The story of the cartel that brutally took over Mexico and whose drugs kill thousands of Americans.This authoritative guide is the first book to tell the complete history of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG). Beginning as a family of ambitious avocado farmers in southern Mexico, the CJNG has transformed into a squad of masked avengers executing their enemies, ruthless synthetic drug experts, and now a continent-spanning drug cartel, flooding the United State...

The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha.In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature. In The Tale of Murasaki*,* Liza Dalby has created a breathtaking fictionalized narrative of the life of this tim...

Neglected vampire classics – including tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott and others. Selected by Richard Dalby and introduced by Brian J. Frost.In 1897, Bram Stoker’s iconic DRACULA redefined the horror genre and had a significant impact on the image of the vampire in popular culture. But encounters with the undead were nothing new: they had electrified readers of Gothic fiction since even before Victorian times.DRACULA’S BRETHREN is a tribute to those earl...

Cheese is one of the most ancient of civilized foods and one of the most nourishing. Despite its many uses and variations, there has never been a global history of cheese, but here at last is a succinct, authoritative account, revealing how cheese was invented and where, when and even why.In bite-sized chapters well-known food historian Andrew Dalby tells the true and savoury story of cheese, from its prehistoric invention to its modern rebirth. Here you will find the most ancient ...

What happens when you place a nonconfrontational introvert in the passenger seat of a police cruiser? Anything, everything, and a lot of notes!Fragments Observed: Lessons Learned on Patrol follows how one novelist's quest to create authentic Mobile Police Department characters morphed into logging more than 150 hours of patrol time with the city's finest. Each twelve-hour shift with MPD opened Carrie's eyes to the depth of the issues plaguing residents across the Azalea Ci...

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers-these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world’s leading vampire anthologists and ex...

Fifteen and suffocating in her sister's shadow, Mary Weber struggles to claim her own identity-and the attention of a guy at school. No matter what she does or where she goes, Mary never feels she measures up to her older sister's legacy.Ben Thomas, a seventeen-year-old neighbor on the autism spectrum, crosses paths with Mary. He fights against the weight of his rigid lifestyle because he doesn't want his sensory issues to block their road to friendship.An unlikely relation...

Balancing your pH can be pH-enomenally easy, tasty, and healthyKeeping your pH levels in line sounds like something you'd need an advanced chemistry degree to understand—but it's not! In The One-Pot Alkaline Diet Cookbook you'll learn how to replace acid-heavy foods with alkalized nutrients in a simple and delicious way. Get first-rate health benefits—including weight loss, improved digestion, reduced inflammation, and more—all in a single pot.This...

A classic Thomas & Friends story from 1948 starring James the Red Engine for the youngest Thomas & Friends fans. Train-loving boys and girls will be captivated by the classic illustrations, which perfectly capture the personalities of James and the engines in this adventure.

Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style.In the pages of The Cottage Garden, you’ll first draw inspiration from the stories and landscapes of generations of famous cottage gardeners, including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, Margery Fish, and Tasha Tudor. Then, me...

Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number of sets and subsets within which the relationship of languages to one another is locally apparent and uncontroversial. The volume presents the languages in classified order with notes on each language, their variant names and immediate classification, and reference to the sources consulted. One section offers an exhaustive list of the languages...

The most important meal of the day is also one of the most diverse. Breakfast varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to start the day with eggs, cereal and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and the Yoruba enjoy maize porridge and beans. But while we know that you drink tea with your eggs and bacon in Britain and hot chocolate with churros in Spain, we don’t know...