David Whiting's Books

Modern British Potters & Their Studios

By: David Whiting

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Modern British Potters & Their Studios

By: David Whiting

An in-depth study of 24 artists, their work and studios. Almost a mini biography on many of the most prominent andexciting artists around.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

0713687320

ISBN 13

9780713687323

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball

By: David Nemec

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball

By: David Nemec

The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game—May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team—through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan’s heart. Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities—the team that had the best record but finished second—to analyses of why Cleveland didn’t win any pennants in the 1890s. Additional benefits include dozens of rare illustrations and narrative accounts of each year’s pennant race. Nemec also carefully charts the rule changes from year to year as the game developed by fits and starts to formulate the modern rules. The result is an essential work of reference and at the same time a treasury of baseball history. This new edition adds much material unearthed since the first edition, fills gaps, and corrects errors, while presenting a number of new stories and fascinating details. David Nemec began the lifetime labor that helped produced this work in 1954 and admits it may never end, as there always will be some obscure player whose birth date has not yet been found. Until perfection is achieved, this work offers state-of-the-art accuracy and detail beyond that supplied by even modern baseball encyclopedias. As Casey Stengel, who was born during this era, was wont to say, “you could look it up.” Now you can.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1057

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0817314997

ISBN 13

9780817314996

A Meeting of Land and Sea

Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard

By: David R. Foster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Meeting of Land and Sea

Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard

By: David R. Foster

An eminent ecologist shows how an iconic New England island has been shaped by nature and human history, and how its beloved landscape can be protected Full of surprises, bedecked with gorgeous photographs and maps, and supported by unprecedented historical and ecological research, this book awakens a new perspective on the renowned New England island Martha's Vineyard. David Foster explores the powerful natural and cultural forces that have shaped the storied island to arrive at a new interpretation of the land today and a well-informed guide to its conservation in the future. Two decades of research by Foster and his colleagues at the Harvard Forest encompass the native people and prehistory of the Vineyard, climate change and coastal dynamics, colonial farming and modern tourism, as well as land planning and conservation efforts. Each of these has helped shape the island of today, and each also illuminates possibilities for future caretakers of the island's ecology. Foster affirms that Martha's Vineyard is far more than just a haven for celebrities, presidents, and moguls; it is a special place with a remarkable history and a population with a proud legacy of caring for the land and its future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300214170

ISBN 13

9780300214178

Chef's Compendium of Professional Recipes

By: Edward Renold,David Foskett,John Fuller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chef's Compendium of Professional Recipes

By: Edward Renold,David Foskett,John Fuller

This is a well-established reference and textbook for professional chefs and students. This edition presents essential recipes based on traditional and classic methods, but is simplified and adapted to meet the needs and conditions of the busy professional kitchen. Trends towards healthy and safe eating are taken into account and alternatives are suggested to certain ingredients to meet this demand. Vegetarian recipes are also included.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

416

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136078614

ISBN 13

9781136078613

Swift Currents

By: David Bruce Grim

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Swift Currents

By: David Bruce Grim

Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callies story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1491733969

ISBN 13

9781491733967

The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana

Dunboyne Plantation in the 1800s

By: David D. Plater

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana

Dunboyne Plantation in the 1800s

By: David D. Plater

In 1833, Edward G. W. and Frances Parke Butler moved to their newly constructed plantation house, Dunboyne, on the banks of the Mississippi River near the village of Bayou Goula. Their experiences at Dunboyne over the next forty years demonstrated the transformations that many land-owning southerners faced in the nineteenth century, from the evolution of agricultural practices and commerce, to the destruction wrought by the Civil War and the transition from slave to free labor, and finally to the social, political, and economic upheavals of Reconstruction. In this comprehensive biography of the Butlers, David D. Plater explores the remarkable lives of a Louisiana family during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Born in Tennessee to a celebrated veteran of the American Revolution, Edward Butler pursued a military career under the mentorship of his guardian, Andrew Jackson, and, during a posting in Washington, D.C., met and married a grand-niece of George Washington, Frances Parke Lewis. In 1831, he resigned his commission and relocated Frances and their young son to Iberville Parish, where the couple began a sugar cane plantation. As their land holdings grew, they amassed more enslaved laborers and improved their social prominence in Louisiana’s antebellum society. A staunch opponent of abolition, Butler voted in favor of Louisiana’s withdrawal from the Union at the state’s Secession Convention. But his actions proved costly when the war cut off agricultural markets and all but destroyed the state’s plantation economy, leaving the Butlers in financial ruin. In 1870, with their plantation and finances in disarray, the Butlers sold Dunboyne and resettled in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where they resided in a rental cottage with the financial support of Edward J. Gay, a wealthy Iberville planter and their daughter-in-law’s father. After Frances died in 1875, Edward Butler moved in with his son’s family in St. Louis, where he remained until his death in 1888. Based on voluminous primary source material, The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana offers an intimate picture of a wealthy nineteenth-century family and the turmoil they faced as a system based on the enslavement of others unraveled.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

