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  • 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    1968: The Year That Rocked the World

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world."--Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet...
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  • A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry

    A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers...
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  • A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny

    A penetrating analysis of the social, political, sexual, and cultural worlds that exist behind the four-color Caribbean travel posters. . . . Page after page of highly original insights.--Kirkus Reviews In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean,...
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  • Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media

    Mark Kurlansky's bestselling works of nonfiction view the history of the world through unexpected lenses, including cod, salt, and paper. In this new book for young readers his lens is the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and...
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  • Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media

    Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside...
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  • Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

    While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity...
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  • Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles

    By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of...
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  • Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

    Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish...
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  • City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife

    All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York's Central Park or Miami's Little Havana...
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  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

    For use in schools and libraries only. A witty romp through history uses the codfish as its main character, showing how cod became the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, while also questioning how depleted codfish stocks might affect the world's future, given...
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  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

    An unexpected, energetic look at world history via the humble cod fish from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World Cod, Mark Kurlansky's third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of...
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  • Frozen in Time (Adapted for Young Readers): Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea about Frozen Food by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Frozen in Time (Adapted for Young Readers): Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea about Frozen Food

    Nonfiction for kids interested in science, biography, and early entrepreneurs, this work explores the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry and changed the way people eat all over the world. Adapted from Mark Kurlansky's adult work Birdseye:...
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  • Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Havana: A Subtropical Delirium

    A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has...
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  • Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

    Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess...
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  • Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

    Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess...
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  • Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and...
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  • Paper: Paging Through History by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Paper: Paging Through History

    Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the...
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  • Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

    Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen. In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark...
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  • Salt: A World History by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Salt: A World History

    "Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt." - New York Times Book Review An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to...
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  • The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

    From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Birdseye, and Paper--the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a...
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  • The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

    "Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining."-The New York Times "A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster."-Rocky Mountain News Award-winning author Mark...
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  • The Cod's Tale: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World! by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Cod's Tale: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World!

    * "Accessible to middle-grade readers...The Cod's Tale considers how the cod fits into human history. Excellent ink drawings, brightened with colorful washes, illustrate incidents from the text with clarity, a flair for the dramatic, and a sense of humor."--Booklist, starred review What was it...
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  • The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food--Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food--Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

    From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples-featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world. As Julia Child once said, "It is...
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  • The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food from the Lost Wpa Files by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food from the Lost Wpa Files

    Recommended by Chef Jos Andr s on The Drew Barrymore Show A portrait of American food--before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional--from the lost WPA files.From the New York Times...
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  • The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (A unique Ernest Hemingway biography, Gift for writers) by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (A unique Ernest Hemingway biography, Gift for writers)

    In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. This memoir and biography contains an in-depth analysis of the places...
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  • The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town

    A marvelous, compelling tale(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod. Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of commercial fishing. But the threat of over-fishing, combined with climate change and pollution, is endangering...
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  • The Story of Salt by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Story of Salt

    T]his salutary...micro-history will have young readers lifting their shakers in tribute.--Kirkus Reviews, *starred review*A lively and well-researched title, with exemplary art.--School Library Journal, *starred review*From the team that created the ALA Notable Book The Cod's Tale comes the fascinating history of salt, which has...
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  • The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

    National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor LiteratureFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod-the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits,...
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  • The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

    National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of...
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  • The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories

    The White Man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstandings set in the Caribbean, New York, and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences, misjudge each other. Whether it is a sophisticated European filmmaker, an ambitious...
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  • World Without Fish by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    World Without Fish

    A KID'S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN "Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way...
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