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Finding the Flavors We Lost: From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food

Patric Kuh · Ecco Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The multiple-James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine delivers an arresting exploration of our cultural demand for "artisanal" foods in a world dominated by corporate agribusiness.We hear the word "artisanal" all the time - attached to cheese,...
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

John Powell · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
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The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty -- 154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel

Tiffany Watt Smith · Little
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A thoughtful, gleeful encyclopedia of emotions, both broad and outrageously specific, from throughout history and around the world.How do you feel today? Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Do you have...
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Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

Stephen Budiansky · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 389
Format: Print book

A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous "cult of silence" has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise...
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.

Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about...
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The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World

Steve Hely · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their...
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The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning

Jacob Rodenburg · New Society
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The average child can identify over one thousand corporate logos, but only ten native plants or animals - a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high rates of ADHD, feelings of stress and social awkwardness, and "Nature Deficit Disorder"...
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

Virginia Heffernan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension...
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Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline

Simon Parkin · Melville House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers - which, in fact, he is." - Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games MatterOn January 31, 2012, in an internet cafe...
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