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Inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins, the author of The Devil's Cup provides an entertaining history of forbidden foods through the ages that examines how such foods--including the tomato, apple, chocolate, and potato--and their morally corrupting nature defined various cultures around the world. Reprint.

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9780345440167 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins, the author of The Devil's Cup provides an entertaining history of forbidden foods through the ages that examines how such foods--including the tomato, apple, chocolate, and potato--and their morally corrupting nature defined various cultures around the world.

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A wild ride through the history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America. Reprint.

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9780345441492 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A wild ride through the history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America.

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Inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins, the author of The Devil's Cup provides an entertaining history of forbidden foods through the ages that examines how such foods--including the tomato, apple, chocolate, and potato--and their morally corrupting nature defined various cultures around the world. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780345440150 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Provides a history of forbidden foods through the ages that examines how such foods--including the tomato, apple, chocolate, and potato--and their morally corrupting nature defined various cultures around the world.

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Product Description: This comprehensive work provides an account of caffeine's impact on humankind. Beginning in Ethiopia, the author sails along the same route that carried the first beans to Yemen 1500 years ago, and literally travels the world in his mission to prove that coffee is the driving force in history...read more

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9781841950440 | Canongate Books Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This comprehensive work provides an account of caffeine's impact on humankind.

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A wild ride through the stimulating history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America. (view table of contents)

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9781569471746 | Soho Pr Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A wild ride through the history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America

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