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Gwynne's Grammar
The Ultimate Introduction to Grammar and the Writing of Good English
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Anxious about apostrophes?
In a pickle over your pronouns and prepositions?
Fear not—Mr. Gwynne is here with his wonderfully concise and highly enjoyable book of grammar.
Within these pages, adults and children alike will find all they need to rediscover this lost science and sharpen up...
White as Milk, Red as Blood
The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This striking, richly illustrated edition of long-lost German fairy tales is not a book for children. It is a book for adults. Or for adults to frighten children into behaving...whichever you prefer.
In 2009, a trove of lost fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth--a 19th-century...
A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms
The Story of Madame d'Epinay and the Abbe Galiani
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Pre-revolutionary Paris comes to life in this fascinating story surrounding the correspondence between two colorful and witty society figures: the French author Louise d'Épinay and the Italian priest-diplomat Ferdinando Galiani. Their friends included Voltaire, Diderot, Melchior Grimm, and the famous...
A Field Guide to American Houses
The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of...
by Mary Jo Salter
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Mary Jo Salter’s sparkling new collection, Open Shutters, leads us into a world where things are often not what they seem. In the first poem, “Trompe l’Oeil,” the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an “open lie.” And yet “Who needs to be correct / more...
Bare
On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
It began when she was a teenager with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women’s bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with professional sex workers, leading to a plunge into their...
by Oscar Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Here for the first time is told in a single volume one of the most remarkable stories in American history. An Eastener is never long in California without hearing something of “the big four”: four Sacramento shopkeepers—Collis P. Huntington, Lelan Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker—who...
by Raymond M. Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems.
With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports...
by Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English theater in the nineteenth century. During a triumphant tour of America, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family’s vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia....
The Outlaw Ocean
Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
**"A riveting, terrifying, thrilling story of a netherworld that few people know about, and fewer will ever see.... The soul of this book is as wild as the ocean itself."
--Susan Casey, best-selling author of The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
A riveting, adrenaline-fueled...
It Ain't Sauce, It's Gravy
Macaroni, Homestyle Cheesesteaks, the Best Meatballs in the World, and How Food Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Has cooking ever saved a life? It definitely rescued Steve Martorano from the streets of South Philadelphia, and an almost certain end in jail … or worse. Raised on Gram’s meatballs and Mom’s macaroni, Martorano learned at an early age that full-flavored food made with loving hands was the only...
Sunday Suppers at Lucques
Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Few chefs in America have won more acclaim than Suzanne Goin, owner of Lucques restaurant. A chef of impeccable pedigree, she got her start cooking at some of the best restaurants in the world–L’Arpège. Olives, and Chez Panisse, to name a few–places where she acquired top-notch skills to match...
by David F Noble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Focusing on the design and implementation of an important new production technology—computer-based automatic machine tools—David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own which proceeds along a singular path. Such as seen, technology has been both a convenient scapegoat...
Vision
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2021
An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals--let alone athletes--of recent times.
Journeying from a blue-collar childhood to shatter tennis's exclusive country-club culture, Billie Jean King paved the way for a more open,...