My Dog: The Paradox

A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend

Matthew Inman dishes another helping of hilarity from his online comic The Oatmeal in My Dog: The Paradox. After years of carefully observing his own dog, Rambo, Inman follows his #1 New York Times best-selling How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You, with this ode to the furry, four-footed, tail-wagging bundle of…

The Manhattan Cook-Book

Containing Many Valuable Original Receipts and Other Useful Information

 This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1877, is a cookbook, patent medicine advertisement, and medical manual all combined in one small volume published by the manufacturer of a well-known and widely used nineteenth century home remedy, Atwood’s Bitters.  Historical records assert that in 1840 Moses Atwood of Boston…

Excelsior Cook Book and Housekeeper’s Aid

 Published in New York in 1863, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection is a comprehensive homemaking and cookbook reference compiled by the author to bring “excelsior” (excellence) into every housekeeper’s kitchen and home. There is no information available about Laura Trowbridge, but her goal in compiling Excelsior Cook Book is clear. Using her…

The Young Cook

This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1870, is a comprehensive baking and confectionary book designed to teach new brides and new homemakers everything they need to know about the most popular cooking topic, then and now.  Although the author of this collection is anonymous, her intention was clearly…

The Cook’s Oracle, and Housekeeper’s Manual

Containing Receipts for Cookery, and Directions for Carving

 This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1830, is a new version of a famous recipe collection previously published in London by William Kitchiner, adapted specifically for use by the American public. This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1830, is a new…

The Complete Cook

Plain and Practical Directions for Cooking and Housekeeping

Published in 1843 in Philadelphia, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection is derived from an earlier English work that author J. M. Sanderson heavily adapted for American usage, creating a cookbook that combined the best of American and European cooking of the time. Perhaps one of the first “international” cookbooks. Published in 1843…

Wired to Run

The Runaholics Anonymous Guide to Living with Running Addiction

Over 35 million people will go running this year in the United States alone. For some of us, it’s more than just a hobby-over 11 million of us are runaholics. Runners and addicts. Addicts and runners. The two hardly seem to go together . . . unless you’re one of those people who periodically put…

Tee Time in Berzerkistan

A Doonesbury Book

No rogue regime ever needed its evildoing professionally reframed more urgently than Greater Berzerkistan, whose president-for-life Trff Bmzklfrpz (pronounced “Ptklm”) needs to spin a recent round of ethnic cleansing. Fortunately, the pariah state (and its 50-hole golf course, built overnight by Kurds and Jews) borders Iran, a fact that K Street uberlobbyist Duke is retained…

Mexican Flavors

Contemporary Recipes from Camp San Miguel

 Let best-selling author and master cooking teacher, Hugh Carpenter, lead you on a delicious adventure with new approaches to Mexican cuisine that can be easily reproduced in any American kitchen, including 115 recipes and 130 gorgeous location and food photographs centered around San Miguel de Allende. Mexican Flavors is your chance to learn about contemporary…

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story. Perhaps the most brilliant…

Et Cetera

An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

A hauntingly illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more. Latin may be a “dead” language, but it’s all around us—in science, philosophy, religion, and at the root of English grammar. From “carpe diem” to the more obscure “alea iacta est,” classicist Maia Lee-Chin explains the fascinating…