Plume imprint: 843 books
The Book of Origins
Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known:
• Gandhi was married at age thirteen!
• Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China...
Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins
How Absolutely Anyone Can Pitch in, Help Out, Give Back, and Make the World a Be tter Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
The director of one of the largest grassroots volunteer programs in the country shows how everyone can give back.
Just in time for the season of giving, Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins will change how Americans give back to their communities.
Once a self-proclaimed "reluctant volunteer"-too...
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines...
Barefoot in Babylon
The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
**The perfect gift for music fans and anyone fascianated by Woodstock, Barefoot in Babylon is an in-depth look at the making of 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival—one of Rolling Stone’s “50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.”
“Mr. Spitz feeds us every riveting detail...
by Kathleen Peddicord
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The definitive guide for anyone dreaming of a move to paradise: Portugal’s Algarve region
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Welcome to the Algarve, the best of the Old World plus the most beautiful beaches in Europe—at a bargain price.
Whether motivated by a desire for adventure, discomfort with the current political...
Expatriates
A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In the latest survivalist thriller from founder of survivalblog.com and New York Times bestselling author James Wesley, Rawles, two expat families struggle for their very survival in the midst of a global economic collapse.
When the United States suffers a major socioeconomic collapse, a power...
Reclaiming Your Life
A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Regression Therapy Overcome Effects Childhood Abus e
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
"Provides practical and compassionate guidance on dismantling the childhood defenses of repression and denial."Contemporary Psychology.
by Deborah Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
The New York Times bestselling Southern girls’ guide to succeeding in life—with a foreword by Fannie Flag.
They're called Sweet Potato Queens, Steel Magnolias, Ya-Ya Sisters, and Southern Belles, but at heart they're just plain Grits—Girls Raised in the South!
Now, Deborah Ford,...
Between Worlds
The Making of an American Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, may be the most charismatic figure in the Democratic Party today and one of its best natural politicians whose name isn't Bill Clinton. He is the man Colin Powell has called for advice, and the man George Stephanopoulos once called the Red Adair of diplomacy...
All You Need to Be Impossibly French
A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful.
With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate...
50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do
Celebrity and Expert Advice on Living Large
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
For every guy who’s ever wondered how to start a business, get a job in sports, survive in prison—or program a VCR—50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do is the one irreplaceable source for all the answers. The guy’s guide to 50 essential skills—by the guys (and gals) who know best
Daniel...
by Melissa Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Most of us know the big players politically in the United States. But ever wonder who’s pulling their strings? Who the movers and shakers are around the globe? In sharp, witty prose, What Every American Should Know About Who’s Really Running the World spells out exactly who to watch and what they’ve...
Stress Less (for Women)
Calm Your Body, Slow Aging, and Rejuvenate the Mind in 5 Simple Steps
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
"A fountain of youth between two covers."—Boston Herald
Gray hair, wrinkles, papery skin, forgetfulness, extra weight around the belly. We all think we know what causes these signs of aging. But what if we've been wrong?
In Stress Less (for Women), health and science...
The Leaderless Revolution
How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The Leaderless Revolution explains why our government institutions are inadequate to the task of solving major problems and offers a set of steps we can take to create lasting and workable solutions ourselves. In taking these steps, we can not only reclaim the control we have lost, but also a sense...