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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl · Random House Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during... |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
WILLIAM MCRAVEN · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national... |
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The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves
Daniel M Davis · Oxford University Press Pages: 231 Format: Print book
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This is the story of a few human genes and how we discovered what these genes do. We each have around 25,000 genes, but the genes in this story are those that vary the most from person to person. These genes--called compatibility genes--are, in effect, a molecular signature that distinguishes... |
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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Wil S. Hylton · Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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Praised by Robert Kurson, Philipp Meyer, Hampton Sides, Michael Paterniti, and many others "A powerful story, masterfully told."—GQ"[A] deeply textured, propulsive new book...a phenomenal writer."—TIME.com"Marries an almost cinematically well-paced... |
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Decorating Cakes: Beautifully Decorated Cakes from Easy to Experienced to Expert
Pamela Clark · Sterling Format: Hardcover
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Turn a homemade cake into a work of art This elegant triple-tested collection of confections has something for decorators of all levels from those who just want to make beautiful monogrammed cupcakes to experts eager to bake a traditional wedding cake or to adorn their creations with elaborate... |
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Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth
James Lawrence Powell · Columbia University Press Format: Hardcover
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Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced... |
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Lidia's Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party
Lidia Bastianich · Knopf Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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The beloved TV chef offers the only cookbook you'll need to give any gathering--from a dinner for two to a wedding--a delectable, welcoming Italian flavor. No one throws a party like Lidia Bastianich! And now, in this delightful new cookbook, she gives us 220 fantastic recipes for entertaining... |
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The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
Ben Coates · Nicholas Brealey Pages: 304 Format: Paperback
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The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland... |
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Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper
LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO · Greenhill Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941, when Hitler... |
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
Timandra Harkness · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before, from tracking wolves... |
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Don't Bullsh*t Yourself!: Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back
Jon Taffer · Portfolio Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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"Frustrated that nothing is going your way and it feels like there's nothing you can do about it? You might be making excuses and not even realize it. I reject excuses and embrace solutions. When I'm done with you, you will too."During his many years as an entrepreneur,... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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