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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

by Bee Wilson

Published: 2013-10-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious—or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. In Consider the Fork, award-winning...

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Consider the Lily

by Elizabeth Buchan

Published: 2005-09-27

Paperback: 469 pages

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Elizabeth Buchan garnered both praise and a loyal readership with the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman and The Good Wife Strikes Back. Now her many new fans can discover one of her beloved early novels. It is the summer of 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of...

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Consider This, Senora

by Harriet Doerr

Published: 1994-08-15

Paperback: 256 pages

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A Considerable Town

by M. F. K. Fisher

Published: 1978-04

Hardcover: 208 pages

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The author celebrates the city of Marseille, France. Its glory and wickeness, past and present; its life, its legends, its mystery. Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Light bumping and toning along bottom edge. Jacket has a few tears on the edges. Very Good/Good.

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Consigned to Death (Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries)

by Jane K. Cleland

Published: 2007-04-03

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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After a price-fixing scandal at her prestigious New York auction house, Josie Prescott moves to the New Hampshire coast to restore her reputation--and perhaps a few antiques along the way. As an antiques dealer, Josie knows how to make an honest assessment, and she's about to land her larg...

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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

by Edward Osborne Wilson

Published: 1999-03-30

Paperback: 384 pages

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"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the cro...

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Consolation: A Novel

by Michael Redhill

Published: 2006-08-29

Hardcover: 480 pages

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?There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind. . . .? These are among the last words of ...

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The Consolations of Philosophy

by Alain De Botton

Published: 2001-04-03

Paperback: 272 pages

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From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles.Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The...

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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

by Kurt Eichenwald

Published: 2005-12-27

Paperback: 784 pages

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From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever . . .Enron was a $100-billion-a-year com...

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A Conspiracy of Friends. by Alexander McCall Smith (Corduroy Mansions 3)

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2011-05

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has 'moved house' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so...