Lists of Bests: K McQuage's "Wishlist" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65244 Stuff I snag off reviews listed so that I don't forget about them. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:33:19 GMT en-us 0 50 45 0 0 Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423047 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423047"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51y%2B6ZdrjwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wrangham</div> Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5999805 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5999805"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51no18xhFKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugenia Bone</div> Rustic Fruit Desserts: Crumbles, Buckles, Cobblers, Pandowdies, and More http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423049 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423049"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tthmBpSJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cory Schreiber</div> Real Cajun: Rustic Home Cooking from Donald Link's Louisiana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5951862 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5951862"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GirvajYLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Link</div> The Flavors of Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6238943 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6238943"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514CV2rgOgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Culinary Institute of America</div> The Spice Kitchen: Flavorful Recipes from Around the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423050 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423050"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQPJbCdiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michal Haines</div> Preserved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1857612 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1857612"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1856265323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120690809_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Sandler</div> The Modern Vegetarian: Over 120 Recipes to Wake Up Your Palate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423051 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423051"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zoYU61tOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Elia</div> Vefa's Kitchen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6062017 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6062017"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qAFTU6g8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vefa Alexiadou</div> The Photographer, The: Into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6371859 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6371859"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J9benK4AL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emmanuel Guibert</div> Wanting: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5397401 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Flanagan</div> Lost Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5313785 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5313785"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gycHEqTqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brent W. Jeffs</div> The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423052 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423052"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517S-BKQvRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks</div> Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423053 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423053"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517geRI9byL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew B. Crawford</div> Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659790 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425213897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pete Earley</div> Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music (American Musicspheres) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423054 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423054"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BE5ur0G6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryan Andre Brasseaux</div> A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4886262 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Butler Bass</div> Kingfisher Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423055 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423055"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E89t3pJyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Coyne</div> The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6203003 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6203003"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d0BOJCYHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Robisheaux</div> Possibility http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423056 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423056"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51twWJpM8FL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Jubien</div> Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423057 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YydN8y-IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elliott J. Gorn</div> The Empire's New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700-1917 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423058 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5181lbU1LQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christine Ruane</div> Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5993392 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5993392"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uB3nnQMQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Rudd</div> Every Man Dies Alone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4123020 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4123020"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xiL9lF8kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans Fallada</div> How Bush Happened: The Untold History of an American Dynasty and the Nation's Hidden Elite http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4023405 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russ Baker</div> The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2862135 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2862135"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01XicusVXrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ruhlman</div> Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423059 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423059"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TIwQN8FUL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathy Marks</div> What Are Intellectuals Good For? -- (with a Foreword by Scott McLemee) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423060 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423060"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MjOnFbPiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Scialabba</div> Nobody Move: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6097632 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6097632"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512SciDF6dL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Johnson</div> Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6211660 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6211660"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H2WN4H28L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Leaving Tangier: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4186513 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tahar Ben Jelloun</div> The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6342581 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6342581"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B2ceRHEVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher A. Preble</div> The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423061 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423061"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kpofU1ElL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel H. Nexon</div> Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 (Historical Studies of Urban America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423062 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423062"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KYp4VYazL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chad Heap</div> Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423063 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423063"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LgOh1kcWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Abramson</div> AD 381 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6382964 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6382964"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dzsoaV0ZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Freeman</div> Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423068 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423068"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41iKQTUMEYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Kelleher Schafer</div> Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4205908 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoff Dyer</div> Ruins http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4153151 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4153151"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZAJ5pg5UL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Achy Obejas</div> Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423077 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423077"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FLYqAMMSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carla Gardina Pestana</div> The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3998841 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James J. O'donnell</div> How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6236985 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6236985"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vq2DKrz-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrian Goldsworthy</div> The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5674519 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5674519"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yVnGp0INL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter T. Leeson</div> The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5180871 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Manus Pinkwater</div> An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19029 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763309.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122554000_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kay Redfield Jamison</div>