Opulent Nosh
A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites
Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing
Into the Unknown
High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World’s Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers
A Guide to the Bars and Restaurants of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
The Joyce of Everyday Life
Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
“For those interested in De Soto and his expedition, these volumes are an absolute necessity.” —The Hispanic American Historical Review
The Bravest Pets of Gotham
Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Reel Kabbalah
Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema
Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.