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by Anthony Bourdain  Publisher Comments Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard P Feynman Publisher Comments One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. What Do You Care What Other People Think? is Feynman's last literary... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gael Greene Publisher Comments An acclaimed restaurant critic dishes up a delectable memoir--complete with her favorite recipes--from a lifelong love affair with food, men, and wine. Two 8-page full-color inserts.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eduardo Machado Publisher Comments <B>Tender at the Bone meets Waiting for Snow in Havana in the Cuban kitchen: An acclaimed playwright turns his talents to memoir, recounting his life as an exile, in which recipes represent not only the lost comfort of home but the best chance to... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Bernstein Publisher Comments A gripping and authoritative account of the September 11th attack, its historical roots, and its aftermathFew news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rudolph Chelminski 
Powells.com Staff Pick In 2003 Bernard Loiseau's suicide made international headlines. The celebrated French chef's restaurant was rumored to potentially lose a coveted Michelin star, and the Gault Millau guidebook had recently lowered its rating. In a compelling look at the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Stern Publisher Comments In this laugh-out-loud culinary memoir, the Sterns tell the story behind their lifelong road trip, offering a front-seat view of smoke pits with velvet-soft pulled pork on the tables, boardinghouse-style restaurants whose lazy Susans are filled with... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeannette Ferrary Publisher Comments In the world of food, M.F.K. Fisher remains the patron saint. No one in our launguage has bestowed such dignity and such mythic dimension upon the taking of our daily bread. M.F.K. Fisher and Me takes us behind the persona of the woman who revolutionized... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Tucker Publisher Comments The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joel N. Shurkin Publisher Comments " Broken Genius is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the Twentieth century. Shockley won a Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor, upon which almost... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Buford
Powells.com Staff Pick Much like Anthony Bourdain's sensational account of the culinary trenches of Amercian restaurant kitchens, Bill Buford's Heat gives readers an authentic look at his tenure as "kitchen slave" to celebrity chef Mario Batali. Including chapters on Batali's... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Boulud Publisher Comments From the reinvention of French food through the fine dining revolution in America, Daniel Boulud has been witness to, and creator of, our contemporary food culture. A modern man with a classical foundation, he speaks with the authority that comes from a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stefan Gates Publisher Comments An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, "Gastronaut" is equal parts cookbook and quest book. This hilarious journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by A. Scott Berg Publisher Comments Twenty years of intimate conversations form the heart of this remarkable memoir — from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lindbergh and Goldwyn: A Biography. For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Birstein Publisher Comments This is a candid account of Ann Birstein's long, tumultuous marriage with Alfred Kazin, her struggle to become a respected writer, and of the evolution of a vibrant generation of intellectuals.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John B. Severance Publisher Comments Albert Einstein expanded the way we understand our universe and helped create a framework for modern physics with his groundbreaking theory of relativity. In this detailed and well-balanced biography, illustrated with exceptional archival photographs... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Evan Schwartz Publisher Comments In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. Many men have laid claim to the title "father of television," but... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linus Torvalds Publisher Comments "I was a nerd. Geek. From fairly early on. I didn't duct-tape my glasses together, but I might as well have, because I had all the other traits. Good at math, good at physics, and with no social graces whatsoever. And this was before being a nerd was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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