The first complete English translation of a seminal text in the history of French gastronomy
Text is copiously annotated in an effort to acquaint the twenty-first-century reader with the events, ma ... Read more
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Conventional wisdom says that marriage was rare or illegal for slaves and that if African Americans married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is believed ... Read more
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Interfaith marriage is on the rise in America, from 15% of all marriages in 1988 to 36% in 2010. This is true in every region of the country, for people at every income and educational level, and acro ... Read more
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A Cry for Justice documents five different aspects of underdevelopment and deprivation in Balochistan: gas pricing, federal development expenditure, federal social protection, federal civil service an ... Read more
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More than 5,000 clear, concise, and jargon-free A-Z entries, extensively revised and updated
Includes expanded coverage of areas such as analogue components, circuits, and systems; circuit theory a ... Read more
This leading dictionary contains over 6,150 entries covering all aspects of food and nutrition, diet and health. With jargon-free definitions and useful appendix material, including RDA lists, it is a ... Read more
More than 4,800 clear, jargon-free entries
Defines all the major legal terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system, and provides a useful source of information fo ... Read more
A Guide to Battles tells the stories of 300 of the world's most dramatic, memorable, and important clashes, from battles in ancient Egypt to the Second Gulf War. Organized chronologically and by regio ... Read more
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Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatali ... Read more
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A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both ... Read more
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