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Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For years, the Dutch oven has been popular on the grill and barbecue scene, and cooking with the "black pots" over an open fire has become a fashionable cult; it is a symbol of the Wild West, freedom and adventure. Bothe shows you how to cook over open flames in a Dutch over, from roasts and casseroles to desserts and breads.
Author
Publisher
Bauhan Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"These stories are specific to one legendary riverfront plateau and one boy's journey, but are emblematic of immigrant life and blue-collar aspirations during the heyday of American industry and its crash, foreshadowing one of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history. Approximately six million baby boomers, like the narrator, fled the Rust Belt. Another six million remained and stories of their youth, struggles, and aspirations echo throughout...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Trying to engage so many people with political issues seems to lead only to complexity and disagreement. So why bother? Doesn't fascism guarantee a more effective and efficient management of the state? In this short, bitingly ironic mixture of On Tyranny and The Psychopath...
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, Poetry magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here," which has invited readers "from outside the world of poetry" to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers, journalists, musicians, and artists, as well as doctors...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Organic is better for you .. no, it's not. Scientists just discovered a miracle weight-loss food... no, wait, it's actually bad for you. Schwarcz help you separate fact from fiction amid the storm of misinformation that today's media throws at us.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we. Scientists have wrestled with this problem for centuries, and no one has been able to offer a credible theory. But in 2013, at just 30 years old, biophysicist Jeremy England published a paper that has utterly upended the ongoing study of life's origins. In Every...
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Sixties beach party and teen-movie nonsense, Rock 'n' Roll High School is the story of Vince Lombardi High, whose fun-loving students at are sorely oppressed by their new authoritarian principal. There is also making out, hall monitors, exploding white mice, a shy, bookish lovesick girl who only wants to be noticed by the studly BMOC, and a spirited bad girl carrying a torch for the pizza-gobbling singer of a rock band. In the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632. Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation of the Qur'an was first published in 1934 in Lahore, Pakistan. Since 1934 his translation has gone into numerous reprints.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Journey back to the wild Western frontier of 19th century America, where the country's safety lies in the hands of the very first Secret Service agents. Ladies' man James West and his clever sidekick Artemus Gordon serve President Ulysses S. Grant, tracking criminal masterminds across the rugged countryside -- always read to jump into action at a moment's notice. Long before the days of high-speed car chases and complex computer hacking, these two...
Author
Publisher
Cider Mill Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A ... 150th Anniversary Edition of Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems, accompanied by moving photographs and artwork shedding new light on this tragic but significant chapter in American history. [This book] is the complete Civil War poem collection by Walt Whitman, including the celebrated Oh, Captain, My Captain!, and augmented with Whitman's essays from the period on subjects such as Secession, Abraham Lincoln, working in the Civil War hospitals,...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Press
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
"Encompasses folk literature, folk-life, and folk speech, with twenty-seven folk melodies and a complete section of tales about twelve legendary figures including Casey Jones, Daniel Boone and Johnny Appleseed"--Jacket. Also covers folk poetry, riddles, superstitions, proverbs, games, and festivals.
Series
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
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