As he did previously in COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and in SALT: A WORLD HISTORY, historian Mark Kurlansky takes a unique, and rewarding, entry-point into the past, this time relating the rich social history of New York City through its once-plentiful denizen of the deep, the oyster. Manhattan's harbor was once ideal for ...
Historian Kurlansky turns his prodigious talents toward the challenge of covering the most tumultuous year in a decade of change. Having synthesized an enormous amount of primary source material, Kurlansky reports on, and places in context, the significant political and social events in America and in Europe that occurred in 1968, and shows how ...
Mark Kurlansky, who wrote COD, now turns his attention to salt, looking at its history and the odd associations it has had for people: it has been seen variously as divine, aphrodisiac, good for preserving food, useful for reviving zombies, and of course indispensable in the cuisines of many nations. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Award-winning food writer Mark Kurlansky serves up a true smorgasbord of "choice cuts" by the world's most discerning gourmets and gourmands through the ages. From Plato on the art of cooking to Louis Prima at the pizzeria to Pablo Neruda on French fries and M.F.K. Fisher on gingerbread, "Choice Cuts" offers more than 200 selections--all enhanced ...
From the author of "Cod" comes the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Kurlansky's passion for the Basque people and his exuberant eye for detail shine through this fascinating book which blends human stories with economic, literary, and culinary history into a rich and heroic tale. Maps, photos & drawings.
This history of the world of the Basques is a cornucopia of interesting information on the people who have lived for centuries in several isolated provinces in the Pyrenees regions of France and Spain. It is also a survey of the role they have played in European history. Kurlansky is also the author of the popular COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT ...
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Cod, Salt," and "The Big Oyster" comes the colorful story of a way of life that for hundreds of years has defined much of America's coastlines but is slowly disappearing. Illustrated.
"An engaging book by an excellent journalist. . . ".--Washington Post Book World. "A penetrating analysis of the social, political, sexual, and cultural worlds that exist behind the four-color Caribbean travel posters".--Kirkus Reviews. Photographs.
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that even the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.
In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, "New York Times" bestselling author Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity--a course of action--rather than a mere state of mind, which is why it can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice.
Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, decades of Soviet dominance, the rise of neo-Nazism, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism, Jewish communities have been recreated throughout postwar Europe. In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky visits the homes and lives of those Jews who have returned or remained, and explores the many reasons why they continue to ...
The Cod - wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky ...
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 - his first New York real estate killing - he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until centuries of pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters: ...
Mark Kurlansky, who wrote COD, now turns his attention to salt, looking at its history and the odd associations it has had for people: it has been seen variously as divine, aphrodisiac, good for preserving food, useful for reviving zombies, and of course indispensable in the cuisines of many nations. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Veteran nonfiction writer Mark Kurlansky turns his observant eye and talent for lucid description to a work of fiction. The hero is Nathan Seltzer, whose twin dilemmas are whether to sell his little copy shop to developers, and whether to have an affair with a sexy pastry maker. Set on New York City's Lower East Side in the summer of 1988--at the ...
Based on "COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World", this incredible story, combined with Schindler's stunning watercolors, offers a unique look at a thousand years of human civilization as it relates to the codfish. Illustrated.
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His ...
In this book, Merton has selected the basic statements of principle and interpretation which make up Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (AHIMSA) and non-violent action (SATYAGRAHA). The Gandhi text follows that established by the Navaijivan Trust with sections dealing with "Principles of non-violence", "Non-violence, true and false", "Spiritual ...
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how societies promote warfare and glorify violence ...
The stories collected here draw on Kurlansky's experience as a journalist in the Caribbean, in their depictions of cultural conflicts encountered there. Outsiders come seeking a story, kosher chicken, and a brush with the exotic. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means. 6 CDs.
In "The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi", Mark Kurlansky exhibits his great affection for two rocky coastlines facing each other, Massachusetts on one side of the Atlantic and Euskadi, Basqueland, on the other. In his book "The Basque History of the World", Kurlansky wrote, 'The Basques seem to be a mythical people, almost an imagined people.' In this ...
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