Thomas Dunne Books imprint: 1256 books
Faust's Gold
Inside The East German Doping Machine
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
For nearly twenty-five years, East Germany's corrupt sports organization dominated international athletics. While the German Democratic Republic's secret "State Plan" was in effect, more than ten thousand unsuspecting young athletes-- some as young as twelve years old-- were given massive...
Babylon
Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.
In...
Mist on the River
An Angler's Quest for Steelhead
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
As he says in the prologue to his book, Michael Checchio likes his fly-fishing on big western rivers where there are lots of mountains to look at, and where the steelhead don't come out of a hatchery but are born as nature intended, in the cold gravel of a clean stream. He finds all this and more...
Complicated Women
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema were modern! For five short years women in American cinema were modern! They took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers and, in general, acted the way many think women only...
It's All a Game
The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
"[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history." —The Wall Street Journal
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate...
Jewish Jokes: A Clever Kosher Compilation
A Clever Kosher Compilation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Previously published as part of Oy! The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes.
From circumcision to bar mitzvahs and rabbis to relationships, here is a feast of over 300 old and new Jewish jokes and witty anecdotes---and you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy them!
David Minkoff's website has...
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Rush Limbaugh is the most prominent figure in the conservative movement today. With almost 20 million listeners every week on more than six hundred stations, Limbaugh has a larger media platform than any other individual in the nation. And this is why he is so dangerous.
Despite refusing to uphold...
Your Life In Your Hands
Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
One out of nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In fact, it is the second leading cause of cancer death for women (after lung cancer) and the leading overall cause of death in women between the ages of forty and fifty-five. For too long women have erroneously...
The Blueberry Years
A Memoir of Farm and Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
"A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family's journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading." —Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America
The Blueberry Years is a mouth-watering and delightful memoir based on Jim Minick's trials and tribulations as an organic...
How to Slice an Onion
Cooking Basics and Beyond--Hundreds of Tips, Techniques, Recipes, Food Facts, and Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
If you can slice an onion, you can cook almost anything. That's the first premise of this book. There are dozens more, all underlining the happy thought that cooking is easier than they tell you it is.
The recipes and tips here--and there are many--are simple: it's flavor that counts, not a...
Simply . . . Gluten-free Desserts
150 Delicious Recipes for Cupcakes, Cookies, Pies, and More Old and New Favorites
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This book's philosophy is simple—anyone can make great food that is naturally gluten-free. While there are gluten-free products out there that try to substitute for glutenized food, Simply...Gluten-Free Desserts gives cooks and bakers terrific new recipes for food that is naturally gluten-free,...
by Father Giuseppe Orsini
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Italian Baking Secrets is Father Orsini's sixth cookbook, and once again the reader gets not only wonderful recipes from the great tasting cuisine of Italy, but the "retired" priest's entertaining comments. Father Orsini knows how to make good food great, and his directions come with the...
The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Light Meals Book
Delicious Soup, Salad and Sandwich Recipes to Delight Not Only Heart and Hypertension Patients But Their Doctors as Well
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Perhaps heartbreaking is the wrong word for a very happy event, one that brings tears to your eyes because you know what the alternative would have been. But however you describe it, the letters that Don Gazzaniga finds on his web site ever since his first cookbook was published easily bring tears...
The New Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Revised and Updated with New Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day—the quick and easy way to make nutritious whole grain artisan bread.
Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François shocked the baking world when they proved that homemade yeast dough could be stored in the refrigerator...