2025 Gourmand International Cookbook Award FinalistIngredient by ingredient, dish by dish, take a tantalizing tour of Georgia's signature foods"Taste the State Georgia and the regional foods within it can be a source of pride for people and communities.... This book will prepare you for your next Georgian culinary adventure and give you a bit of history on why southerners eat what they eat."—Mashama Bailey, chef and owner of...

Bitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick • Garden & Gun 2021 Best Southern Cookbooks pick • Forbes 2021 Best New Cookbooks For Travelers • 2021 Gourmand International Cookbook Award FinalistA vivid cultural history of South Carolina's most distinctive ingredients and signature dishesFrom the influence of 1920 fashion on asparagu...

In Deep Thoughts from the Shallow Pool, Canadian authorsKevin Mitchell and Keith Shular invite readers on a transformative journey through the human experience. This powerful collection of poems, quotes, and philosophical reflections explores the depths of self-reflection, love, grief, inspiration, and hope. Created to be a source of comfort, wisdom, and motivation, this book provides readers with the too...

Australian Jewel Beetles: An Introduction to the Buprestidae is a comprehensive overview of Australia’s buprestid fauna. It presents taxonomic, ecological and biogeographic information for all Australian genera, and their association with the world’s Buprestidae more widely. It explores plant-evolution dependencies, as well as threats and conservation for this diverse fauna.The authors bring together their extensive experience and understanding of the wealth of Australia’s...

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are—and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how...

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines respon...

NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTERThis is a special era in the history of tennis. The physicality and skill, as well as the commercial and public interest, have hit levels not seen before. At the heart of the game's growing appeal are four players: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Andy Murray. Never in the history of the game have so few players dominated for so long and it is their rivalry that makes this the 'Golden Age of Tennis'.However, in 2013, th...

25th February 1995The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennanTwo men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, unforgiving combat both in the ring and outside it. Ostensibly, they were fighting for a world title and a lot of money, the stuff of professional boxing. But this fight was different. It was a rare collision of wills, and few present had seen anything like it.After ten of the most gruelling and vicious rounds that the ...

In the realm of Caliban, a mystical island untouched by time, a tale of love, betrayal, and the eternal struggle between good and evil unfolds. Caliban, the deformed and outcast son of the witch Sycorax, yearns for acceptance and beauty. When he encounters Miranda, the daughter of the exiled Duke Prospero, a forbidden love blossoms. But their union is threatened by the machinations of Prospero, who seeks to control both Caliban and the island's destiny. As the lines between reality and ill...

One of the greatest sports figures of all time at last breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself.Number 4. It is just about the most common number in hockey, but invoke that number and you can only be talking about one player -- the man often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game: Bobby Orr.From 1966 through the mid-70s he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. Orr could do things that others simply couldn’t, and while teammates and o...

"A chilling account." New York TimesSHORTLISTED - Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction 2018This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell.Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis hope since Evonne Goolagong. She had exceptiona...

"A book full of aces....A true page-turner."— Associated Press"This is good stuff, and it's written with flair."— The OregonianHigh Strung by Stephen Tignor is the gripping untold story of the fiercest rivalry in the history of professional tennis. Viewed through the lens of the fabled 1981 U.S. Open match between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, High Strung brings the golden age of tennis vibrantly alive once more. A fascinatin...