New Release Books by John Whalen

The Sichuan Cookbook features a collection of 88 recipes for regional Sichuan cooking, which is quintessentially málà (pinyin for “numbing and spicy"). Garlic, chili peppers, and Szechuan peppercorn give Sichuan food a flavor profile that is distinctively málà (pinyin for “spicy and numbing"). The Sichuan Cookbook celebrates its unforgettable sour-sweet-hot taste with a stunning array of recipes, from hot/cold appetizers and dry fry to noodles and hotpots. Try Dan Dan Noodles, Dry-Fried Green Beans, Sichuan Lobster, Mapo Doufu, and of course, the fiery Sichuan Hotpot—all of which require few ingredients and are ridiculously easy to make! With a complete history of the Sichuan Province, a map of the region (marked with key flavor profiles and signature dishes of cities and towns), and guide to dining and drinking culture in Sichuan, The Sichuan Cookbook provides 88 recipes and 60 photographs. Also included are cooking techniques, recipes for homemade ingredients, and a guide to stocking your Sichuan pantry that details key Sichuan ingredients and their fascinating histories. Fall in love with Sichuan food!

From dry seasoning and marinades to bastes, butters, and glazes, Rubs, 3rd Edition presents more than 175 ways to deliver maximum flavor. This edition makes it even easier to explore new flavor profiles and season any dish to create your own signature concoction. Whether yon are looking for all-purpose rubs and sauces that will work for every type of meat, or step-by-step feature recipes for entire dishes, Rubs, 3rd Edition has something for all tastes. Inside You'll Find: Buffalo Dry Rub, Homemade Maple BBQ Sauce, Maple & Mustard Pork Tenderloin, Blackened Dry Rub, Cajun Tilapia, Korean Chicken Thighs with Sweet Potato Vermicelli, Hot & Spicy Steak Rub, Tea-Smoked Salmon, Smoked Trout with Celeriac Remoulade, Coffee & Bourbon Brisket, Southwestern Dry Rub, Wasabi Butter, Chipotle Rib Eye, Applewood-Smoked Ribs with Molasses BBQ Sauce, Chicken Tsukune, Chimichurri Strip Steak with Oregano Potatoes & Onions, Sweet & Spicy Dry Rub, Pork with Blue Cheese Polenta & Roasted Peach Hot Sauce Book jacket.

From the author that brought you Grilling and Rubs, this all-in-one cookbook is your one-stop guide for summer cooking. From the author that brought you Grilling and Rubs, this all-in-one cookbook is your one-stop guide for summer cooking. Learn how to grill any meat or vegetable to perfection with over 100 recipes for grilling, marinating, and basting. Experiment with new flavors, or perfect classics like grilled Buffalo chicken wings with this easy-to-use recipe book. With plenty of sides that can be tossed on the grill, get ready to bring your kitchen into the outdoors. This cookbook is the perfect housewarming gift for the BBQ guru in your life.

User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience. Corporate leaders, marketers, product owners, and designers will learn how cognitive processes from different brain regions form what we perceive as a singular experience. Author John Whalen shows you how anyone on your team can conduct "contextual interviews" to unlock insights. You’ll then learn how to apply that knowledge to design brilliant experiences for your customers. Learn about the "six minds" of user experience and how each contributes to the perception of a singular experience Find out how your team—without any specialized training in psychology—can uncover critical insights about your customers’ conscious and unconscious processes Learn how to immediately apply what you’ve learned to improve your products and services Explore practical examples of how the Fortune 100 used this system to build highly successful experiences

Transform your backyard into a grilling mecca for family and friends! With 300 ways to kick-start your backyard BBQ, Grilling will add plenty of spice to your summer. Sick of the same old burgers and dogs? Well, this book will nurse you back to health. Bringing you everything from starters and meaty mains to unique sauces, rubs, marinades, side dishes, and desserts, this is your go-to guide for the grill. Helping you master classics like steak au poivre and innovative preparations such as lamb kebabs with mint chimichurri, Grilling will transform your backyard into a mecca for family and friends.

Spice things up in the kitchen! Rubs has been expanded to include bastes, butters, and glazes--so you can season any dish to create your own signature concoction. From dry seasonings and marinades to bastes, butters, and glazes, Rubs presents more than 150 ways to deliver maximum flavor. Whether you are looking for all-purpose rubs and sauces that will work for every type of meat, or step-by-step feature recipes for entire meals, Rubs has something to suit all tastes: *Southwestern Dry Rub *Horseradish Crust *Smoked Spiced Chicken Wings *Chipotle Rib Eye *Smoked Pulled Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches *Californian Coffee Prime Rib *Lemon-Rosemary Leg of Lamb *Bourbon and Brown Sugar Glaze *Red Wine and Dijon Marinade *Wasabi Butter *Grilled Roast Pineapple Pork Marinade *Indian Curry Rub *Skewered Shrimp with Tabasco Butter Baste *Grilled Lime Mahi-Mahi *Herbed Steak Butter *Spiced Honey Salmon *Prime Rib Gravy *Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto *Honey-Soy Seafood Baste *Chicken Under Brick with Apple Glaze *Memphis Ribs with All-American BBQ Mop

Prime: Rediscover the Complete Prime Rib Experience is your go-to reference for planning a feast focused on a fine cut of beef and just the right rubs and gravies. The more than 100 recipes will round out the dinner, taking you from cocktail party appetizers to the main event--complete with mouth-watering sides--and finishing off the experience with desserts and aperitifs. You’re planning a special dinner, and you know one thing: Prime rib will be the centerpiece! This complete cookbook has you covered, with both classic recipes and fresh new approaches to your prime rib feast. Celebrated chefs and experts-in-their-field contributors nationwide have come together to take your prime rib experience to a whole new level. Inside you'll find: Classic prime rib variations First-course soups and salads Breads worthy of your beef—from a crusty French loaf to a gravy-soaked Yorkshire pudding Wine, beer, and cocktail pairings from food and beverage experts Dozens of recipes for farm-fresh sides, from CSA farmers from around the country Tips for sourcing, cutting, and carving your prime rib, as well as tips for how to cater to individual done-ness preferences

Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide.

The flight was doomed. Countless instrument flights are made around the world every day without incident. The state-of-the art aviation equipment and technology make most flights by instruments, that is a flight without visibility outside the aircraft, routine. The Sixth Passenger is an exception. The sudden loss of all communication and navigation capability rendered the light, five-passenger aircraft helpless while flying in dense clouds at an altitude of five thousand feet. As long as the pilot maintained the heading and altitude published on the aeronautical chart he was using, he could keep the aircraft free of obstacles and safely above the mountaintops. Fuel supply was seldom a problem on instrument flights; however, it eventually became a major factor. The plane's three-fuel tanks were all flashing "Empty." Repetitious Mayday calls by the pilot all proved futile as he sought assistance from air traffic control. The pilot could not see or been seen nor could he hear or be heard. He needed a miracle to get down safely. When everything looked hopeless, the sixth passenger appeared.

Salinger wrote a letter to Esquire in 1945: "The men who have been in this war deserve some sort of trembling melody rendered without embarrassment or regret," (Esquire). In 1951, Salinger delivered just that. The Catcher in the Rye is not a war novel, but a riveting amalgam of the disillusionments and malcontent that Salinger likely incubated throughout his young life. Depression, trauma, and loss of innocence are brought to a point so fine that the book's publication erupted critical and popular disagreement on a scale that remains unmatched today.

Raised on a farm in the plains of North Dakota, John Whalen was determined there had to be a better life somewhere. For much of his youth, he lived without electricity and indoor plumbing. He despised farming. When he saw there was no change to broaden his education in the state, he sought other means. Thus began his journey From The Plains...To Planes...And Other Plain Talk. As an adolescent, John Whalen realized that he may be gay. His upbringing would not permit such a thing, and he was determined as he matured that those feelings would disappear. Leaving for the west coast, he worked for two trucking companies and finished college. He enjoyed the business but became bored with life in Portland. He decided to travel to Alaska. In Alaska, he found opportunities he could not have imagined. Starting with a small auditing firm, the opportunities grew and ultimately he found himself the president and CEO of one of the nation's largest worldwide airfreight forwarding companies. The path to success was not easy, and Whalen faced many struggles including his sexual orientation, a disruptive divorce, and diabetes. Determined to come out a winner, he made decisions in his life that eventually brought him success and happiness.

