Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage) By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this bo ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide A revolution in cooking Sous vide is the culinary innovation that has everyone in the food world talking. In this revolutionary new cookbook, Thomas Keller, America's most respected chef, explains why this foolproof technique, which involves cooking ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
The Shadow of the Wind Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
The Silver Spoon The Silver Spoon is the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant classic. Considered to be essential in every household, it is still one of the most popular wedding presents today. The S ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert Book Description Scott Adams "is a VERY tough act to follow." --Suzanne Tobin, Washington Post In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the to ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Steve Coll re ...
Tags: 2001, Afghanistan, From, Ghost, History, Invasion, Laden, Secret, September, Soviet, Wars
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
![The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood]()
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was ...
Tags: African, Beach, Childhood, House, Lost, Search, Sugar
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 5th Anniversary Edition This special Fifth Anniversary Edition of the acclaimed film reference guide is packed with virtually everything movie lovers need to know about the films they simply must see. Stephen Jay Schneider and his team of writers have brought the book up ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
![The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means]()
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unriva ...
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