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Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julia Powell
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Publisher: Little, Brown Publication Date: Jul 1 2009 (Mass Market)
ISBN-10: 031604251X
ISBN-13: 978-0316042512
Memoir / CookingCheck Availability
Julie & Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to
revitalizeher marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by
cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French
Cooking in a period of 365 days. The result is a masterful
medley of Bridget Jones' Diary meets Like Water for Chocolate, mixed
with a healthy dose of original wit, warmth, and inspiration that sets
this memoir apart from most tales of personal redemption. When we first
meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary who slaves away at
a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizing apartment in
the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging of Eric, her
devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blog that
will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia Project." What follows
is a year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the
wearing of an unbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of
the year, as well as the realization that life is what you make of it
and joy is not as impossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10
degrees out and your pipes are frozen. Powell is a natural when it comes
to connecting with her readers, which is probably why her blog generated
so much buzz, both from readers and media alike. And while her
self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolve into whininess,
she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose. Even on day
365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and ending the
evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats
and Buffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with
Julia chortling alongside us.
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Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Rubin
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Publisher: Random House Pub Date: May 19 2009
ISBN-10: 0307357511
ISBN-13: 978-0307357519
Social IssuesCheck AvailabilityWhat do subprime mortgages, Atlantic salmon dinners, SUVs and globalization have in common? They
all depend on cheap oil. And in a world of dwindling oil supplies and
steadily mounting demand around the world, there is no such thing as
cheap oil. Oil might be less expensive in the middle of a recession,
but it will never be cheap again. Take away cheap oil, and the global economy is getting the shock of its life. From
the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the
Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls of Dubai to the shuttered
auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China
products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse
of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oil Interest
rates, carbon trading, inflation, farmers' markets and the wave of
trade protectionism washing up all over the world in the wake of
various economic stimulus and bailout packages - they all hinge on the
new realities of a world where demand for oil eventually outstrips
supply. According to maverick economist Jeff Rubin, there will
be no energy bailout. The global economy has suffered oil crises in the
past, but this time around the rules have changed. And that means the
future is not going to be a continuation of the past. For generations
we have built wealth by burning more and more oil. Our cars, our homes,
our whole world has been getting bigger in the cheap-oil era. Now it is
about to get smaller. There will be winners as well as losers as
the age of globalization comes to an end. The auto industry will never
recover from this oil-induced recession, but other manufacturers will
be opening up mothballed factories. Distance will soon cost money, and
so will burning carbon - both will bring long-lost jobs back home. We
may not see the kind of economic growth that globalization has brought,
but local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and
neighborhoods.
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The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir by Jane Alison
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Publication Date: Feb 18 2009
ISBN-10: 0151012806
ISBN-13: 978-0151012800
Biography & Memoir Check Availability
When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like
its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and
two little girls, the younger two-one of them Jane-sharing a birthday.
With so much in common, the two families became almost instantly inseparable.Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults, and
before long the pairs had exchanged partners-divorced, remarried, and
moved on. As if in a cataclysm of nature, two families were ripped
asunder, and two new ones were formed.Two pairs of girls were left in
shock, a "silent, numb shock, like a crack inside stone, not enough to
split it but inside, silently fissuring." And Jane and her stepsister
were thrown into a state of silent combat for the affections of their
absent fathers-a contest that, as this gorgeous, piercing memoir
recounts, would prove tragic.
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Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel
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Publisher: Harper Perennial Canada Publication Date: Mar 2 2009
ISBN-10: 1554680115
ISBN-13: 978-1554680115
Social Issues
For those with enough money - and that's most of us in wealthier
countries - life is good. We can eat almost anything we want,
regardless of where it comes from, what season it is or how much it
costs. The world is our dish, laden with more foods than we've ever
seen in history and more calories than we know what to do with. A
continent away, there are more bloated bellies, but this time from
malnutrition - seemingly due to a scarcity of food.
But these two
contrasting worlds are linked, deeply and inextricably. In a timely
look at the entire global food chain, Stuffed and Starved asks us to
think about the way our food comes to us, to understand how our
supermarket shopping makes us complicit in denying freedom to the
world's poorest and to recognize how we ourselves are poisoned by our
choices.
Raj Patel, an author uniquely qualified to take a long,
broad view of world food production, looks at food systems - the
machine most of us don't even know exists - and the web made up of
corporations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, farmers'
groups, government agencies and corporate lobbyists. From farm to fork,
Patel travels to rural collectives in Brazil, investigates the
all-powerful distribution networks, serves up the specific journeys of
coffee, soy and high-fructose corn syrup, and visits the kitchens of
fast-food restaurants. What he uncovers is the shocking story of
commercial greed and helpless hunger that is a key ingredient in
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Natural Alternatives for You and Your Home: 101 Recipes to Make Eco-Friendly Products by Casey Kellar
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Publisher: Krause Publications Publication Date: Aug 3 2009
ISBN-10: 1440202419
ISBN-13: 978-1440202414
House & Home / Living Green Check Availability From soaps, shampoos and fragrances to household cleaners and bug
repellants made with natural ingredients, you can learn to make a
difference in the environment and your personal health using Natural
Alternatives for You and Your Home. Choose from the 101 precise
recipes, for both your home and yourself, featured in this book and use
the easy-to-follow instructions and photos to create economical and
eco-friendly products.
Casey Kellar is the
founder and former CEO of RainShadow Labs and RainCountry Naturals.
She's been involved in the beauty and home fragrance industry for more
than 23 years, which includes her role as a "natural" chemical
designer/compounder.
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A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom by Bryan Prince
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Publication Date: Jan 6 2009
ISBN-10: 0771071256
ISBN-13: 978-0771071256
Biography & Memoir / Social HistoryCheck AvailabilityThe extraordinary story of one couple's determination to free
themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in
Canada
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and
children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the
United States to freedom in Canada. Many were aided by networks
that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. And the stories
that emerge from the past about these journeys are truly
remarkable.
In A Shadow on the Household, Bryan Prince, a
descendant of slaves, brings to life the heart-wrenching story of
the Weems family and their struggle to liberate themselves from
slavery. John Weems, a man who purchased his own freedom, paid the
owner of his enslaved wife and eight children an annual fee to keep
them together at one plantation. But when that owner died, the
Weemses were cruelly separated and scattered throughout the South.
Heartbroken and desperate, John resolved to raise the money to buy
his family's freedom and reunite them. Mining newspapers, private
letters, diaries, estate records, marriage registries, and
abolitionist papers for details of a story cloaked in secrecy,
Bryan Prince has rescued the Weems family and their plight from
historical oblivion.
An unforgettable story of love and persistence, played out in four
countries (the United States, Canada, Jamaica, and the United
Kingdom) against the backdrop of the publication of Uncle
Tom's Cabin, a growing abolitionist movement, and the
heroic efforts of the Underground Railroad, the Weems family saga
must be read to be believed.
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Why GM Matters by William Holstein
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Publisher: Bloomsbury US Publication Date: Feb 17 2009
ISBN-10: 0802717187
ISBN-13: 978-0802717184
Auto Industry / EconomicsCheck AvailabilityIn November, GM CEO Rick Wagoner appeared before Congress to ask for
$25 billion to bail out the struggling Big Three automakers. To critics
like Thomas Freidman and Mitt Romney, it was a sign that the American
auto industry should be led out to pasture; if the Japanese are better
at making cars, they said, then we should let them do it. To defenders,
the loss of the country's largest manufacturing sector would be an
incomprehensible disaster. Nearly every day, the debate rages on the
op-ed pages. Billions of dollars and millions of jobs hang in the
balance. In Why GM Matters, William Holstein goes deep
inside GM to show what's really happening at the country's most iconic
corporation. Where critics say that GM has sat on its hands while the
market changed, Holstein demonstrates that GM has already radically
retooled its entire operation, from manufacturing and cost structure to
design. Where pundits say we'd be better off without GM, he shows how
inextricably linked GM and the nation's economy still are: The
country's largest private buyer of IT, the world's largest buyer of
steel, the holder of pensions for 780,000 Americans, GM accounts for a
full 1 percent of our country's GDP. A dollar spent on GM has
profoundly different consequences from a dollar spent on Toyota. Following
a diverse cast of characters-from Rick Wagoner, the controversial CEO,
to design director Bob Boniface, to Linda Flowers, a team leader on the
line in Kansas City-Holstein examines the state of GM's health and
builds a persuasive argument that GM is essential to our nation's
well-being and, with the right economic climate, ready to compete with
Toyota as one of the biggest global automakers.
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Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda by Nancy Liebler and Sandra Moss
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Publisher: Wiley Publication Date: Mar 20 2009
ISBN-10: 0470286318
ISBN-13: 978-0470286319 Mind & Body Check Availability
Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way shines a new light
on the darkness of depression by presenting specific antidepression
strategies designed to help you unleash your innate healing potential.