The Un-Men are the ultimate 'made freaks', stitched together from body parts by the mad scientist and Swamp Thing's nemesis, Anton Arcane. With the promise of reality TV and radical medical technology, the freaks are about to go mainstream - until a disappearance threatens to ruin it all.

Reveals how Hollywood alters history for movies, examines the facts behind some well-known films, and shows alterations to the "true story" such as concocted love affairs, character motivations, and trumped-up movie endings.

Strange is the city of Aberrance, a haven for abnormal people, but stranger still is the plot uncoverd by Department of Energy Agent Kilcrop.

Expanded and Updated Because Weird Things Keep On Happening The effects of the Invisible Hand are all around us, machinations to control the world are happening right under our noses-and The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time lists them all. This book presents a feverish feast of the most far-reaching, far-out, and startling conspiracy theories ever. Now this instant classic has been brought up to date with late-breaking mysteries and coverups, including: * Enron-a faked energy crisis that led to a devastatingly real economic one * Anthrax nation-just who sent lethal bacteria through the mail to the U.S. Congress? * Votescam 2000 * 911 and the theories surrounding the terrorist attacks * Echelon, the global electronic spying network-Big Brother made real * Who was the Zodiac Killer? * And more! Whether you believe any of these theories or merely enjoy a walk on the wild side of alternative history, The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time will provide hours of provocative reading. You will never look at the world in quite the same way again.

"Caliban is a brand new voice, charged with rage, wit, and a wild, wry sweetness. John Whalen brings us an open ear, a strict eye, and a generous heart."--Max Phillips

Examining political novels that have achieved (or been denied) canonical status, John Whalen-Bridge demonstrates how Herman Melville, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood have grappled with the problem of balancing radicalism and art. He shows that some books are more political than others, that some political novelists are more skillful than others, and that readers must allow for basic working distinctions between politics and aesthetics if we are to make useful judgments about which political novels to read, and why. "Whalen-Bridge demonstrates with clarity and power that the American political novel should not be ostracized but celebrated as a genre equal or superior to poetic and aesthetic ones." -- Tobin Siebers, author of Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

A Pandora's Box of information is unleashed in this completely updated and expanded expos© which includes the Bilderberg Group and Bernie Madoff's £60-million Ponzi scandal, showing why conspiracy theorists believe Mr Madoff, who has received the lion's share of the blame, was part of a much larger conspiracy. The World's Greatest Conspiracies proves you just can't get away from hidden agendas, massive cover-ups and diabolically sinister plots.

Written by John Whalen Art by Mike Hawthorne Cover by Tomer Hanuka Explore what it means to be a freak in a society filled with gawkers in this final collection featuring issues #6-13 of the chilling series. When the albino government agent known as Kilcrop investigates a mysterious illness infecting the town of Aberrance, he winds up facing temptations he never could have imagined. Advance-solicited; on sale November 5 - 192 pg, FC, $19.99 US - MATURE READERS

The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time presents a feast of the most startling conspiracy theories ever. It has been lauded in dozens of publications. Additionally, Wired magazine listed this book in its "Top 10 Fringe Books of 1995".Now this instant classic has been updated to include late-breaking mysteries and cover-ups, including the alien autopsy controversy, the death of Vince Foster, Big Brother on the Internet, and Japan's shadowy Aum cult.Those who delve into this book will never again see at the world in quite the same way.

These bizarre tales are a far cry from the Wild West you remember from the movies. Among the stepping stones to the conquest of North America: cannibalism, mummified murderers, sadism, lynch mobs, bad-luck curses, unexplained decapitations, mysterious airships, cults, communes, and more.

"This instant classic has been updated and expanded to include new and late-breaking conspiracies, including The Alien Autopsy controversy, the death of Vince Foster, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Unabomber, Japan's shadowy Aum cult, the real story of life - make that cities - on Mars, and more." "Whether you "buy" any of these theories or merely enjoy a walk on the wild side of alternative history, The Sixty Greatest Conspiracies of All Time will provide hours of provocative reading. You will never again look at the world in quite the same way."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved