Chef Ming Tsai believes there are four basic needs in everyday cooking today: taste, healthfulness, simplicity, and affordability. So in this groundbreaking cookbook, he tackles all four. (Amazon)
2. The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel, Benjamin Graham
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Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. (Amazon)
3. The Intelligence of Dogs: Canine Consciousness And Capabilities, Stanley Coren
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This book contains a facinating description of how dogs think, their mental abilities, and the various types of dog intelligence. (author website)
4. Mini Farming: Brett L. Markham
Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. (Amazon)
5. A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, Samuel Lyn Hynes
Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex, society, class were all different. (Amazon)
6. They Saw The Elephant: Women in The California Gold Rush, JoAnn Levy
"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. (Amazon)
7. Stock Market Wizards: Jack D. Schwager
Acclaimed trading expert and bestselling author of the Market Wizards books, Jack Schwager, has returned with a new and fascinating collection of interviews with the best stock market traders and investors of our time. (Amazon)
8. The Cleaner Plate Club: Raising Healthy Eaters One Meal at a Time, Beth Bader
At last, feeding kids well doesn't have to be a battle! Parents are all too familiar with the challenges in serving fresh, healthful food. There are picky eaters, cereal aisle tantrums, and school menus that are more nuggets than nutritious. (Amazon)
9. First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy, Stephen R. Covey
The authors of this book apply insights from their previous book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", to the daily problems of people who must struggle with the demands of work and home life. Rather than focusing on time and change, the book emphasizes relationships and results. (Amazon)
10. The Eaves of Heaven: Andrew X. Pham
The author relates his father's experiences over the course of three wars--the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War--as he captures everyday life in Vietnam amid the tragedy and turbulence of war.
