"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 ..."
"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, JodyGladding 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 ..."
"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, JodyGladding 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, JodyGladding, 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, JodyGladding, Hervac This, Ms JodyGladding 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, JodyGladding 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, JodyGladding 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 ..."
"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, ..."
"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, JodyGladding, Ms JodyGladding, 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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, JodyGladding 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, JodyGladding 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 ..."