Abrams: 1969 books
by Yvette van Boven
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
For years, Yvette van Boven has been writing Christmas recipes for newspapers and magazines. As someone who loves the holidays, she’s never short of ideas for celebrations and finally decided that now is the perfect time to publish them in a cookbook: Home Made Christmas. The holidays can be overwhelming,...
Home Made in the Oven
Truly Easy, Comforting Recipes for Baking, Broiling, and Roasting
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
**Filled with more than 80 simple and seasonal recipes for dishes you can make in the oven **
Every week, Yvette van Boven develops a new oven recipe for her magazine column. The recipes are seasonal, delicious, and most importantly, really simple, and now, they’re collected in her latest...
Butter & Scotch
Recipes from Brooklyn's Favorite Bar and Bakery
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The team behind Brooklyn’s popular dessert and cocktail bar brings you Butter & Scotch—a “Dominique Ansel meets Broad City” boozy look at dessert.
At Brooklyn’s Butter & Scotch, everything is made by hand, and seasonal, inventive flavors are created to satisfy any sweet tooth—especially...
The Lolita Effect
The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Pop culture—and the advertising that surrounds it—teaches young girls and boys five myths about sex and sexuality: Girls don't choose boys, boys choose girls—but only sexy girls; there's only one kind of sexy—slender, curvy, white beauty; girls should work to be that type of sexy; the younger...
Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation
Revealing a Better and More Beautiful You
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Drawing on 20 years of experience in the beauty business and 14 seasons of judging on America’s Next Top Model, photographer Nigel Barker has discovered the formula for revealing inner beauty that will have readers looking great and feeling even better.
Casting aside conventional...
The Dardanelles Disaster
Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Acclaimed naval military expert Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles prolonged the war by two years, led to the Russian Revolution, forced Britain to the brink of starvation, and contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East. With never before published information on...
Citizen Science
How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people are choosing to participate in the scientific process. Working in cooperation with scientists in pursuit...
New York Air
The View from Above
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Shooting in all seasons and from dawn to dusk, Steinmetz captures the thrilling complexity and romance of 21st-century New York, with its new skyline and waterfront landscape, dazzling contemporary architecture and historic buildings—along with parks and streets and rooftops used for every possible...
Of Orcas and Men
What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Orcas are one of earth’s most intelligent animals. Benign and gentle, with their own languages and cultures, orcas’ amazing capacity for long-term memory and, arguably, compassion, makes the ugly story of the captive-orca industry especially damning. In Of Orcas and Men, a marvelously compelling...
How the Dog Became the Dog
From Wolves to Our Best Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both are...
Vanishing Fleece
Adventures in American Wool
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way
Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers,...
The Mitten Handbook
Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
For years, students have asked knitting instructor Mary Scott Huff for a book on their favorite topic—knitting mittens—but one that empowers them to create their own mittens their own way. This is that book. The Mitten Handbook is much more than an instruction book—it provides a list of mitten...
A Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart
Crafts, Recipes, Letters, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
An exploration of 365 days of shared experiences between two friends on opposite sides of the country, inspired by their blog, 3191 Miles Apart.
Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes share a love of art and design, handmade pleasures, and a well-lived domestic life. Almost a decade...
The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations
Playing with Size, Shape, and Color to Create Spectacular Paper Arrangements
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations, artist Livia Cetti ups the ante with a host of grander and more intricate flowers and projects—more blooms, more petals, stronger stems, and bigger, bolder arrangements! Cetti will teach you how to play with size, shape, color, and texture to...