Eating Mammals

Literature & Fiction

Barlow, John

Contemporary

Fourth Estate

Right to Kill: The gripping new Yorkshire crime thriller for 2021 (DS Joe Romano 1)

In the tradition of T. C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant for the macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals. Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together in three mythical tales from Victorian England. Eating Mammals evokes a lost time and place in which the realm of the magical seems almost too possible: a winged cat wreaks havoc in a Yorkshire workhouse and then in the minds of a succession of owners; a famed stunt eater introduces his apprentice, Captain Gusto, to the delicate art of devouring anything for a living; a blooming romance between two meat-pie makers leads thirty-two adorned donkeys to the altar. Wholly original and as assured as folklore, Eating Mammals marks the arrival of a very distinctive new voice.

Eating Mammals: Three Novellas

United States

Harper-perennial

In this unforgettable debut novel, John Barlow reveals how the intersection of a Victorian-era family, an irrepressible marketing wiz, and the temperance movement changed the way the world drinks. Sweeping readers back in time to a day and age when beverages didn't come by the can or the cooler and were often hard to come by at all, Intoxicated once again proves Barlow to be a writer whose “imagination appears unlimited, almost attuned to a parallel world” (New York Times Book Review).Yorkshire, 1869. When self-made Victorian businessman Isaac Brookes returns home from his wool mill in France, he cannot suspect that a chance encounter on a train will alter the gastronomical landscape of the world. But when Isaac meets, and almost kills, Rodrigo Vermilion -- a hunchback midget dressed in rags -- Vermilion sees in pragmatic Isaac a grand opportunity to improve his lot in life, and becomes determined to go into business with the Yorkshire man.Enter the Temperance Soldiers, a band of righteous social moralists who offer Vermilion the inspiration, and the idea he so desperately needs. One taste of his first Temperance Ale -- worse, he felt sure, than the ancient slime at the bottom of the pond, old frog juice, and duck droppings scooped up in a glass -- and this savvy schemer with a genius for persuasion is off and running. He soon convinces Isaac and his son to invest their fortune in an idea sure to appeal to Victorian sensibilities: Rhubarilla, a fizzy, fruity drink. And so begins the craze that will sweep the world in ways that even the irrepressible Vermilion never could have imagined.

Intoxicated: A Novel of Money, Madness, and the Invention of the World's Favorite Soft Drink

William Morrow

Yorkshire, 1869. When self–made Victorian businessman Isaac Brookes returns home from his wool mill in France he could not have suspected that a chance encounter on a train would alter the gastronomical landscape of the world. But when he meets, and almost kills, Rodrigo Vermilion, a hunchback midget dressed in rags––Vermilion sees in pragmatic Isaac a grand opportunity to improve his lot in life, and becomes determined to go into business with him. Enter the Temperance Soldiers, a band of righteous social moralists who offer Vermilion the inspiration, and idea he so desperately needs. One taste of his first Temperance Ale–worse he felt sure than the ancient slime at the bottom of the pond, old frog juice, and duck droppings scooped up in a glass–and this savvy schemer with a genius for persuasion is off and running and soon convinces Isaac and his son to invest their fortune on an idea sure to appeal to Victorian sensibilities: Rhubarilla©, a fizzy, fruity drink that will sweep the world in ways that even the irrepressible Vermilion could have imagined. A family saga, a fairy tale, a fantastical history of England and of the origins of world's favorite soft drink–INTOXICATED is a witty, and dazzling treat from a writer of boundless imagination and promise.

Intoxicated: A Novel

John Barlow, self-confessed glutton, found himself in a tricky situation: living in one of the most meat-loving places on earth, married to a vegetarian. The Barlows live in Galicia, the misty-green northwest corner of Spain, and home to a population that reveres and consumes every part of the pig. This gets Barlow thinking about the nature of our relationship with food—what’s delicious, what’s nasty, and what sort of obligation we have to the animals we eat. Over the course of one glorious, bilious year, Barlow vows to eat everything but the squeal. In his travels, Barlow takes part in the thousand-year-old antthrowing festival of Laza. He makes pig-bladder puddings for carnival. He washes down lots of pork with lots of wine. In the tradition of Calvin Trillin and Anthony Bourdain, Everything but the Squeal is an adventure in extreme eating, a hilariously quirky travel book, and a perceptive look at how what we eat makes us who we are.

Everything but the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The popularity of spreadsheets in both business and academia has increased considerably over the past five years. This new edition of a successful textbook will be thoroughly updated to reflect changing practices and technology. 
This text adopts an active learning approach with the emphasis being placed on the utilization of software tools to help build models. The book’s primary approach is to help the reader put theory into practice. The ‘learn by example’ approach used throughout the book guides the user through the complexities of model building. Every day examples from business and operations management form the basis of the book’s ‘hands on’ development models that help the reader to appreciate Excel’s power and flexibility.

Excel Models for Business and Operations Management

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

wiley

Excel Models for Business and Operations Management adopts a structured approach to management decision-making by integrating the activities of a manufacturing organization. The text is entirely assignment-based and uses Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet tool to develop over seventy models from finance, marketing and operations management. In addition, a full chapter is devoted to Excel's macro language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The book's learn-by-example approach helps to develop both mathematical and analytical skills by focusing on the practical aspects of business model-building. Excel Models for Business and Operations Management features * VBA database application with full macro listing * Formula templates for all models provided throughout the text * Data disk containing all spreadsheet files supplied with the book * End-of-chapter exercises with answers * Detailed notes on Excel functions and commands Excel Models for Business and Operations Management is ideally suited to intermediate and advanced undergraduate, as well as MBA courses in business studies, finance, accounting, information technology, and operations management. It should also be of interest to managers and analysts who want to develop their model-building skills.

Excel Models for Business & Operations Management +D3

What do Godzilla, a first love, basketbal, Christmas, Maid Marion, Darth Vader, Tooth Fairies, the BLOB, ice cream, books, angels, an old pick-up, dogs, doves, bears, and, oh yeah, that "Rat" have in common? They are all part of "Dad's Neighborhood." so grab yourself a root beer, sit back, relax and take a tour. These stories by John Balow are sure to warm you heart and tickle your funny bone.

Gather Round down in Dad's Neighborhood

Davis-Boyce Publishing

Small Books On Great Subjects V1 (1847)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Biographies & Memoirs

Cornwallis, Caroline Frances

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Publishing

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