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The Compassionate Teacher: Why compassion should be at the heart of our schools
by Andy SammonsAsk any teacher why they went into teaching, and they'll invariably refer to students or their subject. Yet, modern educators are faced with a dilemma: the industry judges us primarily on outcomes, offering the justification that grades improve life chances. Grades improve life chances as much as money buys happiness: it's no more than a prop or a poor substitute. Unless the profession starts to get to the heart of its reason for being, we might as well all pack up and go home. Education has a problem with its `why,' and unless it starts to encourage and insist its stakeholders start to improve their understanding of why compassion and relationships should be at the heart of everything we do, the same familiar cyclical mistakes will continue to be made, and all of those lovely things that we say we do in modern education such as improving life chances, creating citizens of the future and shaping young minds will be no more than an accidental and indirect by-product of time spent in our educational establishments.
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. Le GuinOne of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER'There was a wall. It did not look important - even a child could climb it. But the idea was real. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on...'Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world's influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a true classic of the 20th century.
Eating Less is Making You Fat: How to Lose Weight Without Starving
by Vijay ThakkarIn this seminal take on well-being and fitness, celebrity health coach and functional medicine expert Vijay Thakkar presents his trademarked four-step formula for weight loss. He builds on years of research and personal history to dispel misinformation about nutrition, calorie-deficit diets, metabolism and how hunger and satiety work. Backing his theories with science and data, Vijay traces the origins of diabetes and heart diseases, conditions that are gaining ground among the young and seemingly fit. He explains how stress, exercise and the quality of food impact hormones; simplifies the science behind low-carb diets and intermittent fasting; and offers sustainable methods to maintain optimal weight and lifelong health. While addressing common dietary and fitness queries, this groundbreaking manual also proposes easy-to-follow lifestyle tips, wholesome recipes and effective workouts to guide the reader through the fog surrounding weight management.
Fast, Cheap and Viral: How to Create Game-Changing Content on a Shoestring Budget
by Aashish ChopraViral marketing should not be a happy accidentAashish Chopra's first viral video was shot with close to no budget and sparing equipment. Yet, today, his content has over 350 million views and industry masters universally agree that Aashish has cracked the viral code. In Fast, Cheap and Viral, the ace marketer shares the secrets behind his success - all of them learnt and honed on his journey. This one-stop super-guide to viral video marketing gives you the low-down on: HOW TO GRAB EYEBALLS in a sea of content; HOW TO DRIVE ENGAGEMENT (because views can be bought, but engagement is earned); WHY STORYTELLING BEATS PRODUCTION VALUE and behind-the-scenes tips and tricks; HOW TO BUILD YOUR PERSONAL BRAND and kill job insecurity.For every student, entrepreneur, blogger, marketing manager or leader who dreams of reaching millions on a shoestring budget, this book is the definitive manual on sustainable viral success"
Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life
by Viswanathan Anand Susan Ninan'Doing everything admirably well matters very little if you can't finish the job.'Few people know better than Viswanathan Anand how to think strategically at lightning speed and work under immense pressure to overcome the toughest odds. From the time he learnt to move pieces on a chessboard as a six-year-old, Vishy - as Anand is fondly called - has racked up innumerable accolades. With five World Championship titles, he is a peerless ambassador of chess, and his is one of the most revered names in the sport.In Mind Master, Vishy looks back on a lifetime of games played, opponents tackled and circumstances overcome, and draws from its depths significant tools that will help every reader navigate life's challenges: What role do tactics and strategy play in the preparation for achieving a goal?How can emotions be harnessed to your advantage in tricky situations?What do you need to do to stay relevant in the face of rapidly changing realities?Is unlearning really the only way to learn?These are just some of the nuggets Vishy touches upon with characteristic wit, easy wisdom and disarming candour in this expanded edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, a delightful and invaluable exploration into the self that will thrill, inspire and motivate readers as few books have done before.
Drugs from Nature: Targets, Assay Systems and Leads
by Madhathilkovilakathu Haridas Sabu Abdulhameed Dileep Francis Swaroop S KumarThis book provides an overview of the drug discovery process from natural sources such as plants and microbes. While technological advances have streamlined the drug discovery process, enhancing the throughput and success rates, the structural features of natural products remain the primary reference for small-molecule drug discovery. Focusing on the drug targets blocked/altered by natural/nature-inspired molecules, it covers how potential drug leads are screened and identified using appropriate assay systems, and the current status of drugs identified using such approaches. State-of-the-art approaches in target identification, assay development, and lead identification have also been discussed in detail. Other topics included are targets and leads in inflammation, cancer, reproductive medicine, cardiovascular and neuromuscular ailments, and infectious diseases as well as the challenges in translating drug leads into clinically viable drugs. This volume serves as a handbook for researchers in phytochemistry and drug discovery, and as a reference for researchers and students of applied biology.
Praxiseinschätzungen zur Nachhaltigkeit in der Bankenbranche: Auswirkungen auf Geschäftsmodell, Gesamtbanksteuerung und ausgewählte Geschäftsfelder (essentials)
by Sabrina Kiszka Jessica HastenteufelDieses essential untersucht die Wahrnehmung und Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit in der Bankenbranche. Mithilfe von Experteninterviews wird herausgearbeitet, wie sich die komplexe Thematik der Nachhaltigkeit auf das Geschäftsmodell und auf die Gesamtbanksteuerung sowie ausgewählte Geschäftsbereiche von Banken auswirkt. Basierend darauf werden konkrete praxisrelevante Handlungsempfehlungen für die Bankenbranche zum Umgang mit dem Nachhaltigkeitskomplex formuliert.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise: Strategies for Risk and Crisis Management (Management for Professionals)
by Susanne Durst Thomas HenschelSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered particularly vulnerable to crisis situations due to their limited assets and resources as well as their great dependency on local customers. Holistic risk management is critical to the development of resilience in organizations. This book explores this situation by addressing risk management for SMEs holistically with a focus on continuous learning and the development of dynamic capabilities to increase resilience. It provides a broad overview of crisis/risk situations and their possible treatment in theory and practice discussed from different resilience perspectives. Featuring contributions from carefully selected experts, this book explores different types of small businesses and sectors to map the diversity and complexity of small business resilience practices. It not only helps SMEs facilitate rapid recovery from crises, but it also helps managers and professionals look to the future of their business with success by providing them with unique comparative research.
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies
by Kathryn RobinsonThis book brings an innovative study of marriage migration in Australia, offering new insights into issues of intimacy and authenticity online. In doing so, it delivers on five main objectives: exploring emotional attachment and personal life in global spaces; interrogating stereotypes and their pervasive influence on personal relations; analysing attitudes and social practice within the institution of marriage; investigating immigration policy, marriage, and citizens’ rights; theorizing gender and class relations in the current global order. The analysis moves between ‘online’ and ‘offline’ social relations and processes, with comparative data enabling a critical framing of the data on marriage relationships developed online. This important contribution places contemporary forms of transcultural marriage and marriage brokering in a historical context of ‘marriage’ in the ‘Anglosphere’ tradition, and in particular historical forms of marriage migration in settler colonial and now multicultural Australia—including histories of colonial era ‘bride ships’ and post WW2 ‘proxy brides’ from southern Europe.
Chefsache Assistenz: Neue Perspektiven und Strategien für die Assistenz im digitalen Wandel (Chefsache)
by Dunja SchenkDas Berufsbild Assistenz hat sich durch das hybride Arbeitsmodell weiter verändert. Unabhängigeres Arbeiten bietet nun die Chance, eigenverantwortlich mehr Themen und Projekte zu übernehmen. In diesem Chefsache-Buch erhalten Sie viele Ideen, mit welchen Aufgaben sich die Assistenz weiterentwickeln kann. Nutzen Sie die vielseitigen Inspirationen, um Ihre Kompetenzen als Assistenz sichtbar zu machen, oder – falls Sie Führungskraft sind – um die Fähigkeiten Ihrer rechten Hand noch besser zu nutzen. Sie erhalten in diesem Buch wertvolle Tipps, wie Sie als Assistenz die notwendige innere Stärke entwickeln, um selbstbewusst aufzutreten und Führungsverantwortung übernehmen zu können. Lesen Sie unter anderem, wie Sie als Assistenz im Bewerbermanagement oder als Konfliktmediator*in unterstützen können.
