Best Hobbies Books

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel by Gregory David Roberts, set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by ...

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their childre...

A journey into the hidden world of fungi.When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet...

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers? genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He ...

The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of 20thcentury literature, a novel of existential despair that examines the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness of the desert. Academy Awardwinning actress Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream) gives masterful voice to this American classic.This fascinating story follo...

Nature deficit disorder has become an increasingly challenging problem in our hyper modern world. In Awake in the Wild, Mark Coleman shows seekers how to remedy this widespread malady by reconnecting with nature through Buddhism. Each short (two to three pages) chapter includes a concrete nature meditation relating to such topics as Attuning to the...

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Here again is the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the 90s. Featuring: simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easytouse format; delicious food combinations of proteinrich meals without meat; hundreds of wo...

Gwyneth Paltrow, AcademyAward winning actress and bestselling cookbook author, returns with recipes for the foods she eats when she wants to lose weight, look good, and feel more energetic.Last spring, after a particularly grueling schedule and lapse of overindulgence, Gwyneth Paltrow was feeling fatigued and faint. A visit to her doctor revealed ...

This book is a wideranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout history and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat's role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development of agricultural practices, the book goes on to examine modern production systems, their...

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twentyfour hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapidfire succession, of what it takes to deliver an exceptional plate of food?t...

From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in "healthy" foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains that are causing us to gain weight and develop chronic disease.In the deadly game of predator versus prey, an Adult, gazelle can outrun a hungry lioness, a sparrow can take flight when stalked b...

In Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, two legendary cooks invite us into their kitchen and show us the basics of good home cooking. Julia Child and Jacques Ppin are synonymous with good food, and in these pages they demonstrate techniques (on which they don't always agree), discuss ingredients, improvise, balance flavors to round out a meal, and c...

The delicious, New York Times?bestselling book of the summer: an irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family?s Mediterranean holiday. For the Posts, a twoweek trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration...

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, some...

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuriesold history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the wayfrom eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly openminded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth citytoday's Del...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely dif...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Social Sciences, NonFiction, History, Travel, Hobbies lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for decision-making, behavior, or human motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifullydesigned, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, lifesaving, plantbased meals, snacks, and beverages.Dr. Michael ...

Captured with wit and warmth, energy and zest, one woman's attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty eventful train journeysWhen Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wideeyed disbelief. But it wasn't long before she was carefully plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles ? a...

Nigella Lawson's How to Be a Domestic Goddess is about not only baking, but the enjoyment of being in the kitchen, taking sensuous pleasure in the entire process, and relishing the outcome. Nigella's deliciously reassuring and mouthwatering cookbook demonstrates that it's not terribly difficult to bake a batch of muffins or a layer cake, but the ap...

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeo...

"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco ChronicleThese astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold challenge ...

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.Sh...

One of the Best Health and Wellness Books of 2017 Sports Illustrated A selfpublished phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors diseasefreenow with a prescriptive plan for "The Human Diet" to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help peo...

100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with fullcolor photography. Jenn Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Foodfluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato piebut thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. As a chef, she instead spent year...

Renowned chef David Thompson first went to Thailand by mistake: a holiday plan had to be changed at the last minute, and he ended up in Bangkok, where he was seduced by the people, culture, and cuisine. Since that fateful trip some 20 years ago, Thailand has become David's second home. Working alongside cooks who perfected their craft in the Thai r...

What should we have for dinner For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad ...

Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans, an...

In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans_x0097_and the first women_x0097_to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world_x0092_s tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here tells their dramatic story: the logistical problems, storms, and hazardous ice climbing; the conflicts ...

Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In Th...

Two of North America's foremost vegan dietitians present the complete reference to plantbased nutrition designed for health practitioners, nutrition professionals, college coursework, or the sophisticated lay reader. The "express" edition of Becoming Vegan helps lay readers understand the impact of a vegan diet on their health and that of the plan...

A collection of 130 easy, flavorforward recipes from beloved chef Yotam Ottolenghi.In Ottolenghi Simple, powerhouse author and chef Yotam Ottolenghi presents 130 streamlined recipes packed with his signature Middle Easterninspired flavors. Each dish can be made in 30 minutes or less, with 10 or fewer ingredients, in a single pot, using pantry sta...

Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst...

Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson?s passionate concern for the fut...

By the time he was twentyseven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had openedand closedone of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had sold drugs in New York and been shipped off to rural Nigeria to "learn respect." He had launched his own catering company with twenty thousand dollars made from selling candy on the subway and starred on Top ...

National BestsellerWith his unique blend of intrepidity, tongueincheek humor, and wideeyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and mythinspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, ...

The world of ramenfrom the streets of Japan to your kitchen Seasoned broth, slurpable noodles, and colorful toppings brimming with flavor and texturea good bowl of Japanese ramen is more than just food, its an experience. With Ramen Obsession, youll have all the tools, techniques, recipes, and stepbystep instructions youll need to make the perfec...

"Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." So begins Lois Ehlert?s bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young. The necessary tools are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot). Then the real gardening happens . . . planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, a...

In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his longtime surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, W...

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in Francethe charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient h...

In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would be...

One of the world?s greatest literary cities, London has streets full of stories and buildings steeped in history. The biggest and most beloved names in English literature have all been here, and you can still see or visit their stomping grounds and favorite places. Follow Oscar Wilde from the literary salons to Clapham Junction; roam with Julian Mc...

Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper with it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the author has revised many of her recipes to be lig...

Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling through spectacular landscapes, but at all times obeying the rule, "never pass a ba...

Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely bond with a freespirited Australia...

The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventureand the love of her lifein Paris. "This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my travel plan..."A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that...

150 delicious meatless recipes packed with performanceboosting nutrientsAs a runner, you know that your food is your fuel?you have to eat well in order to perform well. But if you think it?s impossible to be a highperforming athlete and ditch meat, think again. Legendary ultrarunner Scott Jurek is plantbased and track star Carl Lewis is vegetari...

Keto Slow Cooker & OnePot Meals packs 100 highfat, lowcarb keto recipes! Enjoy quick, tasty dinners as you get healthy, lose weight, and control your blood sugar. Slow cooker and onepot meals are the ultimate convenience food. Just fix it and forget it, then enjoy a nourishing meal when everyone gets home. Unfortunately, most slow cooker and on...

Traveling to Japan has never been so much fun! Visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi!This fullcolor graphic novel Japan guidebook is the first of its kind exploring Japanese culture from a cartoonist's perspective. Cool Japan Guide takes you on a fun tour from the highenergy urban streets of Tokyo to the peaceful Zen gard...

Travel the world without leaving your living room.Much more than an ordinary atlas, this book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis. It features not only borders, cities, rivers, and peaks, but also places of historical and cultural interest, eminent personalities, ic...

Slim down, get healthy, and go keto the right way with 150 ketoaligned recipes from the bestselling author of The Keto Reset DietOn the heels of Mark Sisson's bestselling The Keto Reset Diet comes a roadmap to startingand stayingketo. You will transition away from carbohydrate dependency and weight loss frustrations into the world of metabolic...

What links Sarah Lund and Lars von Trier Or Carlsberg and Kierkegaard Or even Shakespeare and Metallica The answer lies in Denmark, the country that has gripped the British imagination more than any other in recent memory. But though we watch their TV series, wear their jumpers, and play with their toys, how much do we really know about the Dane...

In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, New York Times bestseller Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,00...

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See the world in a new way! Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman celebrates the diverse curiosities and beauty of the natural world in this exciting new volume. With whimsically hip illustrations, every page is an extraordinary look at all kinds of subjects, from mineral formation and the inside of a volcano to what makes sunsets, monarch butterfly ...

Featuring fascinating, fishy fun facts accompanied by bright, bold, and beautiful illustrations, this book takes children on a journey through the sea and all its zones. This charming celebration of the sea shows children how extraordinary our oceans are and is a reminder that it is up to us to keep it that way.The Sea Book is the coolest education...

Everything can be made keto! That?s the message that food bloggers Matt Gaedke and Megha Barot want to deliver with their new book, Keto Made Easy. No more missing out on classics or favorite dishes, no more added costs with exotic new ingredients?in Keto Made Easy, Matt and Megha show you how to recreate nonketo recipes in easy, costeffective, ...

