On Rue Tatin: the simple pleasures of life in a small French town

SUSAN HERMANN LOOMIS

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperCollins

A mouth-wateringly evocative memoir of a new life in Tuscany. Ferenc Mate and his painter wife Candace arrived from New York in the late 1980s, knowing almost no Italian and with only four weeks to find themselves a new home. After many (hilariously told) mishaps, they finally conclude the deal for their perfect house - an ancient farmhouse in the Tuscan hills - by drawing on the hood of a rusty tractor. Mate brings the real Tuscany to life: the neighbours, the countryside, country-life, the family farm down the road who virtually adopt them and teach them the Tuscan traditions of grape-picking, wine-making, mushroom hunting, woodcutting, the holidays and, of course, the almost never-ending, mouth-watering feasts. The Hills of Tuscany is a classic piece of rural escapism for urban dreamers. Witty and enticingly written, it offers a tempting invitation to readers to lose themselves in its lushness. Steeped in the mesmerizing Italian landscape, full of unforgettable characters, this book is an affirmation of traditions, friendship and the countryside - a celebration of life itself.

The Hills of Tuscany : A New Home in an Old Land

Travel

Ferenc Máté

Europe

Flamingo

All the mapping and information in this revised edition has been brought fully up to date to give an accurate picture of today's world. The recent declaration of Montenegro and Serbia as two independent countries is a significant change to the atlas. Detailed reference maps in the distinctive and respected Times style provide balanced, systematic coverage of all parts of the world. All maps have been fully revised to take account of any recent environmental and geopolitical changes. Major updates include Serbia and Montenegro being split into 2 independent countries, Naypyidaw—the new capital of Myanmar, the now open Golmud-Lhasa railway in Tibet, the Aral Sea continuing to shrink in size, Portugal's big new reservoir of Barragem de Alqueva, and coastal changes in China at the mouth of Huang He and at the Mouths of Ganges in Bangladesh. A large number of new road and railways have also been added and more than 300 place names changed This complete world reference atlas is in a convenient and easy-to use format, while retaining the authority, style, and detail of the larger atlases in the range.

The Times Compact Atlas of the World

Reference

Times UK

Atlases & Maps

HarperCollins UK

Presented in an elegant gold cover and slipcase, and printed on Forest Stewardship Council paper, this is the ultimate coffee table book and the world's most prestigious atlas—the perfect blend of tradition, authority, and style. The atlas begins with contributions from geographical experts, providing detailed information on the key issues facing the world today—climate change, environmental threats, global communications, biodiversity, and energy resources—with supporting maps, images, photographs, and graphics. The unique scope and breadth of the index—with more than 200,000 entries—also includes a comprehensive set of alternative spellings for place names and former names. This authoritative reference was reprinted with updates in 2008.

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (The Times Atlases)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'
Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns to tame and master the island, until he finally comes across another human being. Considered a classic literary masterpiece, and frequently interpreted as a comment on the British Imperialist approach at the time, Defoe's fable was and still is revered as the very first English novel.

Robinson Crusoe (Collins Classics)

Children's Books

DEFOE, DANIEL

Education & Reference

William Collins

#1 New York Times Bestseller
“No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one’s own life and its value.” — New Republic
Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds—the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help. A tale of astonishing bravery and adventure, Alive is much more than a survival story, it is a breathtaking saga of human courage The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Alive

Read, Piers Paul

Historical

Harper Perennial

Note: The font size of the text in the book is 11.5 ptA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.
This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Health, Fitness & Dieting

PIRSIG, Robert M.

Mental Health

Mariner Books Classics

Whether you live below the Mason Dixon Line or just wish you did, The Southerner’s Handbook is your guide to living the good life. Curated by the editors of the award-winning Garden &amp; Gun magazine, this compilation of more than 100 instructional and narrative essays offers a comprehensive tutorial to modern-day life in the South.
From Food and Drink to Sporting &amp; Adventure; Home &amp; Garden to Style, Arts &amp; Culture, you'll discover essential skills and unique insight from some of the South’s finest writers, chefs, and craftsmen—including the secret to perfect biscuits, how to wear seersucker, and to the right way to fall off of a horse.
You'll also find: Roy Blount Jr. on telling a great story; Julia Reed on the secrets of throwing a great party; Jonathan Miles on drinking like a Southerner; Jack Hitt on the beauty of cooking a whole hog; John T Edge on why Southern food matters; and much more.
As flavorful, authentic, and irresistible as the land and the people who inspire it, The Southerner's Handbook is the ultimate guide to being a Southerner (no matter where you live).

The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life (Garden & Gun Books, 1)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Editors of Garden and Gun

Baking

Harper

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, 6e is designed to provide students in a first or second GIS course with a solid foundation in both GIS concepts and the use of GIS. Introduction to GIS strikes a careful balance between GIS concepts and hands-on applications. The main portion of the chapter presents GIS terms and concepts and helps students learn how each one fits into a complete GIS system. At the end of each chapter, an application section with 2-7 tasks presents students with actual GIS exercises and the necessary data to solve the problem.

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Kang-Tsung Chang

McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)

This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. "Natural Disasters" is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works.
Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained:
* energy sources underlying disasters
* plate tectonics and climate change
* Earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere
* significance of geologic time
* complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously
* detailed and readable case histories.
The text aims to explain important principles about the Earth and then develop further understanding through numerous case histories. The book includes recent happenings such as the Western United States wildfires during the summer 2000 and the Los Alamos prescribed burn, also occurring in 2000.

Natural Disasters

Science & Math

Abbott, Patrick Leon

Earth Sciences

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.

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