by Mark Christian | Aug 4, 2009 | Middle Shelf
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection A scholarly compendium for which the title is the synopsis. McNeil has convened a symposium of world-class scholars. The book gets off to a halting start on the tree’s botany that suffers from an...
by Mark Christian | Aug 3, 2009 | Middle Shelf
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection Good title. Good chapter headings too: Night of the Living Freak; Last Man in America with Black Jack Gum; In the Belly of the Freak; Southbound with the Hammers Down – Southern-Fried Freak;...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Top Shelf
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF – Essential Dr. Maricel Presilla is largely responsible for putting premium chocolate on the map in the USA. Arguably our finest public educator, if there were only one book to have on the subject, this would probably be it. New...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Middle Shelf
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection Bertrand Russell listed a couple motives for reading a book: either enjoyment or to boast about it. He might’ve added a 3rd: for learning…. on what to avoid reading in the future. No matter what stack...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Clay Gordon knows some about chocolate. For years he promoted himself as North America’s 1st chocolate critic & created the Chocophile website. Once he sat on a panel that exhibited the...
