Customs & Traditions
epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Hinsch, Bret

The Song author Li Qingzhao (1081–ca. 1141), one of the most erudite women of her age, captures the increasingly cultured atmosphere of tea drinking with a lively vignette.[27] Although famous ...
( Category: China December 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Whittock, Martyn

The abuses and limitations of the law As with all systems, the system of law in the Middle Ages was open to abuse. Royal justices were at times accused of ...
( Category: England December 3,2015 )
epub | | 2015-04-13 | Author:Massimo Montanari, Beth Archer Brombert

*Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus, referred to as Probus in Italian.—Trans. †Only in Italian: sapore/sapere (flavor/knowledge), sapidità/sapienza (tastiness/wisdom).—Trans. CHAPTER XIII Rich Food, Poor Food THE HISTORY OF food has a powerful ...
( Category: Cultural October 20,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-07 | Author:Blake, Jennifer [Blake, Jennifer]

12 HE LOWERED HER TO HER FEET and brushed his lips across her forehead. He quickly shrugged from his coat, then spread it on the flagstones and went to one ...
( Category: Short Stories October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Urban, Hugh

His concern is for the rest of he world, which he characterizes as humanity sunk in its ignorance. . . . Considering the far reaching crises of contemporary times, he ...
( Category: General July 20,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sasaki Sanmi [Sanmi, Sasaki]

Tei-teito / kiyoki o hasu no / oncha kana Fuhaku Amidst the fresh hasu it was so pleasant to enjoy your wonderful tea. Gyôji (Events of the Month) Seichû Ennô ...
( Category: Japan July 19,2015 )
epub |ara, eng, fra | 2014-11-17 | Author:Richard Foss

chapter 14 Jumbo Jets, Excess, and Cultural Expression (1966–1975) When the Boeing 747 was introduced in 1966, it was a revolutionary aircraft, two and a half times the size of ...
( Category: History July 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Andrew Zimmern [Zimmern, Andrew]

Simple Foods Noodle Houses of Guangzhou y love of Chinese food borders on obsession. For the record, this Chinese food I speak of is not a plate of indistinguishable, fried ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Liora Gvion

CHAPTER 3 Labaneh with Light Bread and Knafeh from White Cheese Tradition and Modernity Meet Modernity is a key word for Palestinian citizens of Israel.1 The modern lifestyle encourages mobility ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1990-12-15 | Author:Alvin Toffler

( Category: Customs & Traditions June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Lynn Holden

Ibn al-Farid goes on to describe the potency of the wine: had they sprinkled therewith the dust of a dead man’s tomb, the spirit would surely have returned unto him ...
( Category: Cultural June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:John Steinbeck; Rosa Harvan Kline; Alexander Hackensmid

“Come to the egg. Come, little pains, into the egg,” said Trini. “Now I have them caught in the egg. I will show you. See—there they are. Now he will ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Troost, J. Maarten [Troost, J. Maarten]

There are typhoons and there are super typhoons. Typhoon Chancu was only the second super typhoon to ever be recorded in the South China Sea. And somehow, I had managed ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Bill Bryson

III The direction of movement for populations is not always downwards, it must be said. Sometimes populations boom, occasionally in ways that shape history. Never has that been more true ...
( Category: Residential June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus & Ellis Henican [Stoltzfus, "Lebanon" Levi & Henican, Ellis]

When the Abners’ case finally got to court, their defense lawyers pleaded addiction and Rumspringa. Those weren’t the official defenses, but they might as well have been. What else could ...
( Category: Religious June 9,2015 )