In this offbeat, illustrated cookbook, the authors act as guides to living and eating on the edge. Featuring recipes for intriguing yet disarmingly simple treats, "Scrambled Brains" also includes fabulously weird yet true stories and dozens of tips to help readers star in their own kitchens. 100 illustrations.

Best friends Sam, Alex, and Clover are typical Beverly Hills high school girls who find themselves working, with help from a few supercool gadgets, as undercover spies after they inadvertently stop an international crime at the mall.

Feed your brain while you feed your face! How do you keep kids from gnawing off the table legs while they wait for the meals? Easy! You feed their brains. Each tear-off sheet in this 36-page placemat pad is filled with brain-building activities: puzzles, mazes, brainteasers, jokes, quotes, weird facts, tabletop experiments, and noodle-while-you-doodle activities. And since it's from that master of reading mayhem, Uncle John, every page of Scrambled Brains has been engineered to turn young eaters into readers! (Psst! Scrambled Brains can feed young brains in classrooms, too!) Each Feed Your Brain placemat pad has its own wacky theme. What will kids find to engage their hungry minds in Scrambled Brains? *Eat This Crossword *Why Mice Taste Nice, *Brain Farts Trivia *Bird Doodles *Mustard Splat Maze, and *How to turn a banana into a tasty banana slug! They'll also find jokes, fascinating factoids, riddles, and quotes guaranteed to amaze and annoy table companions of all ages!

Egerton explores southern food in over 200 restaurants in 11 Southern states, describing each establishment's specialties and recounting his conversations with owners, cooks, waiters, and customers. Includes more than 150 regional recipes.

While two seventh-grade students research a report on the brain’s functions, dimwitted Sal falls under the telepathic control of a virtual brain, which gives him super-genius powers to command other people and implement the brain’s plans of world domination. Once the town of Galena, Illinois is under the brain’s rule, Sal’s best friend, the manipulative Jake, bravely struggles to defeat the evil brain and its legion of brain-zombies in a series of funny and strange situations. Find out if Jake can outsmart the biggest brain on the planet in award-winning writer J Louis Messina’s B-sci-fi tale THE BRAIN THAT ATE MY BEST FRIEND’S MIND.

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential intellectual flourish or badge of theoretical chic. It is exploited to deflect argument and to belittle the pretensions of the arguments of others. The continuing spread of this relativistic way of thinking threatens to make public discourse increasingly difficult and to exacerbate the deep divisions of our society. In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, one of the most influential philosophers writing in English, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science, and ethics. He shows that the last word in disputes about the objective validity of any form of thought must lie in some unqualified thoughts about how things are--thoughts that we cannot regard from outside as mere psychological dispositions.

New York Times Bestseller The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style. Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfiction--and including new, never-before-published material--The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike.

A New York Times–bestselling treasury of recipes and techniques from a world-renowned chef. James Beard became a household name teaching home chefs how to cook like culinary stars, from the Theory & Practice of perfecting processes to crafting Menus for Entertaining to fine-tuning Simple Foods. This cookbook brings together his wealth of gastronomic knowledge in one essential guide, filled with one thousand elegant recipes guaranteed to please any palate and indispensable tips for mastering the art of cooking. In The New James Beard, you can discover a fresh, flexible approach to preparing food with a focus on ingredients and simple yet inventive substitutions. With clever takes on traditional recipes, like Mexican Pot Roast and Lime and Tea Sherbet; internationally inspired dishes, such as Peruvian Eggs and Turkish Stuffed Eggplant; and instructions on how to refine classic techniques, such as making pasta or poaching eggs, you can learn how to prepare and experiment like the top chefs in the world. With beautiful illustrations from Karl Stuecklen and witty and warm chapter introductions from the guru of American cuisine himself, The New James Beard is a must-have addition to any home chef’s cookbook collection.