Margaret Visser writes on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which include The Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner (which won a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year), The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been bestsellers, and The Rituals of Dinner won the International Association of Culinary Professionals” Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award. A Professor of Classics for 18 years, she now lives in Toronto and the south of France.
12 Ebooks by Margaret Visser
Margaret Visser: Geometria d’amore
In questo libro Margaret Visser volge il suo sguardo penetrante e ammirato, ma anche schietto e critico sulle chiese. Perché la gente ne viene attratta? Perché sono fatte in quel modo? Cosa …
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€4.99
Margaret Visser: Beyond Fate
Many people today are afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate examines why. In her …
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€25.40
Margaret Visser: Gift Of Thanks
In The Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser continues her exploration of the cultural implications of common objects and ordinary behaviour. The simple habit of saying "thank you, " and indeed …
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€18.02
Margaret Visser: Geometry Of Love
Visser spins a fascinating and detailed web of mythology, history, early Christian theology, Roman culture and contemporary practice as she unfolds the layers of meaning in the architecture of the …
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€14.32
Margaret Visser: Much Depends On Dinner
Course by course, Margaret Visser examines an ordinary meal-corn, salt, butter, chicken, rice, lettuce, olive oil, lemon juice and ice cream-to show the unexpected history, mythology and taboos …
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€14.32
Margaret Visser: Way We Are
This marvellous collection of over 60 pithy essays inspired by Visser’s column in Saturday Night magazine explores the cultural significance of everyday objects and phenomena such as jelly, high …
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€10.17
Margaret Visser: Rituals Of Dinner
The author of the beloved Much Depends on Dinner turns her acute eye and irresistable wit from the foods we eat to the way in which we eat them. The Rituals of Dinner explores our revealing, …
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€14.34
Margaret Visser: Rituals of Dinner
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 …
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€18.78
Margaret Visser: The Rituals of Dinner
This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizati …
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€9.49
Margaret Visser: Geometry of Love
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 …
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€18.73
Margaret Visser: Way We Are
The beloved and bestselling “anthropologist of everyday life” turns her witty and insightful gaze to the oddities of living in our modern world Over the course of her time as a …
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€22.48
Margaret Visser: Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner
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 …
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€22.48
