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A comprehensive, entertaining historical and ethnographic account of Chinese food, from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century. After showing how food has been central to Chinese government policies, religious rituals, and health practices from the earliest times, E.N. Anderson turns to present-day... More

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.aAndersonas book is a solid introduction to the anthropology of food for students and general readers. It is clear, well-written, spiced with interesting examples, and illustrated with many evocative photographs taken by the author and by Barbara And... More

There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson. While the advanced nations of the West have failed to control overfishing, deforestation, soil erosion, pollution, and a host of other environmental problems, many traditional peoples manage their natural resource... More

A London chef has overnight access to Louisiana crayfish. A Nebraska housewife finds the complex spices key to a proper Indian curry in her area supermarket. Big Macs are all the rage in Moscow. In the 1990s, the hallmarks of the Global Village - advances in telecommunications and transportation - h... More

Metaphors improve speech and writing by conveying shades of meaning more succinctly than ordinary phrases. The modern English language is remarkably full of metaphors. This fascinating book discusses metaphors in some detail. An entertaining introduction leads into a dictionary of metaphors, a thema... More

There is much interest in English usage these days. This is a book for writers, editors, teachers, students and the business community. As it is quite unlike other books in this genre it will also have a special appeal to all lovers of words. Part of the book deals with a number of serious issues o... More

A country's stance on international trade is an important component of its economic welfare. Yet relatively little theoretical attention has been paid to developing accurate methods to assess trade policies, leaving practitioners and policy makers with ad hoc solutions that lack theoretical foundati... More

BROKEN, YET TRIUMPHANT reveals in fictional form the drama of a double-murder mystery, private emotional episodes, near death experiences, stolen property, and the fish-bowl existence of the Minister's home through the transparent heart of a Minister's wife.... More

The first in the Oxford Monographs on Clinical Nephrology series, this book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis of the last 1ecade's research into an exciting and rapidly evolving area of nephrology. It covers natural history, therapeutic interventions and prevention, and is written by a ... More