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Why is this a pick?: Someone actually asked poor people what would help them most. |
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Why is this a pick?: Do you love your daughter but don't know how to express it? This book is the key. A must-read. |
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Why is this a pick?: Why do we do the things we do? According to Charles Duhigg, the answer is habit. Duhigg delves deep into a fascinating world of cues, routines and rewards. With wit, interesting stories and well written prose, Duhigg sheds the light of a journalist into a sea of developing science. |
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Why is this a pick?: Great for the first time canner. Easy to follow step-by-step photographs help guide you through the process. Loaded with simple yet delicious canning recipes, the peach chutney is especially good!
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Why is this a pick?: This book is both extremely entertaining and very, very interesting for readers who run, want to run faster, can’t stand running or just like to read about it. Anthropology, history, sociology, humor and beer are just a few of the topics touched on in this fascinating book. It’s well worth your time, I assure you! |
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Why is this a pick?: What is interesting about the book is how the author describes the patient lifestyle for an autoimmune disease. Comparing it to a set of scale that balances between healthy and unhealthy areas and what may cause an upset in equilibrium makes this more understandable. In 2005 over 100 autoimmune diseases were recognized by the National Institute of Health affecting over 23.5 million people and many of them got through 6 to 8 doctors before getting diagnosed. Environmental versus genetically caused conditions are also discussed and what might be triggers for some of them. |
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Why is this a pick?: Delightful ideas for coops for your feathered flock including Materials Lists and the capacity and design tips with photos of each step make this a practical book. Interesting and fun facts are of the bottom of the pages with recipe ideas. Profiles of chicken raising people and their experience are shared to make this an effective tool for people who are contemplating adding poultry to their lives. The one that I most enjoyed was the Gypsy Hen Caravan style coop the author designed and plans are included. |
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Why is this a pick?: Why we make the kinds of medical treatment decisions that we do can be understood better by knowing whether we are doubters or technology embracers, minimalists or maximalists. Numerous anecdotes allow us to see the factors that influence decisions including statistics, rapport with the doctor, knowing someone with the same health issue, deep rooted beliefs, and gut feelings. Autonomy, coping, regret, and satisfaction are covered in a fascinating look at why there often is no one best treatment option for every person. |
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Why is this a pick?: During the 1950s some of the well known cartoons and advertisements came from the talented pen of this artist essentially a cartoonist extraordinaire. Follow his life in pictures through stints with comics, Mad magazine and TV Guide, album covers and movie posters including It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and a select group of scary tale covers. It’s a walk through the past following popular iconic culture. |
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Why is this a pick?: This is an amusing adventure with the motorcycle riding team of Colin a journalist and Geoff an award winning UK travel writer traveling along a road that is over 15,000 miles long circumventing the country of Australia. They write in the tone of their own accents so provide a glossary that aids in interpreting such words as dunny, ridgi-didge and drongo just to name a few. For folks that would enjoy traveling along Down Under this is a delightful and exciting romp through the Outback and more as the team travels. |
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Why is this a pick?: During the Egyptian uprising in the summer of 2010 a thirty year old Google executive anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of one man at the hands of security forces. This page expanded quickly and moved from online protests to a nonconfrontational movement. For his efforts he was held for interrogation giving a tearful speech on national television, four days later the president of Egypt was gone. This is a heroic journey made using social media. |
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Why is this a pick?: After an unexpected life-threatening medical crisis this middle-aged author decided to try to achieve a better shot at longevity. His two young sons and wife, who also did not want to be a young widow, were strong motivators as well. He goes through a wide variety of approaches from fitness and diet to environmental cleansing and neurofeedback. A humorous approach in writing through his discoveries offers helpful ideas painlessly with the same style used in his other books including The Year of Living Biblically. |
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Why is this a pick?: A simply told informative look at the basic general information the chicken keeper might want to know with beautiful photos. From selecting and housing a flock to raising chicks and using artistic techniques to decorate excess eggs this book is a fun read about this interesting trend. The authors’ backgrounds include radio shows, magazine articles and interviews with both academic and common sense 4H hand-on training and experience.
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Why is this a pick?: A cursory look into apiculture and the fascinating life of the honeybee. This book includes information on the many benefits and uses for everything that bees produce and collect in their hives, from wax to pollen to honey. |
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Why is this a pick?: Jessica Seinfeld mixes pureed vegetables into everything from pancakes to chicken strips to cupcakes in order to sneak more nutrition into her family’s diet. Some personal favorites of mine include her Greek dip with chickpeas and artichoke hearts and blueberry cupcakes with spinach |
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Why is this a pick?: A story of two young women who follow their sense of adventure traveling by train and horses to the remote settlement of Elkhead, Colorado in 1916 to teach school. The travel reflects just a portion of the transitions then moving from the civilized East into the wild West. |
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Why is this a pick?: A good Non-Fiction look at the art and artistry of wearing kimonos. Written by an author and illustrator of manga added photos of accessories and interview with the owner of an antique and used kimono store makes this an interesting glimpse into an age old fashion in Japan moving into contemporary designs. |
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Why is this a pick?: Did you grow up on Dr. Seuss? Raise your kids with him? See a whole new side of Theodor Geisel in this collection of his personal artwork. Discover Seuss as a serious (but not too serious) artist whose wry, playful humor is still abundantly apparent in every sketch, canvas, and sculpture. |
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Why is this a pick?: If you loved Moneyball, you might like this book. If you loved Freakonomics, you might like this book. If you loved Moneyball and Freakonomics, you will love this book! |
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Why is this a pick?: Two sides of a single street in a Lancashire England mill town, one side Jewish the other Christian. This memoir written by a 96 year old man tells of the people who made this a community and their differences. It is a love story and a touching view into a time just before World War I. |
