Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Cha...
Mark KurlanskyYou probably enjoy eating codfish, but reading about them? Mark Kurlansky has written a fabulous book--well worth your time--about a fish that probably has mattered more in human history than any other. The cod helped inspire the disc...
The Big Oyster: History on the Half S...
Mark KurlanskyAs he did previously in COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and in SALT: A WORLD HISTORY, historian Mark Kurlansky takes a unique, and rewarding, entry-point into the past, this time relating the rich social history of...
The Basque: History of the World
Mark KurlanskyThe buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbão aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ('A Basque or Navarrese would do in a French man for a copper coin') to current news items about ETA, the Basque n...
Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue of Pastry, Gui...
Mark KurlanskyIt'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 sh...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Danc...
Mark KurlanskyCan a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote "Dancing in the Street." The song was recorded at Motown's Hitsville USA Studi...
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Chang...
Mark KurlanskyThe intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Chang...
Mark KurlanskyThe intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.