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by Tom Standage
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts an enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition,...
How I Learned To Cook
Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Before he was a top chef, Tom Colicchio learned to love cooking when he was still slinging burgers at a poolside snack bar. Barbara Lynch tells the story of lying her way into her first chef's job and then needing to cook her way out of trouble in the galley kitchen of a ship at sea. Stories of mentorship...
A Cook's Tour
In Search of the Perfect Meal
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, this wonderful book sees Bourdain travelling the world discovering exotic foods.
Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world...
The Devil in the Kitchen
Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An exhilirating memoir from the legendary Godfather of Bad Boy cookimg and a thrilling look behind the doors of a 3-star kitchen.
Without question, the original rock-star chef is Marco Pierre White. Anyone with even a passing interest in the food world knows White is a legend. The first British...
Au Revoir to All That
Food, Wine, and the End of France
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
France is in a rut, and so is French cuisine. Twenty-five years ago it was hard to have a bad meal in France; now, in some cities and towns, it is a challenge to find a good one. For the first time in the annals of modern cuisine, the most influential chefs and the most talked-about restaurants in...
Diet for a Hot Planet
The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government...
by Mark Edmundson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring,...
The Genius of America
How the Constitution Saved Our Country--and Why It Can Again
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Due to a combination of heightened frustration, moves to skirt the constitutional process, and a widespread disconnect between the people and their constitutional "conscience," Lane and Oreskes warn us our longstanding Democracy is at risk. Together, they examine the Constitution's history...
Indigo
In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major
religion, indigo-a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a
parasitic shrub through a complex process that even scientists still
regard as mysterious-has been at the center of turbulent human
encounters.
Indigo is the...
Affluence Without Abundance
The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND and HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW
WASHINGTON...
Hitler in Los Angeles
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda...
by Jeffrey Lent
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
For fans of The Orchardist and The Cove and from the author of bestselling In the Fall, an epic historical novel that fearlessly addresses the largest questions of love, justice, and how to live.
"Wonderfully entertaining, deeply moving, beautifully written . . . In my estimation, Jeffrey...
The Great Warming
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In this New York Times bestseller, Brian Fagan shows how climate transformed-and sometimes destroyed--human societies during the earth's last global warming phase.
From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of...
The Book of William
How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The first complete collection of Shakespeare's plays was almost never printed. Only the machinations of several wealthy donors and publishers brought it into existence, and even then it was practically unnoticed. Many of the original 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio were gone before the turn...