Discover information, advice, and prices for Vodka Format Hardcover sold for 21.73 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
It began as poisonous rotgut in Medieval RussiaIvan the Terrible liked it Peter the Great loved itbut this grain alcohol without distinctive character aroma taste or color has become our uncontested king of spirits Over a thousand brands fight for market share shelved in glass skulls Tommy guns bulletproof bottles flavored with pears currants chipotle or quintuple distilled by Donald Trump But it wasnt always thus For 200 years America drank the brown stuff which gave us Colonial rumrunners the Whiskey Rebellion and Bourbon County Kentucky So how did Russias little water originally a medieval rotgut medicine unseat Americas favorite hooch Vic Matus takes us on an incredible visual journey from vodkas humble American origins in a Depressionera Connecticut factoryusing the family recipe from a poor Russian exile in France named Vladimir Smirnovthrough its rise to glamour and fame at the hands of James Bond and the 1990s boom enshrined in Sex and the Citys Grey Goose Cosmos to todays craft distillery movement which approaches the drink as an art form Youll see in clear intoxicating detail how hippie culture womens lib and an absolutely ingenious Swedish company all played their part transforming the booze into a status symbol By 1975 the war had ended Vodka officially became our favorite spirit Today a third of all cocktails ordered contain it Last year 20 billion in sales poured in from more than 140 million gallons of the stuff Here is the crisply distilled bracing story of how risktaking entrepreneurs defied the odds and turned medieval medicine into a multibilliondollar industry
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Vodka is the most versatile of spirits While people in Eastern Europe and the Baltic often drink it neat swallowing it in one gulp others use it in cocktails and mixed drinksbloody marys screwdrivers white russians and JellO shotsor mix it with tonic water or ginger beer to create a refreshing drink Vodka manufacturers even infuse it with flavors ranging from lemon and strawberry to chocolate bubble gum and bacon Created by distilling fermented grains potatoes beets or other vegetables this colorless tasteless and odorless liquor has been enjoyed by both the rich and the poor throughout its existence but it has also endured many obstacles along its way to global popularityIn this book Patricia Herlihy takes us for a ride through vodkas history from its mysterious origins in a Slavic country in the fourteenth century to its current transatlantic reign over Europe and North America She reveals how it continued to flourish despite hurdles like American Prohibition and being banned in Russia on the eve of World War I On its way to global domination vodka became ingrained in Eastern European culture especially in Russia where standards in vodka production were first set Illustrated with photographs paintings and graphic art Vodka will catch the eye of any reader intrigued by how potato juice became an international industry
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Vermouth The Revival of the, priced at 21.58 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Previously fallen from grace vermouth is once again the next big thing in spiritsnbsp Over the years vermouth has fallen from grace but the truth is without vermouth your martini is merely an iced vodka or gin Now once again vermouth is being touted as the hottest trend in spirits It is showing up in copious amounts on the best cocktail menus in the best cocktail lounges around the country Vermouth has a rich history deeply intertwined with that of America and this book offers the firstever detailed look into the background of this aromatized fortified wine as well as vermouths rise fall and comeback in Americanbsp 100 color photographs
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Find tips, reviews, and features on How Art Works A Psychological sold for 35.77 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
There is no end of talk and of wondering about art and the arts This book examines a number of questions about the arts broadly defined to include all of the arts Some of these questions come from philosophy Examples include What makes something art Can anything be art Do we experience real emotions from the arts Why do we seek out and even cherish sorrow and fear from art when we go out of our way to avoid these very emotions in real life How do we decide what is good art Do aesthetic judgments have any objective truth value Why do we devalue fakes even if we indeed even the experts cant tell them apart from originals Does fiction enhance our empathy and understanding of others Is artmaking therapeutic Others are common sense questions that laypersons wonder about Examples include Does learning to play music raise a childs IQ Is modern art something my kid could do Is talent a matter of nature or nurture This book examines puzzles about the arts wherever their provenance as long as there is empirical research using the methods of social science interviews experimentation data collection statistical analysis that can shed light on these questions The examined research reveals how ordinary people think about these questions and why they think the way they do an inquiry referred to as intuitive aesthetics The book shows how psychological research on the arts has shed light on and often offered surprising answers to such questions
