Avery imprint: 686 books
Ferran
The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities.
More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary...
by C. H. Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
"Read it with someone you hate."
—Jon Stewart
A hilarious look at the races of the world—capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume.
Whether you’re laughing, cringing, or some combination of the two,...
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Book Lover's Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
A funny and uplifting story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight lifting
Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn't officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old...
Oddly Normal
One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening story for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults.
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son,...
Two Homes, One Childhood
A Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert.
A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce,...
Altered Traits
Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Two New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.
In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship...
The Bipolar Handbook
Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
For Dr. Wes Burgess, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder means hope-hope for the estimated ten million people who will develop the disorder during their lifetimes, and hope for the families and friends of people who suffer from it. Drawing upon the real questions asked by patients and families during...
The Art of Conversation
A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Read Catherine Blyth's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Reclaim the pleasures and possibilities of great conversation with this sparkling guide from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise to its art
Every day we use cell phones and computers to communicate, but it's easy to forget that we possess...
Open to Desire
The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
“A masterpiece. . . . It teaches us how not to fear and repress, but to rechannel and harness the most powerful energies of life toward freedom and bliss.” —ROBERT THURMAN
It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and...
Not Fade Away
A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.
Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by...
Bigger Than the Game
Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the '80s Created the Celebrity Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
A mesmerizing look at the year when American athletics went corporate, villains replaced heroes, and sports stars became superstars.
Greed and excess defined the 1980s, and the sports world was no exception. Shifting from the love of the game to the love of money, athletes made the transition...
Every Shot Must Have a Purpose
How GOLF54 Can Make You a Better Player
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Two legendary coaches give golfers a powerful new approach to the game... and to life.
As coaches to some of golf’s top players, Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have designed and refined a revolutionary way of teaching the game, with phenomenal results. They don’t believe in prescribing the...
The Art of Putting
The Revolutionary Feel-Based System for Improving Your Score
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
PGA stars such as Jay Haas, Craig Stadler, Peter Jacobsen, and Darren Clarke have all sought advice from fellow pro Stan Utley about their putting, and have gone on to such immediate success on the green that Utley has become the most in-demand teacher in the game. Now, in The Art of Putting he outlines...
Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine
The Curious Quest That Solved Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The remarkable true story of a lone genius whose quest to unlock the science behind the perfect swing changed golf forever
In 1939, Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116. Frustrated, he did not play again for six months; when he did he carded a 77. Determined to understand...