Written nearly 170 years ago, "Democracy in America" is a masterful display of insight and foresight into all things American. Doubting whether the American experiment in equality could work, Tocqueville conjectured that democracy would erect a society that would succumb to a different type of tyran[...]

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A 1938 biography of the flamboyant Alexis Soyer (1810-58), arguably the greatest chef of the nineteenth century.[...]

A Victorian celebrity chef's 1849 manual on household management for the middle classes, conceived as a dialogue between two housewives.[...]

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A full-color guide to Smoke, Autodesk's all-in-one video editing software As the professional choice for post-production video editing, digital compositing, and effects, Autodesk Smoke for Mac has been re-released at an affordable price and thousands of users are already benefitting from the price [...]