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Books by Jody Gladding






Translations from Bark Beetle
Poems
by Jody Gladding
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Milkweed Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-455-0, ISBN: 1-57131-455-5

"In this inspired new collection, acclaimed poet and translator Jody Gladding takes the physical, elemental world as her point of inquiry, examining how language arises from landscape, and deriving a lexicon for these poems from the rich offerings of the world around her. In some poems, Gladding steps into the role of translator, interpreting fragments left by bark beetle or transcribing raven calls. In others, poems take the form of phy ..."






Occupation Journal
by Jean Giono, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Archipelago
ISBN-13: 978-1-939810-56-4, ISBN: 1-939810-56-6

"A captivating literary and historical record, Jean Giono's Occupation Journal offers a glimpse into life in collaborationist France during the Second World War, as seen through the eyes and thoughts of one of France's greatest and most independent writers.Written during the years of France's occupation by the Nazis, Jean Giono's Occupation Journal reveals the inner workings of one of France's great literary minds during one of the count ..."






Yellow
The History of a Color
by Michel Pastoureau, Jody Gladding
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19825-5, ISBN: 0-691-19825-X

"From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau―a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red―now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow. Focusing on European societies, with comparisons from East Asia, India, Africa, and South America, Yellow ..."






If You Cross the River
A Novel
by Geneviève Damas, Geneviã¨Ve Damas, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-120-7, ISBN: 1-57131-120-3

"From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm’s length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family farm’s pigs; by night he manages the household chores. Still, François can’t help but wonder about the wider world and his place in it. Who was his m ..."






The Science of the Oven(Reprint)
(Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Herve This, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2012 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14707-1, ISBN: 0-231-14707-4

"Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its surface browns and it acquires taste and texture. What accounts for these extraordinary transformations?The answer: chemistry and physics. With his trademark eloquence and wit, Hervé This launches a wry investigation into the chemical art of ..."






The Severed Head
Capital Visions (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Jody Gladding, Julie Kristeva
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15720-9, ISBN: 0-231-15720-7

"Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work--the power of horror--and the ..."






Kitchen Mysteries(1st Edition)
Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Herve This, Jody Gladding, Hervac This, Ms Jody Gladding
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14170-3, ISBN: 0-231-14170-X

"An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herv& eacute; This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted widely by amateur cooks and professional chefs and has changed the way food is approached and prepared all over the world. In Kitchen Mysteries, Herve This offers a second helping of ..."






Winning the Food Fight(1st Edition)
How to Introduce Variety into Your Child's Diet
by Natalie Rigal, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2006 by Healing Arts Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-097-5, ISBN: 1-59477-097-2

"A child psychologist explains how to teach children to find pleasure in eating not only the foods they like, but also those that are good for them • Explains the negative attitudes children develop toward food and how to overcome these dietary aversions • Shows how a child’s natural instinct to experiment can provide the inspiration needed to broaden his or her food tastes • Translates the latest research in this field into practical su ..."






Album(Reprint)
Unpublished Correspondence and Texts (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Roland Barthes, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2019 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17987-4, ISBN: 0-231-17987-1

"Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection behind the composition of his works, as wel ..."






Virginia Woolf(1st Edition)
A Portrait
by Viviane Forrester, Jody Gladding, Carl Woodring
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15356-0, ISBN: 0-231-15356-2

"Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, ..."






Rimbaud the Son
(The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Pierre Michon, Jody Gladding, Elizabeth Deshays
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17265-2, ISBN: 0-300-17265-6

"A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography couldRimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation on the life of a legend as witnessed by ..."






Kitchen Mysteries
Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Herve This, Jody Gladding, Ms Jody Gladding, Hervac This
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2010 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14171-0, ISBN: 0-231-14171-8

"An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herv& eacute; This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted widely by amateur cooks and professional chefs and has changed the way food is approached and prepared all over the world. In Kitchen Mysteries, Herve This offers a second helping of ..."






The Science of the Oven(1st Edition)
(Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Hervé This, Jody Gladding, Ms Jody Gladding, Hervac This
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2009 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14706-4, ISBN: 0-231-14706-6

"Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its surface browns and it acquires taste and texture. What accounts for these extraordinary transformations?The answer: chemistry and physics. With his trademark eloquence and wit, Hervé This launches a wry investigation into the chemical art of ..."






Sacred Sacred Cow, Mad Cow(1st Edition)
A History of Food Fears (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Madeleine Ferrières, Jody Gladding, Madeleine Ferriã¨Res
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13192-6, ISBN: 0-231-13192-5

"Contemporary concerns about food such as those stemming from mad cow disease, salmonella, and other potential food-related dangers are hardly new-humans have long been wary of what they eat. Beyond the fundamental fear of hunger, societies have sought to protect themselves from rotten, impure, or unhealthy food. From the markets of medieval Europe to the slaughterhouses of twentieth-century Chicago, Madeleine Ferrières traces the origin ..."






A History of New York(1st Edition)
(Columbia History of Urban Life)
by Françoise Weil, Jody Gladding, Franã§Ois Weil, Franois Weil
Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2004 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12935-0, ISBN: 0-231-12935-1

"New York is not America, François Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and energy was once quite low in the political and social hierarchy. Weil takes on the New York of myth and offers a compelling chronicle of how it actually developed into a global city -- what some have called the capital of the twenty-first cent ..."






French Gastronomy(1st Edition)
by Jean-Robert Pitte, Jody Gladding
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12416-4, ISBN: 0-231-12416-3

"This we can be sure of: when a restaurant in the western world is famous for its cooking, it is the tricolor flag that hangs above the stove, opined one French magazine, and this is by no means an isolated example of such crowing. Indeed, both linguistically and conceptually, the restaurant itself is a French creation. Why are the French recognized by themselves and others the world over as the most enlightened of eaters, as the great g ..."






Evil and Exile(1st Edition)
Revised Edition
by Elie Wiesel, Jon Rothschild, Jody Gladding, Ms Jody Gladding
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-02758-2, ISBN: 0-268-02758-7

"A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Philippe de Saint-Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing tirelessly to remind an often indifferent world of its potenti ..."






The Devil's Cloth
by Michel Pastoureau, Jody Gladding, Sumit Ganguly
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2001 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12366-2, ISBN: 0-231-12366-3

"Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the religious order required its members to wear striped habits, prompting turmoil and denunciations in the West that lasted fifty years until the order was forced to a ..."






Red(1st Edition)
The History of a Color
by Michel Pastoureau, Jody Gladding
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17277-4, ISBN: 0-691-17277-3

"A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the agesThe color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word for red was ..."






Finding Dora Maar(1st Edition)
An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
by Brigitte Benkemoun, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2020 by Getty Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-60606-659-1, ISBN: 1-60606-659-5

"Merging memoir, biography, and cultural history, this distinctive book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907–1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1952, including twenty pages of phone numbers a ..."



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