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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It

4 reviews
Elizabeth Royte

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

Absolutely the Best Book on Nestle and the Predatory Bottled Water Industry
Elizabeth Royte has written the best book available on the bottled water industry. Focusing on Nestle Waters North America and its Poland Spring operations in Maine, Royte's writing is knowledgeable, even-handed, and hip, and has none of the hyperbolic mewling that many environmentalist writers fall prey to. She provides sweeping and insightful coverage of the history, hydrogeology, chemistry, ...

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

165 reviews
Chelsea Handler

Bloomsbury USA, 2005

"Sex and the City" on steroids, but without the angst.
This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. I suppose there are some who would be turned off by a woman going on and on explicitly about her sexual conquests (and near misses), but I certainly wasn't -- for one thing I was laughing too hard. You have to wonder how much of this is true, since she makes her father out to be a raunchy buffoon and reveals both her own and her friends' most ...

The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

67 reviews
Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

A culinary view all should read
Good old Anthony, he is straight and to the point, but after being around restaurants for 35yrs, I wouldn't want it any other way. Few people have a real clue to what goes on in food service. Now is the time to read, find out, and pay respect.

Austenland: A Novel

105 reviews
Shannon Hale

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

Somewhere in Time
This was one of the funnest, frothiest books I've read this year (along with the Shopoholic series). Despite how far-fetched Jane's Adventures in Austenland might seem to the realist, I loved the premise, plot, and fairytale ending. There are so many witty literary references, that that alone is worth the read. Jane must distinguish between what is real sentiment and what is Stanislavski ...

Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday ...

12 reviews
Sandra Aamodt, Sam Wang

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

Useful even for the graduate student
I must confess that I worked with one of the authors (S. Wang) several years ago. This book is a great resource to get a big picture view of the brain. As a grad student, the book has expanded my knowledge outside of my field of interest. It's an appealing and useful book to anyone curious about neuroscience.

Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood

2 reviews
Taras Grescoe

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

excellent and practical guide as well as a great read
If you are a junkie for food politics and ethical and healthy food choices this book stands with Pollan, Nestle, Schlosser and Shiva. The book takes the reader up and down the food chain as both a diner and a social/environmental critic. even for the well informed amongst us there is lots to learn and appreciate. Grescoe connects lots of dots and makes eating seafood a fully engaging ...

A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
Sharon Weinberger, Nathan Hodge

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

Two Washington, D.C., defense reporters do for nukes what Sarah Vowell did for presidential assassinations in this fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of nuclear weaponry. In A Nuclear Family Vacation , husband-and-wife journalists Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge hit the open road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Along the way, they answer the questions most nuclear tourists don’t get to ask: Are nuclear weapons ...

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

4 reviews
Kingsley Amis

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

One Drunk Englishman
If you're interested in reading about the drinking life, where better to start than with a collection of writings on drink by Kingsley Amis, introduced by Christopher Hitchens? Though it weighs in at a mere 3.2 ounces, "Everyday Drinking" offers up enough drinking experience to float an aircraft carrier. The book comprises three Amis titles. "On Drink" (1972) is a kind of informal treatise on ...

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

557 reviews
Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury USA, 2000

Good Book Now Even Better
For anyone who's ever done any kind of commercial cooking this book, and it's earlier version, is a MUST read. I'm a retired line cook and I can assure all potential readers that Tony knows of what he speaks. For 'civilians', the avid home cook or the addicted restaurant patron, this clever work gives an engrossing, entertaining and sometimes scary peek behind the restaurant kitchen door. Chefs ...

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

58 reviews
Sandy Tolan

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

A Courageous Friendship
The Lemon Tree is a true gem amid the harsh cacophony of literature surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This compelling true story weaves together two histories--at once the histories of two families and two peoples--connected to the same house and the same land. In 1936, Ahmad Khairi built a home for his young family in the Palestinian town of Ramla, which was then part of the ...

My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes

19 reviews
Melanie Dunea

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

GREAT BOOK AND GREAT CONVERSATION STARTER
I enjoyed reading this book and looking at the photos. The photos are great of many great chefs. I enjoyed reading that many of the great chefs wanted simple meals from their youth as their last meal, not some fancy gourmet dish. I enjoyed the recipes in the back of the book. I was especially happy that my 18 year old son saw the book on the table and started reading it. We had some very ...

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Boxed Three Volume Collector's Edition

717 reviews
Susanna Clarke

Bloomsbury USA, 2005

Most enchanting novel set in "Olde English" times
I got it as a birthday gift. In recent times with two children, it has been almost impossible for me to read anything serious, but I ended up reading this 1000-odd page book within a week! Set in the beginning of the 19th century, it starts off full of the atmosphere of old England (York) - where gentlemen were what they ought to be ;-) and there was a "propah", unhurried way of doing things. ...

Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking

70 reviews
Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury USA, 2004

If You Must Have Only One Cook Book Then This Must Be It
That's a big statement but I can tell you with all honesty. This is the best cookbook I've ever read, more importantly it is the best cookbook I've ever USED. And, do I use it often, YES! Here Tony Bourdain shines not only as an amusing and talented writer but exposes to us all to the REAL principal behind all great dishes, and not just French food, that good, quality ingredients coupled with ...

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

20 reviews
Shannon Brownlee

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

Crash Course on the Healthcare Crisis
Balanced and thoroughly researched, this book illustrates how the failings of our healthcare system are more complex than simply claiming that insurers are greedy and malpractice insurance premiums are too expensive. Patients with the same illness are getting more costly medical care in certain parts of the country but actually do worse. The amount of medical care delivered is driven by the ...

Real Food: What to Eat and Why

64 reviews
Nina Planck

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

Real Food What to eat and Why
I have read hundreds of nutrition books, and this one is my favorite. The chapters are not only informative, but also interesting. This is not the usual dry nutrition information I have endured reading in the past. The most important thing for me to note, however, is that the material presented here is not mainstream nutrition. This is the very reason, it made so much sense to me. Since we,as a ...

No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach

16 reviews
Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

An Entertaining Photo Album of Bourdain's Latest Global Adventures
In this breezy book, there is an amusing photo of an In-n-Out Double-Double Burger with a pile of fries amid far more exotic dishes highlighted in the montage of images that constitute a chapter appropriately called "Food Porn". What I especially like about the photos is how real the dishes look since they have not been immaculately presented by a Williams-Sonoma food stylist. The food looks ...

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children

36 reviews
Melissa Fay Greene

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

No Me
My wife was reading this at the same time I was reading Dave Eggers' fantastic novel What is the What. We were supposed to trade when we finished, but she couldn't read this book without wanting to tell me about each chapter. I finally read it a year later and am sorry I spent the previous year with just my wife's summary. Greene is a great writer --she mixes great storytelling with a ...

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