Bedwing je dwang: Werkboek
by Lidewij Wolters Else de Haan Corine PaauwMet het werkboek Bedwing je dwang gericht op kinderen en jongeren van ca 6 tot 18 jaar kunnen kinderen en ouders onder begeleiding van hun therapeut zelf aan de slag om hun dwanghandelingen en dwanggedachten onder controle te krijgen. Het bevat eenvoudige uitleg over hun probleem en veel praktische oefeningen. De humoristische illustraties en heldere vormgeving motiveren het kind en geven gespreksstof.De behandelmethode Bedwing je dwang is een bewezen effectieve behandelmethode om de ingewikkelde dwangstoornis aan te pakken. De methode werkt vanuit principes van de cognitieve gedragstherapie en is volledig aangepast aan de leefwereld en specifieke problemen van kinderen en jongeren met dwangstoornissen. De boeken en de behandelmethode werden ontwikkeld en in de praktijk getoetst bij het Academisch Centrum voor Kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie De Bascule, Amsterdam.Bij het werkboek is tevens een basisboek voor de therapeut verkrijgbaar: Behandeling van de dwangstoornis bij kinderen en adolescenten.Dit boek is ook verkrijgbaar in abonnement. Abonnees van de Kind en Adolescent Praktijkreeks ontvangen 15% korting op de afzonderlijke delen van de praktijkreeks.
The Seventh International Conference on Safety and Security with IoT: SaSeIoT 2023 (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Kim Phuc Tran Shujun Li Cédric Heuchenne Thu Huong TruongThis book presents the Fifth International Conference on Safety and Security with IoT (SaSeIoT 2023), which took place Bratislava, Slovakia, October 24-26, 2023. The conference aims to explore not only IoT and its related critical applications but also IoT towards Security and Safety. The conference solicits original and inspiring research contributions from experts, researchers, designers, and practitioners in academia, industry and related fields and provides a common platform to share knowledge, experience and best practices in various domains of IoT.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory: Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by Orli Fridman Sarah GensburgerThis book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration.The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what social configurations did it evolve?
Aquatic Ecotoxicology: Understanding Pollutants, Aquatic Organisms, and their Environments
by Samreen Siddiqui Susanne M. BranderThis textbook offers a basic understanding of aquatic ecotoxicology from molecular to physiological levels for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The book covers the guidelines and lab protocols used by international organizations for ecotoxicology studies, and discusses the challenges faced by aquatic organisms in a changing climate from an ecotoxicological perspective. Readers will learn about pollutants, contaminants and chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) in aquatic environments, their impacts on environmental and human health, and what techniques can be used to curb and control their adverse impacts. The book will be useful for students in aquatic ecotoxicology, environmental pollution and marine biochemistry.
POCUS in Critical Care, Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine
by Noreddine Bouarroudj Peňafrancia C. Cano Shahridan bin Mohd Fathil Habiba HemamidThis book describes Emergency Ultrasound (EFAST echo, Lung Ultrasound, Vascular Ultrasound and Transthoracic Echocardiograhy) and all ultrasound technics in Anesthesia practice, i.e. Gastric Ultrasound, Airway Ultrasound and Ultrasound guided vascular access.The book is divided into 11 sections and each section is devoted to a well-defined topic that are further investigated in the dedicated chapters richly and fully illustrated with colored and detailed sonoanatomy drawings. The volume represents a very useful, practical and highly didactic tool.It presents concise up-to-date and evidence-based knowledge in POCUS and explains the use and benefits of ultrasound for intensivists, anesthesiologists, emergency specialists and allied professionals, as well.
