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  • SINCE EVE ATE APPLES MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER
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    SINCE EVE ATE APPLES MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER
    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 V...

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  • THE GEOMETRY OF LOVE
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    THE GEOMETRY OF LOVE
    MARGARET VISSER
    A "delightful" tour of Rome's St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building ( The Christian Science Monitor). In  The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent "anthropologist of everyday life," takes on the living history of the ancient church of St. Agnes. Examining every face...

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  • THE RITUALS OF DINNER
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    THE RITUALS OF DINNER
    MARGARET VISSER
    A New York Times Notable Book: A renowned scholar explores the way we eat across cultures and throughout history. From the wild parties of ancient Greece to the strictures of an Upper East Side meal to the ritualistic feasts of cannibals, Margaret Visser takes us on a fascinating journey through the diverse practices, customs, and taboos that define how and why we prepare and c...

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  • THE GIFT OF THANKS
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    THE GIFT OF THANKS
    MARGARET VISSER
    "A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives" from the bestselling author of The Rituals of Dinner ( The  New York Times). Known as an "anthropologist of everyday life," Margaret Visser has won numerous awards for illuminating the unexpected meanings of everyday objects and rituals. Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so ...

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