Mark Kurlansky
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The cod has played a vital part in livelihoods, diets, and health in general - as well as roles in national economies and international wars. Drawing on his love of food and food culture, Mark Kurlansky leaps into history and folklore to explore how this innocuous fish had such an impact over the centuries. Kurlansky recounts how the cod spurred interest in the development of North America and caused a whole nation of people to jump into fishing and...
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Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Recommended by Chef José Andrés on The Drew Barrymore Show!
A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together;...
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English
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Over the course of one pivotal year, events that shaped American and world history took place: The North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive. Prague Spring began. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Students protested across the United States and around the world. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago was besieged by riots. Apollo 11 launched. And Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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"Until about 100 years ago, when modern geology revealed its prevalence, salt was one of the world's most sought-after commodities. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires and inspired revolutions. [This book] blends [these] economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records"--P. [4] of cover.
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English
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Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art. It has created civilizations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilizing of regimes. Witness history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Mao zhu xi yu lu, Quotations...
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English
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Can you imagine a world without fish' It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things!" Announcing the paperback edition of World Without Fish, the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account' for kids'of what is happening to the world's oceans and what they can do about it. Written by Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling...
7) Salt
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Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it. The fine balance of nature, the trade of salt as currency of many nations and empires, the theme of a popular Shakespearean play... Salt is bestselling author Mark Kurlansky's story of the only rock we eat. From its single origin, to the other discoveries made because of it, fascinating tales of salt and the people who have been involved with it through the age are interwoven
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English
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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other
Discover Hemingway's biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts.
The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky's life has always been intertwined...
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English
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"Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."?
p>In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing...
10) The cod's tale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The cod is a large, ugly fish that spends its life with its big mouth wide open for food. For centuries, so many cod lived in the Atlantic Ocean they couldn't swim without bumping into each other. They were so plentiful that they became the most important fish in many cultures. Best-selling author Mark Kurlansky brings history to life with this entertaining story of how a single fish changed the world.
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Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Mark Kurlansky's bestselling works of nonfiction view the history of the world through unexpected lenses, including cod, salt, and paper. In this new book for young readers his lens is the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Presents information about extinction in insects, looking at natural extinction as well as that caused by human activity, and offers suggestions on what people can do to help save insects.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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xxiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"From the award-winning, bestselling author of COD--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--andthe fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes...
14) The core of an onion: peeling the rarest common food - featuring more than 100 historical recipes
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions." Historically, she's been right-and not just in the kitchen. Flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and sauces, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Now they're Kurlansky's most flavorful infatuation yet as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns from...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"This biography--perfect for middle-grade readers--tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky's adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. Adventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. His limitless...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other discoveries made because of it, and tales of salt and the people who have been involved with it through the ages.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Author Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, Gotham's most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city's congested waterways. Filled with cultural,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 259 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend...