Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure
10 best books like Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure (Lorna J. Sass): Stranger in a Strange Land, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, The Fall of Hyperion, The Rise of Endymion, The Joy of Cooking, The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York, How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, Endymion, In Utero
Stranger in a Strange Land
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0441788386 |
Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.
This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 0805063897 |
Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 0060838582 |
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0553288202 |
"Nurse, this patient’s chart is very confusing.”
“Which patient, Doctor?”
“Uh..Mr. Kemper. He’s the one in the vegetative state.”
“Oh, that’s a very sad and odd case.”
“According to the patient history, he was admitted a few weeks ago...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0553572989 |
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer,...
| Author | Irma S. Rombauer |
| ISBN | 0684818701 |
Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America, the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. It's the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from, the book you gave your sister when...
The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
| Author | Mollie Katzen |
| ISBN | 0913668680 |
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...
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
| Author | Mark Bittman |
| ISBN | 0028610105 |
Great Food Made Simple
Here's the breakthrough one-stop cooking reference for today's generation of cooks! Nationally known cooking authority Mark Bittman shows you how to prepare great food for all occasions using simple techniques, fresh ingredients, and basic kitchen equipment. Just as...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0553572946 |
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys,...
| Author | Gillian G. Gaar |
| ISBN | 0826417760 |
Though Nevermind" was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them -- and the grunge phenomenon -- internationally, In Utero" has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the...
A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic...
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
| Author | Catherine Collin |
| ISBN | 0756689708 |
Clearly explaining more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the field, The Psychology Book uses accessible text and easy-to-follow graphics and illustrations to explain the complex theoretical and experimental foundations of psychology.
From its philosophical roots through behaviorism,...
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
| Author | Marc Weidenbaum |
| ISBN | 1623568900 |
Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was his first full length on Sire Records (home...
David Busch's Panasonic Lumix DMC-Gf1 Guide to Digital Photography
| Author | David D. Busch |
| ISBN | 1435457382 |
DAVID BUSCH'S PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-GF1 GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY shows students how, when, and why to use all the cool features, controls, and functions of the new Lumix DMC-GF1 camera to take great photographs of anything. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons...
Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures
| Author | Justin G. Longenecker |
| ISBN | 0324569726 |
Backed by a loyal following, SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, 14e, continues to lead the market. With its comprehensive approach, precedent-setting coverage, innovative tools, real-world emphasis, and superior package, SBM remains an unparalleled...
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
| Author | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
| ISBN | 0743266293 |
Ten years after the death of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book combines practical wisdom, case studies, and the authors’ own experiences and spiritual insight to explain how the process of grieving helps us live with loss. Includes a new introduction and resources...