Kyndra Holley, the master behind the wildly popular food blog Peace, Love and Low Carb, brings together food, fun, and feeling fantastic in her new cookbook, Craveable Keto: Your LowCarb, HighFat Road Map to Weight Loss and Wellness. Craveable Keto will serve as your personal road map to living a healthier life, with Kyndra as your guide. She tak...

Let the rumbling cable car tell you the story! And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world's most enchanting cities. Illustrator Miroslav Sasek captures both the breathtaking landscape and the cosmopolitan flavor of the City by the Bay in This is San Francisco....

Crinkleroot invites youngsters to come along as he walks through hard and softwood forests. How do you tell the difference Crinkleroot knows: it's the light and the air. His charts show the leaves, stems, and seeds that help young readers identify trees....

From wilderness expert Dave Canterbury and outdoor survival instructor Jason Hunt comes the next installment in the New York Times bestselling Bushcraft series?a goto first aid resource for anyone headed into the woods.Out in the woods or on top of a mountain, there?s no calling 911. Bushcraft First Aid teaches you how to be your own first respo...

Cook pizza from scratch in this fully interactive recipe book that allows readers mix the ingredients, knead the dough, spread the sauce, and more!STEP ONE: Stir the yeast and sugar into the warm water, and set aside until bubbly.STEP TWO: Combine the flour and salt in a large mixing bowl.STEP THREE: Add the oil and yeast mixture into the large bow...

The ketogenic diet is all about nourishing and healing your body with nutrientdense whole foods, as international bestselling author Maria Emmerich has demonstrated in her previous books, including The Ketogenic Cookbook (with Jimmy Moore) and The 30Day Ketogenic Cleanse. But food is more than just nourishment; food is tradition, food is love, an...

The Rings of Saturn ? with its curious archive of photographs ? records a walking tour along the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recessionhit seaside towns, wooded...

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"Arabian Sands" is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deser...

Eightyearold Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and topnotch messmaker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before Sophiesomething special, something different. The New Year approaches, and as the Toguchi family gathers in Los Angeles to ce...

The Diet Dictocrats don't want you to know that... Your body needs oldfashioned animal fats Newfangled polyunsaturated oils can be bad for you Modern whole grain products can cause health problems Traditional sauces promote digestion and assimilation Modern food processing denatures our foods but Ancient preservation methods actually increa...

Bay Area parks and preserves offer a dramatic variety of landscapes, from rugged redwoodforested canyons to breezy coastal bluffs, grassy rolling hills to sunny chaparralcoated hillsides. Wellknown destinations such as Point Reyes National Seashore, Mount Diablo State Park, Mount Tamalpais State Park, and many other more obscure jewels of the Ba...

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love.Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteenyearold, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere?until her father offered her a cha...

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following th...

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a onesquaremeter patch of oldgrowth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature?s path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its in...

More than a halfcentury ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone_x0097_studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man)_x0097_is today celebrated as a classic of nature wr...

A collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering and exhilarating: She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She E...

Not many canning books have the city shopper and cook in mind: the cook who wants to work with a quart of strawberries?not a bushel. In today?s world, the average household doesn?t need a dozen pints of each preserve, and is more likely to want to dabble in smaller yields. Urban Preserving is intended to become a handbook for farmers? market shoppe...

Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and carefully tested techniques, many of them ancient, for finding or creating shelter, fire, tools, water, and plant and animal foods. In this new edition, anecdotes...

As a working mother whose livelihood as a poetlecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet?s eye, she celebrates her daughter?s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world ...

Stargazing?s too much fun to leave to astronomers, but often we?re blinded by science?dry facts can easily turn enchantment into a chore. We just want to lie down, look up, and understand the heavens above. The National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky shows us how.Authors Howard Schneider and Patricia Daniels take an expert but easygoing...

Despite the success stories publicized by Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, and others, 90% of all diets end in failure. How can fix the way we lose weight so that we make results last Weight loss expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff has uncovered the flawed thinking that sabotages even the most earnest weight loss efforts. The majority of dieting or wei...

Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people....

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first longdistance hike.In the desert of Southern California Carrot fa...

