Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john w arthur”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) (WWI Centenary Series)

    by John W. Arthur ...
    Series series WWI Centenary Series
    "In compiling and editing this history of the Chamber of Commerce Battalion, the aim of the editors has been to present such a narrative as will provide a detailed but not overburdened account of the Battalion's movements and operations throughout the years of its existence, and at the same time give a representative impression of the various outstanding events which have built up the character ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion)

    Record of War Service, 1914-1918

    by Various ...
    The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) is a comprehensive historical examination of one of the most distinguished regiments that emerged during World War I. The book meticulously chronicles the battalion's formation, its operational engagements, and the social fabric that shaped its identity, with insights drawn from primary source documents and soldier ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beer

    A Global Journey through the Past and Present

    by John W. Arthur ...
    A fascinating exploration of beer, ancient and contemporary, and its role in shaping human society Beer is and has always been more than an intoxicating beverage. Ancient beer produced in the Near East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas was a food that had a remarkable role in shaping the development of agriculture and some of the earliest state-level societies. Its invention 13,000 years ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Understanding Geometric Algebra for Electromagnetic Theory

    by John W. Arthur ...
    Series Book 38 - IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory
    This book aims to disseminate geometric algebra as a straightforward mathematical tool set for working with and understanding classical electromagnetic theory. It's target readership is anyone who has some knowledge of electromagnetic theory, predominantly ordinary scientists and engineers who use it in the course of their work, or postgraduate students and senior undergraduates who are seeking to ... Read more

    $130.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Beer

    A Global Journey through the Past and Present

    by John W. Arthur ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    Beer is and has always been more than an intoxicating beverage. Its invention 13,000 years ago was one of the fundamental motivations for the domestication of grains around the world. In early states, the control over the technological knowledge and resources to produce beer contributed to social hierarchies. Beer even likely provided the capital to motivate laborers to construct the ancient ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

    Free

  • Bread, Wine, Chocolate

    The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

    by Simran Sethi ...
    Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cannibals and Kings

    Origins of Cultures

    by Marvin Harris ...
    In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner

    The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea

    by Margaret Visser ...
    A "funny and fascinating" cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating ( The Village Voice).This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner represents a different course or garnish, which Margaret Visser handpicks from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Wild Coffee Grows

    The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup

    by Jeff Koehler ...
    "Enchanting . . . An absorbing narrative of politics, ecology, and economics."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)Coffee is one of the largest and most valuable commodities in the world. This is the story of its origins, its history, and the threat to its future, by the IACP Award–winning author of Darjeeling.Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • Our Fermented Lives

    A History of How Fermented Foods Have Shaped Cultures & Communities

    by Julia Skinner ...
    Food historian and fermenting expert Julia Skinner explores the fascinating roots of a wide range of fermented foods in cultures around the world, with a focus on the many intersections fermented foods have with human history and culture, from the evolution of the microbiome to food preservation techniques, distinctive flavor profiles around the globe, and the building of community. Fans of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

    The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

    by Andrew Lawler ...
    Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization—the chicken.In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran reporter Andrew Lawler “opens a window on civilization, evolution, capitalism, and ethics” (New York) with a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD