How Carrots Won The Trojan War

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603427869

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How Carrots Won the Trojan War by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

Discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova’s conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate. Rebecca Rupp tells the strange and fascinating history of 23 of the world’s most popular vegetables. Gardeners, foodies, history buffs, and anyone who wants to know the secret stories concealed in a salad are sure to enjoy this delightful and informative collection.

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603429689

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How Carrots Won the Trojan War by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

Looks at the history of vegetables and vegetable gardening.

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603427869

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How Carrots Won the Trojan War by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

Discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova’s conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate. Rebecca Rupp tells the strange and fascinating history of 23 of the world’s most popular vegetables. Gardeners, foodies, history buffs, and anyone who wants to know the secret stories concealed in a salad are sure to enjoy this delightful and informative collection.

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Storey Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Vegetable gardening
ISBN : CORNELL:31924050318835

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Blue Corn & Square Tomatoes by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

A former research biologist tells the little-known life stories of 20 common garden vegetables.

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780609805855

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Home Learning Year by Year by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

This exceptional guide for the one million-plus homeschoolers who make up America's most rapidly growing educational movement tells what children must learn, and when. Includes subject-by-subject guidelines.

Author : Homer,William Lucas Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QA2

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The Iliad by Homer,William Lucas Collins Pdf

Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781847652843

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Weeds by Richard Mabey Pdf

Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol of Flanders Field. They are civilisations' familiars, invading farmland and building-sites, war-zones and flower-beds across the globe. Yet living so intimately with us, they have been a blessing too. Weeds were the first crops, the first medicines. Burdock was the inspiration for Velcro. Cow parsley has become the fashionable adornment of Spring weddings. Weaving together the insights of botanists, gardeners, artists and poets with his own life-long fascination, Richard Mabey examines how we have tried to define them, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them. One persons weed is another's wild beauty.

Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267675

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Cooking With Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson Pdf

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic' and 'Fernet Branca Ice Cream'. His idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of her family. She is a composer in a neo-folk style who claims to be writing a score for a trendy Italian film director. The neighbours' lives disastrously intertwine. The entourages of the rock star and the director come and go; mysterious black helicopters bring news of mayhem in Voynova, Marta's homeland; and along the way the English obsession with Tuscany is satirized mercilessly.

Author : Andrew Rea
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781328589897

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Binging with Babish by Andrew Rea Pdf

Recipes recreated from beloved movies and TV shows by the host of one of the most popular food programs on the internet

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Storey Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0882666207

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Red Oaks & Black Birches by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

Describes the different tree species, including the oak, elm, redwood, birch, and pine, and relates legends and lore associated with them

Author : Lisa Margonelli
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385520058

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Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli Pdf

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli’s desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle. In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit. Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.

Author : Eduardo Galeano
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786744701

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Mirrors by Eduardo Galeano Pdf

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco Núde Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??" Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763660000

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The Dragon of Lonely Island by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

"Rebecca Rupp's magical tale . . . radiates a glow as golden as the dragon's scales." – Boston Globe Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are spending the summer at their great-aunt Mehitabel's house on faraway Lonely Island. There, in a cave hidden high above the ocean, they discover a fabulous creature: a glittering three-headed golden dragon with a kind heart, an unpredictable temper, and a memory that spans 20,000 years. Transported by the magic of the dragon's stories, the children meet Mei-lan, a young girl in ancient China; nineteenth-century cabin boy Jamie Pritchett; and, in more recent times, Hitty and her brother, Will, who survive a frightening plane crash on a desert island. In this fluidly written novel, Rebecca Rupp explores what three children from the present learn from the past - and from an unlikely but wise and generous friend.

Author : Linda Tamura
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804460

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Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence by Linda Tamura Pdf

Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation. Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMcFdmixLk

Author : Linda Tamura
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0252063597

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The Hood River Issei by Linda Tamura Pdf

Gathers oral histories from Japanese immigrants, most of them women, that discuss leaving Japan, life as farmers and orchard workers, and the World War II relocation.