The Modern Review

The Modern Review
Author: Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1909
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

Plants of Life, Plants of Death

Plants of Life, Plants of Death
Author: Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1998
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780299159047

This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.

Food in China

Food in China
Author: Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 148225932X

This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests have led them to