Browse by category
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
Category: History
To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; ...Show more
1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
Category: History
It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Chicago Convention, The Tet Offensive, the French student rebellion, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the birth of the Women's movement and the beginning of the end f ...Show more
A Moveable Feast 2e by Lonely Planet Food Staff; Anthony Bourdain; Matthew Fort; Stefan Gates; Don George; Mark Kurlansky; David Lebovitz; Matt Preston; Andrew Zimmern
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Life-changing food adventures around the world. From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishe ...Show more
BIG LIES : from Socrates to Social Media by Mark Kurlansky, Eric Zelz
Category: Children's Non Fiction
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 down, an ...Show more
Battle Fatigue by Mark Kurlansky
Category: Children's
Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel Bloom always played soldiers with his friends. But by the time he's eighteen, the Vietnam War is in full swing, and it's not as simple as the war games he played when he was a child. Old enough to be drafted, Joel loves his country, but he knows tha ...Show more
Big Oyster: New York in the World - A Molluscular History by Mark Kurlansky
Category: History
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 - his first New York real estate killing - he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770.From the Minuit purchase until centuries of pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s ...Show more
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
Category: Science
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 after thawing. As a res ...Show more
Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue by Mark Kurlansky
Category: Fiction
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose pare ...Show more
Boogaloo on Second Avenue by Mark Kurlansky
Category: Fiction
A vivid, funny, exuberantly textured debut novel about a tight-knit, ethnically diverse New York neighbourhood on the brink of change, from the bestselling author of Cod, Salt and 1968. It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenl ...Show more
Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Mark Kurlansky
Category: Educational
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 these four types o ...Show more
COD: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Category: History
"A loving eulogy not only to a fish, but to the people whose lives have been shaped by the habits of the fish, and whose way of life is now at an end". -- New York Newsday A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it ...Show more