The time-tested advice presented in this book is based on the latest
theories of modern science and the practical wisdom of Ayurveda, an
ancient system of natural medicine. This unique book offers a
comprehensive step-by-step program for eradicating the root of
depression from the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects
of your being. Through detailed questionnaires about your
psycho-physiological profile and elemental imbalances, you will
identify an archetype that most represents your experience with
depression. Then, you will design a tailor-made health program to
regain balance in your mind-body. You will learn to undo depression by: - Identifying your unique manifestation of depression based on elemental imbalances
- Using yoga, exercise, and breathing techniques that are in sync with
your specific physical, mental, and emotional needs
- Using food and meditation as medicine
Whether you are battling a depressive episode or need support coping
with the problems of daily living, this book will help you awaken the
"physician within" and embark on a pathway to a life of balance and
renewal.
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BabyCakes: Vegan, (Mostly) Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-About Bakery by Erin McKenna
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Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publication Date: May 5 2009
ISBN-10: 0307408833
ISBN-13: 978-0307408839
Food & Drink / Cooking
Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent,
sweets-filled future. This is important news not only for parents whose
children have allergies, for vegans, and for others who struggle with
food sensitivities, but also for all you sugar-loving traditionalists.
The recipes in these pages prove that there is a healthy alternative to recklessly made desserts, one that doesn't sacrifice taste or texture.
Having
experimented endlessly with alternative, health-conscious sweeteners,
flours, and thickeners, Erin McKenna, the proprietress of beloved
bakery BabyCakes NYC, developed these recipes-most are gluten-free, all
are without refined sugar-in hopes of combating her own wheat, dairy,
and sugar sensitivities. In BabyCakes, she shares detailed
information about the ingredients she uses (coconut flour, xanthan gum,
and agave nectar, for example) and how to substitute them properly for
common ones-all the while guiding you safely through techniques she's
spent years perfecting.
Enclosed within these pages are all
the "secrets" you'll need to bring the greatness of BabyCakes NYC into
your own home as well as raves and recommendations from devotees such
as Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey
Deschanel, and Pamela Anderson.
For confectionists of all kinds,
delicious alternatives lie within: Red Velvet Cupcakes, Chocolate
Shortbread Scones with Caramelized Bananas, Strawberry Shortcake, and
BabyCakes NYC's celebrated frosting (so delicious it has fans tipping
back frosting shots!), to name just a few. Finally, Erin's blissful
desserts are yours for the baking!
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Meditation As Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force by Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauthr |
Publisher: Atria Publication Date: May 21 2002
ISBN-10: 0743400658
ISBN-13: 978-0743400657 Mind & Body Check Availability
Proven effective by scientific research and presented here by Dr.
Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth, the practice of Medical
Meditation revolutionizes the healing process. By balancing and
regenerating the body's ethereal and physical energies through simple
meditations, Medical Meditation unites the mind, body, and spirit into
a powerful triad. Each Medical Meditation here has a specific
physiological effect, targeting afflictions from arthritis to ulcers to
cancer. Dr. Khalsa details the five unique attributes that endow this
type of meditation with far more power than standard meditation. The
combination of special postures and movements; exact positioning of the
hands and fingers; particular mantras; specific breathing patterns; and
a unique focus of concentration can change your entire biochemical
profile, easing you into a calm, healing state. Practiced in
conjunction with conventional or alternative medical treatments,
cutting-edge Medical Meditation activates the healing force within you.
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Soldier From the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II by Thomas Childers
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: April 15 2009
ISBN-10: 0618773681
ISBN-13: 978-0618773688
War History / Social Issues Check Availability
One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who
fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told
by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America
happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on
with the business of rebuilding their lives. In this shocking and
hauntingly beautiful book, historian Thomas Childers shatters that
myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families-including his
own-with a decades' worth of research to paint an entirely new picture
of the war's aftermath. Each of these men spent two years overseas,
fought and survived the war, and returned home. But the war changed
them unalterably, and as the years passed, it leached out in desperate,
sometimes destructive ways. Novelistic in its telling and impeccably
researched, Soldier From the War Returning is a stark reminder that
the price of was is unimaginably high. The consequences are human, not
just political, and the toll can stretch across generations.
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Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations by Edward Rogers and Donald Smith
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Publisher: Dundurn Press Publication Date: Sep 1 1994
ISBN-10: 155002230X
ISBN-13: 978-1550022308
Ontario History / First Nations History Check Availability Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First
Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This
volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian
peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern
Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of
Ontario thousands of years ago. It includes a comprehensive account of
the archaeologists' contributions to our knowledge of the material
culture of the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans. The
essays in the second and third sections look respectively at the Native
peoples of Southern Ontario and Northern Ontario, from 1550 to 1945.
The final section looks at more recent developments. The volume
includes numerous illustrations and maps, as well as an extensive
bibliography.
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