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W.W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 318 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
"A thrilling blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from 'a graceful and passionate writer' (Washington Post). For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers--and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes readers up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their...
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"There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world--from altesse to zierfandler--but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss. Stemming from his own growing obsession, Wilson moves far beyond the "noble grapes," hunting down obscure and underappreciated wines from Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, France,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City, and for the past six years, Matt Green has been walking them all, every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's history and people along the way.
Publisher
Edge of the Earth Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Art Wolfe travels and photographs Japan, Australia, Mali, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands, Brazil, West Africa, New Zealand, Nepal and India, Mexico, Bhutan, Iceland and Mongolia.
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Val and Lanora have been friends forever. Val expects their relationship to stay the same. But, after they start middle school, Lanora decides to reinvent herself. Her parents have split up, and she wants to rise above that. Unfortunately Lanora's choices lead her into trouble. Val hates watching her friend lose her way. She wants to rescue Lanora, but how? Val doesn't know what to do until a stray cat leads her to a strange boy who lives in an even...
Publisher
RebootYourLife
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmmaker Joe Cross, recently obese and unhealthy, travels the United States promoting to all he encounters a lifestyle "reboot" centered around consuming only fruit and vegetable juices. Along the way he meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese man to whom Cross offers his reboot cure.
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Over a period of five years, beginning when Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency after almost a half-century of reign, journalist Julia Cooke embedded herself in Cuba, gaining access to a dynamic Havana--one that she found populated with twenty-five-year-old Marxist philosophy students, baby-faced anarchists, children of the whiskey-drinking elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, and more. Combining intimate storytelling with in-depth...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"A chef buys an apartment in Paris and endures the headaches and excitement of renovating his own corner of paradise in the City of Light"--
"Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of...
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