing operators will appreciate the valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, operating and cost cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that can be easily applied to their operations. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms from the book in a PDF format for easy use, plus a 100+ page business plan in Microsoft Word.

The Professional Caterer's Handbook

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125 delicious meatless entrees

Sophisticated and stylish vegetarian main course pose the greatest challenge for the busy cook seeking meatless meals. With that in mind, Jeanne Lemlin, the award-winning author of Quick Vegetarian Pleasures, has created 125 recipes for savory vegetarian entrees to suit all occasions. Delicious, healthful, and easy to prepare, the recipes in Main-Course Vegetarian Pleasures--Roasted Vegetables with Polenta, Risotto Primavera, Pumpkin and Corn Chowder, among many others--take vegetarian cooking into that magical realm where style and substance produce genuine pleasure.

Main-Course Vegetarian Pleasures

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Comfort Food for People on the Move

Bowl food means relaxed eating--from a slow-simmered, fiery curry, a luscious pasta dish, or a few fresh ingredients tossed together in a wok. Take the tedium out of salad and pasta without all the mess.

Bowl Food

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12 Parties to Change the World

The ultimate party manual for the millennium, Party Fabulous willturn you into the darling of the circuit, the Brooke Astor of your block--the envy ofMartha Stewart herself! Kings of Kitsch Todd Merrell and Jack Millerand craftmistress Carole Nicksin present the complete guide to hosting smashingsoirees, from soup to nuts, from wigs to whatnot--plus helpful hints, like how wearingpajamas breaks down barriers between guests, and how to work a crowd into a frenzy! Outrageous Theme Parties include, All-Hallows' Eve Garlic Frenzy: A Kissing Party The Dancing Queen: A Surprise Birthday Party A Trailer-Trash Superbowl Party for 15 Adopted Kin Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Let's Dress Up and Act Like Adults Party Mother's Day Group Therapy Party Recipes: Libations and victuals for every occasion, from Universal Grill's Cosmopolitan Cocktail, to Steak au Poivre, to Ham Boiled in Coca-Cola! Music: The lighter fluid of the party, from Tom Jones, toBananarama, to Debby Boone! Crafts: Wighats, Apple Dolls, Imperial Margarine-Style Crowns! Games: Bobbing for Garlic, The Bunny Hop, Trailer-TrashScavenger Hunt!

Party Fabulous

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Serious Comfort Food for Any Time of the Day

The Big Book of Breakfast

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A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meatand for saving the planet one bite at a time

The Farmer and the Grill

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The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Restaurant, 2nd Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

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Hot & Spicy dishes from around the world

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