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  • The Wink of an Eye - Volume I

    When the author H. Peter Hoffmans wife, Doris, developed Alzheimers, a hospice volunteer was assigned to visit her once per week. Carole Fischer was not only a great help for the couple, but also paved the way to the creation of this memoir when she asked Hoffman how he met Doris.Spanning from 1925 through 2002, The Wink of an Eye Volume I chronicles the love shared between the author and his wife ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Wink of an Eye - Volume Ii

    After he lost his wife to Alzheimers, author H. Peter Hoffman knew he lost a big part of his life. But he found a new meaning and a new reason to look forward to each day when he unearthed letters sent to him by his then girlfriend, Doris. In this release, the author captures his and his beloved wifes story through more letters and photographs. Included in this volume are letters written ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • What's Good?

    A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients

    by Peter Hoffman ...
    A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins. What's Good is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a difference on the plate, what makes them good in the first place? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    What’s Good?

    A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients

    by Peter Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Peter Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 51 min

    A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their originsWhat goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Karmic Winds

    Reflections from the "Smartest Guy in Hollywood"

    Karmic Winds is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffman, a Yale-trained lawyer and Hollywood insider who once stood at the center of the independent film boom and later found himself stripped of status, freedom, and certainty. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Humanitarianism, War, and Politics

    Solferino to Syria and Beyond

    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protection) that comprise it. ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Back from Africa

    Translated by Peter Millar ...
    Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • On A Day Like This

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange GardensOn a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him—but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves everything behind ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Seven Years

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hoffman ...
    Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women—and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Reunion in Barsaloi

    Translated by Peter Millar ...
    Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Sacred Trash

    The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    **NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sword & Salve

    Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises

    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continue to operate as they have in the past, they will fail to help the very victims whom they try to save. Focusing especially on the emergence of "new wars," Hoffman and Weiss insist that humanitarian organizations must recognize that they live in a ... Read more

    $44.59 USD