Coffee: A Dark History, Paperback - Antony Wild

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Antony WildCoffee trader and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commod...

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Lifts the lid on the history of one of the world's favourite foods.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Emma KayIllustration(s): 20 black and...

Delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd...

Reducere. San Francisco was booming in the mid-nineteenth century, and along with adventurers seeking their fortunes came sacks of green coffee beans. The ol...

DescriptionNew Orleans history is steeped in coffee. Outside the Cathedral of St. Louis in Jackson Square, early entrepreneurs like Old Rose provid...

Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Bee WilsonNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 20...

From the slaves used to build the Great Wall to the Tiananmen Square protests, the illustrated China - A Dark History takes an expert sweep across ...

A raucous history of Vancouver's music and entertainment venues, from Prohibition-era nightclubs and Chinatown cabarets to gay bars, dive bars, got...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Mike BrowneNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 229 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

New Orleans history is steeped in coffee. Outside the Cathedral of St. Louis in Jackson Square, early entrepreneurs like Old Rose provided eager ch...

Most of us can't make it through morning without our cup (or cups) of joe, and we're not alone. Coffee is a global beverage: it's grown commerciall...

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foun...

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DescriptionThe history of coffee is much more than the tale of one luxury good--it is a lens through which to consider various strands of world his...

A brilliant reconstruction of the Third Reich's final collapse, and the millions of people caught up in The Red Army's brutal desire to avenge Nazi...

Taking inspiration from the landscapes around her, Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how our relationship with darkness and the night has changed over...

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The bestselling author of }Stalingrad{ and }Berlin: The Downfall{ draws on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German...

The renowned and bestselling author of }Stalingrad{ turns his attention to Ardennes, Hitler's 'last gamble' offensive on the Belgian/German border ...

In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the n...

The author of the }Hereward{ novels continues to tell the story of the Pendragon bloodline towards Arthur, King of the Britons. The sequel to criti...

Reducere. DescriptionCaste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pi ce de r sistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to a...

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Reducere. A masterful and comprehensive new chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Ant...

A notable work by the doyen of writers about cinemaPublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David ThomsonNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. -Glorious, horrifying...D-DAY is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women.---Time Antony Beevor's ...

Covering 11 counties from Aldbury in Hertfordshire in Herfordshire to Woodstock in Oxfordshire, Inspector Morse on Location, published in conjuncti...

Reducere. Aunque fue un escritor prolífico, el profesor Sutton será recordado por su gran trilogía: Wall St. y la revolución bolchevique, Wall St. y FDR, Wal...

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The Dark Side of Japan is a collection of folk tales, black magic, protection spells, monsters and other dark interpretations of life and death fro...

In his riveting new book, A Short History of Coffee, Gordon Kerr investigates the fascinating history behind the global obsession with coffee, from...

Antony Beevor's "Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949" is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of...

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