In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today, the United States is home to more Chinese restaurants than any other ethnic cuisine. In this authoritative new history, author Andrew Coe traces the fascinating story of America's centuries-long encounter with Chinese food. CHOP SUEY tells how ...(展开全部)

Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps, a husband prowls the Internet, obsessed with female serial killers; a bureaucrat tries...(展开全部)

This book gives a first introduction to milk and cheese. Simple comparisons are used to explore this group, and suggestions for healthy eating are offered.

Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze-mice who question everything-to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny.

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, inc...(展开全部)

It's cold as I pedal along, the wind like a snake slithering up my sleeves and into my jacket and my pants legs, too. But I keep pedaling....A boy's search for his father becomes a desperate journey to unlock a secret past. But it is a past that must not be remembered -- if the boy is to survive.

Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze-mice who question everything-to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny.

Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine. Sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997, the last one being Monster Blood IV. Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he found. The photographs keep turning out...different. When Greg takes a shot of his father's brand...(展开全部)

這是一本與眾不同的小說，其特點是心理的折磨，而非身體的暴力。在這個抽絲剝繭的懸疑故事中，男孩亞當飄浮在虛實不清的世界裡，徘徊在現實與回憶的邊際間，尋找父親更尋找自己真實的身分；他是亞當‧法默，也是保羅‧狄爾蒙──前者是現在的他，後者是過去的他。他在無意間赫然發現竟有另一個自己，另一個生日，這天大的祕密帶給他極度的衝擊與無邊困惑，他決定查清真相，不料真相卻是那麼殘酷而無情……

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomi...(展开全部)