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288. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 09/04/09
289. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 09/04/09
290. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky 09/05/09 290. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky 09/05/09 Six Nonfiction works from my TBR List
1. The Canon
2. The Planets
3. Lost for Words
4. Salt
5. Basque History of the World
6. Perfect Summer Salt does sound interesting. But I rarely read non-fiction because it is such slow going for me, especially given Laura's comments. I'm interested to see how the reading of it goes for you. >44- Too funny. You and I have almost polar opposite opinions of Salt and History of the world in six glasses (the latter I admit I'm still only about halfway through - I'm somewhere in the rum/liquor section).
I keep thinking that 6 Glasses will have more continuity, but I feel that the ... ... Quake of 1906
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of its Greatest Inventors
Salt: A World history
Voyage of the Damned
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
6) Book Club Books
7) Random Books from my Unread Shelf
... I would recommend Salt by Mark Kurlansky at a different way of seeing history and how unlikely things affect it.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini for a look at another society to learn about redemption
A River Runs through It by Norman Maclean because it's great
I second Animal Farm. It ... Not necessarily about food, by I liked Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky as well as Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, also by Mark Kurlansky. Food figures prominently in the histories. 553 Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Starting with ancient Chinese and Egyptian societies and working up to modern day multinational corporations, this book explorers the role salt has played throughout civilization. Trying to survey the intersection of a single common commodity and world history ... ... to buckyballs to Buckmister Fuller to home design to Frank Lloyd Wright?
Hmm. As I describe that, I wonder if books like Salt aren't as much a consequence of the internet as anything else. ... Degas' Horse
543 Spectra of Atoms and Molecules
550 The Map that Changed the World
551 Waves and Beaches
553 Salt: A World History
557 Annals of the Former World
559 Roadside Geology of Hawai'i
560 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale
569 Mammoth: The resurrection ... double post ... the world
551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology Krakatoa: the day the world exploded
553 Economic geology Salt: a world history
570 Life Sciences Experimental design and analysis for biologists
571 Physiology Essential cell biology
572 Biochemistry ... Well, if I can count library books, I checked out The Lost Queen, Salt: A World History, Full Dark House, Man's Search for Meaning, Laugh Lines, The Prince Lost to Time - which is the second in a series, and the library doesn't have the first one, I hate that! - Good Little Wives, and ... ... 'Physical Geography for Schools' by Bernard Smith (no touchstone) which looks fascinating but easy to read, and 'borrowed' Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky from my stepdad's stack of books. My mum is increasingly concerned that I may becoming as anoraky as him... :-) ... Dan Koeppel is yet another entry in the single-subject world of non-fiction. The narrowness of focus in books such as Salt and Cod and The Book on the Bookshelf and The Pencil and Longitude seems to be an increasingly preevalent trend in publishing. I am all for it on one level, ... I haven't been reading any food books yet, but I just got Salt: A World History from the library and I have Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin to read too.
How's the 'diet' going? ... notes should probably mention that herbs and spices, as they relate to food and cooking, should be included. So, the book Salt should go in food history. Books on growing herbs though should go in gardening. ... rather complicated to explain.
This new book, with its competing ideologies, made me think back to Adam Robert's Salt which presented competing ideologies but through different colonies on the same planet. The McAuley is more complex, better characters, i think; and heavy in ... People either love it or hate it, but I'd recommend Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky for your food category. For your "9" category, I'd suggest Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks, which I'm reading for 999 myself. :-) ... Basque History of the World and really enjoyed it, and have eyed 1968 several times in book shops. Somehow Cod and Salt do not appeal as much! Thanks for the review - I'm adding it to my library book list. #61: Sanddancer, I read both The Basque History of the World and Cod by Kurlansky last year. I have not yet read Salt by him. ... I suppose, but glad it isn't all gore.
Alcottacre - Which books of Kurlansky's have you read? I quite fancy reading Salt from what I've read about it. I never really knew I had an interest in commodity histories until I flew to Hawaii and read Salt: A World History the entire way. Everybody thought I was nuts because I kept going on about all the things I didn't know about salt. ... {6/20}
8. The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman {7/18}
9. Relativity by Albert Einstein {7/25}
10. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky {9/5}
11. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan {10/5}
12. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du B ... ... Service by David Stafford
1776 by David McCullough
Speeches that Changed the World by Smith Davies Publishing
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
The book of Finger Foods by Hilaire Walden Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Mint Julep Murder by Carolyn G. Hart
Spiced to Death by Peter King
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
Joe Pepper ny Elmer Kelton ... :
Soul Music
Interesting Times
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Long Way Gone
Salt
Mayflower
After that, it goes out of control. I loved Salt. My siblings made fun of me because it sounded so boring, but the author has a knack for telling history. ... over all the books I haven't read, and desperately need to... so I need to stay away from bookstores.
* Small Gods
* Salt
* Witches Abroad
And that was after an hour of near-hysterical negotiations on why I didn't need $200 worth of books, but I DO need a savings account. Stupid ... ... Dean Karnazes
# 23 Becoming an Ironman by Kara Douglass Thom
# 24 Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin
# 25 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
# 26 Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
# 27 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
# 28 Sku ... TN: Salt
... All of his favourite books have had a one word title (though usually with a longer explanatory sub-title) eg. Cod and Salt by Mark Kurlansky, Scurvy by Stephen Bown, Mauve by Simon Garfield and so on and so forth. The one-word title is a running joke in our family. What I mostly ... Salt: a World History / Mark Kurlansky. Salt by Mark Kurlansky is absolutely fantastic, and it's fun when people give you questioning looks for reading about salt. Actually anything by Kurlansky is an enjoyable read.
I've always head good stuff about lies my teacher told me but I've never gotten a chance to read it. Hallowed Grou ... Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky ... animals. Has to be an obvious food/bev reference, but the book's subject should NOT be that food or beverage. So Salt: A World History is out.
I'd really like to see more classics and better-known books, if possible. There seem to be a zillion mysteries with food titles, but they ... Salt: A World History
Spice: The History of a Temptation
The Sugar Queen
Table for Five
Chile Death
Sugarplums and Scandal
Latte Trouble
Killing the Goose
The Chocolate Jewel Case (and all of her other "chocolate' mysteries)
The Key Lime Pie Murder (and her other food-re ... ... are very good thus far.
Rachel's books about Bananas and Cod both sound interesting, along with Kurlansky's book about Salt, all three of which I hope to read at some point ... ... 9/10
2. Libra Rating: 9/10
3. The Road Rating: 10/10
4. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing Rating: 7/10
5. Salt - A World History Rating: 7/10
6. Ubik Rating: 8/10
7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Rating: 8/10
I ... 97 ways to make a baby laugh/A Wrinkle in Time
The Sugar House/Salt
The Elements of Grammar/Me Talk Pretty One Day
A Circle of Quiet/Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Fountainhead/Deserts Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
The Road to Samarcand by Patrick O'Brian
The War on the Bill of Rights--and the Gathering Resistance by Nat Hentoff
The Song Before it is Sung by Justin Cartwright Salt: a world history by Mark Kurlansky. ... slanted books. Most of this has to do with my seminary work, but also I've read som Civil war history and fun books like Salt. Also I've been branching out into novels like The curious incident of the dog in the night-time; I can't define that genre.
I would say for a biography/history ... Salt: A world History great book, about salt. Not science-science, but how emerging science and exploration ended an empire - Salt was an incredibly interesting read. It reminded me of a number of other "empires" that were built around things we now consider common (spices, tulips, etc.). It also makes one wonder what will eventually ... ... Sciences: The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
550 - Earth sciences: The Map That Changed the World
553 - Economic Geology: Salt
567 - Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates: Tyrannosaurus Sue
576 - Genetics and evolution: The Blind Watchmaker
581 - Botany: Seed to Seed
597 - Cold-blooded ... 110. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky - This book took me forever to finish. It was fascinating while I was reading it, but once I put it down, I had no desire whatsoever to pick it up again.
 ... in this field? I confess I've read very little on this topic but I am interested in reading more. I couldn't get into Salt, despite really liking Mark Kurlansky's A Basque History of the World, which touches on salt and cod commodity trades. Do you have a particular recommendation ... ... by Agatha Christie
The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
Step on a Crack by James Patterson
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe ... heard of microhistory either; it's interesting that there's a name for that kind of book. Just following the links from the Salt page, here's what I came up with. I'm not sure they're all technically microhistory (the recommendations sometimes led me astray...), but close enough.
028 Reading, ... ... some of the books I posted earlier are what are considered "microhistory" or bascially the history of mundane stuff like Salt. This actually was an unkown genre to me at the time, but incidentally a favorite. Anyway, I've been working on covering some more categories and have realized that "mi ... ... Changed the World
551 Geology, Hydrology, Meterology - Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
553 Economic Geology - Salt
599 Mammalia - Rats : observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants
591 Zoology - The Selfish Gene or Animals in Translation
... ...
SB Plant Culture: Tulipomania
TA Technology (General): The Ancient Engineers
TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy: Salt: A World History
TR Photography: Digital Photography for Dummies
TX Home Economics: Fast Food Nation
VK Navigation. Merchant marine: The Riddle of the Compass ... ... hydrology, meteorology: Krakatoa
575 Physiological systems of plants: The Origin of Species
553 Economic History: Salt: A World History
620 Engineering & allied operations: The Ancient Engineers
635 Garden crops (Horticulture): Tulipomania
652 Processes of written ... ... going a bit more it will be possible to get suggestions for readable books that fall into the more obscure categories (like Salt: A World History for 553 Economic Geology, a category that seems pretty hopeless at first glance). ... Lonely Hunter
- To The Lighthouse
- The Snow Leopard
- Civilwarland in Bad Decline
- Melancholy of Anatomy
- Salt: A World History
- The Dream Eater
- A Wrinkle In Time
- Brave New World
- 1984
This discussion has given me reading suggestions and then some. Thanks! Cow
March
Swan
Blink
Salt Well, I finished Salt: a world history and liked it alright overall, though not as much as the other books of Mark Kurlansky that I've read. It just sorta ... ended... I was expecting some sort of overarching summary or grain of wisdom gained by tracing historical uses and exploitation of ... ... true story/unsolved crime during the Irish potato famine.
