Author: Gary Y Okihiro
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520255135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career."--From publisher description.
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Author: United States. Federal Maritime Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Author: Queensland. Department of Agriculture and Stock
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250278015
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Alexa Tsoulis-Reay's Finding Normal is an author's up close tour of people who are using the Internet to challenge the boundaries of what's taboo and what it means to be normal. Finding Normal explores how people are using the internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge a variety of sexual norms. Based on a highly candid interview series conducted for New York magazine's human science column—"What It's Like"—each story in Finding Normal intimately immerses the reader in the world of a person who is grappling with a unique set of circumstances relating to sexuality. Finding Normal at once celebrates the power of our evolving media landscape for helping people rewrite the script for their lives and offers a wanring about the danger of that seemingly limitless freedom. Tsoulis-Reay shows the enduring power of the search for belonging—for humans and society. Like happiness of life purpose, finding normal is perhaps the definitive human struggle.
Author: United States. Maritime Commission
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Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Vol. for Dec. 1938/Jan. 1947 covers only the decisions of the Maritime Commission.
Author: United States. Maritime Commission
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Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Author: United States. Commissioner of Labor on Hawaii
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Kaori O'Connor
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780232217
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as “too ravishing for moral taste . . . like lovers’ kisses she bites—she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish.” From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean island in 1493, the pineapple has seduced the world, becoming an object of passion and desire. Beloved by George Washington, a favorite of kings and aristocrats, the pineapple quickly achieved an elite status among fruits that it retains today. Kaori O’Connor tells the story of this culinary romance in Pineapple, an intriguing history of this luscious fruit. O’Connor follows the pineapple across time and cultures, exploring how it was first transported to Europe, where it could only be grown at great expense in hothouses. The pineapple was the ultimate status symbol, she reveals—London society hostesses would even pay extravagantly to rent a pineapple for a single evening to be the centerpiece of a party. O’Connor explains that the fruit remained a seasonal luxury for the rich until developments in shipping and refrigeration allowed it to be brought to the major markets in Europe and America, and she illustrates how canning processes—and the discovery of the pineapple’s ideal home in Hawaii—have made it available and affordable throughout the year. Packed with vivid illustrations and irresistible recipes from around the world, Pineapple will have everyone falling in love with this juicy tropical fruit.
