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...

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...

Winner of the National Book Award for NonfictionAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a p...

Emotional intelligence is a profound and transformative concept that serves as a cornerstone for personal growth and self-discovery. At its essence, emotional intelligence involves the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions while also being attuned to the feelings of others. This awareness forms the bedrock of nurturing relationships, fostering empathy, and creating deeper connections with those around us. As we embark on the journey of self-improvement, cultivating emot...

Emotional intelligence is a profound and transformative concept that serves as a cornerstone for personal growth and self-discovery. At its essence, emotional intelligence involves the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions while also being attuned to the feelings of others. This awareness forms the bedrock of nurturing relationships, fostering empathy, and creating deeper connections with those around us. As we embark on the journey of self-improvement, cultivating emot...

2025 DONNER PRIZE FINALISTIs the Canadian government contributing to its own underperformance? An insider’s guide to steering our nation toward greater efficiencyCanada is struggling. Our growth is anemic, our standard of living is stagnant, our housing is unaffordable, and our health care system is nearing a breaking point. To make matters worse, the government fails to deliver core services and avoid management fiascos like the ArriveCan ...

Explore Twisted, the Python-based event-driven networking engine, and review several of its most popular application projects. It is written by community leaders who have contributed to many of the projects covered, and share their hard-won insights and experience.Expert Twisted starts with an introduction to event-driven programming, explaining it in the context of what makes Twisted unique. It shows how Twisted's design emphasizes testability as a solution to common chal...

This book provides a primer on the (a) dispute resolution system of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), (b) the U.S. Department of Education, IDEA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and (c) online resources to locate special education law. The book also provides a presentation of all policy letters on special education issued by the U.S. Department of Education in 2020 and a synopsis of all special education cases heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2020 broug...

The news industry is still dominated by men. Yet women have exercised leadership in journalism and related media professions in a variety of ways, from moral leadership to experimenting with structural and technological innovations and pioneering new formats to serve new audiences. This book offers a robust account of women’s leadership in journalism, looking at what motivated women to become media leaders, the obstacles they overcame, and the strategies they used to solve problems and han...

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and reprinted essays from Boston-area writers past and present, all celebrating the city...

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars f...