One of the country's most celebrated roasters explains how to choose, brew, and enjoy the new breed of artisan coffees at home, along with 40 inventive recipes that incorporate coffee or taste good with a cup.Coffee is experiencing a renaissance and Blue Bottle Coffee Company has quickly become one of America?s most celebrated roasters. Famous for ...

No muss, no fuss easy, onepot recipes for keeping up with the ketogenic diet on busy weeknights Figuring out what to make on busy nights can sometimes seem impossible especially if you?re trying to follow the ketogenic diet. The OnePot Ketogenic Diet Cookbook makes it easy to keep keto on the table every day of the week with familyfriendly, one...

Bangers and mash with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hogwarts dining hall. A proper cuppa tea and rock cakes in Hagrid's hut. Cauldron cakes and pumpkin juice on the Hogwarts Express. With this cookbook, dining a la Hogwarts is as easy as Banoffi Pie! With more than 150 easytomake recipes, tips, and techniques, you can indulge in spellbindingly ...

Lonely Planet Japan is your passport to the most relevant, uptodate advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore a bamboo grove in Arashiyama, marvel at Shinto and Buddhist Architecture, in Kyoto, or relax in the hot springs of Noboribetsu Onsen; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Japan an...

The ultimate onestop vegetarian cookbookfrom the author of the classic How to Cook EverythingHailed as "a more hip Joy of Cooking" by the Washington Post, Mark Bittman's awardwinning book How to Cook Everything has become the bible for a new generation of home cooks, and the series has more than 1 million copies in print. Now, with How to Cook E...

Lonely Planet: The world?s leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet Ireland is your passport to the most relevant, uptodate advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ponder the brooding landscapes and windswept coast, soak up music and literary sites in Dublin, and explore centuries of history; all with your truste...

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Norway.In this slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scandinavia, you'll get Rick's firsthand, uptodate advice on the best sights, restaurants, and hotels in Norway. You'll wander through Viking history, explore snowcapped mountains and mighty glaciers, stroll...

With over 2.2 million copies in print, the widely acclaimed The Silver Palate Cookbook is firmly established as a contemporary classic. Originally published in 1982, the book's elegant, innovative recipes and emphasis on pure, fresh, ingredients ushered a new passion for food and hospitality into the American consciousness. The lively collection of...

#1 bestselling guide to China Lonely Planet China is your passport to the most relevant, uptodate advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Try dumplings in Beijing, visit the Great Wall or cruise down the Yangzi River; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of China and begin your journey now!Insi...

For those who are brandnew to keto and those who are getting back on track after falling off the wagon, the first 30 days on a ketogenic diet can be challenging. As the body adapts to burning fat (ketones) rather than sugar for fuel, cravings can arise, and some people find that they just don?t feel so great. Many fall victim to the temptation to ...

A lively and important argument from an awardwinning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor.In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart diseas...

A practical, readable and indispensable guide for anyone venturing into the wilderness, this is a book that should be in every survival kit. Broken down into four essential sections, Sustenance, Warmth, Orientation and Safety, this enlightening manual reveals how to catch game without a gun, what plants to eat (fullcolor illustrations of these mak...

If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book. Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay aliveb...

Rekindle the romance at home with a weekly date night, one on one, over an absolutely delicious meal for two. Sweethearts, spouses, and parents Ashley and Gabe Rodriguez found themselves deep into marriage and childrearing when they realized they were missing the connection of their early relationship, and needed to prioritize each other. They ins...

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Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know Americas nomads truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tiedyed concert followers, flea market traders, retirees who live year round in ...

"The Paleo Chocolate Lovers Cookbook" features 80 gluten, grain, and dairyfree recipes for the healthconscious chocolate lover. Kelly Brozyna, host of the delightful cooking blog, The Spunky Coconut, has created delicious chocolate treats made with coconut and ground nut flours for both breakfast and dessert. And, using dates and small amounts ...

Japanese pubs, called izakaya, are attracting growing attention in Japan and overseas. As a matter of fact, a recent article in The New York Times claimed that the izakaya is starting to shove the sushi bar off its pedestal. While Japan has many guidebooks and cookbooks, this is the first publication in English to delve into every aspect of a uniqu...