![]() Part culinary romp, part environmental wake-up call, Lost Feast makes a critical contribution to our understanding of food security today. Whether it’s chasing down the luscious butter of local Icelandic cattle or looking at the impacts of modern industrialized agriculture on the range of food varieties we can put in our shopping carts, Newman’s bright, intelligent gaze finds insight and humor at every turn.īracketing the chapters that look at the history of our relationship to specific foods, Lenore enlists her ecologist friend and fellow cook, Dan, in a series of “extinction dinners” designed to recreate meals of the past or to illustrate how we might be eating in the future. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. ![]() “Edifying and entertaining.” - Foreword Reviews, starred reviewĪ rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods ![]() ![]() Nominated for the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Literature Award Finalist for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Award ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ĭold Moon Over Babylon (1980), the second novel by Michael McDowell (1950-1999), author of Blackwater and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a chilling Southern Gothic tale of revenge from beyond the grave that ranks among his most terrifying books. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law.īut something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy southern town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() On that thought, I felt something else-a strange prickling sensation of awareness gliding over my skin. ![]() I wanted no one to notice the tears so I wouldn’t give them any reason to do so, not even movement. I felt them drip off my jaw but I didn’t lift a hand. I felt the wet crawling down my cheeks from under my sunglasses as I moved my eyes back to the casket. The last time I let loose that kind of emotion was decades ago. Fortunately, when they spilled over, they were silent. ![]() On this thought, I felt them coming and I couldn’t stop them. Outside of Henry, she was the only person I had. That didn’t mean I wanted her to be gone. I knew it was coming, seeing as she was ninety-three. Gran, my Gran, the Gran whose body was in that casket. I wanted to rise up from my chair, snatch the words from the air and shove them down his throat. My mouth filled with saliva when I heard these words, my eyes-shaded by both sunglasses and a big black hat-moving from the shining casket covered in a massive spray of deep red roses to the preacher standing at its side. ![]() ![]() However, the estate is not as peaceful as it seems and soon there is war among the different races in the country. Sounds a tad familiar, doesn’t it? Aidan eventually makes friends with the estate owner’s son, Kai. ![]() Upon arrival at the New World of Bilalistan, they are then sold to Wakil Abu Ali, the owner of the Dar Kush estate, who view them as nothing more than property. They had to endure a boat ride across the ocean crammed into the hold of a ship which was only meant to hold one third of them. The few men that survived, along with women and children were sold into slavery. In the middle of the night, Viking warriors with guns raided the village, killing most of the men. ![]() I was first introduced to him as a young boy fishing with his father in the beautiful river, the Lady, in Eire, where him and his family lived. This book is based on a white slave, Aidan, and his journey throughout life. In Lion’s Blood, Steven Barnes writes about such a world. Where, instead of white masters and black slaves, it was the other way around. Imagine a world in which Egypt was the superpower of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bureau of General Services/Queer Divison received The Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award. The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fictionĭidn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, by James Hannaham (Little Brown & Co) The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfictionīrown Neon, by Raquel Gutierrez (Coffee House Press)Īrribada, by Estela Gonzalez (Cynren Books) The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfictionīoy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York, by Ron Goldberg (Fordham University Press) ![]() ![]() Survivor’s Guilt, by Robyn Gigl (Kensington Books) The Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing Togetherness, by Wo Chan (Nightboat Books) The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski, by Philip Clark and Michael Bronski (Rebel Satori Press) Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021, by Irena Klepfisz (Wesleyan University Press) ![]() Publishing Triangle Board member Emanuel Xavier hosted the awards ceremony which was livestreamed for the first time, and Board member David Groff spoke about the late Michael Denneny. The winners of four special awards and eight literary awards were announced. On April 27, the Publishing Triangle partnered with the New School and the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to host the first live awards ceremony since 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What we don't realize is we also influence the others that are watching us having exchanges with others personally or on our social media accounts. And wouldn't you know it, we are usually guessing incorrectly and underestimating our influence. Since we can’t see how much we influence others, we have to guess. Due to these factors, we often think we don’t have influence if we don’t see immediate tangible evidence of it such as winning a debate or getting a donation. What makes it even more elusive is that it’s cumulative and builds over time. However, influence is often silent and invisible and lives in the minds of others where we can’t see it. For instance, a politician asking for money or your vote basically, someone asking you for something. We have an idea of what influence is and what it looks like, but we tend to think of more formal attempts of influence. Bohns sits down with Madefor Co-Founder, Pat Dossett, to talk about why we underestimate our influence, how we are unknowingly influencing others, and how to get what we want. During this month’s live Basecamp conversation, Dr. She is the author of the newly published book, You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters. Social psychologist, award-winning researcher and teacher, and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I took Mum and Dad up into the garden to have a look but I didn’t tell them what they were going to see. By a miracle of luck (this is very unusual) a koala had come to visit and was sitting comfortably in the fork of a gum tree-a eucalyptus-in our back garden. My dad was in the early stages of dementia at the time. Then I forgot about it.Ībout a year later my parents came to dinner. So when a child wrote to me and suggested I write a story about a magic hat I pretty much ignored it, but I did put the letter in a file. If it doesn’t come from my own life in one way or another it will lose its authentic feel and prevent me from connecting to my readers. I never accept other people’s suggestions or ideas for a particular book, even though people often say to me: ‘You could write a book about that!’ The ideas have to come from what I call ‘the compost of my own life’: my life, no one else’s. ![]() ![]() A comfortable boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want. Moving from place to place around the Mediterranean, Sundin’s descriptions bring the locations to life and make the war deeply personal. ![]() Her current series, Wings of the Nightingale, tells the stories of three flight nurses, the brave women responsible for evacuating wounded soldiers to safety. I’ve devoured every one of Sarah’s WWII romances (five books, now) because she has a gift for pulling you into her characters’ lives until you feel as if you are walking in their shoes. This week, I’m recommending On Distant Shores by one of my all-time favorite authors, Sarah Sundin. And with our gloomy, rainy weather, nothing cheers me up like cracking open a good book. I don’t know about where you live, but here in Oregon, fall has definitely, um… fallen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 46 volumes produced by The Virgina Edition each bound in leather without dustjacket as produced. 4 For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs.The six volumes produced by Meisha Merlin each with a dust jacket and housed in a slipcase Virginia Edition owners also receive unlimited access to the online Heinlein Archives which offers all of Heinlein's documents, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal materials in digital form. Only 2000 sets were produced and each volume of the set is hand-numbered. Each Virginia Edition set is bound in leather and printed on buffered, acid-free paper that meets all US archival standards. Patterson, Jr., detailing the circumstances under which the work was written. Each volume is introduced by Heinlein scholar and biography author, William H. ![]() ![]() Also included are 450,000 words of newly selected correspondence, most never before published. While the 'journey to new universe, explore, get into trouble, escape-wash-rinse-repeat' cycle gets a. As the genesis of Heinlein's concept of pantheistic solipsism, this book isn't too shabby either. The Gay Deceiver is hands down the coolest ship ever constructed. The Virginia Edition contains authoritative texts for all of Robert Heinlein's published fiction and non-fiction, with text taken from the last volume in which Heinlein had a hand in the preparation, or those works restored to their intended state in publications directly overseen by Virginia Heinlein after her husband's passing. The Number of the Beast by Robert Heinlein (1989) arosoff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk is Du Bois's haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.One ever feels this twoness-an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."Įnriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. ![]() With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered Du Bois's impassioned yet formal prose, the largely autobiographical chapters of The Souls of Black Folks take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neo-slavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel music and the blues. ![]() Description Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary-each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. ![]() |