Messi - A Biography

But cooking a great tasting meal isn’t nearly as time-consuming as it’s made out to be, and you don’t have to be a chef to pull it off. If you forgot how enjoyable a home-cooked meal can be, 30-Minute Meals For Dummies is your best resource.

If you can identify with any of these descriptions, this book is for you:

• Between your frantic day and the demands of your personal life, you’re looking for ways to free up a few minutes. Cooking is one of the activities that gets shortchanged.
• Tired of spending your evenings in your car, you long for some semblance of dining-at-home pleasure, instead of inching around a parking lot, waiting for your chance to order dinner from a metal box.
• You're not looking to prepare a five-course meal. You want self-contained meals that please, satisfy, and get the job done with minimal hassle.

30-Minute Meals For Dummies shows you how to make one-dish meals that include vegetables, starches, and the traditional “meat.” You'll transform soup and salad side dishes into hearty main courses and turn your skillet into a one-dish dinner utensil. You often get everything a meal has to offer in one dish – well, besides adding a scoop of ice cream to the top of your jambalaya for dessert.

Written for hungry men, by other hungry men.

Real men need real food. This book is about Man’s Food. It is not a diet. There’s no quiche, no chocolate, definitely no pretentious silly food from a makebelieve TV Chef. This book is all ManFood for hungry men, of any age, whatever social status, single or married.

We’ve gone beyond the basic Man’s Meal of steak and researched other excellent manly cuisine from around the world and our Australian part of it. We’ve distilled all this, often confusing, material into the first edition of ManFood. If you like Beef, Chicken, Fish, Pork or other meats cooked on an open fire then this book is for you.

You will be pleased to learn that we have not filled this book with too many recipes. Real Men find lots of meal choices confusing. Any more than about 10 good recipes is too much. Real Men can rotate their favourites and substitute ingredients for variety. Just like some Men do with their choice of partner. But apart from recipes, there are good ManFood ideas and tips for survival such as hints about shopping like a Man, smarter cooking methods and easier ways to clean up afterwards. It’s a lifestyle book too.

This Man’s cookbook takes you back to basics, back to the cave and into the world of real MANFOOD. Read this book and live like a real Man – at least in the kitchen!
After months of work following years of disappointing restaurants and putting up with egotistical nancy boy TV Chefs, we’re finally “Out of the cave” and “Onto the plate” with this Real Man’s Cookbook! Enjoy ManFood yourself, and buy a copy for a Man who needs it!

The Idle Parent is Tom Hodgkinson's radical parenting remedy against stifled, mollycoddled children.

Modern life is wrecking childhood. Why can't we just leave our kids alone?

If you've ever wondered why so many of today's children are unhappy, spoilt, stressed and selfish, then the answers and the remedy are to be found in The Idle Parent.

Tom Hodgkinson wants us to leave our kids be, to give them the space and time to grow into self-reliant, confident, inquisitive, happy and free people. Full of practical tips of what to do and (more importantly) what not to do, Tom will not only help your kids be happier, but also help you, their parents, live happier and more fulfilled lives.

'Wise, practical, funny, personal, it will make you a much better parent' Oliver James

'An inspiring book, genuinely subversive. Time to put away "silly adult things" and embrace childhood in all its messy glory' London Lite

'A recipe for bright, happy people with need of neither television nor shrink. Who could ask for more?' Evening Standard

'An original, thought-provoking book' Toby Young, Mail on Sunday

Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and the author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, The Idle Parent and Brave Old World. In spring 2011 he founded The Idler Academy in London, a bookshop, coffeehouse and cultural centre which hosts literary events and offers courses in academic and practical subjects - from Latin to embroidery. Its motto is 'Liberty through Education'.

Find out more at www.idler.co.uk.