Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
9 best books like Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land (Harvey Pekar): The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Dry, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, Ant Colony, Selected Poems, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World, Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants, The Realist
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
| Author | Lindsey Fitzharris |
| ISBN | 0374117292 |
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312423799 |
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when...
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0743291476 |
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally...
The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style
In the few short years since he began his pamphlet-size comic book series Lose, Michael DeForge has announced himself as an important new voice in alternative comics. His brash, confident, undulating...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871401541 |
The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings,...
| Author | Ben Hewitt |
| ISBN | 1611801699 |
When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their...
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
| Author | Lee H. Whittlesey |
| ISBN | 1570980217 |
this book has a fantastic title. i love the word-choice of "foolhardiness", and i thought i would really enjoy reading a book about people doing stupid things and paying for them with their liiiiives. which i think makes me a bad person, but since a lot of these deaths take place in the 1800's, there is enough...
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants
| Author | Steve Brill |
| ISBN | 0688114253 |
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health. It includes information on common plants such as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers...
| Author | Asaf Hanuka |
| ISBN | 1608866882 |
Acclaimed Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka‘s weekly strips collected into one volume and translated into English for the first time.
In 2010, Israeli newspaper The Calcalist asked Hanuka, already well known in Israel as a commercial illustrator and as a contributor to the animated film...
