Containing over 250 rice recipes from around the world, this cookbook also includes information on: the many varieties of ricethe nutritional valueits history and agriculturethe cults, cultures and myths surrounding itand its importance through the ages.

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice. Yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the 18th century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the...(展开全部)

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice. Yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the 18th century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the...(展开全部)

A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.

◾️【内容简介】 《The Book》是日本推理作家乙一根据漫画家荒木飞吕彦的漫画《JOJO的奇妙冒险》创作的一部全新长篇推理小说，故事由杜王町一只浑身沾满血的猫展开，四个不同角度的故事线逐渐汇集，构建起一个热烈而又悲戚的短暂人生。少年莲见琢马为给母亲飞来明里复仇而在杜王町展开了一系列行动，琢马拥有“替身使者”的奇特能力，使用这个能力的工具就是书中出现的“The Book”，他因为对妈妈遭受的屈辱痛苦感同身受，于是决定运用自己的能力为母亲复仇。少年广濑康一奔走调查，漫画家岸边露伴目睹着一切，少女双叶千帆用爱和善意陪伴着琢马，真相逐渐浮现，一出复仇悲剧铺展。 乙一用冷静的笔触呈现了双线并行的故事，带领读者进入他构建的异世界，随着真相的一点点揭秘，感受到故事中人物的辛酸悲苦和孤独无助。如同人类的善恶在一念之间，“The Book”的存在，可以仅仅是记忆的...(展开全部)

In this terrifying novel from the phenomenally successful Anne Rice, the illustrious vampire Lestat makes a Faustian pact with Devil. Satan has come to New Orleans with an enticing proposition. Under the name Memnoch this lord of darkness takes Lestat on a tour through the boundaries of space and time, offering an alternative and personalised account of the Bible, exploring the...(展开全部)

With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know.... The Years of Rice and Salt It is the fou...(展开全部)

With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know.... The Years of Rice and Salt It is the fourtee...(展开全部)

The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world's a different place ! From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, 'the ultimate in future history' (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written. As Bold Bardash, a horseman in the army of Temur the Lame, rides west across the steppe and on to the Magyar Plain, he comes across a town in which...(展开全部)