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The Oxford Companion to Wine
Av Julia (Editor of ^IThe Ox... Harding MW, Julia Harding MW m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
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549 kr
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Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume!The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, …
The Oxford Companion to Cheese
Av Mateo Kehler, Catherine Donnelly
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
578 kr
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The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly …
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
Häftad, 2009
285 kr
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The popularity of Italian food all over the world is ever increasing. Unhampered by any sense of superiority, and unburdened by the weight of a great classical tradition, Italians cook and eat in the ways they have known and trusted for generations, absorbing new influences while cultivating and …
The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
Inbunden, 2021
641 kr
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Anthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of serious scholarly inquiry. The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails is the first major …
The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner
Av Evelyn Joll, Martin Butlin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2063 kr
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The first ever authoritative guide to Turner and all aspects of his artJ. M. W. Turner is generally acknowledged not only as Britain's greatest painter, but as one of the finest and most original of all landscape painters. His long life and exceptionally large and varied oeuvre has created a body …
The Oxford Companion to Music
Inbunden, 2002
541 kr
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The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of all time. This invaluable Companion now reappears in a completely new edition. Over a million words in length, it is the biggest, most authoritative, and most up to date single-volume music reference book available. …
Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn
Häftad, 2009
545 kr
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In his lifetime Joseph Haydn enjoyed huge popularity throughout Europe. As a composer of symphonies, quartets, masses, and oratorios he was readily acknowledged by Mozart, Beethoven, and others as a commanding figure. He is one of the founding fathers of classical music, yet only in the last 50 …
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Inbunden, 2004
1568 kr
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The Oxford Companion to the Mind,edited by Richard L. Gregory, is a classic. Published in 1987, to huge acclaim, it immediately took its place as the indispensable guide to the mysteries - and idiosyncracies - of the human mind. In no other book can the reader find indiscussions of concepts such as …
The Oxford Companion to the Year
Av Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Inbunden, 1999
1637 kr
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The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular. The calendar used in the West today is just one of a multitude of systems for parcelling up time and naming its divisions. Each of its days has over the centuries acquired its own …
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
Av David Dabydeen, John Gilmore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
754 kr
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The Oxford Companion to Black British History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, from African auxiliaries stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the 2nd century AD, through John Edmonstone, who taught taxidermy to …
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Av Dinah Birch
Inbunden, 2009
677 kr
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical …
The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Av METZGER, Bruce M. Metzger m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1123 kr
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The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. It is one of the great wellsprings of Western religious, ethical, and philosophical traditions. It has been an endless source of inspiration to artists and writers, and for countless …
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Inbunden, 1996
1300 kr
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For more than a half a century, James Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has been a matchless guide through the myriad paths and byways of American literary culture. It has been revised regularly since its first publication in 1941, although Hart died in 1990, before he could complete …
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
Inbunden, 1997
1400 kr
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When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at Machu Picchu, the cave paintings at Lascaux. But as marvelous as these discoveries are, …
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Av BOYER, Paul S. Boyer
Inbunden, 2001
1140 kr
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The Oxford Companion to United States History is a one-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopedia offering comprehensive coverage of the field for pre-contact Native Americans to the end of the twentieth century. The volume's first aim will be to serve as trustworthy guide to the basics of …
The Oxford Companion to American Law
Av HALL, Kermit Hall
Inbunden, 2002
1218 kr
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This Companion offers a one-volume, alphabetically arranged, encyclopedia introducing the main lines of American law, from the institutions, people, events, and cases to the doctrines and concepts. Produced under the editorship of a board of five noted scholars, headed by Kermit L. Hall, it …
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Inbunden, 2005
834 kr
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Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology, or myth-logic, in history and determines …
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Av Kermit L. Hall, James W. Ely, Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
767 kr
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Offering a comprehensive and accessible guide to the most important judicial body in America, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States is an indispensable resource for understanding the workings of American law. This new edition is the first substantial revision to the …
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Häftad, 2005
619 kr
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Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia, Gene Lees, Dan Morgenstern, Gunther …
The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink
Inbunden, 2007
720 kr
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Offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of food and drink in America with fascinating entries on everything from the smell of asparagus to the history of White Castle, and the origin of Bloody Marys to jambalaya, the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink provides a concise, …
The Oxford Companion to Global Change
Inbunden, 2008
2391 kr
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In the past few years, global change has become increasingly important in the technological, ecological, and political spheres. The Oxford Companion to Global Change examines the environmental events of recent times, and investigates long-term trends as well as broader issues of Global Change. …
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
Theatre, Film, and Television
Av Thomas S. Hischak, Thomas S. Hischak
Inbunden, 2008
522 kr
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From films ranging from An American in Paris and Flying Down to Rio to such Broadway landmarks as Oklahoma and West Side Story and television hits such as Cinderella and High School Musical, the American musical has thrilled audiences around the world. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American …
The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
Av Douglas Gray
Inbunden, 2003
5723 kr
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With over 2,000 entries from an international team of scholars, this new Oxford Companion provides a wealth of clear, up-to-date assessments on all aspects of Chaucer. Entries, both short and long, from 'Aaron' to 'Zodiac', provide information on Chaucer's life and times, his works and the …
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
Av Peter Hainsworth, David Robey
Inbunden, 2002
4852 kr
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Embracing the whole of Italian literature, from the early thirteenth century to the present, The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature takes a broad view of what constitutes literature, covering historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary …
The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought
Av Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
706 kr
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At the dawn of the third millennium, what does it mean to be a Christian? This ambitious and imaginative new reference work is the most authoritative, yet accessible, introduction in English to the living tradition of Christian thought-the 'spiritual, moral, and intellectual luggage' that …
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Av Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard
Häftad, 1999
664 kr
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The indispensable reference book for anyone concerned with children's books. Over 900 biographical entries deal with authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature. The range of literature covered includes …
The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
Av Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
579 kr
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'This oozing, bulging wealth of the English upper and upper-middle classes.' This was how George Orwell saw the Edwardian period. What images do we see when we think of that era? Ladies munching delicately on cucumber sandwiches? Gentlemen in straw boaters punting gently down rivers? Looking at the …
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
Inbunden, 2007
748 kr
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The popularity of Italian food all over the world is ever increasing. Unhampered by any sense of superiority, and unburdened by the weight of a great classical tradition, Italians cook and eat in the ways they have known and trusted for generations, absorbing new influences while cultivating and …
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
Av Ian Hamilton
Inbunden, 1994
2649 kr
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This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and America to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, …
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
730 kr
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What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called?For over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece …
