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A History of Gold and Money
1450-1920
- Verso Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-477-0
EAN 9781844674770
A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English. The EconomistAnyone interested in the changing sources and functions of gold and money in Western society will be enlightened and at times diverted by Vilar's pioneering history. Beginning with a survey of the role of gold and the various currencies used in ancient ...
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- Macmillan, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51875-8
EAN 9780330518758
This lonely chameleon won't be blue for long! He can turn himself into anything and appear to fit in anywhere, but it seems that neither the swirly snail, the green grasshopper nor the stripy sock want to be friends. Will he ever find someone to talk to? Someone just like him? With a subtle and ...
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- Templar, 2011
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PVP: 8,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84877-032-4
EAN 9781848770324
Fantastic adventures set in space featuring Bob and Barry well known from the picture books 'Man on the Moon' and 'Bob's Best Ever Friend'.
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- Penguin UK, 2011
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PVP: 8,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95089-0
EAN 9780241950890
In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95103-3
EAN 9780241951033
In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
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PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95113-2
EAN 9780241951132
Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, accessible way, eighteenth-century housewife Hannah Glasse disapproved of French terminology and fussiness, instead favouring simple dishes that are still cooked today - a preference that has earned her the reputation of 'the first Domestic Goddess'. With recipes for rice pudding, beef rump, barbecued pork, trifle and even the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95114-9
EAN 9780241951149
A champion of organic, locally produced and seasonal food and founder of acclaimed Californian restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters has previously been awarded the Légion d'honneur in France for her contributions to food culture. In this book, she explores the simplest of dishes in the most delicious of ways, with fresh, sustainable ingredients a must, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95104-0
EAN 9780241951040
Colonel Wyvern, stationed with the army in Madras during the height of British imperial rule, opened a cookery school upon his return to England and was a passionate enthusiast for both European and Indian cuisine. In these vivid, common-sense and entertaining writings, he gives advice on re-creating French classics in the steaming heat; describes tiffin ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95108-8
EAN 9780241951088
Legendary cook and writer Elizabeth David changed the way Britain ate, introducing a postwar nation to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean, and bringing new flavours and aromas such as garlic, wine and olive oil into its kitchens. This mouthwatering selection of her writings and recipes embraces the richness of French and Italian cuisine, from ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
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PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95193-4
EAN 9780241951934
Acclaimed New Yorker journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America's funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of his wittiest articles sees him stalking a peripatetic Chinese chef, campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed to Spaghetti Carbonara and sampling the legendary Louisiana boudin sausage - to be consumed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
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PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95110-1
EAN 9780241951101
Pellegrino Artusi is the original icon of Italian cookery, whose legendary 1891 book Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well defined its national cuisine and is still a bestseller today. He was also a passionate gastronome, renowned host and brilliant raconteur, who filled his books with tasty recipes and rumbustious anecdotes. From ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95183-5
EAN 9780241951835
As well as being the author of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was also an enthusiastic gourmand and expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, published in 1873, is an encyclopaedic collection of ingredients, recipes and anecdotes, from Absinthe to Zest via cake, frogs' legs, oysters, Roquefort and vanilla. Included here are recipes for bamboo ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119578-0
EAN 9780141195780
Before Mrs Beeton there was Eliza Acton, whose crisp, clear, simple style and foolproof instructions established the format for modern cookery writing, leading to her being called 'the best writer of recipes in the English language' by Delia Smith. Including such English classics as suet pudding, raspberry jam, lemonade and 'superlative mincemeat' as well as ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-46104-7
EAN 9780330461047
When Kenneth Earl realises his memory is failing, he advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, and so create a record of his life. Maggie, the final candidate, is his last hope. But he doesn't guess, when he gives her the job, that the archive will be as much about ...
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- Pan, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50949-7
EAN 9780330509497
Florence, 1943. Two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death; and with Italy trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation, bands of Partisans rise up. Soon Isabella and Caterina will test their wits and deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on, they will be forced ...
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- Península, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-84-9942-094-3
EAN 9788499420943
En el ámbito sanitario se ha institucionalizado la compra de voluntades. Un periodista investiga la corrupción de numerosos doctores a manos de la industria de la salud y la enfermedad. En su camino encuentra a Nikita, una visitadora médica enfrentada al laboratorio farmacéutico que la tiene contratada porque intentan que soborne a los facultativos; que ...
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El dinero y las palabras
La edición sin editores
Una síntesis de la evolución de la industria del libro al compás de las mutaciones del capitalismo
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95087-6
EAN 9780241950876
William Verral, the redoubtable eighteenth-century landlord of the White Hart Inn in Lewes, Sussex, trained under a continental chef and was determined to introduce the 'modern and best French cookery' to his customers. Gently mocking Englishmen who eat plain mutton chops or only possess one frying-pan, he gives enthusiastic advice on must-have kitchen gadgets and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95215-3
EAN 9780241952153
M.F.K. Fisher's personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations and passionate storytelling. Hailed as 'poet of the appetites' by John Updike and considered the greatest American prose writer by W. H. Auden, Fisher saw eating as inextricably bound up with living well. Whether reflecting on an ...
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