The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize; of cinnamon-dusted custard tarts and nutmeg-induced genocide; of pungent elixirs and the quest for the pepper groves of paradise. The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisine–in short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In this engaging, enlightening, and anecdote-filled history, Michael Krondl, a noted chef turned writer and food historian, tells the story of three legendary cities–Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam–and how their single-minded pursuit of spice helped to make (and remake) the Western diet and set in motion the first great wave of globalization. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the world’s peoples were irrevocably brought together as a result of the spice trade. Before the great voyages of discovery, Venice controlled the business in Eastern seasonings and thereby became medieval Europe’s most cosmopolitan urban center. Driven to dominate this trade, Portugal’s mariners pioneered sea routes to the New World and around the Cape of Good Hope to India to unseat Venice as Europe’s chief pepper dealer. Then, in the 1600s, the savvy businessmen of Amsterdam “invented” the modern corporation–the Dutch East India Company–and took over as spice merchants to the world. Sharing meals and stories with Indian pepper planters, Portuguese sailors, and Venetian foodies, Krondl takes every opportunity to explore the world of long ago and sample its many flavors. The spice trade and its cultural exchanges didn’t merely lend kick to the traditional Venetian cookies called peverini, or add flavor to Portuguese sausages of every description, or even make the Indonesian rice table more popular than Chinese takeout in trendy Amsterdam. No, the taste for spice of a few wealthy Europeans led to great crusades, astonishing feats of bravery, and even wholesale slaughter. As stimulating as it is pleasurable, and filled with surprising insights, The Taste of Conquest offers a fascinating perspective on how, in search of a tastier dish, the world has been transformed.

Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.

The Conquest of Suffering by PJ Saher Published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi www.mlbd.co.in, info@mlbd.co.in The book very clearly the problem of suffering and prescribes measures for their annihilation. It prescribes ways and means for achieving Egolessness, purification of mind, the cessation of the cycle of rebirth and the total absorption of the personal soul into the supreme transcendental soul.

Dugu Hong, a child who grew up in a pack of wolves. When he was twelve years old, he met an extremely awesome master — — Xuanyuan Haotian. From then on, he embarked on a journey of searching for his past and conquering the world. Close]

It has been adapted into comic:Empress' ConquestShe was a queen of the dynasty. Because of power struggles, she became the emperor's most hated person. The emperor threw her into the cold hell, took away her beloved daughter, and abolished her queen's title. All this cruelty made her dead in hatred.After rebirth with hatred, she decided to use her life to revenge, let the emperor pay for what he had done. But in this life, after having many contests, he fell in love with her. He said that he should stay with her anyway...☆About the Author☆Xiao Yun, an author of online novels, has a turbulent and exciting plot for her work Empress' Conquest. It is a novel with a good plot and style.

Torn from her people as a child, Syteria’s Rhoan captors took her off-world, forcibly masculinized her, and turned her into a slave-soldier. Ten years later she is finally back on her homeworld, tasked with hunting down her own people. Instead of obeying her conditioning, she goes rogue but is recaptured. When the Rhoan ship taking her to her execution is pulled through a wormhole she finds herself among the donai, a race of genetically-engineered warriors thousands of years more advanced than her own people. Months of isolation are almost over for Darien, House Dobromil’s misbehaving heir, as he and his crew serve out a punishment detail. A mysterious ship appears and heads into imperial space, wreaking havoc in its path. It crashes on one of the emperor’s planets, a world that is off-limits. Despite the possibility that the mysterious ship might be an intriguing lure baiting a trap, Darien has a duty to render aid. During the rescue of the ship’s sole survivor, Darien discovers secrets that could destroy the emperor’s power over the Houses of the Imperium. But when the emperor demands that House Dobromil turn the survivor over, Darien finds himself caught between duty and the ravages of honor. The survivor--a woman whose name he doesn’t even know--is the only proof Darien has of the emperor’s secret wormhole generator and its success. The only way to save Syteria from the emperor’s tender mercies is a solution without honor. With the emperor and House Dobromil three breaths from war, the survival of the donai hangs in the balance. Will Syteria prove to be the spark that ignites an interstellar war or the key to the donai’s survival? Or will the emperor’s hatred of humans lead to a genocide that will condemn the donai to extinction? Cultures and passions clash in this epic adventure featuring genetic engineering, nanotechnology, galactic empires, feuding noble houses, and court intrigues. Conquest is the first in a trilogy that is part of a larger series, but can be read as a standalone. This intense story includes fully described sex and uneven power dynamics. The world of the donai is a violent one, including the use of weapons, hunting of animals and people, rape, torture, slavery, and political machinations.