Workman Publishing: 463 books
The Cookie Sutra
An Ancient Treatise: that Love Shall Never Grow Stale. Nor Crumble.
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2005
Birds do it, bees do it. And guess what—cookies do it, too. In fact, never have a pair of gingerbread cookies looked so pleased. Yes, the Kama Sutra meets the Joy of Cooking. Featuring an unabashed gingerbread couple, who are photographed in unflinching full color, the Cookie Sutra is a recipe for...
Beer Hacks
100 Tips, Tricks, and Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
For the Love of Beer
In this tour de force of 100 top tips and tricks, Beer Hacks presents the very best and most creative ways to serve, share, store, and savor your favorite brews. There’s PROBLEM SOLVING: Warm beer? Chill a bottle in about a minute with a can of compressed air. DIY PROJECTS:...
The Oral History Workshop
Collect and Celebrate the Life Stories of Your Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
We all know that we should ask now, before it's too late, before the stories are gone forever. But knowing and doing are two different things.
Cynthia Hart, author of Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop, shows exactly how to collect, record, share, and preserve a family member's or a friend's...
by Michele Urvater
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1998
Joining the James Beard Award-winning Monday-to-Friday Cookbook and Monday-to-Friday Pasta, together with 248,000 copies in print, Monday-to-Friday Chicken presents over 180 recipes for America's favorite bird. Here are roast chickens, grilled chickens, baked chickens, chicken stir-fries and chicken...
by Jayne Hurley, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Michael F. Jacobson Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2002
In May 2001, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) broke a major pizza story on the ABC television program 20/20 and once again captured front-page headlines, just as it did when it released studies on movie popcorn and take-out Chinese food.
In Restaurant Confidential, Dr. Michael...
by Michele Urvater
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Winner of a James Beard award, The Monday-To-Friday Cookbook is the cookbook for working people. A professional chef and "excellent teacher" (New York Times) who faces the same problem we all face in coming home to feed her family, Michele Urvater has developed an inspired system of weeknight cuisine...
Keep Your Brain Alive
83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A neurobiologist provides simple ways to exercise your brain, enhance your memory, and boost your cognitive health.
Over forty? Getting forgetful? Having trouble learning new things, or remembering that actress’s name without reaching for your smartphone? Chances are, your brain needs a workout,...
Take a Nap! Change Your Life.
The Scientific Plan to Make You Smarter, Healthier, More Productive
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2006
A neuroscientist and sleep researcher explains the physical, psychological, and cognitive benefits of the good old-fashioned nap.
Research has revealed a well-timed nap can increase alertness, boost creativity, reduce stress, and improve perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy. Even...
Zen Mind, Zen Horse
The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
“Far more than a book about how to care for a horse, though it stands out as one of the best on the subject . . . Beautiful” (Susan Richards, author of Chosen by a Horse).
This unique guide to horsemanship incorporates Eastern philosophy to describe how horses understand and respond to...
by David Samuel Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A literary thriller about a mysterious death and an ambitious young novelist, “full of delicious prose” (Entertainment Weekly).
Following the death of her husband—which may have been an accident, a suicide, or perhaps even murder—Catherine Strayed is living a quiet life in a secluded upstate...
Cabin Lessons
A Nail-by-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A carpenter’s humorous story of building a cabin on Lake Superior with his family—“part how-to, part memoir and part love story” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
When carpenter Spike Carlsen and his wife set out, with their recently blended family of five kids, to build a cabin on the north...
The Americano
Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The untold story of William Morgan, the man who left Ohio to become a high-ranking leader in Fidel Castro’s rebel army: “Reads like a great epic novel” (Carlos Eire, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana).
When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working as a high school janitor...
The Soul of a Doctor
Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
True stories of transitioning from medical school classrooms to the realities of the hospital: “Moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable” (Atul Gawande, MD).
After years of practice, doctors can sometimes seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. What goes on in their minds? Were they always...
A Boy I Once Knew
What a Teacher Learned from Her Student
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
A “touching and heartfelt” true story about loss, memory, and a remarkable bond between an English teacher and one of her former students (Booklist).
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone’s door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began: Dear Elizabeth,...