350

Publisher

LSU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807161292

ISBN 13

9780807161296

English Drama Since 1940

By: David Ian Rabey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

English Drama Since 1940

By: David Ian Rabey

English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

307

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317875389

ISBN 13

9781317875383

101 Hikes in Southern California

Exploring Mountains, Seashore, and Desert

By: Jerry Schad,David Money Harris

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

101 Hikes in Southern California

Exploring Mountains, Seashore, and Desert

By: Jerry Schad,David Money Harris

Trek the diverse terrain of Southern California, from desert to beach to mountaintop, on an easy stroll or overnight adventure, with this ultimate guide to the 101 best hikes in the Southland. Covers the Santa Monica, San Gabriel, San Jacinto, and San Bernardino mountains, and the Mojave and Colorado deserts. This updated and revised edition of one of our best-selling guidebooks includes 12 new hikes and updated information for hikes from the previous edition. All trips have been rehiked for this update. Each trip includes a map, photos, trail highlights, and symbols to tell you the basics of the trip at a glance. Each map now includes key GPS coordinates.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

Wilderness Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0899977170

ISBN 13

9780899977171

Perversion of the Pentagon Papers Trial

By: David R. Nissen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Perversion of the Pentagon Papers Trial

By: David R. Nissen

Perversion of the Pentagon Papers Trial By: David R. Nissen For the first time, former federal prosecutor, David Nissen, reveals the true story behind the Pentagon Paper Trial. A United States District Court judge, obsessed with obtaining higher public office was assigned to preside over the criminal trial. The judge was convinced that any conviction of the defendants would be overturned on appeal and would leave a mark on his record that could disqualify him for a higher position. To avoid this, he decided to prevent the jury from returning a guilty verdict and disclosed his plan to some of his confidants. Perversion of the Pentagon Papers Trial recounts the political backdrop against which the original crimes were committed then takes readers into the courtroom for a virtual front row seat throughout the trial. It chronicles the judge’s capitulation to the defendants’ demands, discloses the fictitious defenses he fabricated and his collaboration with the defense to place the government on trial by groundless “investigations”. By bringing the facts to light, Nissen reveals the court’s sabotage of the trial and exposes the injustice done in this notable court case.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

736

Publisher

Dorrance Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1685371655

ISBN 13

9781685371654

Beginning CSS3

By: David Powers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beginning CSS3

By: David Powers

Beginning CSS3 teaches you how to style web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)—the language of web design. Starting from first principles, you’ll learn through a series of practical exercises how to change the default look of HTML tags, adding color, backgrounds, and borders. The book demystifies core concepts, such as the CSS box model and selectors, giving you the confidence and knowledge to create innovative and flexible page layouts. You’ll also learn how to create rounded corners, drop shadows, and gradients without the need for images, using the latest CSS3 techniques.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

546

Publisher

Apress

Published Date

ISBN 10

1430244747

ISBN 13

9781430244745

Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"

The Folk in the City

By: David J. Puglia

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"

The Folk in the City

By: David J. Puglia

Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. Each time, controversy followed leading to consequences ranging from protests and boycotts to formal legislative action. “Hon” brought into focus Baltimore’s past and future by symbolizing lingering divisions of race, class, gender, and belonging in the midst of campaigns to unify and modernize the city. While some decried “hon” and “the Hon” as embarrassing, others hailed the word and the related image of a down-to-earth, blue-collar woman as emblematic of the authentic Baltimorean. This book tells the story of the battles that flared over the attempts to use “hon” to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498551106

