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  • The Culinary Crescent

    A History of Middle Eastern Cuisine

    by Peter Heine ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    The Fertile Crescent region—the swath of land comprising a vast portion of today’s Middle East—has long been regarded as pivotal to the rise of civilization. Alongside the story of human development, innovation, and progress, there is a culinary tradition of equal richness and importance.In The Culinary Crescent: A History of Middle Eastern Cuisine, Peter Heine combines years of scholarship with a ... Read more

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  • Food Culture in the Near East, Middle East, and North Africa

    by Peter Heine ...
    The Near East, Middle East, and North Africa have comparable cuisines because of their old traditions and diverse climates, which range from the Mediterranean to the desert. The main monotheistic faiths originated in the Middle East, and readers and students will discover how religious prohibitions on food and drink still have a significant impact on how Muslims, Jews, and Christians consume there ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Enlightenment

    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word 'leisure' had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxury modern practices of and attitudes towards leisure were increasingly discussed. Not surprisingly, as leisure acquired an increasing presence in the economy and in the patterns of people's lives.Between low cost popular ... Read more

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  • Heine

    Selected Verse

    'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in fact born in 1797. He was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelgänger poems show, a man divided against ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

    A Novel in 36 Voices

    Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, ... Read more

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  • Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700–1870

    A transnational perspective

    Edited by Peter Borsay, Jan Hein Furnee ...
    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe during the transition from the early modern to the modern period. Bringing together research on a wide variety of activities – from the theatre and art exhibitions to spas, seaside resorts and games – it develops a new scholarly agenda for the history of leisure, focusing on the complex processes of cultural ... Read more

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  • The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon - 20th Anniversary Edition

    The 20th Anniversary Edition!In 1998, the authors set out to demonstrate the viability of the Accelerated Dragon as a weapon for Black, not fearing the Maroczy Bind or any other set-up White can come up with.In the intervening year, the opening has been part of the opening repertoires of world top players such as Carlsen, Ivanchuk, and numerous other top grandmasters.Even though the original ... Read more

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  • Travel Pictures

    Translated by Peter Wortsman ...
    Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), one of Germany’s most revered poets, is equally well-known for his idiosyncratic prose, the vibrant voice of which feels astonishingly modern in its familiar tone and thematic acrobatics. Travel Pictures comprises the accounts of four journeys taken at different times in his life. The opening "Harz Journey," a quirky chronicle of his walking tour in the Harz Mountains, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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