Friday, November 6, 2009

Brenna's Quick List of New Books

The modern vegetarian: food adventures for the contemporary palate

The ask: how to ask anyone for any amount for any purpose

Story: substance, structure, style, and principles of screenwriting

Women and money: owning power to control your destiny

The shining

Farm city: the education of an urban farmer

Ratio: the simple codes behind the craft of everyday cooking

Faust in Copenhagen: a struggle for the soul of physics

33 Questions about American history you’re not suppose to ask

Working toward whiteness: how America’s immigrants became white―the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs

The end of overeating: taking control of the insatiable American appetite

Super crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart

Something in the way she moves: dancing women from Salome to Madonna

The food of a younger land: a portrait of American food . . .