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Beard on Pasta

Beard on Pasta

James Beard

Beard on Pasta is full of easy-to-follow recipes, along with tips on preparation, sauce, and serving that you’ll be eager to try.
Girls Play to Win Swimming & Diving

Girls Play to Win Swimming & Diving

Paul Hoblin

About the only one who didn't like Amanda Beard was . . .Amanda Beard. Though she hid it from the world, Beard was suffering from bouts of depression. The pool was helping and hurting her at the same time. In 2004, U.S. Army Lieutenant ...
The Armchair James Beard

The Armchair James Beard

James Beard

A timeless and insightful volume of essays—with more than 130 recipes—by the master of American cuisine The Armchair James Beard showcases the many roles of America’s first celebrity chef: teacher, culinary alchemist, restaurant ...
The Essential James Beard Cookbook: 450 Recipes That Shaped ...

The Essential James Beard Cookbook: 450 Recipes That Shaped ...

James Beard

Compiled from twelve of his classic books and freshened for a modern audience, The Essential James Beard will stand with definitive and lively cookbooks such as The New York Times Cookbook and The Joy of Cooking.
Charles A. Beard's The presidents in American history

Charles A. Beard's The presidents in American history

Charles Austin Beard

Briefly summarizes the achievements of each presidential administration from Washington to Reagan.
Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Mary Ritter Beard

The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.
James Beard's New Fish Cookery

James Beard's New Fish Cookery

James Beard

A healthful, dramatically simplified book on cooking techniques for preparing low cholesterol, low calorie seafood, with over 500 recipes.
In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir

In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir

Amanda Beard

In this candid and ultimately uplifting memoir, Olympic medalist Amanda Beard reveals the truth about coming of age in the spotlight, the demons she battled along the way, and the newfound happiness that has proved to be her greatest ...
The Parthenon

The Parthenon

Mary Beard

In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess Athena, the divine patroness ...
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

Charles Austin Beard

Charles Austin Beard. CHAPTER X THE ECONOMICS OF THE JAY TREATY On November 19, 1794, about a week before the House of Representatives began its long and acrimonious debate over the President's reference to the self-created  ...
James Beard's American Cookery

James Beard's American Cookery

James Beard

Food and eating habits have fascinated me throughout my life, and after sixty-five years I have come to the conclusion that perhaps American cookery is one of the most fascinating culinary subjects of all.
A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Mary Ritter Beard

This collection of her letters, offers in effect an intellectual biography which is considered to be better documented and more vivid than any previous book about her.
James Beard: A Biography

James Beard: A Biography

Robert Clark

Robert Clark also demonstrates the influence of James Beard upon the next generation of chefs, including Alice Waters and Barabara Kafka.
It's a Don's Life

It's a Don's Life

Mary Beard

Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years.
The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg

The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg

William Beard

The first systematic examination in English of Cronenberg s feature films, from Stereo (1969) to Crash (1996). "
Mary Ritter Beard: a sourcebook

Mary Ritter Beard: a sourcebook

Mary Ritter Beard

129-133. "A Test for the Modern Woman," Current History, November, 1932, pp. 179-183. "The College and Alumnae in Contemporary Life," Journal of the American Associationof University Women, October, 1933, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, pp. 11-16.
Blue Beard

Blue Beard

Charles Perrault

«Blue Beard» by Charles Perrault, Charles Welsh and illustrated by Michael Bychkov.
North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980

North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980

William Beard

Steven. Shaviro. "To ME, THE PRIMARY COLOURS OF MY LIFE are yearning and humiliation, in a melodrama ... [WJith unrequited love, it's not over until you' ve totally humiliated yourself This is Guy Maddin, describing his 1997 film Twilight ...
Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood

Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood

William Beard

... Dennis Bingham has argued that the innovation of this initial Eastwood persona is to have evacuated the moral and social realms of the western, even of classical cinema altogether, and to have existed purely as a wish-fulfilling ego- ideal.2 ...
Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin

Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin

William Beard

Into the Past provides a complete and systematic critical commentary on each of Maddin's feature films and shorts, from his 1986 debut film The Dead Father through to his highly successful 2008 full-length 'docu-fantasia' My Winnipeg.
Explorer Courageous: Edmund Kennedy

Explorer Courageous: Edmund Kennedy

William Beard

Biographical details of Kennedys early life; explorations; p.228-229; Near Tully R., description of native huts, shields, swords, grass fishing lines with hooks attached made from mussel shells; method of cooking; p.235-236; Princess ...

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