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Children of Palomar Format, priced at 20.76 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
New Tales Old Palomar is collects a threeissue comics magazine series into one handsome book In the first story mysterious fastmoving thieves are stealing food Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their best to solve this mystery but nobody seems to be able to catch these bandits until Pipo puts her soccertrained legs to work and goes after them herself In the second the boys go exploring a bottomless chasm and come face to face with well we wont spoil the surprise The third and last story focuses on Tonantzin Everybody in Palomar seems to take the supernatural with a grain of salt but young Tonantzin is haunted by a laughing baby that only appears to her What is the babys link to the giant stone idols that stand outside the small town
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The Canoe Rocks is a historical analysis of the EuroAmerican impact on Alaskas Tlingit people With its extensive documentation the book will assist diverse scholars After introducing Russias early efforts to establish a profitable settlement in Alaskas southeastern archipelago the author reviews the concurrent British commercial encroachments However it is Americas Boston Men and their successors who really cause the Tlingit canoe to rock Throughout the nineteenth century Native institutions such as their family life blood atonement and trade practices slavery witchcraft and even their celebrated potlatch were modified some radically Predictably Alaskas environment also incurred accelerating alteration Responses by Tlingit women and men to miners missionaries merchanttown builders and other traditional frontier figures did not mirror their Native counterparts across the United States These pages certainly confirm the Northwest Coast peoples singular artistic and entrepreneurial energies The Canoe Rocks offers readers an informative and culturally balanced history a fastpaced narrative sure to excite enthusiasts of Native American history and the history of Western America
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Haven s Kitchen Cooking School sold for 25.89 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Named a Best Cookbook Gift Book of the Year by Better Homes amp Gardens Library Journal and Publishers Weekly The MustHave Book That Will Teach You How to Cook Learning to cook has never been simpleror more deliciousthanks to The Havens Kitchen Cooking School Each of the books nine chapters centers on a key lesson in the eggs chapter readers will learn about timing and temperature while poaching frying and scrambling in the soups chapter they will learn to layer flavors through recipes like Green Curry with Chicken The rigorously tested recipesincluding wholesome lunches dinnerparty showstoppers and delectable dessertswill become part of readers daily repertoires Beautiful photographs show both the finished dishes and the howto techniques and helpful illustrations offer further guidance
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Joshua Format Hardcover sold for 26.18 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
A new commentary for todays world The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bibles grand story Its storycentric approach is ideal for pastors students Sunday school teachers and laypeople alikeThree easytouse sections designed to help readers live out Gods storyLISTEN to the Story Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bibles grand storyEXPLAIN the Story Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical settingLIVE the Story Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers teachers and studentsPraise for SGBCThe easytouse format and practical guidance brings Gods grand story to modernday life so anyone can understand how it applies today Andy StanleyAn extremely valuable and long overdue series Graeme GoldsworthyIt makes the text sing and helps us hear the story afresh John OrtbergPastors and lay people will welcome this new series Daniel I Block
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Thousands of Broadways Format Hardcover sold for 22.85 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Broadway the main street that runs through Robert Pinskys home town of Long Branch New Jersey was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country But for Pinsky one of Americas most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small townstheir welcoming yet suffocating warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday from the early nineteenth century through World War IIThe citizens of quintessential small towns know one another extensively and even intimately but fail to recognize the geniuses and criminal minds in their midst Bringing the works of such figures as Mark Twain William Faulkner Alfred Hitchcock Thornton Wilder Willa Cather and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox as well as reflections on his own time growing up in a small town Pinsky explores how such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity and alienation of modern life Along the way he also considers how small towns can be small mindedin some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial Ultimately Pinsky examines the uneasy regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulsesOf living in a small town Sherwood Anderson once wrote that the sensation is one never to be forgotten