Exploring the Nature of... Tunas and Billfishes of the World.

Tunas and billfishes are peak predators of the oceans. Their speed, grace, unique physiology, and diversity makes them important both ecologically and socioeconomically. Vital sources of food and income for many maritime nations, these exhilarating fishes are also highly desired and avidly sought by big game fishers across the globe.

This volume focuses on three families of fishes: Scombridae, the mackerels and tunas; Istiophoridae, sailfish and marlins; and Xiphiidae, the Swordfish. The 61 in-depth species accounts describe these fish and their habitats, summarize their diet and reproduction, analyze current fisheries, and evaluate their conservation status.

Illustrated with full-color, scientifically accurate illustrations by Val Kells, along with range maps for each species, this book is an essential reference on these majestic inhabitants of the sea.

Tunas and Billfishes of the World 

by Bruce Collette and John Graves

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

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A New Guide To... Bakery Design

As the baking industry has risen in exposure and profitability, so has the competition. It's increasingly clear that not just the quality of the food is attracting customers, but also the designs of bakeries that are creative and eye catching while still being functional. A well-designed store not only increases sales, but helps develop a brand identity. 

This book profiles fifty bakery designs from all over the world, with the designers responsible exhaustively examining their projects in order to illustrate the design process.

Bakery Design

by Athanasios Tzokas

Images Publishing, 2019

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Book Stall Review: You Can Farm.

Less than a century ago farming was the most common profession in America; nowadays it's one of the most difficult fields to enter.

Joel Salatin, best known for his book "Pastured Poultry Profits," is on a mission to prove that it is possible to farm full-time in ways that are both enjoyable and lucrative.

You Can Farm

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

by Joel Salatin

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Favorite Wisconsin Cheese Recipes

Known as "America's Dairyland" of its abundant dairy production, Wisconsin is famous for its cheese, especially cheddar. Locals have been cooking with cheese for almost two centuries now and have perfected these recipes included in Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin by Martin Hintz and Pam Percy

• Blueberry Ricotta Coffee Cake
• Wisconsin Three-Cheese Soup with Parmesan Croutons
• Wisconsin Buttermilk Blue and Asian Pear Salad
• Santa’s Wisconsin Cheese Delight
• Asiago Cheese Puffs
• Wisconsin Cheddar Scones with Smoked Turkey
• Hook’s Blue Cheese Cake
• Cherry Cheddar Crusted Pork Tenderloin
• Wisconsin Gruyère Fondue
• Fontiago Polenta with Tomato Basil Concassée
• Goat Cheese Fudge
• Milk Chocolate Cheesecake

Wisconsin Cheese

A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin 

by Martin Hintz and Pam Percy

The Globe Pequot Press, 2008

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Now cooking with... Super Roots

Remedial food. It's a thing.
Got a tummy ache? There's chicken broth.
Feeling toxic? Try some Ginger Mapo Tofu.
Tired? Gado Gado.
Bloated? Bibimap Wraps.
This cookbook offers 60 health-enhancing recipes based on therapeutic dishes from the Far East cultures of Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Indonesia and more.

Super Roots: 

Cooking with Healing Spices to Boost Your Mood by Tanita de Ruijt.

Hardie Grant, 2019.

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testing Beehive Alchemy

This book is a continuation of Petra Ahnert's popular Beeswax Alchemy.

With this new book, readers learn about the benefits and attributes of beeswax, honey, propolis, and more alongside a full range of projects and techniques to process and harness the amazing gifts of bees. Inside, there are instructions to make hand dipped birthday candles, lip balm, the classic French dessert canele bordelais, Lithuanian honey spirits, honey butter, honey mustard, propolis salve, hair pomade and more.

Beehive Alchemy: Beehive Alchemy Projects and recipes using honey, beeswax, propolis, and pollen to make soap, candles, creams, salves, and more.

by Petra Ahnert

Quarry Books, 2018.

Travels with Foxfire

The Foxfire oral history project delivers another compendium of the collected wisdom of artists, craftsmen, musicians, and moonshiners in Southern Appalachia. In this volume we learn the secret origins of stock car racing, the story behind the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and how to gather wild ginseng.

More than thirty essays include the recipes of an award-winning cookbook writer along with profiles of bootleggers and bear hunters, game wardens and medicine women, water dowsers, sculptors, folk singers, novelists, record collectors, and even the world’s foremost “priviologist.”

Travels with Foxfire

Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

by Phil Hudgins and Jessica Phillips

University Press of Kentucky, 2018

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