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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679837051ISBN 13: 9780679837053
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. in full color. An apple pie is easy to make.if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat. Then hitch a ride to England and hijack a cow for the freshest possible milk. And, oh yes! Don't forget to go apple picking in Vermont! A simple recipe for apple pie is included.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0679454713ISBN 13: 9780679454717
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In 1761, at a boarding school in New England, a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant first met Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman. They began a long and intense relationship that would redefine North America. For nearly fifty years, their lives intertwined, at first as close friends but later as bitter foes. Kirkland served American expansion as a missionary and agent, promoting Indian conversion and dispossession. Brant pursued an alternative future for the continent by defending an Indian borderland nestled between the British in Canada and the Americans, rather than divided by them.By telling their dramatic story, Alan Taylor illuminates the dual borders that consolidated the new American nation after the Revolution. By constricting Indians within reservation lines, the Americans sought to control their northern boundary with the British Empire, which lingered in Canada. The border became firm as thousands of settlers established farms, held as private property, all around the new reservations. This struggle also pitted the federal government against the leaders of New York, competing to control the lands and the Indians of the border country. They contended for the highest of stakes because the transformation of Indian land constructed the wealth and the power of states, nations, and empires in North America.In addition to land, the frontier contest pivoted on murders, which repeatedly tested who had legal jurisdiction: Indians or newcomers. To assert power, the contending regimes sought to try and execute Indians or settlers who killed one another. To defend native autonomy, however, the Indians asserted an alternative by covering the graves of victims with presents to console their kin. When the gallows replaced covered graves, the Indians lost their middle position as free peoples.Taylor breaks with the stereotype of Indians as defiant but doomed traditionalists, as noble but futile defenders of ancient ways. In fact, the borderland Indians demonstrated remarkable adaptability and creativity in coping with the contending powers and with the growing numbers of invading settlers. Led by Joseph Brant, the natives tried to manage, rather than entirely to block, the process of settlement. Taylor shows that they did so in ways meant to preserve Indian autonomy and prosperity. Rather than sell lands for a song to governments, the Indians sought greater control and revenue by leasing lands directly to settler tenants. But neither the British nor the American leaders could accept Indians as landlords, as competitors in the construction of power from land in North America. Once a middle ground, the borderland became a divided ground, partitioned between the British Empire and the American republic.
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Published by Brand: New York (Alfred A. Knopf), 1997
ISBN 10: 0679446281ISBN 13: 9780679446286
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her own life, unfailing bravery. In an act of understanding and brilliant synthesis, Claire Tomalin reveals Jane Austen with a clarity never before achieved, one which makes us look upon her novels with fresh and even greater admiration.The world she wrote about--that place of civility and reassuring stability--was never quite her own. As Tomalin shows, Jane Austen's family existed on the very fringe of the world she described in her fiction, struggling to get ahead with little money and no land in the competitive society of Georgian England, sometimes succeeding but often failing with painful consequences. New research in family papers has yielded a rich, tragicomic picture of the Austen clan--their ambitions, their matrimonial alliances, their exotic connections with India and France. At the same time, Tomalin's explorations in local archives reveal a surprising view of the neighbors the family lived among in Hampshire, more extravagant and eccentric by far than anyone depicted in Austen's books. We realize how much closer her genius lies, in its splendid artifice, to the great comic operas of Mozart than to the main tradition of the English novel.But it is in the deeply human portrait of Jane Austen herself that this biography excels. The honesty and directness of her personality (perfect heroines made her "sick and wicked"), her strength in giving up a chance at marriage to follow the path her vocation as a writer required her to take, the warmth and long consistency of her relationship with her sister, Cassandra, the poignancy of her death--Claire Tomalin here captures, with unforgettable skill, the living character of a great writer who is read, reread, read again, and adored, now more than ever.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679441581ISBN 13: 9780679441588
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The tragic death of James Merrill in February 1995 coincided with the publication in hardcover of this, his last book of poems. "In these last poems, lucid, deft, fond, shrewd, faithful, Merrill once again reveals himself as our most visual poet, combining a superb eye with an unfailing ear."--Peter Davison, Boston Globe.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679430881ISBN 13: 9780679430889
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Karin Kretschmann (illustrator). Funny, outrageous, passionate, and unrelenting, Vogue's food writer, Jeffrey Steingarten, will stop at nothing, as he makes clear in these forty delectable pieces.Whether he is in search of a foolproof formula for sourdough bread (made from wild yeast, of course) or the most sublime French fries (the secret: cooking them in horse fat) or the perfect piecrust (Fannie Farmer--that is, Marion Cunningham--comes to the rescue), he will go to any length to find the answer.At the drop of an apron he hops a plane to Japan to taste Wagyu, the hand-massaged beef, or to Palermo to scale Mount Etna to uncover the origins of ice cream. The love of choucroute takes him to Alsace, the scent of truffles to the Piedmont, the sizzle of ribs on the grill to Memphis to judge a barbecue contest, and both the unassuming and the haute cuisines of Paris demand his frequent assessment.Inevitably these pleasurable pursuits take their toll. So we endure with him a week at a fat farm and commiserate over low-fat products and dreary diet cookbooks to bring down the scales. But salvation is at hand when the French Paradox (how can they eat so richly and live so long?) is unearthed, and a "miraculous" new fat substitute, Olestra, is unveiled, allowing a plump gourmand to have his fill of fat without getting fatter.Here is the man who ate everything and lived to tell about it. And we, his readers, are hereby invited to the feast in this delightful book.
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679431551ISBN 13: 9780679431558
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff's department.Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. As it follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals. Remembering Satan gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992
ISBN 10: 0679402306ISBN 13: 9780679402305
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993
ISBN 10: 067974813XISBN 13: 9780679748137
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A retrospective collection of the humorous, macabre artwork of Charles Addams features black-and-white drawings and full-color covers from "The New Yorker," in a selection that spans more than fifty years in Addams' career.
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679403108ISBN 13: 9780679403104
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Provides an in-depth study of the swashbuckling life and writing career of Antoine de Saint-Exupe+a7ry, discussing his role as a pioneering aviator, disastrous marriage, complex personal life, and literary work, including the classic, The Little Prince. 12,500 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
ISBN 10: 1400044162ISBN 13: 9781400044160
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe, Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professors beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olannas twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race-and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.
Published by Brand: Alfred A Knopf Canada, 2000
ISBN 10: 0676972993ISBN 13: 9780676972993
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The editors of Brick had the idea of celebrating the new century by asking contributors to the much-loved journal for short essays about their favourite "lost classics": books they treasured and would love to pass on to friends, but that are, for all intents and purposes, forgotten. The next issue contained 32 such essays - pithy, witty, passionate, surprising - which led to the idea of soliciting more, and celebrating again with a book.In Lost Classics you will find Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene - the "slightly ditzy" cousin of Graham; Robert Creeley, who admits that his choice - David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible - was never quite found, let alone lost; Helen Garner on the delightfully sinister Australian children's epic, The Journey of the Stamp Animals. You will also find Derek Lundy on two square-rigger sea tales by Frank T. Bullen; Sarah Sheard's hilarious ruminations on Down and Out in the Woods: An Airman's Guide to Survival in the Bush; as well as Wayne Johnston on two lost classics of Newfoundland; Ronald Wright on William Golding; Susan Musgrave on A.E. Housman; Jane Rule on Lucrecia P. Hale; Bill Richardson on a children's book for adults by Russell Hoban; Rudy Wiebe's moving appreciation of The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes; Harry Matthews on the rarest book he ever stole, and much, much more.Lost Classics includes approximately 80 contributors, with brief biographies of each, including an introduction and lost classics by the Brick editors themselves.
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
ISBN 10: 0679722106ISBN 13: 9780679722106
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Richard Ellis (illustrator). Descriptive accounts of common and rare species and of encounters between sharks and humans are accompanied by photographs, drawings, and paintings by the author.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
ISBN 10: 0394546849ISBN 13: 9780394546841
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. From the early light and magic shows to the latest in computer graphics, here is the first history of animations. Hundreds of illustrations feature animated characters from Betty Boop to Roger Rabbit. 500 illustrations with 350 in full color.
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0739474553ISBN 13: 9780739474556
Seller: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
ISBN 10: 0676970605ISBN 13: 9780676970609
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Lepage, Robert; Charest, Remy.
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
ISBN 10: 0852231881ISBN 13: 9780852231883
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
ISBN 10: 0883940450ISBN 13: 9780883940457
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
ISBN 10: 0788163590ISBN 13: 9780788163593
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679850961ISBN 13: 9780679850960
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000
ISBN 10: 0676972853ISBN 13: 9780676972856
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2004
ISBN 10: 0676976433ISBN 13: 9780676976434
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679424121ISBN 13: 9780679424123
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0224019252ISBN 13: 9780224019255
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new. Bayley, Nicola (illustrator).
Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971
ISBN 10: 0394401581ISBN 13: 9780394401584
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf BFYR, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679870776ISBN 13: 9780679870777
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976
ISBN 10: 081616441XISBN 13: 9780816164417
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