Trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, young Hong Kong-based scientist Lily Barnes, as the human race dwindles due to a "depression plague," comes across something that could lead to happiness and journeys through time and space to find out

For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism...

"The author of Start Simple redefines "dinner" in this creative cookbook that elevates snacks and grazing foods to main-course status, filled with 100 recipes and 75 color photos."--Amazon.com. "We've all been there. Pressed for time, patience,or the will to cook yet another meal, we turn to eating snacks for dinner. While these "meals" are often thrown together, there is no denying that grazing on smaller bites is less stressful and often more pleasurable...

Louise Gluck has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal and crude. The Seven Ages is Gluck's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible--an act...

"What's better than 30-minute meals? How about one-pot recipes? Now you don't have to choose--yes, you can have both! Avoid spending hours in the kitchen and filling up your sink with dirty dishes. Soon to become a staple in your kitchen, 30-Minute One-Pot Meals provides practical and ingenious secrets to simple, fast, delicious and minimal-mess recipes. Chapters are broken down by cooking vessel, including baking pain, saucepan, skillet, casserole...

"Oven to Table takes the guesswork out of mealtime with over 100 essential, simple, and tasty one-pot and one-pan creations. At times it feels impossible to get a home-cooked meal on the table, whether feeding a busy family or hosting friends for a weekend gathering. Fortunately, there's a satisfying solution to help make stress-free, mess-free, and tasty meals a reality: one-pot cooking. Using one of six cooking vessels--skillet, sheet pan, Dutch...

"Popular culture teaches young men to enjoy war, to act it out as play and then don a uniform as a rite of passage into manhood. This warrior myth has long held a powerful place in our society. In My River Home, Marcus Eriksen, a former marine, tells his own story as a way of articulating the danger of this myth. It took ten years and an adventure down the Mississippi River to help him come to terms with his experience of war." "Eriksen grew up,...