Amazon.com ReviewLust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen's In...
FromAcclaimed cookbook author Harris (The Africa Cookbook, 1998) tells the story of the African diaspora through food, from the foodstuff brought along with African slaves to barel...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new...
SUMMARY: Are the Wall Street players Jasper Cunningham encounters along his quest for power merely a pawn in his murderous passion for wealth? From Dawn to Deceit reveals the saga ...
How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful "romance of many dimensions" explores this conund...
SUMMARY: Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, t...
Product DescriptionA Doctor Who historical adventure. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, aspiring war correspondent Winston Churchill is befriended by two strangers - the Doctor ...
SUMMARY:On 49th century Earth, mankind has developed time-travel technology, and a government security force has been set up to control illegal time jumps.Special Agent Kala...
SUMMARY: Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects ...
SUMMARY: Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chi...