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For fans of Italian wine, few names command the level of respect accorded to Brunello di Montalcino. Expert wine writer Kerin O'Keefe has a deep personal knowledge of Tuscany and its extraordinary wine, and her account is both thoroughly researched and readable. Organized as a guided tour through Montalcino's geography, this essential reference also makes sense of Brunello's complicated history, from its rapid rise to the negative and positive effects of the 2008 grape-blending scandal dubbed "Brunellogate." O'Keefe also provides in-depth profiles of nearly sixty leading producers of Brunello.
Wine and wine making --- Alcoholic beverages --- Intoxicants --- Alcohol --- Beverages --- Enology --- Oenology --- Vinification --- Wines --- Grape products --- Fruit wines --- Viticulture --- books about wine. --- brunello di montalcino. --- brunello producers. --- easy to read. --- educating while reading. --- engaging. --- gifts for friends. --- gifts for moms. --- grape blending. --- guides to wines. --- history of wine. --- home making. --- house style wine. --- how to make wine. --- italian wines. --- learning from experts. --- leisure reads. --- plane reads. --- political. --- sommelier books. --- things to do during quarantine. --- to read wine. --- tuscany wine. --- understanding wine. --- vacation reads. --- whats a good wine. --- wine and collecting. --- wine lovers. --- wine making.
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Veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that traces the rustic cuisine to its roots in a history of multiple migrations. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California, Anusasananan travels to her family's home in China, and from there fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe-including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Peru, and beyond. More than thirty home cooks and chefs share their experiences of the Hakka diaspora as they contribute over 140 recipes for everyday Chinese comfort food as well as more elaborate festive specialties.This book likens Hakka cooking to a nomadic type of "soul food," or a hearty cooking tradition that responds to a shared history of hardship and oppression. Earthy, honest, and robust, it reflects the diversity of the estimated 75 million Hakka living in China and greater Asia, and in scattered communities around the world-yet still retains a core flavor and technique. Anusasananan's deep personal connection to the tradition, together with her extensive experience testing and developing recipes, make this book both an intimate journey of discovery and an exciting introduction to a vibrant cuisine.
Cooking, Chinese --- Hakka (Chinese people) --- Chinese diaspora. --- Chinese --- Diaspora, Chinese --- Human geography --- Hakkas --- Hokka (Chinese people) --- Ke (Chinese people) --- Kechia (Chinese people) --- Kejia (Chinese people) --- Ethnology --- Hakka cooking --- Hakka style. --- Diaspora --- Migrations --- Hakka style --- asian cookbooks. --- asian cuisine. --- chef experiences. --- china and cooking. --- chinese cooking. --- chinese cuisine. --- chinese recipes. --- chinese soul food. --- comfort food. --- cook in the kitchen. --- cookbook. --- culinary. --- developing recipes. --- engaging. --- food. --- gifts for friends. --- gifts for moms. --- hakka cooking. --- hakka culture. --- how to cook. --- informative books. --- learning from chefs. --- new cooking recipes. --- recipes to try during quarantine. --- rustic cuisine. --- things to do during quarantine. --- to try cookbooks. --- vibrant cuisine. --- western food. --- what is hakka. --- Cooking, Hakka.
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After thirty years of leading culinary tours throughout Mexico, Marilyn Tausend teams up with Mexican chef and regional cooking authority Ricardo Muñoz Zurita to describe how the cultures of many profoundly different peoples combined to produce the unmistakable flavors of Mexican food. Weaving engrossing personal narrative with a broad selection of recipes, the authors show how the culinary heritage of indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans coalesced into one of the world's most celebrated cuisines.Cooks from a variety of cultures share recipes and stories that provide a glimpse into the preparation of both daily and festive foods. In a Maya village in Yucatán, cochinita de pibil is made with the native peccary instead of pig. In Mexico City, a savory chile poblano is wrapped in puff-pastry. On Oaxaca's coast, families of African heritage share their way of cooking the local seafood. The book includes a range of recipes, from the delectably familiar to the intriguingly unusual.
