The French word restaurer, which means to restore, is the root for restaurant. In the last twenty years restaurants in the United States (as they have been in Europe for much longer) have become a haven of relaxation and comfort in Americans busy lives. Families have increasingly moved away...
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Since 1930, when only twenty-four percent of women were in the workforce (now its over sixty percent) and the average household consisted of 4.1 people (now its only 2.6), the nuclear family has been transformed. More than sixty-three percent of families are parented by two working individuals...
In these volatile economic times, business leaders face unprecedented challenges with issues of morale, management, marketing, and customer service. Todays successful business people value customer loyalty and earn it through trust rather than trickery. They know how to use creative recognition...
Over the past decade, we've had a strong interest in all things spiritual,? says Debra Goldstein, partner and agent of The Creative Culture, Inc., who specializes in representing Mind/Body/Spirit authors. ?Now that people?s eyes are opened,? she continues, ?what I am seeing is a desire for...
America continued to respond to the trauma of September 11, 2001 during 2002 and 2003. The war in Iraq, supported by a majority of the population, and the foreboding implications of the U.S. Patriot Act on rights protected by the Constitution, have stirred public debate not seen since the Civil...
Harry Eyres, writing in the Financial Times, found magnificently rigorous the enjoyment of Mallarmé’s great French poem L’après-midi d’un Faune (Afternoon of a Faun). He comments that difficult art involves “untangling the skein of meanings,...
The second half of Americas twentieth century was punctuated by seminal events: Johnsons Great Society, the Cold War and the Vietnam War, the struggle for civil rights, Watergate, the Reagan Revolution. Several new books trace the lives of insiders to these epoch-makersthe presidents who held...
Diversity is the hallmark of modern society, and graphic novel publishing is no exception. To someone who isnt up on current trends, the phrase graphic novel may conjure images of going to the candy store, dime in hand, for the latest epics depicting Wonder Woman, the Flash, or the Justice...
A doubtful economy and dismal job market kept many Americans at home in 2003 and may well do so in 2004. However, the university presses magnificently varied lists will keep boredom at bay. Books about travel, abroad and at home, are plentiful, as well as novels set abroad or by foreign...
Among the many advantages of gardening is that its tranquilities afford one a chance to contemplate,? Richardson Wright wrote in his 1929 classic, The Gardener?s Bed-Book. He continues: ?Gardening with brains is, most of the time, a silly and useless affectation.
Anyone reading Bed-Book...
In the distant, storied past of publishing, travel books were the stuff of elitist circles. Established writers, weary from the strains of major projects and hoping to pacify a demanding publisher, would treat the genre as a literary passport, an excuse to flit off somewhere exotic for a few...
A fresh array of colorful picture books about people, animals, the environment, and fantasy is on its way to the marketplace this spring. Picture books are written by adults for children, and purchased by other adults for children, often before matching the books format, size, and text to the...
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Three sensibilities marry in an uncompromising love for and understanding of the High Sierras: Snyder, Killion, and Muir merge observations in an appealing and colorful book. Killions woodcuts, Japanese in style, evoke a landscape whose grandeur seems...
Young teens are reading. Despite well-visited malls, high-impact adventure TV and movies, and hours and hours of Internet surfing, still, kids are reading. Some of this is purely escapist reading—time-out punishments, time hiding from dishwashing, simply time spent alone—and some is...
Hurling past thick lattices of pigment and the slumbering hues of a moonlit wood, the ac-celerated particles of an X-ray reveal a pallid imagea blanched female nude bound and broken. Only now, as her flesh shivers with the silver-scaled teeming of electrons rather than with the oily glow of the...
American homecooks have decided to stay home, and they want cookbooks instead of carry-out. They are reaching for friendly books that conjure a warm kitchen filled with the smells of home-cooking. A generation ago cookbooks simply gave readers recipes that made good meals. Now they vie to...
More than 620,000 soldiers lost their lives between 1861 and 1865 in the only war fought by Americans on American soil. Brother against brother, state against state. Lincoln told Congress, in remarks issued right before the Emancipation Proclamation: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate...
Books that emphasize people and what they need are the business book trends of 2002, opines Kate Wientzen, Book Publicist for Cypress Publishing Group, Inc. According to Wientzen, its back to the basics for business books. The focus has shifted from an emphasis on the Internet and e-...
Books in the Mind-Body-Spirit category have not only moved into the mainstream, but have turned into a veritable flood. From practical formulas for connecting physical manifestations with spiritual paths, to works by and about leading lights, these are guides to wide-ranging sacred traditions...
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 roiled the publishing industry, as they did the lives of all Americans. A stream, if not a flood, of books about 9/11 followed during the year. Possibly of more long-term significance than the books about the attacks are the ones about the cultures and...
