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by Gil Marks
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
A comprehensive, A-to-Z guide to Jewish foods, recipes, and culinary traditions—from an author who is both a rabbi and a James Beard Award winner.
Food is more than just sustenance. It’s a reflection of a community’s history, culture, and values. From India to Israel to the United States...
The Far Traveler
Voyages of a Viking Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to...
The Secret War for the Union
The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
“A treasure trove for historians . . . A real addition to Civil War history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
At the end of the American Civil War, most of the intelligence records disappeared—remaining hidden for over a century. As a result, little has been understood about the role...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1976
The story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel—by Virginia Woolf, who has “made him a real and vivid personality . . . in her most delightful style” (Kirkus Reviews).
Wanting to “ease [her] brain” after writing The Waves, Virginia Woolf turned to the correspondence between...
A Cat Named Darwin
Embracing the Bond Between Man and Pet
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2003
A scientist contemplates his bond with a sick stray cat in this “gripping and powerful” memoir (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
Bill Jordan’s life changed forever the day a stray cat nesting under his bougainvillea bit him on the hand. Trained in biology, Jordan had no particular love for...
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
“A fascinating glimpse into the canine world, possibly deeper and more accurate than any we have had until now” (The New York Times Book Review).
Long before the Dog Whisperer, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas revealed to readers the nature of pack dynamics, leading to a completely...
Scent of the Missing
Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
A “haunting meditation on trust, hope and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People).
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson’s attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his...
Kant and the Platypus
Essays on Language and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An “intriguing and often fascinating” look at words, perceptions, and the relationship between them (Newark Star-Ledger).
In Kant and the Platypus, the renowned semiotician, philosopher, and bestselling author of The Name...
Good Old Dog
Expert Advice for Keeping Your Aging Dog Happy, Healthy, and Comfortable
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
From the renowned veterinary school at Tufts University: “A must read for pet lovers who want to ensure their dog has quality golden years” (USA Today).
Our dogs are living longer than ever thanks to enormous advances in medical treatment and a highly evolved understanding of what they...
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Eliminate mistakes and improve your vocabulary with this engaging guide to the world’s most misused words.
Do you know your delegate from your relegate, your cachet from your cache?
At one time or another we’ve all suffered the embarrassment of having our remarks corrected by a family...
by October Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
He’s a dog with a phone . . .
My dog sends me texts. Yeah. It’s weird.
When October Jones figured out he could send text messages to himself on his mobile phone, he naturally decided that the best use of this discovery was to send passive-aggressive messages to himself under the...
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Avoid vocabulary mistakes with this fun guide to tricky and troublesome words!
With concise and authoritative usage notes from the editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries, this guide explains common English-language errors—whether it’s mixing up affect and effect; blatant and flagrant;...
The Goldilocks Enigma
Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
An acclaimed physicist and cosmologist considers the multiverse and more: “Very readable indeed . . . This is Doctor Who, but for real.” —*TheGuardian***
The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller...
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe
The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A Princeton astrophysicist explores whether journeying to the past or future is scientifically possible in this “intriguing” volume (Neil deGrasse Tyson).
It was H. G. Wells who coined the term “time machine”—but the concept of time travel, both forward and backward, has always provoked...