**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend. In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His passion for and genuine curiosity about the people and cultures he visited made the world feel smaller and more connected. Despite his affable, confident, and trademark snarky TV persona, the real Tony was intensely private, deeply conflicted about his fame, and an enigma even to those close to him. Tony’s devoted crew knew him best, and no one else had a front-row seat for as long as his director and producer, Tom Vitale. Over the course of more than a decade traveling together, Tony became a boss, a friend, a hero and, sometimes, a tormentor.In the Weeds takes readers behind the scenes to reveal not just the insanity that went into filming in some of the most far-flung and volatile parts of the world, but what Tony was like unedited and off-camera. From the outside, the job looked like an all-expenses-paid adventure to places like Borneo, Vietnam, Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Libya. What happened off-camera was far more interesting than what made it to air. The more things went wrong, the better it was for the show. Fortunately, everything fell apart constantly.
In 1963 Dorrie Van returns to Montana with her baby. She finds work as a waitress and deals with memories of a disastrous love affair.
Weeds are plants growing in the wrong place. Here's how to recognize, prevent , eradicate-- or learn to live with-- your unwelcome guests.
At Home with the Weeds: A Memoir
Weeds survive, entombed in the soil, for centuries.
Water the Flowers, Not the Weeds: A Strategy that Revolutionizes Professional, Personal, Family Communication and Relationships
The book offers Maya's thoughts in a series of vulnerable, true, and raw poems written during quarantine and handwritten poems and hand-drawn images directly from her journal she's written and kept since 7th grade.
Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans.
In Part One, the book begins with a general discussion of weeds: their biology, behavior and the characteristics that influence how to best control their populations.
... abundant seed produced, but a large proportion nonviable; seed production in native range is up to 192,000 seeds per plant; northern limit in Europe coincides with sites with 120 frost-free days de Vriese, P. zuccarinii (Small.) ...
Full-page black-and-white drawings of forty-five weeds common in the United States, with common and scientific names. Color illustrations for each weed on the covers.