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From the author of Away with Words, a deeply hilarious and unexpectedly insightful deep-dive into a cultural and culinary phenomenon: cheese.
"Who knew it was possible to enjoy reading about cheese as much as eating it? Remarkably entertaining, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious, American Cheese goes far beyond the plastic yellow slices we all know, and some love, revealing a community as quirky, passionate, and creative as the cheese...
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"No other dancer ever looked like Paul Taylor, that strapping, elastic, goofy hunk of a guy, and no one else's dance works look like his either-not the deep, dark ones or the zany ones or the uplifting ones. His vocabulary, his tone are unique and unmistakable. The same thing is true, it turns out, about his writing. His style is utterly his own, and like all real style it isn't a calculated voice but a reflection of the way his quirky mind works."...
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For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation, a literal and imaginative place where Russians can commune with idealized pasts. Preserving Petersburg represents a significant departure from traditional...
224) Aye of the Tiger
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LIFE IS ABSURDALL ROADS LEAD TO DEATHHOW DOES ONE LIVEA GOOD LIFE? The pandemic rages on, but the world has changed the channel. Society has inoculated the working class: by normalizing dying of COVID. Millions develop long-lasting neurological damage and disabilities, and immune systems battered by SARSCOV2 are now hosting opportunistic infections that keep healthcare systems beleaguered and overwhelmed. To put it very simply: the young party and...
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Alistair Cooke knew, met, interviewed, or reported on many of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century and in this collection profiles the twenty-three he considered the most remarkable In his career of more than fifty years broadcasting the BBC radio program Letter from America and as the US correspondent for the Guardian for more than twenty-five years, Alistair Cooke met and mixed with many famous people. In Memories of the Great...
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Émilie Guyonnet rapporte avec sensibilité et humanisme les témoignages des habitants d'Okinawa, acteurs locaux ou simples citoyens, obligés de cohabiter avec les 32 bases militaires américaines (près de 26 000 soldats). Ces bases causent de nombreux problèmes quotidiens, mais sont aussi pour le Japon un gage de « protection » par son allié américain.
En complément de ces témoignages, elle fait le point sur les enjeux actuels dans la...
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An essential strategy book for how to have transformative, sustainable, responsible travel experiences-starting at your own front door. Recognized Peacemaker and National Geographic Explorer Aziz Abu Sarah shows how, by crossing boundaries, we can heal our world from stereotypes, prejudice, and ignorance.
Whether you're planning future travels or exploring the diverse cultures in your own community, Crossing Boundaries provides strategies for growth...
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A cuisine lover's history of New Orleans-from the Creole craze to rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina-from one of the city's best-known food critics. Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than forty years, he's written a weekly restaurant review, but he's best known for his long-running radio talk show devoted to New Orleans restaurants and cooking. In Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town, Fitzmorris...
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The husband-and-wife artists celebrate the ageing process through painting, sculpture, and personal reflections in this award-winning book.
In this beautiful book, painter Alice Matzkin and her sculptor husband Richard Matzkin explore the experience of aging through their art, finding inspiration rather than despair. Both in their sixties, their ongoing collaboration has produced more than 60 works. They also share personal narratives examining various...
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A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic's story of how during his years with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, the band made a point of playing benefits-the Rock for Choice show, a concert for gay rights, a fundraising gig for the Balkan Women's Aid Fund-and how in the ensuing years he has dedicated himself to being a good citizen and participating in American democracy. In this book he shares stories about making...
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The renowned Atlanta eatery shares its traditional Southern comfort food recipes-plus stories, photos, and memorabilia from its seventy-five-year history.
In 1945, Mary Mac's Tea Room opened in Atlanta, Georgia. Serving more than just tea, it began as a nicer version of the traditional "meat and three." For folks who had moved to Atlanta from Georgia's small towns, its upscale comfort food reminded them of home. Seventy-five years later, Mary Mac's...
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Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century.
Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present-and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages)...
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"Leçons de vie apprises" explore le tissu social et les relations humaines dans le but de nous guider vers leur amélioration. En puisant dans sa culture, l'auteure partage avec nous des réflexions et des pistes pour remédier au malaise social croissant, tandis que les valeurs semblent se diluer dans notre société.
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Gloire Sanghoud utilise l'écriture pour exprimer ses pensées les plus profondes. La littérature lui offre...
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Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music serve the common good? A collection of essays considers the answers.
In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, and pedagogy, education can and must respond to the...
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In the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers' Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes-presenting the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town...
236) Sunshine Falls
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A collection of autobiographical essays that glean meaning from everyday life by the poet and author of Tanning Season and Still in Soil.
Sunshine Falls is Kyle David Torke's beautiful, elegiac account of living in a world rich with mystery and impermanence. In twenty far-reaching, story-driven essays, we follow the author from his first love in sixth grade to the demise of his marriage thirty years later, experiencing the full potency, confusion,...
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Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in neglect, have been refurbished as destinations in themselves. The Rocky Mountaineer, the Orient Express, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad run again in all their glory.
Pamela Mulloy has always loved train travel. Whether returning to the Maritimes every year with her daughter on the Ocean, or taking her family across Europe to Poland, trains have...
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Celebrated ad man Richard Kirshenbaum, the original New York observer, reveals the fashions, foibles, and outrageous extravagances of the private-jet set Paid friends. Pot dealers draped in Dolce. Divorce settlements that include the Birkins at their current retail price. Air kisses, landing strips, and lounge-chair bribery. For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the...
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The author of acclaimed memoirs about life on a French olive farm explores the larger history and culture of the Mediterranean delicacy.
Carol Drinkwater has a passion for olive trees and the fruit they bear-"bitter berries" that are transformed into savory delights and pressed into precious oil. Already intimately familiar with the fruit thanks to her olive farm in the South of France, she decided to travel throughout the Mediterranean basin-from...
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See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim.
In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences traveling and studying in North Korea to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city. Jeppesen challenges the notion that Pyongyang is merely a "showcase capital"...
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