A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman. "In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture...

A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, "one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation." In this capstone to that creation, we find the chronology of Middle-earth's later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. These early...

Works on joy and sorrow, life and love, by Kahlil Gibran, one of the most celebrated modern philosophers In this magnificent volume, Gibran's writings have been translated from their native Arabic to English by Anthony Rizcallah Ferris. The collection includes The Broken Wings, an exquisitely tender, poetic love story; The Voice of the Master, a remarkable study of life; and Thoughts and Meditations, containing Gibran's spiritual message to the world....

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La literatura tiene la función transformadora de habitarnos en la palabra. Ahí nos desgarra y nos devuelve conscientes del dolor que no es nuestro, pero nos pertenece. Estos relatos reconstruyen la memoria desde la entraña porque no hay mayor cercanía que sentirse lejos. Las y los autores de origen mexicano que radican en tierras canadienses muestran la herida viva de la violencia estructural que, sutil, encuentran su fuerza en la construcción...

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A collection of Rebecca West's early journalistic writings reveals her clarity of mind, severity of wit, and relevancy in today's modern world. In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on one of the foremost feminist and political thinkers of our time. West's essays, reviews, and public correspondence tackle many subjects, including politics, suffrage, education, morality...

"This book is born to let our soul realize that somewhere deep in us, we have the demon trying to hide in everyone. We have our own red flags trying to forget. Nevertheless, not always we can fight the urge to seal it. And some consequences of that action are heavy. That's why this book was created. To help beings like you understand that everyone has a red flag. And it is ok! Because everyone is not a fictional character that has perfect attributes....