On all sides are ghosts not of the dead but of living people Passionate lyrical and intensely moving Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Historical Dictionary of Modern China sold at 165.72 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The Historical Dictionary of Modern China 18001949 offers a concise but comprehensive examination of the political military economic social and cultural development of modern China Instead of focusing merely on the political elites of China this reference covers a variety of significant persons including women and ethnic minorities new historical concepts cultural and educational institutions and economic activities Drawing on newlyavailable records including a large mass of governmental and family archives the narratives presented reveal new facts offer a new interpretation in accordance with Chinas modernization process during the late Qing period and a revisionist perspective on the Republican history The chronology records not only political and military events but also other experiences of the Chinese people The bibliography gives prominence to current literature on Chinas drive towards modernization and appendixes provide the reader with detailed information on Chinas cultural and economic transformation
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The systemslevel knowledge and design skills needed to create good snapfit interfaces existed in the minds of selftaught snapfit experts but was not captured in the literature New designers of plastic parts wishing to use snapfit had nowhere to turn unless they were fortunate enough to have access to an experienced snapfit designer This book organizes and presents all design aspects of snapfits with an emphasis on the systems level thinking required to create worldclass attachments Beginning as well as experienced product designers will find the information they need to develop snapfits more efficiently and avoid many common snapfit problems The third edition has been thoroughly revised to include new case histories and applications The text has been extensively rewritten for clarity and userfriendliness and there are many new figures with expert explanations
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Book of Jezebel Format sold for 21.48 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
From Jezebelcom the popular website for women comes a mustread encyclopedic guide to pop culture feminism fashion sex and much moreWithin months of Jezebels May 2007 appearance on the new media scene fans of the blog began referring to themselves as Jezzies in comment threads and organizing reader meetups in cities all over the world By 2008 the devotion of the selfappointed Jezzies reached such a fever pitch that the New York Times ran a feature story about them and parody blogs and copycat websites began popping up right and leftWith contributions from the writers and creatives who give the site its distinctive tone and broad influence THE BOOK OF JEZEBEL is an encyclopedia of everything important to the modern woman Running the gamut from Abzug Bella and Babysitters Club The to Xena Yogurt and Zits and filled with entertaining sidebars and arresting images this is a mustread for the modern woman
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In The War of 1812 in Wisconsin author Mary Elise Antoine brings a littleknown corner of Wisconsins history to life Prairie du Chien located just above mouth of the Wisconsin River was the key to trade on the upper Mississippi Whoever controlled the prairie commanded the immense territory inhabited by thousands of American Indiansand the fur they traded When war broke out between the United States and Great Britain in 1812 British and Americans fought to maintain the evershifting alliance of the tribesThis is the story of the battle for the control of Prairie du Chien and the western country which began many years before the threeday siege in July of 1814 for which the Battle of Prairie du Chien is named It is also the tale of the people EuroAmerican and Native who lived in preterritorial Wisconsin and how the contest for control of the region affected their lives and livelihoods The outcome of the War of 1812 would determine what manifest destiny would mean to all who called these lands home
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Middle Works of John sold at 87.91 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Includes the complete text of Deweys Studies in Logical Theory and The Child and the Curriculum
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Cruising Japan to New Zealand sold for 23.38 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Following several years spent cruising the South Pacific Islands Tere Batham and her husband traveled north and settled in Japan After two and a half years they set out once again embarking on a fourteenmonth 10000mile voyage back to their home in New Zealand Accompanied by Miki a beautiful young Japanese girl eager to escape an arranged marriage and her countrys rigorous social restrictions they navigated the giant whirlpools of Japans Inland Sea joined in a torchlit midnight festival at Kompira San traversed volcanic coastlines and threaded narrow channels among scenic islands strewn with temples and lashed by typhoons Their route took them to Japans Southern Archipelago the Taiwan Straits Hong Kong Macau the Philippines and Micronesia They discovered the remnants of an ancient South Sea Island culture verging on extinction explored the daunting ruins of megalithic Nan Madol endured violent storms and witnessed a deadly crocodile attack before finally reaching their destination Armchair cruisers and serious sailors alike will benefit from Bathams practical tips even as they thrill at her frank gripping account of dangers and navigational challenges overcome
