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Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
Adam Danforth - Storey Publishing, LLC; Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, James Beard Foundation Media Award in the Reference or Scholarship category, 2015 Winner, IACP Food Writing/Cookbooks Award in the Beverage/ Reference/ Technical category, 2015 Using detailed, step-by-step photography of every stage of the process, Adam Danforth shows you exactly... |
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Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record
ANDY SAUNDERS - ?Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the last steps taken on the moon, this unique, definitive book about the Apollo missions reveals hundreds of extraordinary, newly-restored, and all-new images from the NASA archives that provide a never-before-seen perspective on the Apollo... |
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Nicklas Brendborg - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Humans have long sought the fountain of youth, but it was usually more philosophical than practical. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded the science of human aging, even though compared to life as a whole, we are embarrassingly outmatched. Despite modern humans living... |
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Archaeology: The Basics
Brian M Fagan - Routledge
Format: Paperback
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Archaeology: The Basics, rewritten for this fourth edition, is a short, engaging book that takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating world of archaeology and archaeologists.Written in a non-technical style by two experienced archaeologists and writers about the past, the book... |
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.. One of humanity's oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed... |
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
Victoria Finlay - J Paul Getty Museum
Format: Hardcover
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The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically... |
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He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row
Suzanne Craig Robertson - Morehouse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating, moving story of a friendship with an inmate on death rowIt was a clash of race, privilege, and circumstance when Alan Robertson first signed up through a church program to visit Cecil Johnson on Death Row, to offer friendship and compassion. Alan's wife Suzanne had no intention... |
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Stephen Porder - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share. It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used... |
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The End of Everything:
Katie Mack - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look - in the bestselling tradition of Sean Carroll and Carlo Rovelli - at the five different ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important... |
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