Spice: The History of a Temptation, Paperback - Jack Turner

Reducere. In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era from ancient times through the Renaissance when what we now consider common condime...

Reducere. If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature--gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge sp...

Reducere. Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In...

In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature o...

A biography of Katherine SwynfordPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Jeannette LucraftNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the compan...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher TomlinsIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus. 2 tables.Number of pages: 376Publication date: 20...

Publisher: Little, Brown and CompanyAuthor(s): Malcolm GladwellNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 21Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' ...

It was during the Battle of Britain in 1940 that the Spitfire became an enduring legend and a symbol of the British fighting spirit, partnering wit...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

An exploration and celebration of an iconic Southern food and culture. The Hot Chicken Project is part recipe book (40 recipes covering the best ma...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen sixteen-year-old Jesse Turner lies about his age and joins Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight the Spanish in Cuba i...

Down's Syndrome is a mental disability with very distinctive characteristics. David Wright looks at the care and treatment of Down's sufferers - de...

A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account...

Judy Simons thought to leave her grandchildren a legacy of reminiscences about her Jewish upbringing in 1950s Sheffield. But when her mother died s...

Like an assorted tin of biscuits, this charming and beautifully illustrated book has something to offer for everyone, combining recipes for hardtac...

Reducere. An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In The Bomber Mafia, M...

Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of ...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

A book about history, friendship, family and what it means to belong, from the award-winning journalist and author of ExpectingPublisher: Canongate...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...

Reducere. From author Jack Whyte comes the true story of Robert the Bruce: a passionate man. An incredible warrior. And one of Scotland's finest. Robert I, o...

Reducere. Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of ...

English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status a...

DescriptionThe Great Uighur Empire ruled Inner Asia in the 8th and 9th centuries and their descendants, the Taklamakanians, created a thousand year...

Reducere. (From the intro) Eight B-26 Marauder bombardment groups flew and fought from British soil from the late 1943 through October 1944. They then moved ...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War: The definitive Civil War classic as Sam wanted it revised complete with his edits, new pe...

In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobili...

If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presen...

The essays in this volume examine interreligious relationality, hope and doubt, human labour and mortality, structures of nature, movements of hist...

Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europe...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter more than thirty years of existence, the Zelda saga has been renewed from top to bottom with its last episode, so acclaimed, Breat...

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.Publisher: University of Br...

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardConceiving of Christianity as a -worldview- has been one of the most significant events in the church in the last 150 ...

Reducere. (from the original jacket) Palisades Park is a summer community of 200 cottages scattered throughout the dunes and along the shore of Lake Michigan...

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried ...

Reducere. What do you know about Southeast Asia? Would you like to know more?Southeast Asia has a long and complicated history. The many threads of its histo...

Reducere. What do you know about Southeast Asia? Would you like to know more?Southeast Asia has a long and complicated history. The many threads of its histo...

Describes the activities of the explorers and map-makers of Renaissance and early modern Europe; the role of geography during the Scientific Revolu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicolas CourcierAuthor: Mehdi El KanafiTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Third Editions wanted to p...

Reducere. Since ships first set sail in the Mediterranean, The Rock has been the gate of Fortress Europe. In ancient times, it was known as one of the Pillar...

Reducere. Designed by Richmond visionary Lewis Ginter, The Jefferson Hotel has been an icon in the community since 1895. From the alligators that used to roa...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

This celebration of some of the greatest art, architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries ...

This book collects, for the first time, primary documents associated with the Jack Cade Rebellion that have been translated into Present-Day Englis...

Reducere. An illustrated history of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida.

Sharon Turner (1768-1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic l...