ISBN 13

9781498551106

America's First Aircraft Carrier

USS Langley and the Dawn of U.S. Naval Aviation

By: David F Winkler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

America's First Aircraft Carrier

USS Langley and the Dawn of U.S. Naval Aviation

By: David F Winkler

America’s First Aircraft Carrier tells the remarkable story of the USS Langley. The narrative provides an in-depth discussion of the ship’s origins as the collier USS Jupiter, which was built with a “first of” propulsion system that has been adapted for use in present-day Ford-class carriers. Author David F. Winkler considers the post–World War I debate for procuring carriers, the decision to convert Jupiter, and the identification of constructor Clayton Simmers as the father of the American aircraft carrier. The evolution of the Langley as an experimental ship was tied to the introduction of new doctrine for the United States. Promoting an independent naval air arm against Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell’s vision of an independent air force, the U.S. Navy saw Langley as an operational aircraft carrier that would change the way the Navy fought wars at sea. While the story of Langley is that of the origins of naval air combat, it is also a record of the vessel’s service in World War II until the ship’s final posting to the Asiatic Fleet, where she met her demise on February 27, 1942, off the southern coast of Java. Many of the U.S. Navy’s pioneering naval aviators are closely associated with this ship, including Kenneth Whiting, John H. Towers, Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, Virgil C. Griffith, Mel Pride, Patrick N. L. Bellinger, Joseph M. Reeves, Gerald Bogan, Aubrey Fitch, Felix Stump, Ernest J. King, Warren G. Child, Dan Gallery, and Frank D. Wagner. A number of these individuals would go on to play critical roles during World War II. Langley’s story is their story. Aircraft carriers remain the centerpiece of American sea power projection. America’s First Aircraft Carrier provides the context on how CV 1, the “Covered Wagon,” and carrier development and utilization came to be.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1682475107

ISBN 13

9781682475102

The Atlanta Campaign

Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864

By: David A. Powell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Atlanta Campaign

Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864

By: David A. Powell

For scope, drama, and importance, the Atlanta Campaign was second only to Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, it has lingered in the shadows of other campaigns and has yet to receive the treatment it deserves. Powell’s The Atlanta Campaign, Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1–19, 1864, the first in a proposed five-volume treatment, ends that oversight. Once Grant decided to go east and lead the Federal armies against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, he chose William T. Sherman to do the same in Georgia against Joseph E. Johnston and his ill-starred Army of Tennessee. Sherman’s base was Chattanooga; Johnston’s was Atlanta. The grueling campaign opened on May 1, 1864. While Grant and Lee grappled with one another like wrestlers, Sherman and Johnston parried and feinted like fencers. Johnston eschewed the offensive while hoping to lure Sherman into headlong assaults against fortified lines. Sherman disliked the uncertainty of battle and preferred maneuvering. When Johnston dug in, Sherman sought his flanks and turned the Confederates out of seemingly impregnable positions in a campaign noted Civil War historian Richard M. McMurry dubbed “the Red Clay Minuet.” Contrary to popular belief Sherman did not set out to capture Atlanta. His orders were “to move against Johnston’s army, to break it up and to get into the interior of the enemy’s country . . . inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources.” No Civil War army could survive long without its logistical base, and Atlanta was vital to the larger Confederate war effort. As Johnston retreated, Southern fears for the city grew. As Sherman advanced, Northern expectations increased. This first installment of The Atlanta Campaign relies on a mountain of primary source material and extensive experience with the terrain to examine the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Rome Crossroads, Adairsville, and Cassville—the first phase of the long and momentous campaign. While none of these engagements matched the bloodshed of the Wilderness or Spotsylvania, each witnessed periods of intense fighting and key decision-making. The largest fight, Resaca, produced more than 8,000 killed, wounded, and missing in just two days. In between these actions the armies skirmished daily in a campaign its participants would recall as the “100 days’ fight.” Like Powell’s The Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, this multi-volume study breaks new ground and promises to be this generation’s definitive treatment of one of the most important and fascinating confrontations of the entire Civil War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

