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JPod
Douglas Coupland
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007
Excellent!
I've read many of Coupland's books and this is the one I liked best. I'm a bit surprised to find that not everybody agrees but then in many ways I'm not an average guy. Can't wait to read his newest book!
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Anthony Bourdain's "Les Halles" Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006
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 ...
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998
Gashlycrumb Tinies is Great!
I bought three of these books as gifts for three retiring teachers -- they are so funny. An ABC book of odd outcomes for students. Love them.
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Further Adventures in Search of Perfection
Heston Blumenthal
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007
Further Adventures in Search of Perfection
a recommended insight into a brilliant mind. Entertaining and informative text with good photography.Further Adventures in Search of Perfection
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Stanley Yelnats Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake
Louis Sachar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003
A Must-Have Companion to Holes
If you've read HOLES, this is the book for you. STANLEY YELNATS' SURVIVAL GUIDE TO CAMP GREEN LAKE is just what the title says, it's a survival guide. It has all types of chapters about everything that was discussed in the novel HOLES. Such as how to dig the perfect ...
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The River Cottage Fish Book
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Fisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007
If you liked the River Cottage Meat Book...
If you liked the River Cottage Meat book, you should also like this book. You will find informed and up to date discussions and commentaries on the sustainability of various fisheries as well as fish farming practices, some very nice recipes and, descriptions of fishes ...
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The Stone Carvers
Jane Urquhart
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002
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Faerie Lord (Faerie Wars)
Herbie Brennan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008
Possibly the very best of the Faerie Wars series
If you're like me, you couldn't stand the page-long chapters and countless viewpoint changes of the Purple Emperor. Ruler of the Realm was a great improvement but still left something to be desired. Yet this fourth book in the Faerie Wars series, Faerie Lord, goes back ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006
Calling all Corn People - READ THIS BOOK!
I read this book a little while ago and didn't have time to review it, but the essential messages keep popping into my consciousness as I go about my day-to-day life. Before reading this book, for example, I had never realized that Corn has cunningly taken over the ...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004
What in the world was I waiting for?
Most decidedly curmudgeonly! Yes, that's it. One of the few remaining people on the planet who hadn't read any of the Harry Potter novels and, like Vernon Dursley, my initial reaction to all this wizard and magic rubbish was a very mugglish "stuff and nonsense". I ...
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Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003
"The elimination of one generation means game over forever."
Set sometime in the future, this post-apocalyptic novel takes scientific research in the hands of madmen to its logical and frightening conclusion. Inspiring readers to pay more attention to the world around them, Atwood offers cautionary notes about the environment, ...
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Brillant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football
David Winner
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2001
the simplist pass is the hardest to make
this was the best book i have read about soccer. the only books i can usually find about soccer have to do with coaching and drills. if you are interested in soccer beyond this level, this is the book for you. i have always compared playing soccer to "playing" life. ...
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Madame De Maintenon: The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV
Veronica Buckley
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008
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In Search of Perfection
Heston Blumenthal
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006
A glorious culinary romp through one man's obsessive compulsive disorder
Yep, it's Alton Brown on steroids.
I am a big fan of Alton Brown, and now I have found an even greater hero: Heston!
Just one thing though - he scares the living daylights out of me - if he weren't in a kitchen the only safe place for him is a padded lockdown.
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Mediated
Thomas de Zengotita
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007
Message in a bottle
Like a modern-day Jonah, Thomas de Zengotita's "Mediated" updates Marshall McLuhan to deliver a new message about "the MEDIA" from the post-modern belly of the whale.
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