Behandeling van angststoornissen bij kinderen en adolescenten: Met het cognitief-gedragstherapeutisch protocol Denken + Doen =Durven
by Susan M. BögelsAngststoornissen zijn de meest voorkomende vorm van psychopathologie bij kinderen en jeugdigen en gaan vaak niet spontaan over. Bovendien leiden angststoornissen tot allerlei andere problemen, zoals schooluitval, depressie, alcoholmisbruik en problemen in het gezin.Dit boek is een praktische gids voor de behandeling van kinderen en jongeren met angststoornissen. Het beschrijft hoe deze stoornissen kunnen ontstaan en gaat in op de effectiviteit van verschillende vormen van cognitieve gedragstherapie. De meest effectieve technieken zijn opgenomen in een gedetailleerd behandelprotocol, dat in dit boek wordt gepresenteerd. Het protocol is ontwikkeld op basis van een meerjarige studie in een aantal gerenommeerde Nederlandse behandelcentra, en is bewezen effectief en kosteneffectief.Hulpverleners beschikken hiermee over een beproefde methode voor de behandeling van kinderen en jongeren in de leeftijd van 8 tot 18 jaar, die kampen met een angststoornis. De kinderen zelf en hun ouders kunnen tijdens de therapie aan de slag met de twee bijbehorende, rijk geïllustreerde werkboeken. Deze zijn apart te bestellen.
We had the Watches. They had the Time: A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan (Renewing the American Narrative)
by Carol BurkeThis book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army’s four-month training program for cultural advisors, follows her deployment, much of it on missions to remote and volatile areas far from brigade headquarters, and concludes with her uneasy return home.She examines the everyday lives of Americans sent to conduct a war of counterinsurgency, including their sexual exploits on base, their superstitions, even the heroic accounts that military contractors recount in their personal stories of past wars, stories that are sometimes a little too good to be true. In turn, she explores the views of ordinary Afghans to this American occupation.
Behandeling van de dwangstoornis bij kinderen en adolescenten: Met het cognitief-gedragstherapeutisch protocol Bedwing je dwang (Kind en adolescent praktijkreeks)
by Else de Haan Lidewij WoltersEen twaalfjarige jongen die school zo vies vindt dat hij zijn kleren dagelijks wast en zijn schoolspullen niet zonder handschoenen aanpakt. Een zestienjarig meisje dat pas wat kan doen als zij een goede gedachte heeft, en daarom maar vaak niets doet. Een negenjarige jongen die alles drie keer moet aanraken en daar vrijwel de hele dag mee bezig is.Deze voorbeelden van de dwangstoornis of obsessieve compulsieve stoornis maken duidelijk hoe ingrijpend de angsten en rituelen van deze stoornis kunnen zijn. Niet alleen voor de betrokkene, maar ook voor ouders, broertjes en zusjes. Voor een therapeut is de behandeling van een dwangstoornis vaak een moeizame weg, met veel hobbels en struikelblokken.Dat cognitieve gedragstherapie, eventueel met medicatie, de bewezen effectieve behandeling voor een dwangstoornis is, is bekend. Toch is die informatie voor de meeste therapeuten niet voldoende. In de dagelijkse praktijk stuiten zij op vele vragen: Hoe pas je exposure en responspreventie toe en welke mogelijkheden zijn er voor cognitieve therapie? Wanneer is medicatie geïndiceerd en wat te doen met een kind of jongere die de afgesproken oefeningen niet uitvoert?Dr. Else de Haan en drs. Lidewij Wolters bieden in dit praktische boek informatie over de dwangstoornis en over behandelmogelijkheden. Aan de hand van verhelderende voorbeelden bespreken zij de verschillende technieken die bij exposure en responspreventie en bij cognitieve therapie kunnen worden toegepast. Er wordt aandacht besteed aan problemen tijdens de behandeling en mogelijke oplossingen daarvoor. Ook ouders en hoe zij bij de behandeling betrokken kunnen worden, hebben een plaats in dit boek. In het protocol wordt de behandeling sessie per sessie beschreven. Kinderen kunnen tijdens de therapie aan de slag met het bijbehorende werkboek Bedwing je dwang.Dit boek is verschenen in de Kind en Adolescent Praktijkreeks. Abonnees van de Kind en Adolescent Praktijkreeks ontvangen 15%korting op de afzonderljke delen van de praktijkreeks.
