Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People
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An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets now in a new revised and updated Third...
Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery
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For many of us, ruins are alluring, puzzling and endlessly fascinating: this elegant book seeks to...
The Complete Book of Turkish Cooking: All the Ingredients, Techniques and Traditions of an Ancient Cuisine
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This book features all the ingredients, techniques and traditions of an ancient cuisine. You can...
Ostrich
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In many senses the ostrich looms large - the tallest and heaviest of any living bird, a fully grown...
The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity
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Ever since the International Monetary Fund s first bailout of Greece s sinking economy in 2010, the...
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The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind
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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They...
The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor
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Long overlooked by scholars, this seventh-century Life of the Virgin, attributed to Maximus the...
A Guide to Britain and Ireland
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Britain and Ireland form a group of small but fascinating countries, teeming with ancient history,...
Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Joyce E. Chaplin, Paul Freedman and Ken Albala
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Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all,...
The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide
Kirsty McLeod, Primrose Bell and Robin Lane Fox
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Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world...