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  • Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean

    Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present

    by John B. Thornes, John Wainwright ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment
    The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment.Ideal for students who are studying a range of environmental issues, but want to see them ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Simple Cooking

    by John Thorne ...
    "Incisive, hilarious and occasionally nostalgic, this volume will delight many readers, reminding them why they enjoy the pleasures of food and cooking."*James Beard Foundation Book Award-winning author John Thorne's classic first collection is filled with straightforward eating, home cooking, vigorous opinions, and the gracefully intelligent writing that makes him a cult favorite of people who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How Baseball Happened

    Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

    by Thomas W. Gilbert ...
    The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Baseball in the Garden of Eden

    The Secret History of the Early Game

    by John Thorn ...
    Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again.Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright.But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Strike Four

    The Evolution of Baseball

    by Richard Hershberger ...
    Baseball began as a schoolyard game, brought to America by the colonists. It evolved rapidly over the second half of the nineteenth century, with innovations and rule changes continuing throughout the twentieth century and into the modern era. But why and how did these changes take place?In Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball, Richard Hershberger examines the national pastime’s development, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Pot on the Fire

    Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" ( Connoisseur). As the title suggests, it celebrates-and, in classic Thorne style, ponders, probes, and scrutinizes-a lifelong engagement with the elements of cooking, and elemental cooking from cioppino to kedgeree. John Thorne's curiosity ranges ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mouth Wide Open

    A Cook and His Appetite

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    "More than any book I've read, [ Mouth Wide Open ] illustrated the art and pleasure of cooking through bold and creative gestures in the kitchen." —David Takami, The Seattle TimesEver since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, pass... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hidden Game of Baseball

    by John Thorn, Pete Palmer ...
    The acclaimed classic on the statistical analysis of baseball records in order to evaluate players and win more games.Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #1

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 1 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Sep. 1992) - Fire Walk With Me review; Twin Peaks second season; promo cards; calendar; magazine checklist, Part 1. NOTE: This is the 1st Edition version of Issue #1. A second printing (with additional material) was released in October 1993.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #20

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 20 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Dec. 1995) - Interviews with K. Welsh (Windom Earle) with behind-the-scenes photos and Pamela Gidley (Strange Luck; Teresa Banks in FWWM); 1990 TP "Hotline" transcripts; "Moving Through Time: The Twin Peaks Cycle" (by Gregg Rickman); Frank Silva remembered; Duchovny on Celebrity Jeopardy.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #11

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 11 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Jun. 1994) - Interview with Al Strobel (Phillip "Mike" Gerard, The One Armed Man); "Unseen Twin Peaks" (analysis of script for episode 2001); review of Backbeat (Sheryl Lee).Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television series, Twin Peaks. WIP regularly featured in-depth analyses ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #4

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 4 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Apr. 1993) - Analysis of the Windom Earle/Dale Cooper Chess game (with Chess analysis by John Jacobs); reviews of Twin Peaks on video; FWWM box office summary.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television series, Twin Peaks. WIP regularly featured in-depth analyses of films (and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus