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Lonely Planet The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet
LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet's The World. A Traveller's Guide to the Planet. We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 900+ page whopper to create the ultimate... |
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Zen Pencils--Creative Struggle: Illustrated Advice from Masters of Creativity
GAVIN AUNG THAN · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback
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Gavin Aung Than, creator of the innovative Zen Pencils, shares his passion for creativity and reveals how you, too, can live a creative life.Zen Pencils: Creative Struggle is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Pencils cartoon quotes on creativity from inspirational... |
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Food, Feasts, and Faith
Paul Fieldhouse · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 671
Format: Hardcover
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An indispensable resource for exploring food and faith, this two-volume set offers information on food-related religious beliefs, customs, and practices from around the world. * Provides up-to-date factual information, introduces concepts of food as being more than just nutrients, and enables... |
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Make Great Art on Your iPad
ALISON JARDINE · Ilex Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Explore your creative talents and produce amazing artworks on your iPad. You don't have to be an artist to achieve great results on your iPad, and this refreshingly accessible book is perfect for skilled artists and creative wannabes alike. Alongside the step- by-step projects that teach... |
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
Andrew Gordon · Oxford University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping narrative, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. Gordon takes us from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched... |
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Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance
IRIS GRAVILLE · Homebound Publications
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
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Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twin son and daughter to move to Stehekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned... |
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
MARWAN HISHAM · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war from its inception to the present by a young man coming of age and finding his voice as a journalist, whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation... |
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The Reporter's Kitchen
JANE KRAMER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent settlement in the Sahara for an afternoon... |
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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
Charles Wheelan · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The best-selling Naked series tackles the weird world of money.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually... |
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Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
Ted Stewart · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at how much power the Supreme Court actually has and how far-reaching the consequences of some of their decisions can be. What do bakers' working hours have to do with abortion rights? What role did the Supreme Court play in sanctioning racism, in moving power away... |
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Moon Tennessee
Margaret Littman · Avalon Travel
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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Nashville resident Margaret Littman gives readers an insider's look at the Volunteer State, from the civil war battlefields of Middle Tennessee to Knoxville's World's Fair Park. To help travelers plan their trip, Littman provides unique trip itinerary suggestions, including... |
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