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories
by Daniela Treveri Gennari Lies Van de Vijver Pierluigi ErcoleThis Handbook offers new and previously unexplored comparative approaches to the field of New Cinema History. The volume brings together contributions focussing on historical and contemporary comparative case studies of cinema-going practices, cinema distribution, exhibition and reception from a global perspective. Engaging with a wealth of empirical and archive-based sources the volume explores a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches. This Handbook is a key addition to debates on the relationship between film industry and cinema-going practices across different political and cultural geographical dimensions.
Corporate Think Tanks: Zukunftsforen, Innovation Center, Design Sprints, Kreativsessions & Co.
by Sven PoguntkeUnternehmensinterne Denkfabriken mit dem kreativen Spirit von Start-ups zur Entwicklung von Strategien und bahnbrechenden Innovationen stellen den Kern dieses Buches dar. Sogenannte Corporate Think Tanks sind Foren, Projektgruppen oder Unternehmensbereiche, in denen interdisziplinäre Teams zukunftsgerichtete Themen, wie zum Beispiel Digitalisierung, bearbeiten. Spannende Praxisbeispiele von namhaften Unternehmen illustrieren den Einsatz von Corporate Think Tanks in der Praxis. Ein umfassender Toolkasten zeigt auf, wie die konkrete Durchführung im eigenen Unternehmen realisiert werden kann. Neben klassischen Methoden werden auch innovative Tools wie ThinkX, Design Thinking, LEGO®-SERIOUS-PLAY® oder der Business Model Canvas anschaulich erläutert. Die vierte Auflage wurde um Inhalte zum Thema Generative AI sowie weitere Formatbeispiele ergänzt.
Applications of Computer Vision and Drone Technology in Agriculture 4.0
by Siddharth Singh Chouhan Uday Pratap Singh Sanjeev JainThis edited book focus on two most emerging areas and covers the different aspects of computer vision and drone technology in the field of agriculture. It comprises various applications including segmentation/classification of plant diseases, monitoring of crops, grade/quality estimation of fruits/flowers/vegetables/crops, surveillance, soil deficiency estimation, crop/plant growth estimation, canopy measurement, water stress management, vegetation indices calculation, weed detection, and spraying, among other. It has 17 chapters contributed by experts in the field of computer vision, drone technology, deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence, image processing, agriculturist, and plant pathologists. The recent development of high-end computing devices and the adaptation of unmanned aerial vehicles has provided a mechanism to automate traditional agriculture practices. The on-field or aerial images captured using cameras are processed with the help of intelligent algorithms, and an assessment is drawn for further recommendations. This practice is efficient in provisioning an accurate, timely, and economical decision-making system to overcome the problems of agricultural field experts and farmers. This process is advantageous in increasing the quality and quantity of crop yields. This book serves as an excellent guide to students, researchers, scientists, and field experts in directing their work toward this domain and developing/designing models. Further, this book is useful for pathologists, biotechnologists, seed production specialists, breeders, market managers, and other stakeholders associated with underlying technology or market development from the public and private sectors.
