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The solace of food: a life of James Beard
Par Robert Clark. 1996
"In the beginning there was Beard," said Julia Child, and perhaps no other individual played such a central role in…
America's postwar fascination with food and cooking. James Beard took American food seriously at a time when French cuisine was revered above all others, and his ebullient personality, genuine culinary talents, and assiduous self-promotion (he once called himself "the world's greatest gastronomic whore") transformed the struggling actor from Oregon into a world-renowned authority on cooking and eating. First published as James Beard, a Biography (HarperCollins, 1993), this award-winning book was chosen as a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times Book Review and called one of the best food books of the year by Julia Child on "Good Morning America." The Solace of Food is both the definitive biography of Beard and a fascinating history of food. Clark writes candidly about the "feuds and bitchery, betrayal and revenge" inside the food world and about Beard's homosexuality in a closeted period. "Clark has given us a vivid portrait of a sometimes bizarre but ultimately fascinating man of our times," said the Times, "but his real achievement is having produced a valuable and thoroughly engrossing work of contemporary cultural history."" -- AmazonJulia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
Par Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- GoodreadsIf you sailed on the Titanic (If you lived)
Par Denise Lewis Patrick. 2023
"What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place?…
What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived...series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving readers. What if you sailed on the Titanic? What would you have eaten? Where would you have slept? Would you have gone down with the ship? Denise Lewis Patrick answers all these questions and more in this comprehensive guide to the sinking of the Titanic. A great choice for American history units, and for teaching children about this iconic moment in history." -- Provided by publisherManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
Par Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsCorralling the Colorado: the first fifty years of Lower Colorado River Authority
Par Jimmy Banks. 1988
The history of the Lower Colorado River Authority's first fifty years is filled with drama, political intrigue, legal battles and…
engineering feats. This book includes early rice farmers and tells how they "rustled" water with dynamite and shotguns, but concentrates on the political process that took over seventy-five years to control the rampaging recurrent flood waters of the ColoradoA history of Manhattan, Kansas
Par Lowell Jack. 2003
A collection of nine lectures and speeches given to local clubs and organizations over the past 30 years. Get acquainted…
with some pioneers important to Manhattan's development and explore a few of the more modern historical landmarksStorming the statehouse: running for governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein
Par Celia Morris. 1992
In 1990 Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein ran the two most conspicuous political campaigns in the country, aiming for governorships…
in Texas and California. Each was expected to lose to better-funded Democratic primary opponents and each faced a tough Republican competitor in the general election. Although Richards won while Feinstein lost a close race to Senator Pete Wilson, this insider's account of the campaigns illuminates the ways in which women pursue power in intense, high-stakes political contests. Strong languageOn the beaten path: an Appalachian pilgrimage (Off The Beaten Path Ser.)
Par Robert Alden Rubin. 2000
Every year, a couple thousand would-be "thruhikers" set out to walk the entire 2,000-mile length Georgia- to Maine Appalachian Trail.…
About one of every 10 actually makes it. Robert Rubin's chances did not look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out, he dreamed of leaving mortgage, wife, and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that would take half a year-- or might never end. What awaited Rubin was not the solo trek he'd imagined, but a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts with its own rules and rituals."Signs of survival: a memoir of the Holocaust
Par Renée G Hartman. 2021
"Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable together. This is their true story. As Jews living in…
1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid oral history format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories." -- Provided by publisherThe little white schoolhouse
Par Ellis Ford Hartford. 1977
Examines the history and significance of the one-room school house in Kentucky's educational background. "No other educational institution in Kentucky…
has been so influential as the one-room school. When only a tiny handful of the state's residents ever saw the inside of a high school classroom, much less a college lecture hall, the vast majority had intimate experience with the so-called common schools, first as pupils and later at patrons and trustees."--Back cover. 1977At home in Texas: early views of the land
Par Robin W Doughty. 1987
Potential immigrants to Texas in the nineteenth century were fed romantic notions about this land aplenty. Some painted it a…
savage and exciting country. To the classically minded it seemed reminiscent of the Mediterranean. For others with strong religious convictions, it was represented as a new garden of Eden. Author Doughty reconstructs and analyzes the way nineteenth century settlers developed an attachment to the land in order to make it their true homeLong river winding: life, love, and death along the Connecticut
Par Jim Bissland. 2003
One traveler's journey of discovery along New England's longest and most significant river--the Connecticut, which turned up fascinating stories secrets…
and mysteries. The Connecticut River Vallley has long been a watershed of American literature, leader and social trendsA personal country
Par A. C Greene. 1979
The author evokes the West Texas where he grew up and which lives within him--his bonds with the land, with…
neighbors and family, with childhood memories, and with regional crotchets, humors, and wild weathersHeavy metal: the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers
Par Michael Fabey. 2022
Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers…
who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier. AdultDaughters of Arraweelo: stories of Somali women
Par Ayaan Adan. 2022
Somali women tell their stories, sharing experiences of love, war, displacement, family, identity, and everyday life. In their own words,…
these are stories of mothers and daughters, teachers and social workers, scientists and medical professionals, lawyers and politicians--all Somali women who have made their marks on Minnesota. -- ?c Adapted from publisher's descriptionStalin's general: the life of Georgy Zhukov
Par Geoffrey Roberts. 2012
"Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names. He played a decisive role in the battles of Moscow,…
Stalingrad and Kursk that brought down the Nazi regime. He was the first of the Allied generals to enter Berlin and it was he who took the German surrender. He led the huge victory parade in Red Square, riding a white horse, and in doing so, dangerously provoking Stalin's envy. His post-war career was equally eventful--Zhukov found himself sacked and banished twice, and wrongfully accused of disloyalty. However, he remains one of the most decorated officers in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union. Since his death in 1974, Zhukov has increasingly been seen as the indispensable military leader of the Second World War, surpassing Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery and MacArthur in his military brilliance and ferocity. Making use of hundreds of documents from Russian military archives, as well as unpublished versions of Zhukov's memoirs, Geoffrey Roberts fashions a remarkably intimate portrait of a man whose personality was as fascinating as it was contradictory. Tough, decisive, strong-willed and brutal as a soldier, in his private life he was charming and gentle. Zhukov's relations with Stalin's other generals were often prickly and fraught with rivalry, but he was the only one among them to stand up to the Soviet dictator. Piercing the hyperbole of the Zhukov personality cult, Roberts debunks many of the myths that have sprung up around Zhukov's life, to deliver fresh insights into the marshal's relations with Stalin, Khrushchev and Eisenhower. A highly regarded historian of Soviet Russia, Roberts has fashioned the definitive biography of this seminal 20th-century figure." -- Provided by publisherHistoria mínima de Argentina (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Raúl Mandrini. 2018
"This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is an authentic synthesis effort that reconstructs the great…
avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The journey begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary era and the immediate past." -- Translation provided by NLSBuilding an orchestra of hope: how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
Par Carmen Oliver. 2022
When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Chávez works with…
a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill. For grades K-3Renderbrook: a century under the spade brand
Par Steve Kelton. 1989
The hundred-year-old Spade Ranch was built with earnings from barbed wire, the Yankee invention that revolutionized Texas ranching and made…
a cattleman out of entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood. Today, the ranch still belongs to Ellwood's descendants. This lively narrative chronicles the ranch's growth, mirroring the history of ranching in West TexasSouth Pass: gateway to a continent
Par Will Bagley. 2014
Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation's history and to the development of the American West. Fur…
traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. Adult