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Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours by Jose Vouillamoz, Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson

Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours

Jose Vouillamoz, Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson

1280 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction reference informative medium-paced
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren

Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages

Gaston Dorren

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction history informative fast-paced
Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward
Romantic Canada
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Victoria Hayward

Romantic Canada

Victoria Hayward

354 pages • first pub 1922 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
medium-paced
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

201 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

Richard Rorty

159 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
Let's Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine by François-Régis Gaudry

Let's Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine

François-Régis Gaudry

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction informative lighthearted medium-paced
Let's Eat France!: 1,250 Specialty Foods, 375 Iconic Recipes, 350 Topics, 260 Personalities, Plus Hundreds of Maps, Charts, Tricks, Tips, by François-Régis Gaudry

Let's Eat France!: 1,250 Specialty Foods, 375 Iconic Recipes, 350 Topics, 260 Personalities, Plus Hundreds of Maps, Charts, Tricks, Tips,

François-Régis Gaudry

432 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction informative lighthearted slow-paced
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Gaston Dorren

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

352 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

226 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0johgabcab's review
nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced