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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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"'The Memory Chalet' is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation 'was a revolutionary...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
500 Years in 20 minutes Explores the rich heritage and distinct qualities that typify the food Americans eat. The narrator, executive chef, and historian weave a story of food history from 1519 until today - in the South NE, Midwest, Pacific and SW of the USA. (Updated 2006)
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
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Language
English
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All cultures lie in the shadow of ancient Mesopotamia-the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that is now mostly encompassed by the borders of modern Iraq. In this fascinating series of 36 lectures, an award-winning teacher leads you on a vivid journey through Mesopotamian history-from Neolithic times to the age of Alexander the Great-and into the lives of mighty emperors, struggling farmers, ambitious merchants, and palace servants to
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"In this course, we will explore Mesopotamian societies from the Neolithic era (c. 9,000 B.C.) to the defeat of the great Persian Empire at Gaugamela by Alexander the Great (331 B.C.) The study will take us from the world of international diplomacy with powerful neighbors in Egypt, Syria, and Anatolia to the mundane issues of daily life, such as providing food for the family, curing disease, and settling legal disputes. It examines archaeological...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds--a single moment that can explain the present and reveal the essence of our identities? According to Massimo Montanari, this is just a myth: by themselves, origins explain very little and historical phenomena can only be understood dynamically--by looking at how events and identities develop and change as a result of encounters and combinations that are often...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
8) Dinner on Mars: the technologies that will feed the red planet and transform agriculture on Earth
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars--and 9 billion Earthlings too Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiography about my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battle...
11) Moonshine
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
To keep food on the table during the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Cub helps his widower father illegally distill and sell moonshine, despite Prohibition. However, their relaxed business is interrupted when a gangster named Salvatore arrives and offers a once-in-a-lifetime distribution deal to Cub's father. Eager for a safer lifestyle, Cub decides to interfere with the gangster's negotiations and end the deal. However, this broken arrangement...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regimes 'cleansing' of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to fend for themselves. Cannibal Island reveals the shocking, grisly truth about their fate. These people were abandoned on the island of Nazino without...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him 'Bugs Bunny,' and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected--until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded by enemies. Ten long...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother's special-occasion Fancy Lady...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Este libro contiene las claves necesarias para conocer los secretos de la cultura del vino. Una obra imprescindible para aprender a identificar los aromas, las texturas y los sabores de las diferentes cosechas y recorrido por las distintas bodegas y conoceremos las catas más emblemáticas y los lugares más relajantes donde disfrutar del placer de la enología. Un libro ideal para los amantes del vino que despertará nuestros sentidos.
Author
Publisher
Moon Travel
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
20 million acres of forest, 1,200 miles of coastline, and countless wilderness areas: find your perfect campsite with Moon California Camping. A Campsite for Everyone: A variety of campgrounds and RV parks, from secluded Sierra hike-ins to convenient roadside stopovers, including dog-friendly, family-friendly, and wheelchair accessible options Ratings and Essentials: All campsites are rated on a scenic scale and marked with amenities like restrooms,...
17) We were brothers
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker. From attitudes about race, to food, politics,...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating exploration of the banana, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit. The banana: convenient, cheap, tasty - a reliable, if plain, family favorite. Or so the average consumer might think. Koeppel debunks the myth of the ordinary banana, revealing its many mysteries and uncovering its shockingly endangered...
Author
Publisher
Griffin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from infancy to follow fanatically the despots Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader lifts North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation to offer in-depth portraits of its Orwellian leaders, taking readers inside a society that might seem to be from another planet." "This book is already being hailed as an Asian...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On November 30, 1916, a freighter left Kiel, Germany harbor and would not touch land for fifteen months. It was the beginning of an astounding 64,000-mile voyage that would take the ship around the world, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation. This was no ordinary freighter, this was the Wolf, a disguised German warship. In this account of an audacious, lethal World War I expedition, Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen depict the Wolf 's assignment:...
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