Product Description: Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The first comprehensive investigation of Jewish travel writing from this era, this study engages with questions raised by postcolonial studies and contributes to the debate over the nature and history of Orientalism as defined by Edward Said...read more

Product Description: To “eat Cuban” is to savor a deliciously complex culinary culture. Spanish, Native American, African, Chinese, and French traditions have all contributed to Cuban cooking, producing a distinctive Caribbean cuisine as richly chorded as the island’s music...read more

Product Description: It’s strange to think that an electric commuter rail line rivaling BART in efficiency, speed, and comfort ran over 100 years ago between San Francisco and San Mateo, but run it did. The 40 Line, or San Mateo Interurban, began in 1892 with an initial segment operating between Market and Steuart Streets out to the county limits on San Jose Avenue...read more

Product Description: For more than half a century, San Francisco Seals baseball was a fertile source of future major league players, with a legacy firmly grounded in the annals of Pacific Coast League baseball. Paul and Lloyd Waner, Ping Bodie, Earl Averill, William Kamm, Ferris Fain, Harry Heilmann, Smead Jolley, “Lefty” O’Doul, Frankie Crosetti, the DiMaggio brothers (Joe, Vince, and Dom), Larry Jansen, and others all launched their careers as Seals...read more

A collection of 120 delicious and nutritious baked good recipes emphasizes speed of preparation, with many dishes that can be ready in twenty minutes flat, including make-ahead mixes that can be stored and ready to go at a moments notice.

Featuring recipes dating back to the first western ranchers who came north from Mexico, a wonderful tour of Western cuisine and the American frontier, brimming with history and photographs, shares recipes for soups, stews, salads, meat, poultry, breads, and pies. (view table of contents)

A new cookbook celebrates the contributions of Latin American cultures such as the Inca, Maya, and the Aztec to world cuisine introducing 125 recipes for everything from Pompano in Garlic to Spicy Peanut Chowder, all using ingredients native to the American continent. (view table of contents)

Celebrating the great cheese renaissance in America, this luscious illustrated cookbook pays tribute to the nation's new love affair with a favorite food, looking at the art of cheesemaking and sharing a host of inventive recipes designed to make cheese lovers smack their lips. BOMC. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book combines fresh ingredients indigenous to the islands with local seafood and tropical produce. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From 1941 to 1945, everyone and everything in America was focused on the war effort. Over that time, many war-related keepsakes and novelties were produced. This is a pricing and identification guide to these home-front collectibles. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of recipes for vegetarian breakfast foods, soups, salads, main and side dishes, and desserts is accompanied by anecdotes featuring the characters from 'Babe, the Gallant Pig'

Offers recipes for easy-to-prepare Vietnamese food, including appetizers and dipping sauces, salads, soups, noodle and rice dishes, fish and seafood, poultry, meat, vegetables, and desserts

Describes how to cultivate, store, and use Chinese greens, gourds, squashes, roots, tubers, beans, and herbs, and includes seventy recipes (view table of contents)

Features low-fat, low-cholesterol, and reduced calorie desserts that contain no artificial ingredients, including recipes for chocolate triple layer cake and deep-dish apple pie

A guide for preparing for the Law School Admission Test provides four practice exams and advice on studying and on test-taking strategies