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Spices of Life
Simple and Delicious Recipes for Great Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In this groundbreaking cookbook, Nina Simonds offers us more than 175 luscious recipes, along with practical tips for a sensible lifestyle, that demonstrate that health-giving foods not only provide pleasure but can make a huge difference in our lives.
With her emphasis on the tonic properties...
Arabesque
A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines today—Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and...
Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous
My Search for Jewish Cooking in France
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
What is Jewish cooking in France? In a journey that was a labor of love, Joan Nathan traveled the country to discover the answer and, along the way, unearthed a treasure trove of recipes and the often moving stories behind them.
Nathan takes us into kitchens in Paris, Alsace, and the Loire...
King Solomon's Table
A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the James Beard Award-winning, much-loved cookbook author and authority: a definitive compendium of Jewish recipes from around the globe and across the ages.
Driven by a passion for discovery, the biblical King Solomon is said to have sent emissaries on land and sea to all corners of the...
by Raymond Sokolov
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Here is the first book all the great sauces of practical, workable system. Raymond Sokolov, the widely admired former Food Editor of The first to point out that the hitherto mysterious saucier's art, as practiced by the best restaurant chefs, is based on what amounts to an elegant "fast food"...
In the Name of Eugenics
Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering. It is rich in narrative, anecdote,...
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined...
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death
Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What is the secret of people who die contented and fulfilled? What makes it possible for them to attain such spiritual heights as they approach their physical demise? What enables them to make death a completion of life, rather than a tragic end? And what can they teach us about life and death, love...
by Andrew Weil, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
One of America's most brilliant and respected doctors gives us his famous program for improving and maintaining health—already the program of choice for hundreds of thousands.
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health focuses all of Andrew Weil's expertise in both conventional and alternative medicine...
by Christine Stansell
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the...
Stanton
Life And Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
At the time of his death, renowned Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas was at work on a life of one of the most controversial figures in American history: Edwin McMasters Stanton, the man who marshaled the military forces of the Union in the Civil War and played a crucial role in the only presidential...
The Unwanted
America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany
"What's most chilling about Dobbs's book is how his account of the early years of World War II echoes our politics today. Xenophobia, isolationism,...
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as...
Hurts Like a Mother
A Cautionary Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Amy overdid the Pinot at the parent potluck
Brenda was concave from a post-partum nip/tuck
At last—the book that truly feels your pain...
Whether you’ve had a kid for decades or a few minutes, you know it can hurt— physically, emotionally, and, let’s just say it: like a motherf*&^%!...