"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."- Steve MaraboliCharles McNamee's life was never destined to be a simple one, or easy one for that matter.Born during the heat of the Troubles, moved to a family farm with abusive uncles, kicked out of school and with little to call his own, he had one saving grace- His voice and the guitar.Throughout his life he would travel ac...

Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind.As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta while simultaneously explaining the basics of a kitten's physiological and psychological development. As ...

The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" (The New York Times)This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino, or mesclun. But it wasn't long before Waters and her motley coterie of dreamers inspired a new culinary standard incorporating ethics, polit...

A macskák, ezek a rejtélyes, titokzatos lények, az ezredfordulóra az ember talán legnépszerűbb háziállatai lettek, akik előszeretettel szegődnek mellénk lakótársul. A tudomány egyre több mindent tár fel arról, hogy vonzó külsejük mögött valójában milyen belső világ lakozik. Milyen érzelmeket táplálnak irántunk és egymás iránt? Mit akarnak közölni velünk? Mi húzódik meg hibbantnak tűnő és néha kiszámíthatatlan viselkedésük mögött? Mit várnak tőlünk, mit tehetünk azért, hogy jobb életük legy...

Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind.As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta while simultaneously explaining the basics of a kitten's physiological and psychological development. As...

A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf.The greatest event in Yellowstone history.Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth-until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The howl of the evil” wolf was heard no more. The good” animals-elk...