Cooking, Mexican. --- Cooking. --- Cookery --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Cookery, Mexican --- Mexican cooking --- american history. --- books for food lovers. --- books for history lovers. --- coffee table books. --- cookbook. --- cooking. --- easy to read. --- educational books. --- engaging. --- european history. --- evolution of food. --- food and wine. --- food cultures. --- food studies. --- foodies. --- gastronomy history. --- gifts for friends. --- gifts for mom. --- history of food. --- home cooks. --- interesting food dishes. --- learning while reading. --- mexican cookbook. --- mexican cuisine. --- mexican culture. --- mexican dishes. --- mexican history. --- politics and food. --- recipes to try during quarantine.
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Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950's. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré intellectual.
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Theorie des Films. --- Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures -- History. --- Motion pictures --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Film reviews --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture reviews --- Movie reviews --- Reviews of motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- 1950s america. --- 20th century. --- american and european cinema. --- biographical novels. --- book club reads. --- books for movie lovers. --- cinema trends. --- differences in american and european film. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- film and cinema. --- film critic books. --- film history. --- film theory. --- gifts for friends. --- history of cinema. --- history. --- how to be a movie critic. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reads. --- page turner. --- performing arts. --- political trends in film. --- postwar history. --- siegfried kracauer. --- speakeasy. --- vacation reads. --- walter benjamin.
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Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers-Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J. R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in their lives as well as in their works. Not only did they live outside the norms of the heterosexual family unit, they also pursued and wrote about alternative lifestyles that prominently involved animals. Through close readings from a feminist perspective, Juliana Schiesari reconfigures the ways in which interspecies relationships inflect domestic spheres, reading the "Other" through the lens of gender, home, and family. As she explores how domestic life is refigured by the presence of animals, Schiesari challenges anthropocentric frames of reference and brings the very definition of "human" into question.
Social values in literature. --- Social structure in literature. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Pets in literature. --- Animals in literature. --- Ackerley, J. R. --- Colette, --- Barnes, Djuna --- Wharton, Edith, --- Jones, Edith Newbold --- Olivieri, David, --- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, --- Уортон, Эдит, --- Gouorton, Intith, --- Colette --- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle --- Willy, Colette --- Jouvenel, Gabrielle Claudine Colette de --- Gauthier-Villars, Henry --- Goudeket, Maurice --- Koleta --- Colettová --- Jouvenel, Henri de --- קולט, --- コレット, --- Willy, --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Ackerley, Joe Randolph, --- Ackerley, Joe, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Willy --- american and european culture. --- american literature criticism. --- book club books. --- books about home life. --- books about human behavior. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- feminist perspective. --- forms of domesticity. --- gender home and family. --- gender roles in american history. --- gifts for friends. --- gifts for moms. --- great for reluctant readers. --- human interaction. --- intense emotion. --- leisure reads. --- page turner. --- realistic. --- social stereotypes. --- vacation reads. --- what is human behavior.
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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution-at once museum, laboratory, and prison-of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation's capital-an institutional marker of national accomplishment-but also as a site for the propagation of a new "natural" order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan's unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan's most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet's resources.
Nature and civilization --- Philosophy of nature --- Zoos --- Civilization and nature --- Civilization --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Gardens, Zoological --- Zoological gardens --- Zoological parks --- Parks --- History. --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan). --- Tōkyō-to Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) --- Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) --- Ueno Zoo (Tokyo, Japan) --- Ueno Zoological Gardens (Tokyo, Japan) --- Ueno Dobutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) -- History.. --- Zoos -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.. --- Philosophy of nature -- Japan -- History.. --- Nature and civilization -- Japan -- History. --- books about the environment. --- books for history lovers. --- books for reluctant readers. --- east asian history. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- gifts for friends. --- global history. --- historical novels. --- history and politics. --- humans and natural environment. --- imperial zoological gardens. --- japanese culture. --- japanese empire. --- japanese history. --- japanese politics. --- japanese zoos. --- japans emergence into the world. --- leisure reads. --- modernization of japan. --- natural environment. --- rapid modernization. --- shaping japan. --- vacation books. --- zoology. --- Ueno Dobutsuen (Tokyo, Japan)
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Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
Legends --- Music --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- History --- Social life and customs --- United States --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- 1848-1950 --- West (U.S.) - Social life and customs - 20th century. --- aaron copland. --- american culture. --- book club books. --- books about music composers. --- books for music lovers. --- books for reluctant readers. --- career. --- culture and music. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- evolution of american music. --- gifts for friends. --- history. --- how to become a musician. --- how was music created. --- learning about american music history. --- music books. --- music evolution. --- page turner. --- performing arts. --- politics in the music world. --- the wild west. --- theater. --- vacation reads. --- what was the wild west.
