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From corn flakes to pancakes, this book explores this 'most important meal of the day' as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are...
Shang, Chou, Han, T'ang, Sung, Yuan, Ming, Ch'ing -- for most Westerners, they stand only as adjectives to describe a lacquer, a bronze, a silk, a watercolor. And for all the familiarity a blue and white porcelain vase from the Ming dynasty or the...
Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or peop China defines itself in terms of history. With the world's longest tradition of history-writing, its extraordinary past ought to be common knowledge. China , by the eminent historian...
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking...
"A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, during the 1930s, the German Navy underwent a program of rearmament in defiance of the restrictions,...