Karen Sullivan

Step-by-Step Cake Decorating offers hundreds of creative ideas for cakes, cupcakes, and cake pops, catering to both beginners and keen decorators alike. This guide makes cake and cupcake decorating easy by teaching you to master step-by-step techniques such as piping, embossing, modelling, and airbrushing your cakes. Additionally, you'll discover essential information about key ingredients and equipment, and learn how to...

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and...

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears as pests to be eradicated because of the danger theyposedto human beings and livestock, whilst in recent decadestheyhaveincreasingly been seenas victims to be protectedfromhuman violence. When a bear attacks, thecontemporaryresponse is typically to blame human beings' failure,eitherto signal their presence inbears' habitatsor to bear-proof their backyards.Forclimate...