625

Publisher

Savas Beatie

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611216966

ISBN 13

9781611216967

Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726

The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration

By: David Farr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726

The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration

By: David Farr

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from the context of their kin link to Cromwell and how their private worlds shaped their public roles, how kinship was part of the functioning of the Cromwellian state, how they were seen and presented, and how this impacted on their own lives, and their kin, before and after the Restoration. Cromwell's career can be explored further by considering figures in his kinship network to show how the public and private overlapped and influenced each other through their interaction before and after 1660. This study aims to consider the trajectory of elements of Cromwell's network and how its functioning and the interaction of its constituent parts over time shaped the politics of the years 1643 to 1660 but also how the survival of some networks after 1660 were continuing communities of those willing to own their memories of the civil wars, regicide, and Cromwell. A study of aspects of Cromwell's kin also provides examples of the continuities between those who resisted the Stuarts in the 1640s and 1650s and did so again in the 1680s. Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern British, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000908917

ISBN 13

9781000908916

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

By: David Karashima

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

By: David Karashima

How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A "fascinating" look at the "business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience" (The Atlantic)―and a “rigorous” exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of literary culture (The Paris Review). Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami’s works were first being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can be read in fifty languages and have won prizes and sold millions of copies globally. How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? This book tells one key part of the story. Its cast includes an expat trained in art history who never intended to become a translator; a Chinese American ex-academic who never planned to work as an editor; and other publishing professionals in New York, London, and Tokyo who together introduced a pop-inflected, unexpected Japanese voice to the wider literary world. David Karashima synthesizes research, correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals—including Murakami himself—to examine how countless behind-the-scenes choices over the course of many years worked to build an internationally celebrated author’s persona and oeuvre. His careful look inside the making of the “Murakami Industry" uncovers larger questions: What role do translators and editors play in framing their writers’ texts? What does it mean to translate and edit “for a market”? How does Japanese culture get packaged and exported for the West?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Catapult

Published Date

ISBN 10

1593765908

ISBN 13

9781593765903

The Spirit of the Constitution

John Marshall and the 200-year Odyssey of McCulloch V. Maryland

By: David S. Schwartz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Spirit of the Constitution

John Marshall and the 200-year Odyssey of McCulloch V. Maryland

By: David S. Schwartz

The Spirit of the Constitution covers the impact and reputation of both McCulloch and Justice Marshall himself throughout American history. One of the central threads of American history is the battle over the proper reach of the federal government's power, and that story cannot be told without reference to McCulloch. Schwartz's analysis of the shifting interpretations of McCulloch and Marshall over the course of American historynot only reaffirms the case's importance, it also helps us understand the circuitous process by which American constitutional law and ideology are made.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190699485

ISBN 13

9780190699482

Edgar Plays: 2

Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers

By: David Edgar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Edgar Plays: 2

Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers

By: David Edgar

David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times." - The Guardian This selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: Ecclesiastes, a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of Nicholas Nickleby; and Entertaining Strangers, an English left-wing social drama. Ecclesiastes is a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US. Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well ... A landmark." - New Statesman In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion." - The Sunday Times

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

523

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

1408177595

ISBN 13

9781408177594

In the Shadow of the Chinatis

A History of Pinto Canyon in the Big Bend

By: David W. Keller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In the Shadow of the Chinatis

A History of Pinto Canyon in the Big Bend

By: David W. Keller

Winner, 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas County or Local History There is a deep and abiding connection between humans and the land in Pinto Canyon—a remote and rugged place near the border with Mexico in the Texas Big Bend. Here the land assumes a certain primacy, defined not by the ephemera of plants and animals but by the very bedrock that rises far above the silvery flow of Pinto Creek— looming masses that break the horizon into a hundred different vistas. Yet, over time, people managed to survive and sometimes even thrive in this harsh environment. In the Shadow of the Chinatis combines the rich narratives of history, natural history, and archeology to tell the story of the landscape as well as the people who once inhabited it. Settling the land was difficult, staying on it even more so, but one family proved especially resilient. Rising above their meager origins, the Prietos eventually amassed a 12,000-acre ranch in the shadow of the Chinati Mountains to become the most successful of Pinto Canyon’s early settlers. But starting with the tense years of the Great Depression, the family faced a series of tragedies: one son was killed by a Texas Ranger, and another by the deranged son of Chico Cano, the Big Bend’s most notorious bandit. Ultimately, growing rifts in the family forced the sale of the ranch, marking the end of an era. Bearing the hallmarks of an epic tragedy, the departure of the Prieto family signaled a transition away from ranching towards a new style of landownership based on a completely different model. Today, Pinto Canyon’s scenic and scientific value increasingly overshadows the marginal economics of its past. In the Shadow of the Chinatis reveals a rich tapestry of interaction between humans and their environment, providing a unique examination of the Big Bend region and the people who call it home.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

