Called for Traveling is a pro basketball journey that spans four continents, seven countries and twelve teams over eleven hilarious and adventurous years.
Published in 1792 in Philadelphia, The New Art of Cookery was the first cookbook published specifically for an American market that included New World ingredients, and it was unique until publication of Amelia Simmons's groundbreaking American-authored cookbook, American Cookery.
Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative--a mind-journey to the temple of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay.
Since the moment that young men began modifying and personalizing their automobiles back in the 1940s and 50s, Big Daddy Don Garlits was squarely in the thick of this intoxicating pursuit.
Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association in the 1970s, but she also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, drag racings quickest and fastest category.
In Flat Out and Half Turned Over, driving phenomenon Buddy Baker details the most hilarious collection of racing stories, memories, and anecdotes ever published.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a brand-new, full-color book celebrating the National ParksAmericas best ideaand providing a valuable resource for first-time visitors and longtime park fans alike.
From the #1New York Timesbestselling World Almanac comes a fullcolor, fulloffun, oversize book packed with thousands of awesome facts about Americaeverything about the 50 states and beyond.
During the Civil War, this edition of Florence Nightingale's classic volume on nutrition for the military was published by the Army of Virginia, but the book was also published in the North by order of the surgeon general.
Published in 1848 in Massachusetts, The People's Manual offers practical and valuable guidance on the daily activities of farming, caring for livestock, cooking, and preparing medicinal cures-all of which provide the entire community with better products and health.
Classic Palestinian Cuisine is a collection of over one hundred mouth-watering dishes, such as ful m'dammas (broad bean salad), kidreh (rice with mutton) and djaj mahshi (stuffed chicken), characteristic of the culinary culture of the Mediterranean.
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ';Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS ';Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer ';A wonderful really profound meditation on what it means to hope a gorgeous excursion into Greece and across the centuries on an environmental quest' BBC Radio 4 Open Book Book of the Year choice by Anita Roy What do the Greek myths mean to us today?
