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The Great Shift
Encountering God in Biblical Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A world-renowned scholar reveals how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the biblical era made us who we are today
A great mystery lies at the heart of the Bible. Early on, people seem to live in a world entirely foreign to our own. God appears to Abraham and Sarah, Jacob...
Classic Home Desserts
A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
“More a story of the pleasures of real dessert-making than anything yet written.”—M.F.K. Fisher
For this monumental collection, Richard Sax devoted more than a decade to searching out and perfecting more than 350 of the world’s most beloved desserts, “the ones made at home by mothers...
How to Pick a Peach
The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Critics greeted Russ Parsons’ first book, How to Read a French Fry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its “affable voice and intellectual clarity”; Julia Child lauded it for its “deep factual information.”
Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest...
American Rendering
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
American Rendering showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from Andrew Hudgins’s six previous volumes, spanning a distinguished career of more than twenty-five years.
Hudgins, who was born in Texas and spent most of his childhood in the South, is a lively and prolific...
The Great Meat Cookbook
Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today's Meat
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In the last decade since the publication of Bruce Aidells's hugely successful The Complete Meat Cookbook, called by the Washington Post "authoritative" and "all-encompassing," the world of meat cookery has changed radically. With the rise of small farmers and the Internet, a more...
The Dead Rabbit Mixology & Mayhem
The Story of John Morrissey and the World's Best Cocktail Menu
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A groundbreaking graphic novel-style cocktail book from world-renowned bar The Dead Rabbit in New York City
The Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog in lower Manhattan has won every cocktail award there is to win, including being named "Best Bar in the World" in 2016. Since their award-winning...
by Tomaz Salamun
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Inspired by Rimbaud and Ashbery, the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun is now inspiring the younger generation of American poets—and Woods and Chalices will secure his place in the ranks of influential, experimental twenty-first-century writers. Šalamun’s strengths are on display here: innocence...
by Tomaz Salamun
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
To read Tomaž Šalamun is to understand the delights of contemporary poetry. He is one of the major names in the international avant-garde. Irreverent, self-mythologizing, tragic, and visionary, he is a poet of immense range and cunning, able to encompass everything from Balkan wars and politics...
Baby Birds
An Artist Looks into the Nest
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in bird nests, or what happens after a fledgling leaves the nest, come along on Julie’s sensitive exploration of often-uncharted ornithological ground.
This beautiful book is as much an art book as it is a natural history, something readers have come...
Saving Jemima
Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
For fans of Wesley the Owl and The Soul of an Octopus, the story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild by renowned writer/artist Julie Zickefoose.
When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless,...
by Ellie Krieger
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Cooking show host and healthy living expert Ellie Krieger presents ten of her favorite meat-free recipes from the New York Times bestselling cookbook So Easy, like Four-Cheese Baked Penne with Romaine Hearts Mediterranean and Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes with Nutty Topping. In addition, there are three...
by Jack Skillingstead
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
**"This crackling road trip through the apocalypse offers thrills all the way to its explosive, satisfying finale.” —Publishers Weekly
“Relentless, terrifying, and affecting, this book left me feeling like I’d been strapped to the front of the car like Mad Max in Fury Road—not...
Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion
A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the "Cape May School of Birding." It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's...
Hawks in Flight
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Among the world's most popular birds, hawks can be some of the most difficult birds to identify. They're most often seen flying high above and at a distance.
In the first edition of Hawks in Flight, Pete Dunne, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton presented a holistic method of hawk identification,...