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|  | American Orientalism by Douglas Little
With the events of September 2001, America's relationship with the Middle East exploded to the forefront of our national consciousness. Looking back more than a half-century, Douglas Little offers valuable, historical context for anyone seeking a better understanding of this complicated relationship. He explores the encounters between the United States and the Middle East since 1945, focusing particularly on the complex, sometimes inconsistent attitudes and interests that have shaped U.S. relations in the region. Little begins by exposing the persistence of orientalist stereotypes in American popular culture and then examines U.S. policy toward the Middle East from many angles. Chapters focus on America's increasing dependence on petroleum; U.S.-Israeli relations; the threat of communism; the rise of revolutionary nationalist movements in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Libya; the futility of U.S. military and covert intervention; and the unsuccessful attempt to broker a peace-for-land settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The overarching theme of the book is that a combination of American omnipotence and profound cultural misunderstanding ensured that the United States would encounter trouble in the Middle East after 1945 and continues to bedevil the relationship between these vastly different cultures to the present day. AUTHOR: Douglas Little
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Current Affairs 
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 | Caviar, Truffles, & Foie Gras by Ellen Silverman, Katherine Alford
Description not available.Featuring more than fifty delectable recipes including Steamed Lobster with Truffle Beurre Fondue and Whole Roasted Foie Gras with Winter Vegetables, a sophisticated cookbook simplifies the ingredients necessary for concocting the three most revered delicacies is haute cuisine by providing simple tips and techniques. AUTHOR: Ellen Silverman, Katherine Alford
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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 | Special Providence by Walter Russell Mead
From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America?s dealings--from its earliest days--with the rest of the world. It is Walter Russell Mead?s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced--and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge of the known world, this country--in two centuries--drove the French and the Spanish out of North America; forced Britain, then the world?s greatest empire, to respect American interests; dominated coalitions that defeated German and Japanese bids for world power; replaced the tottering British Empire with a more flexible and dynamic global system built on American power; triumphed in the Cold War; and exported its language, culture, currency, and political values throughout the world. Yet despite, and often because of, this success, both Americans and foreigners over the decades have routinely considered American foreign policy to be amateurish and blundering, a political backwater and an intellectual wasteland. Now, in this provocative study, Mead revisits our history to counter these appraisals. He attributes this unprecedented success (as well as recurring problems) to the interplay of four schools of thought, each with deep roots in domestic politics and each characterized by a central focus or concern, that have shaped our foreign policy debates since the American Revolution--the Hamiltonian: the protection of commerce; the Jeffersonian: the maintenance of our democratic system; the Jacksonian: populist values and military might; and the Wilsonian: moral principle. And he delineates the ways in which they have continually, and for the most part beneficially, informed the intellectual and political bases of our success as a world power. These four schools, says Mead, are as vital today as they were two hundred years ago, and they can and should guide the na AUTHOR: Walter Russell Mead
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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 | Cod by Mark Kurlansky, Richard M. Davidson
Winner of the Best Writing on Food Award from the James Beard Foundation in 1998. AUTHOR: Mark Kurlansky, Richard M. Davidson
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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 | The Pepper Harvest Cookbook by Barbara Ciletti
The Pepper Harvest Cookbook celebrates the bounty of the harvest with more than 70 recipes drawn from the cuisines of the world. There is everything here from savory soups to hearty main dishes to breads. A lifelong cook and gardener, Barbara Ciletti also explains how to harvest and store peppers, including how to dry them for long-term keeping and how to make pickled peppers that will recall the warm days of summer long after the frost has arrived. Complete with color photos, a pepper guide to more than 40 cultivars helps cooks and gardeners choose peppers to please their palates. AUTHOR: Barbara Ciletti
PUBLISHER: Taunton Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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 | Chile Peppers by Beth Hanson
Description not available.Discusses the processes of growing, caring for, and preserving chile peppers and includes an encyclopedic guide to various types and their culinary uses. AUTHOR: Beth Hanson
PUBLISHER: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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