True History of the Kelly Gang is a historical novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story. Product Description In a dazzling act of ventr...(展开全部)

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false." In True History of the Kelly Gang," " the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant...(展开全部)

This delightful tale of one of the world’s favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. It begins some 4,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as choc...(展开全部)

This delightful and best-selling tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. The story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into...(展开全部)

索菲·D. 科（Sophie D. Coe），美国人类学家、食物历史学家。 她的书《美国第一美食》1994 年出版，受到普遍好评。 麦克·D. 科（Michael D. Coe），美国耶鲁大学人类学名誉教授。主要著作有《玛雅》《墨西哥》《打破玛雅守则》《吴哥和高棉文明》《解读玛雅铭文》等。

This is the remarkable story of tea and its uses from ancient times to the present. The narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, from the tea ceremony aesthetics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia, from the advent of Britain's love affair with tea to the tea party that...(展开全部)

迄今为止，拉尔夫・伊利斯已经出版了两个系列涉及考古学和神学主题的普及型专著，分别是《透特――宇宙的建筑师》和《K2――导解众神》、《耶稣――最后的法老》和《大风暴与出埃及》。这两套书甫一面市即轰动学界，震惊世人。特别在《耶稣――最后的法治》一书中，拉尔夫伊利斯以其丰富的神学、埃及学、犹太学、考古学、语言学和天文学知识，对《圣经》做出了大胆的全新诠释，惊世骇俗地勾勒出一幅背离正史的生动画卷，令人耳目一新，启迪无限思维。在《圣经》影响深远厚重的欧美国家里，此书以其巨大的冲击力当之无愧地成为了上榜畅销书，并引发了重新认识西方宗教本质和起源的风潮。2002年底，伊利斯更是集中最新考古发现的成果，发表了400页的史诗般作品《所罗门―示巴女王之鹰》，它重写了《圣经》的和世俗的历史，被称为是有史以来出版的观点最激进、结论最惊人的《圣经》历史专著。

From choosing the right pair of eyeglasses to properly coordinating a shirt, tie, and pocket square, getting dressed is an art to be mastered. Yet, how many of us just throw on, well, whatever each morning? How many understand the subtleties of selecting the right pair of socks or the most compatible patterns of our various garments—much less the history, imperatives, and impor...(展开全部)

Este relato acerca de uno de los alimentos predilectos del mundo se basa en la botanica, la arqueologia, la socioeconomia y el arte culinario para presentar por primera vez una historia completa y precisa del chocolate. La narracion comienza hace unos 3000 anos en las selvas de Mexico y de America Central con el arbol Theobroma cacao y los complejos procesos necesarios para tra...(展开全部)

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses. In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the th...(展开全部)