Gene Editing in Plants: CRISPR-Cas and Its Applications
by Ashwani Kumar Sudipti Arora Shinjiro Ogita Yuan-Yeu Yau Krishnendu MukherjeeThis book is a collection of information about applying CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing in plants. The main focus of this book is to address the recent advances and future prospects of CRISPR-Cas technology in crops.Genome editing technology is important because it can be used to improve plant traits. The earlier genome-engineering tools, zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), and TAL effector nucleases (TALENs) are complicated to design and not flexible. The novel genome editor, CRISPR-Cas systems, has advantages over ZFNs and TALENs. The advantages are simple and easy to design precision in targeting and efficiency. Due to its precision and simplicity, the CRISPR-Cas technology has rapidly become the most popular genome-editing platform in life-science fields. CRISPR-Cas technology has been used widely for human gene therapy to treat diseases and for plant breeding programs for crop improvement.This book is of interest and useful to genome-editing professionals, plant breeders, horticulturists, field-level extension workers, nurserymen, planters, ecologists, and valuable source of reference to the relevant researchers.
The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning
by Fay AndersonThis book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised. Spanning the coverage of Hitler’s political ascent in the 1920s through to the Nazis’ extermination campaign, it culminates in the accounts of the trials of Nazi war criminals and the post-war transnational migration to Australia of Holocaust survivors, to a country far from universally welcoming in its reception of them. The book also tells the story of the journalists who reported on these tragic events and the editors who published them, along with the political, social and cultural context in which they worked, in an environment influenced by exclusionary ideas about race and nationality that did not necessarily inspire sympathy for Jews and their trauma. This book sheds light on the ethics of reporting human suffering, violence and genocide and – centrally – on the role of the press in shaping Australia’s collective memory of the Holocaust. It encourages readers to think critically about media power, public apathy, advocacy, and the importance of truth. Disturbing evidence of increasing anti-Semitism in Australia as elsewhere, along with continuing Holocaust denial, provide an additional urgency to this study.
The Creative Gesture: Contexts, Processes, Actors of Creativity (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)
by Pier Paolo BelliniThis open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the individual endowed with a certain type of intelligence encounters cultural and social conditions that enable them to develop that capacity to the maximum, rather than inhibiting it or diverting it to other fields where it is doomed to failure. Even the most intimate of human expressiveness is considered as a result of an active social relationality. Social dimensions of creativity (evaluation, primary socialization, motivation, leadership) and “creative processes” (creative attitude, creative gesture, divergent thinking, problem-solving capacity, interdisciplinary approach, randomness, algorithmic creativity) are also analysed.The book concludes by evaluating the course taken in the light of the relational theory of society: the development of creativity cannot beconceived outside of self-other relations.This book is the result of a translation done with the help of artificial intelligence. The text has subsequently been revised further by a professional copy editor in order to refine the work stylistically.
Sweetie Pie's Cookbook: Soulful Southern Recipes, from My Family to Yours
by Robbie Montgomery Tim NormanThe beloved owner of the wildly popular Sweetie Pie's restaurant, and star of the OWN reality television show Welcome to Sweetie Pie's shares recipes for her renowned soul food and the lessons she's learned on the path to success.Growing up in Mississippi and St. Louis, Robbie Montgomery, the oldest of nine children, was often responsible for putting meals on the family table. Working side by side with her mother in their St. Louis kitchen, Robbie learned to prepare dozens of classic soul food dishes.Now, at seventy-two, Miss Robbie passes down those traditions for generations of fans to enjoy in Sweetie Pie's Cookbook. Robbie takes you into the kitchen to prepare her most favored meals—smothered pork chops, salmon croquettes, baked chicken—and tells you heartfelt and humorous stories, including amazing tales from her life at the restaurant and on the road as a back-up singer. Miss Robbie began her culinary career on the road—in the segregated America of the1960s, finding welcoming restaurants in small cities and towns was often challenging for African-Americans. When a collapsed lung prematurely ended her singing career, Miss Robbie returned to St. Louis, using her formidable cooking talent to open a soul food restaurant that would make her legend.Through her show and this special cookbook, Miss Robbie hopes to maintain the place of soul food cooking—its recipes, history, and legacy—in American culture for decades to come.Sweetie Pie's Cookbook includes 75-100 gorgeous color photos and an Index.