368

Publisher

Texas A&M University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1623497353

ISBN 13

9781623497354

Taste the State

South Carolina's Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories

By: Kevin Mitchell,David S. Shields

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Taste the State

South Carolina's Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories

By: Kevin Mitchell,David S. Shields

Bitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick • Garden & Gun Best Southern Cookbooks pick • Forbes Best New Cookbooks For Travelers pick • 2021 Gourmand International Cookbook Award Finalist • A vivid cultural history of South Carolina's most distinctive ingredients and signature dishes From the influence of 1920 fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories from South Carolina's singularly rich food tradition. Here, Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields present engaging profiles of eighty-two of the state's most distinctive ingredients, such as Carolina Gold rice, Sea Island White Flint corn, and the cone-shaped Charleston Wakefield cabbage, and signature dishes, such as shrimp and grits, chicken bog, okra soup, Frogmore stew, and crab rice. These portraits, illustrated with original photographs and historical drawings, provide origin stories and tales of kitchen creativity and agricultural innovation; historical "receipts" and modern recipes, including Chef Mitchell's distillation of traditions in Hoppin' John fritters, okra and crab stew, and more. Because Carolina cookery combines ingredients and cooking techniques of three greatly divergent cultural traditions, there is more than a little novelty and variety in the food. In Taste the State Mitchell and Shields celebrate the contributions of Native Americans (hominy grits, squashes, and beans), the Gullah Geechee (field peas, okra, guinea squash, rice, and sorghum), and European settlers (garden vegetables, grains, pigs, and cattle) in the mixture of ingredients and techniques that would become Carolina cooking. They also explore the specialties of every region—the famous rice and seafood dishes of the lowcountry; the Pee Dee's catfish and pinebark stews; the smothered cabbage, pumpkin chips, and mustard-based barbecue of the Dutch Fork and Orangeburg; the red chicken stew of the midlands; and the chestnuts, chinquapins, and corn bread recipes of mountain upstate. Taste the State presents the cultural histories of native ingredients and showcases the evolution of the dishes and the variety of preparations that have emerged. Here you will find true Carolina cooking in all of its cultural depth, historical vividness, and sumptuous splendor—from the plain home cooking of sweet potato pone to Lady Baltimore cake worthy of a Charleston society banquet.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

247

Publisher

Univ of South Carolina Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

164336197X

ISBN 13

9781643361970

Upon a Stone Altar

A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890

By: David L. Hanlon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Upon a Stone Altar

A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890

By: David L. Hanlon

Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0824883918

ISBN 13

9780824883911

The Straw Bale House

By: Athena Swentzell Steen,Bill Steen,David Bainbridge

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Straw Bale House

By: Athena Swentzell Steen,Bill Steen,David Bainbridge

Many copies in stock but still heavy demand; only a few titles published on this subject. Very popular in rural WA too.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

338

Publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0930031717

ISBN 13

9780930031718

Temperature Sensitivity In Insects And Application In Integrated Pest Management

By: Guy J Hallman,David L Denlinger

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Temperature Sensitivity In Insects And Application In Integrated Pest Management

By: Guy J Hallman,David L Denlinger

This book focuses on an array of integrated pest management tools (IPM) that exploit extreme temperatures, examining the biological basis for using temperature extremes in controlling insects and presenting practical IPM techniques that rely on temperature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000314316

ISBN 13

9781000314311

Rise to Greatness

Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

By: David Von Drehle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rise to Greatness

Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

By: David Von Drehle

The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's history As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield—had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the survival of the country depended on the judgment, cunning, and resilience of the unschooled frontier lawyer who had recently been elected president. Twelve months later, the Civil War had become a cataclysm but the tide had turned. The Union generals who would win the war had at last emerged, and the Confederate Army had suffered the key losses that would lead to its doom. The blueprint of modern America—an expanding colossus of industrial and financial might—had been indelibly inked. And the man who brought the nation through its darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln, had been forged into a singular leader. In Rise to Greatness, acclaimed author David Von Drehle has created both a deeply human portrait of America's greatest president and a rich, dramatic narrative about our most fateful year.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

490

Publisher

Macmillan + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

0805096086

ISBN 13

9780805096088

Biographies of the State Officers and Thirty-third General Assembly of Illinois. Containing Biographical Sketches of the Governor and Other State Officers, and Each Senator and Representative in the Thirty-third General Assembly

By: David Lyman Phillips,Freeman E Huddle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Biographies of the State Officers and Thirty-third General Assembly of Illinois. Containing Biographical Sketches of the Governor and Other State Officers, and Each Senator and Representative in the Thirty-third General Assembly

By: David Lyman Phillips,Freeman E Huddle

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

286

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385300657

ISBN 13

9783385300651

Tin Pan Alley

An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song

By: David A. Jasen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tin Pan Alley

An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song

By: David A. Jasen

For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

664

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113594900X

ISBN 13

9781135949006

The USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay

The Sinking of a Civil War Ironclad

By: David Smithweck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay

The Sinking of a Civil War Ironclad

By: David Smithweck

In April 1861, Lincoln declared a blockade on Southern ports. It was only a matter of time before the Union navy would pay a visit to the bustling Confederate harbor in Mobile Bay. Engineers built elaborate obstructions and batteries, and three rows of torpedoes were laid from Fort Morgan to Fort Gaines. Then, in August 1864, the inevitable came. A navy fleet of fourteen wooden ships lashed two by two and four iron monitors entered the lower bay, with the USS Tecumseh in the lead. A torpedo, poised to strike for two years, found the Tecumseh and sank it in minutes, taking ninety-three crewmen with it. Join author David Smithweck on an exploration of the ironclad that still lies upside down at the bottom of Mobile Bay.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439673934

ISBN 13

9781439673935

Otoliths of Common Australian Temperate Fish

A Photographic Guide

By: Dianne Furlani,Rosemary Gales,David Pemberton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Otoliths of Common Australian Temperate Fish

A Photographic Guide

By: Dianne Furlani,Rosemary Gales,David Pemberton

Intended as a laboratory guide, this atlas will allow users to accurately identify species and size of fish using otoliths. The main features presented for each species, include brief distribution and ecology notes, regression for otolith and fish lengths, and standardised description of the otolith structure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published Date

ISBN 10

0643092552

ISBN 13

9780643092556

Afoot and Afield: Orange County

A Comprehensive Hiking Guide

By: Jerry Schad,David Money Harris

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Afoot and Afield: Orange County

A Comprehensive Hiking Guide

By: Jerry Schad,David Money Harris

This completely updated and expanded new edition in the Afoot and Afield series is the classic guide to the hiking opportunities throughout Southern California’s Orange County. Featuring more than 100 trips from serene summits to sparkling beaches, Afoot and Afield Orange County covers the Laguna Coast, Newport Beach, Crystal Cove State Park, the Chino Hills, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, the Santa Ana Mountains, and more. Trips ranging from short strolls to rigorous daylong treks are all within a short car trip of the Southland’s cities. Every trip was re-hiked by coauthor David Money Harris for this updated edition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Wilderness Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

089997757X

ISBN 13

9780899977577

Advanced Introduction to Corporate Compliance

By: David Hess

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Advanced Introduction to Corporate Compliance

By: David Hess

Providing a clear overview of compliance programs, David Hess explores not only their key features and how to implement them, but also the public policy issues related to their use in criminal and regulatory law enforcement. Hess uses research on behavioral ethics and organizational behavior to present insights into the implementation of compliance program elements and how to establish an ethical corporate culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

149

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1035314703

ISBN 13

9781035314706

Book's by David Whiting

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email