Uncommon Grounds

Uncommon Grounds

By
Mark Pendergrast
Mark Pendergrast
1999 • 450 pages

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187 books

To Read Non Fiction

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Death
Getting Waisted
The Dying Game
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
Driving with Dead People
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
The Horologicon

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Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Transcendence
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Best of Me

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12 books

Food

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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
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Salt: A World History

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351 books

Books To Buy

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Remake
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
The World Beneath Their Feet
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156 books

History

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The Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The British Are Coming
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens
Train Dreams
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's war

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Non Fiction

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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
August Wilson: A Life
The Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606
Shakespeare in Parts
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
The British Are Coming
The Woman They Could Not Silence

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127 books

Book Page

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Slow Birding
The Ride of Her Life
Poverty, by America
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Food

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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Pandora's Lunchbox
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
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Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project

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Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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Food

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Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Uncommon Grounds
Banana
Consider the fork
The True History of Chocolate
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Sweetness and Power

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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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114 books

Economics

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Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Years That Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A Participatory Economy

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Microhistory

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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Agriculture

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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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