Perfect for beginning cooks this beautifully illustrated Vietnamese cookbook provides easy-to-follow directions for quick and delicious Vietnamese dishes.
Nowhere is the Israeli passion for life more pronounced than around their food tables at home and in their restaurantsThe storied land of Israel is best known as the cradle of three great world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Paws Cross Oceans: The True Story of a Brave Tabby Cat is a heartwarming true story about love, loyalty, resilience, and the extraordinary bond between a rescue cat and the family she refused to forget.
Explore the exotic world of Balinese cookinga cuisine dedicated to the gods and fueled by an aromatic array of fresh tropical island spices and ingredients!
The true meaning of Ikebanathe traditional Japanese art of flower arrangementis to take a few beautiful flowers and plants and tastefully present them in very simple containers to enhance home decor.
Heartbreak, Headaches, and Other Modern ConditionsAdvice from Miss Fortune, Modern Hearts Magazine, 1958–1961Welcome to the yellowed pages of Modern Hearts Magazine, America's most questionable source of romantic guidance.
Entertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other animals we call our own.
The notorious 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz.
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton.
Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the states natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolinas interconnected webs of plant and animal life.
In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war.
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence.
This richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont.
In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods.
In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint.
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another.
Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute deadbeat dads, Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make runaway husbands support their families.
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.
Entertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other animals we call our own.
With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the regions unique natural character.
The intense urbanization and industrialization of Americas largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles.
From baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgeralds culinary history reveals the complex and colorful origins of New England foods and cookery.
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolinas inner coast.
All along the Mississippi on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South.