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Discover information, advice, and prices for American Moralist Format Hardcover, priced at 124.01 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The essays collected here somewhat autobiographical in their effect range from a discussion of the despair of the Cold War and Vietnam in 1966 to reflections on the euphoria over the ending of the Cold War in Eastern Europe in 1990 The opening essays are general in nature exploring the foundation and limitation of sound morality examining what is American about American morality measuring all by the yardsticks provided by classical and modern philosophers Anastaplos overriding concern here is to show how one can be moral without being either cranky or moralistic He then turns his attention to the issues of the day the first amendment religious liberty women and the law gun control medicine capital punishment local politics civil disobedience
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Find tips, reviews, and features on A Vision The Revised 1937 sold for 43.05 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
A new annotated edition of Yeatss indispensable lifelong work of philosophya meditation on the connections between the imagination history and the metaphysicalthis volume reveals the poets greatest thoughts on the occultFirst published in 1925 and then substantially revised by the author in 1937 A Vision is a unique work of literary modernism and revelatory guide to Yeatss own poetry and thinking Indispensable to an understanding of the poets late work and entrancing on its own merit the book presents the system of philosophy psychology history and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s Yeats obsessively revised the original book that he wrote in 1925 and the 1937 version is the definitive version of what Yeats wanted to say Now presented in a scholarly edition for the first time by Yeats scholars Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E Paul the 1937 version of A Vision is an important essential literary resource and a musthave for all serious readers of Yeats
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Climate change and social inequity are both sprawling insidious forces that threaten populations around the world Its time we start talking about them together Climate Change and the Peoples Health offers a brave and ambitious new framework for understanding how our planets two greatest existential threats comingle complement and amplify one another and what can be done to mitigate future harm In doing so it posits three new modes of thinking That climate change interacts with the social determinants of health and exacerbates existing health inequities The idea of a consumptagenic system a network of policies processes governance and modes of understanding that fuel unhealthy and environmentally destructive production and consumption The steps necessary to move from denial and inertia toward effective mobilization including economic social and policy interventionsWith insights from physical science social science and humanities this short book examines how climate change and social inequity are indelibly linked and considering them together can bring about effective change in social equity health and the environment
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Kill Khalid Format Hardcover sold for 21.73 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Providing a flyonthewall vantage of the rising diplomatic panic that sent shudders through world capitals Toronto Star Kill Khalid unfolds as a masterpiece of investigative journalism In 1997 the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad poisoned Hamas leader Khalid Mishal in broad daylight on the streets of Amman Jordan As the littleknown Palestinian leader slipped into a coma the Mossad agents escape was bungled and the episode quickly spiraled into a diplomatic crisis A series of highstakes negotiations followed which ultimately saved Mishal and set the stage for his phenomenal political ascendancyIn Kill Khalid acclaimed reporter Paul McGeough reconstructs the history of Hamas through exclusive interviews with key players across the Middle East and in Washington including unprecedented access to Mishal himself who remains to this day one of the most powerful and enigmatic figures in the region A sobering reminder of how little has been achieved during sixty years of Israeli efforts in Palestine Kirkus Kill Khalid tracks Hamass political fortunes across a decade of suicide bombings political infighting and increasing public support culminating in the battle for Gaza in 2007 and the currentday political stalemate
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Focusing on these and other thematic issues Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience Period photographs and first person accounts augment the text helping to communicate not only the layered and textured character of the experience but the human drama of the story as well A comprehensive roster identifying those interned in the frontier camps of the Rocky Mountains is also included
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