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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
Sean Sherman · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Here is real food - our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef.... |
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Susan Ware · Belknap Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land. For far too long, the history of how American... |
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken · Twelve
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
Adam Minter · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions. Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items... |
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The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason
Ali A Rizvi · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion in Muslim culture has forced a new generation of non-believing Muslims to face the heavy costs of abandoning their parents'... |
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Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring
Kathleen E Smith · Harvard University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor's abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" of February 25, 1956,... |
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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Carrie Gibson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte,... |
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg · Shambhala; 1 Expanded edition
Format: Hardcover
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With insight, humor, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skillfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and solid advice on many aspects of the writer’s craft: on writing from “first thoughts”... |
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in
MORGAN JERKINS · Harper Perennial
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black... |
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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass Surveillance
America's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's... |
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence... |
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
JOANNE FREEMAN · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that... |
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Ronald Reagan: New Deal Republican
Henry Olsen · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Preface by Jon MeachamIn this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior.Conventional... |
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