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Wer hat die Ananas geklaut? - Über die einst begehrteste Frucht der Welt

»Auf der ganzen Welt habe ich noch keine schönere Frucht gesehen« -, schrieb der spanische Entsandte des Königs aus Santo Domingo und markierte damit den Auftakt einer imperialen Erfolgsgeschichte.

Denn kaum hatte Kolumbus 1493 die Ananas entdeckt und nach Europa gebracht, sollten sich die europäischen Königshäuser um die Ananas-Vorherrschaft streiten, verkörperte sie doch alles, was die Neue Welt so reizvoll machte: Luxus, Exotik, Macht.

Ehrgeizig importierte man die Frucht...

"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world.

Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the...

Feast Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment?

The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and...

Feast Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment?

The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and...

The English breakfast is one of the best-loved national meals in the world, an edible symbol of England and Englishness. But how did breakfast attain this distinction, what can a national meal tell us about the nation that eats it, what are the links between social and culinary change, and is there more to the English breakfast than bacon and eggs?

This biography of the English breakfast shows how the renowned meal came into being over many centuries, reaching its height in the Victorian and Edwardian eras when splendid breakfasts were served from silver dishes in grand country...

Eine der beliebtesten Dark-Fantasy-Manga bekommt nun endlich wieder eine schöne neue Print-Version: Angel Sanctuary! 

Angel Sanctuary beginnt 1999 in Japan und handelt von Setsuna Mudo, einem 16-jährigen Highschool-Schüler, der in seine 15-jährige Schwester Sara verliebt ist. Während er gegen seine Gefühle kämpft, erfährt er, dass er die Reinkarnation des Organischen Engels Alexiel ist, die eine Rebellion gegen den Himmel anführte. Doch die Engelsseele in Menschengestalt ist nicht alleine auf der Welt und Setsuna Mudo wird nun sowohl vom Himmel als auch...

The Japanese language has two basic writing systems, kanji characters--which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana--a mnemonics based alphabet. This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters. Along with its sister book: Japanese Hiragana and Katakana for Beginners it provides a complete introduction to written Japanese.

Japanese Kanji for Beginners contains everything you need to learn the kanji...