Life à la Henri is the delightful memoir-with-recipes of Henri Charpentier, the world's first celebrity chef. First published in 1934, the book traces Henri's career from his days as a scrap of a bellboy on the French Riviera and a quick-witted apprentice in a three-star kitchen (when he invented crêpe suzette) to his sailing for New York to open his renowned namesake restaurants that introduced many to the glories of haute cuisine. Life à la Henri is a memorable portrait of a top-flight r...

“Alfred Sloan’s Adventures of a White-Collar Man was published in 1940. Much has happened in the intervening decades... One might be forgiven for wondering whether a book written so long ago has anything to offer the modern reader...Such skepticism would be mistaken.Adventures is... an epic saga, a rags-to-riches story of a group of plucky eccentrics who, on fire for opportunity, began by building horseless carriages in backyards and toolsheds and ended up...

"There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the scope of the storm's impact as well as the local and national response to it. In Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective, American and European scholars approach this infamous storm and its...