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"Richard C. Atkinson was named president of the University of California in August 1995, barely four weeks after the UC Regents voted to end affirmative action. How he dealt with the admissions wars--the political, legal, and academic consequences of that historic and controversial decision, as well as the issue of governance--is discussed in this book. Another focus is the entrepreneurial university--the expansion of the University's research enterprise into new forms of scientific research with industry during Atkinson's presidency. The final crisis of his administration was the prolonged controversy over the University's management of the Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear weapons research laboratories that began with the arrest of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee on charges of espionage in 1999. Entrepreneurial President explains what was at stake during each of these episodes, how Atkinson addressed the issues, and why the outcomes matter to the University and to the people of California. Pelfrey's book provides an analysis of the challenges, perils, and limits of presidential leadership in the nation's leading public university, while bringing a historical perspective to bear on the current serious threats to its future as a university"--
EDUCATION / General --- Nuclear energy --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Research --- Laboratories --- Management. --- Atkinson, Richard C. --- אטקינסון, ריצ׳ארד ק. --- University of California (System) --- University of California (1868-1952) --- Presidents --- History. --- affirmative action history. --- book club books. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- educating while reading. --- engaging. --- entrepreneurs during quarantine. --- gifts for friends. --- history in the 90s. --- history of public universities. --- how to be a good leader. --- how to be an entrepreneur. --- keeping your small business alive. --- keys to entrepreneurship. --- leading during uncertain times. --- learning from experts. --- leisure reads. --- page turner. --- starting your own business. --- struggles of being a leader. --- university of california. --- vacation reads.
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This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.
Food science and technology --- Plant husbandry --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Regional documentation --- Japan --- Coffee --- Coffeehouses --- Popular culture --- Café --- Cafés --- Culture populaire --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Japon --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- J4152 --- J4536 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- food --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- restaurants and bars --- Café --- Cafés --- Coffea --- Coffea arabica --- Psychotropic plants --- Rubiaceae --- Seed crops --- Coffee bars --- Coffee-houses --- Restaurants --- Social life and customs. --- Coffee - Social aspects - Japan. --- Coffee -- Social aspects -- Japan. --- Coffeehouses -- Social aspects -- Japan. --- Coffeehouses - Social aspects - Jpaan. --- Japan - Social life and customs. --- Japan -- Social life and customs. --- Popular culture - Japan. --- Popular culture -- Japan. --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- 20th century japan. --- asian coffee. --- asian history. --- books about coffee. --- books for coffee lovers. --- books for traveling. --- brazilian coffee. --- coffee and tea. --- coffee art. --- coffee brewing. --- coffee culture. --- coffee markets. --- coffee table books. --- creation of coffee shops. --- discussion books. --- evolution of coffee. --- gifts for friends. --- gifts for parents. --- history of coffee shops. --- history of coffee. --- informative books. --- japan and coffee. --- japanese cafes. --- japanese coffee. --- japanese history. --- leisure reads. --- pass on books.
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In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a spate of bad films, industry executives decided that the public was fed up with the movies. Jurca describes their desperate attempt to win back audiences by launching Motion Pictures' Greatest Year, a massive, and unsuccessful, public relations campaign conducted in theaters and newspapers across North America. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, she analyzes what was wrong-and right-with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - History - 20th century. --- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century. --- Motion picture audiences - United States - History. --- Motion picture audiences -- United States -- History. --- Motion picture industry - Economic aspects - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century. --- Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century. --- Motion pictures - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century. --- Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century. --- Motion pictures --- Motion picture audiences --- Motion picture industry --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- History --- Economic aspects --- Audiences --- History and criticism --- 1930s america. --- book club reads. --- books for moviegoers. --- cinema lovers. --- cinema. --- classical hollywood. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- film history hollywood. --- gifts for friends. --- heralded decade. --- history. --- hollywood history. --- hollywood. --- how to succeed in hollywood. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reading. --- motion pictures. --- movie industry. --- movie lovers. --- nostalgic. --- page turner. --- political. --- problems in hollywood. --- school. --- start of hollywood. --- students and teachers. --- theatre. --- vacation books. --- History. --- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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