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The World on a Plate: 40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories Behind Them
Mina Holland - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.) , Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsFinalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award"When we eat, we travel." So begins this irresistible... |
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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
David Kipen - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from the likes of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, Cesar Chavez, Joan Rivers, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through. The City... |
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Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Charles Panati - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book
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For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the foremost specialist on everything tells how and why hundreds of the everyday items, expressions, and customs we take for granted came into existence. Learn the fascinating discovery stories behind... |
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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
Harlow Giles Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls.Thomas Paine's... |
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander... |
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
PEKKA HMLINEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From a prize-winning scholar of Indigenous history, a landmark work that overturns this nation's dominant origin story.American history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America," an era that -- according to prevailing accounts -- laid... |
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Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks
Kelcey Wilson-Lee - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Revealing the truth behind the life of a royal princess in medieval England, the colorful story of the five remarkable daughters of King Edward I. Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized -- and largely mythical -- notion... |
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