For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

The vivid historical story of Robert Fortune, engaged by the East India Company in 1848, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China to s...

As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to ac...

Tales of the Tea Trade looks at the world of tea from a completely new perspective. Taking the reader on a fascinating journey directly into the li...

Publisher: Strategic Media BooksAuthor(s): Richard BradspiesIllustration(s): 5 b/w illusNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 140 x...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rod PhillipsWine is a drink with a long history. It is produced in every continent apart from Antarctica, and there are ver...

Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known a...

Reducere. No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled ...

Can't we all just get oolong?We are a nation of tea drinkers. 84% of Brits drink tea every day, and we get through 100 million cups daily. His comp...

Tea is the world's most popular beverage. Yet there are disturbing truths to be faced about our morning cuppa. Priest and social activist Becca Ste...

Reducere. All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy...

What we call a part of the world - Asia, Europe, the Middle East - seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic: a mental map that guides t...

In recent years, both scholars and the general public have become increasingly fascinated by the role of religion in modern Chinese life. However, ...

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The story of tea is extraordinary - it caused wars, boosted the trade in slaves and hard drugs, and it's no exaggeration to say it was one of the g...

Reducere. How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful h...

Reducere. 25 Years of Dallas: The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Prime Time Soap takes readers behind the scenes of TV's legendary Dallas. It include...

Catherine Parr and Anne Askew: united in faith and danger, divided in death

Reducere. DescriptionDrink Like a Geek marries Jeff's twin passions for alcohol and geek culture: in the early 2000s, Jeff directed two documentaries about S...

In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the...

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Vegan North celebrates the best of the burgeoning vegan food scene across the north. It features recipes and stories from restaurants, cafes and pr...

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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KennedyIn this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people,...

'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet i...

Reducere. This extensive beginners guide to cocktails recipes book, contains 60 of the best Cocktails originating from the Caribbean Islands and the Americas...

Reducere. On a cold evening in December 1773, a group of men climbed aboard three ships docked in Boston Harbor. Armed with hatchets, the men began breaking ...

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Reducere. His career derailed by the Great Recession, Romulus is lucky to land a community-college teaching job. There he meets young, African-American, Bobb...

Reducere. In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a beli...

DescriptionThis brief historical introduction to the English Reformation explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the origi...

London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents th...

Reducere. Come for Tea so we can showcase our favorite recipes for scones, savories and sweets. Find beautiful table settings and menus for the five most-cel...

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

Reducere. The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another...

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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon's seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provoca...

Publisher: BenBella BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan A. KraneNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Jeff PearceIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations including: - 21 Black and White Illustrations; - 3 Maps.Number o...

Reducere. 1. Introduction2. e-History: Not Quite History, Not Quite The Past3. The Crowd-Sourced Past4. Nostalgia On-Demand5. The Viral Past6. The Visual Pas...

This book explains why the idea of the Indo-Pacific is so strategically important and concludes with a strategy designed to help the West engage wi...

Reducere. Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of ...

This book is approved by AQA and covers in depth a period of major change in the English Church and government, and the issues which led England to...