#30 -- If you like Mark Kurlansky then I really recommend Salt: A World History -- I really enjoyed that one. I read The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky earlier this year and have Salt : a world history waiting for me on my shelf. I wasn't sure I wanted to read about cod but you made it sound interesting LynnB, and I did like the book about oysters.
I spent the last month mostly reading light YA ... Excellent. I just started Salt: a world History and like it. I definitely see the connections between his various books. Apparently, he was still living in Spain, researching or writing on the Basques when he started writing Salt, or came up with the idea or something. And he really does mention ... I just finished Salt: A World History and as a result found Basque History of the World on Bookmooch. The first caused me to look at the old salt boxes a little more carefully. Hopefully Basque will be arriving soon and I'll report back. ... Science Writing 2006
and have these in my "to read" stack:
The botany of desire : a plant's eye view of the world
Salt
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
... today:
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
Thinner
The Dark Half
Dreamcatcher all by Stephen King
Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines by Margery Sharp
Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Stone Angel by ... ... as explorers with Magellan, Columbus, etc, and as whalers in the North Atlantic fascinating.
I haven't yet read either Salt or Cod, but I plan to - I have the latter in hardcopy, and its on my list. The one that I have read is The Big Oyster and Mark Kurlansky included recipes from 1 ... From Salt: A World History taken from hearings from a town council about a saltworks in 1839 -
"The gas from the manufactories is of such a deleterious nature as to blight anything within its influence, and is alike baneful to health and property. The herbage in the fields in their vicinity ... ... about Kurlansky is that in A Basque History of the World he talks about salt cod - and then two of his other books are Salt and Cod. I don't know what order he wrote them in, but I thought that was kind of neat. I wonder if he learned about salt cod while researching the Basque book and ... For work, I just read the following:
Gakky Two-Feet
Salt: A World History
Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World
I love having a job that requires the reading of children's books.
Now I'm reading The Taking, also for work. I still need to finish:
World War Z
Eats, ... From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
The Thistle and the Rose by Jean Plaidy
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
The Sesame Street Dictionary by Sesame Street
... I think someone more familiar with New York would find these parts interesting.
I enjoyed the book and I'll be getting Salt : A World History by Kurlansky to read sometime soon.
PS. The book also made me mad/glum though; it's another case of human-kind thinking the riches (New York Har ... I just uncovered Caviar and The World of Caffeine in a box from my dad's house. They're on the shelf next to Salt: A World History, one of my favorites. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlanksy. I've heard Cod is also fabulous. I second the recommendation for Simon Winchester, and have to add Salt by Mark Kurlansky. I never suspected that such a small topic could cover so large an area in the world and time. Also, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is a great read. It covers both the monumental ... In Adam Robert's 2000 novel Salt the two colonies which the story revolves around are: Als, an anarchist collective (and often compared to Le Guin's Anarres), and Senaar, a capitalist dictatorship. I think jaroneer's initial comments might also apply to these two communities, although I don't ... ... Obama's The Audacity of Hope, and am also reading Caleb Carr's The Angel of Darkness and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. Usually don't have quite so many going at once, but oh well. Haven't decided what'll be on deck yet. Yes I have heard of him and have read a couple of his books.
I have:
Salt
On
Stone
The Snow
Polystom
Jupiter Magnified (Collection of Short Stories)
Non-Fiction:
Science Fiction
I have read Salt, On and Stone so far, which were the first 3 books he published (haiku anyone ? ... ... used to import him (before he was picked up by Sterling..and Iain Banks also, by the way) at the bookstore. I thought his Salt excellent; my husband liked Stone and Polystom best. Adam is probably getting his best US sales from his parodies like Sellamillion. Grimwood has an actual US ... ... food writer, but stay far away from his detective novels. *shudder* :D
I really enjoyed Cod and will be picking up Salt eventually. I have Kitchen Confidential and The Omnivore's Dilemma on my TBR SOON pile along with Salt, Cod, Don't Try This at Home, Spice: The History of a Temptation, 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From and several books on candy on my TBR EVENTUALLY pile.
What books about food do you ... I mentioned Mark Kurlansky's books earlier: Cod: a Biography of the Fish that changed the world and Salt: a world history. What I just found out is that he has done juvenile, picture-book style editions of both that look as fun to browse through as the originals. So if you are looking to ... anikins,
Salt: a world history was great too! I keep meaning to pick up his earlier book on cod: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. Great examples of the single-item history that seems to be so popular these days. Pure Ketchup: a History of America's National Condiment ... ... Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America; it should be a perfect to read after i finish salt: a world history by mark kurlansky. thanks for the recomm.
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