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Explore the controversial life of Marie Antoinette. Engaging yet authoritative text and historically accurate images bring the biography of this divisive but captivating queen to life. Infographics, sidebars, and fact boxes help add to readers' understanding of Marie Antoinette and the time in which she lived.
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President and war hero. Slave owner and Indian killer. Andrew Jackson has been called many names throughout history. But who was the real Andrew Jackson? Explore Jacksons life leading up to the Trail of Tears. Then decide for yourself whether he was a hero or a villain.
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Offers 12 different views on the waves of European settlers during colonial times. Each page provides information about what happened during European colonization and how it affected different people, along with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
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"Offers 12 different views on the fight for racial equality. Each page explores what happened during the Civil Rights Movement and how it affected different people, and includes interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images."--Provided by publisher.
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Offers 12 different views on the growth of western territories and the impact on American Indians. Each page provides information about what happened during the westward expansion and how it affected different people, along with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
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What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar prescriptions? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually searching for that one simple trick that will solve everything? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition?
“Anxious Eaters” shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs-which...
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Another entertaining and surprising food history by the scholar who has come to define the discipline, this volume draws readers into the far-flung story of how regional cuisine came to shape a collective Italian identity. From the Romans' encounters with barbarian tribes to the revival and reinvention of local Italian cooking in the twentieth century, Massimo Montanari shows how regional food practices flavored the nation's political and cultural...
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An internationally renowned chemist, popular television personality, and bestselling author, Hervé This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular gastronomy--the scientific exploration of cooking and eating. By the testing recipes that have guided cooks for centuries, and the various dictums and maxims on which they depend, Hervé This unites the head with the hand in order to defend and transform culinary practice. With this new book, Hervé...
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More than 40 vintners from across America and around the world reveal their winemaking secrets in this collection of fascinating interviews.
In The Winemaker's Hand, professional winemakers from Napa Valley to the Finger Lakes and from Chile to Italy share their personal approach to the ancient-yet constantly evolving-craft of winemaking. In candid discussions, they reveal how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of...
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