The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs

Unconventionally Good Ideas

"Entrepreneurs prove that conventional wisdom may be conventional but is not always wise. They demonstrate that good ideas - the ones that change the world - are often initially rejected by all, save for a select group of risk takers and innovative thinkers."

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Pecans: The Story in a Nutshell

Roadside Pecans

"Alongside the highways from the south central to the southeastern states, roadside stands open their shutters each November. Drivers bring their cars to a halt and climb out, assuming they will be remembered from the previous year; often they are."

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Book List Addition: Literature After Darwin

Literature After Darwin
Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939
by Virginia Richter
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature.

Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.

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Review: Sea Sick

Sea Sick
The Global Ocean in Crisis
by Alanna Mitchell
McClelland & Stewart, 2010

Reporting from nine different oceanic locations around the globe, environmental reporter Alanna Mitchell investigates the rapidly declining health of the most important biome on Earth, the Ocean.

"The issue is that all over the world, ocean scientists, in groups of specialists who rarely put their information together, are finding that global climate change and other human actions are beginning to have a measurable effect on the ocean. The vital signs of this critical medium of life are showing clear signs of distress," she explains.

Mitchell makes personal visits to some of the most ailing seas and shorelines on the globe, witnesses wide-ranging effects of human avarice and irresponsibility, and talks to dozens of concerned scientists about their diagnoses and possible remedies.

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Book List Addition: Salty Sweets

Salty Sweets
Delectable Desserts and Tempting Treats with a Sublime Kiss of Salt
by Christie Matheson
Harvard Common Press, 2010

In a cookbook dedicated to the delicious marriage of two flavors, author Christie Matheson offers recipes for mouthwatering treats like Salted Caramels, Butterscotch Brownies, and Nantucket Sea Salt Ice Cream. A touch of salt makes all the difference in the candies, cookies, cakes, puddings, fruits, ice cream, and dessert sauces featured in this collection.

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Book List Addition: Not Your Mother's Casseroles

Not Your Mother's Casseroles
by Faith Durand
Harvard Common Press, 2011

Casseroles are quick, homey, and cost-effective one-dish meals, but they're also traditionally packed full of convenience foods like canned vegetables and condensed soups.

Faith Durand's Not Your Mother's Casseroles introduces more than 200 recipes that totally revitalize the casserole.

Redefine casseroles with inspired recipes for Baked Basmati Rice with Saffron, Cashews, and Raisins; Root Vegetable Cobbler with Whole Grain Biscuit Topping; Baked Sweet Potatoes with Smoky Chipotle and Onions; Herbed Chicken Meatballs with Coconut Sauce; and Rhubarb-Lavender Oat Crisp.

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