Making Sense of Wine
By: Matt Kramer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The paperback edition of this highly praised wine classic includes a new preface and an all-new cha…
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1. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
By: Luke Barr
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Hardcover
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
2. Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France
By: Kermit Lynch , Gail Skoff
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Kermit Lynch's recounting of his experiences on the wine route and in the wine cellars of France ta… read more
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- wine
- food and drink
- food
- nonfiction
3. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
By: Bianca Bosker
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilar… read more
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- wine
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- audiobook
4. The 24-Hour Wine Expert
By: Jancis Robinson
3.75
Format: 288 pages,
From the world's most respected wine critic, the essential guide to wine in 100 pages Wine is now o… read more
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5. Wine Wars
By: Mike Veseth
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of t… read more
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6. Reading between the Wines
By: Terry Theise
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed importer and wine guru Terry Theise, long known for his top-notch portfolio and his illus… read more
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7. A Guide to Wine
By: Julian Curry
3.89
Format: 272 pages,
JULIAN CURRY, actor and wine buff, has devised this unique audiobook guide to wine which takes the … read more
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8. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
9. Hugh Johnson's the Story of Wine
By: Hugh Johnson
3.69
Format: 355 pages,
From one of the preeminent writers on wine today, the lavishly illustrated and brilliantly told sto… read more
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10. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. 99 Bottles: A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines
By: Andre Hueston Mack
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
99 Bottles is a highly opinionated, vibrantly illustrated wine guide from one of the country’s most… read more
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- wine
- nonfiction
13. Wine Simple: A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier
By: Aldo Sohm
4.46
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
From the world-renowned sommelier Aldo Sohm, a dynamic, essential wine guide for a new generation N… read more
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14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
15. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
16. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
17. Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide
By: Madeline Puckette
4.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNERThe expanded wine guide from the creators of Wine Folly, packed with new in… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- food and wine
- food and drink
18. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
19. The Infinite Game
By: Simon Sinek
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Do you know how to play the game you're in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players a… read more
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- audiobook
"In any game, there are always two currencies required to play - will and resources."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"And like all infinite games, in the game of life, the goal is not to win, it is to perpetuate the game."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses…"-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
20. You Deserve Good Gelato (Dk Eyewitness)
By: Kacie Rose
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly hones… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Making Sense of Wine
By: Matt Kramer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The paperback edition of this highly praised wine classic includes a new preface and an all-new cha… read more
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- audiobook
22. History of Wine in 10 Glasses
By: Paul Wagner
4.18
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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23. Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
By: Kevin Begos
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek… read more
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24. The Instant Sommelier: Choosing Your Best Wine
By: Paul Wagner
4.05
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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- audiobook
25. The Juice: Vinous Veritas
By: Jay McInerney
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in Ame… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- food and wine
- food and drink
26. The Everyday Guide to Wine
By: Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan
4.20
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours and 15 minutes Publisher's Summary: Every time you open a bottle of wine, you embark on… read more
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27. Wine for Normal People: A Guide for Real People Who Like Wine, but Not the Snobbery That Goes with It
By: Elizabeth Schneider
4.32
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
This is a fun but respectful (and very comprehensive) guide to everything you ever wanted to know a… read more
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28. Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
By: Jason Wilson
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from auxerrois to zierfandler—bu… read more
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- wine
- food
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- audiobook
29. Vines in a Cold Climate: Longlisted for the 2023 André Simon Food and Drink Award
By: Henry Jeffreys
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
***A New York Times pick for best wine book of 2023!***'A tour de force!' - Jancis Robinson'Henry J… read more
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30. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
31. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
By: Tom Phillips
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more
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- audiobook
