Book Description
A literary murder mystery set in Havana, One Hundred Bottles is also a survivor's story of very rough love, intense friendship, and creating family in the chaos that Cuba experienced during the 1990s.
Author : Ena Lucía Portela
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A literary murder mystery set in Havana, One Hundred Bottles is also a survivor's story of very rough love, intense friendship, and creating family in the chaos that Cuba experienced during the 1990s.
Author : Oz Clarke
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Wine and wine making
ISBN : 9781454915614
Moving from the first cork tops to screw caps, this unique volume explores winemaking through 100 bottles that made the biggest impact on its evolution. Renowned writer Oz Clarke presents such landmarks as the introduction of the cylindrical wine bottle; the first estate to bottle and label its own wine; the most expensive bottle sold at auction; the change in classifications; famous vintages, and more. It's a beautiful tribute to the bottled poetry that is wine.
Author : Jane Lopes
Publisher : Hardie Grant
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781743795323
Sometimes we just want someone to hand us a bottle of wine. Sometimes we want to learn more about that wine. And sometimes we want to feel something about wine. In Vignette, sommelier Jane Lopes recommends the 100 bottles of wine (and some spirits and beers) to best expand your wine journey, giving you a complete palate education of the important styles, grapes, regions, and flavors of this magical and ever-growing world. Alongside that, you will find imaginative ways to engage with the foundational wine knowledge that underpins a good drinking experience. And then there is Jane's own narrative – the stories of triumph and defeat that comprise her life in wine. It's part memoir and part wine book, but a lot more fun than either alone. These are wines to live with, learn from and take solace in – a joyous, surprising, and revelatory response to that age-old question, "What should I drink?"
Author : Tim Nyberg
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category :
ISBN : 0740760742
There's only one drinking song that everybody knows and loves: "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"! For those who have trouble making it through all 99 verses (perhaps after imbibing a few beers themselves), best-selling author, Duct Tape Guy, and comic genius Tim Nyberg has put together "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall."Perfect for the beer lover in all of us, "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" contains the song's complete, unabridged lyrics, illustrated and easy to follow in this handy pocket-sized book. Also included are alternate lyrics for nondrinkers, an optional final verse, and sheet music in case readers tire of singing a cappella."99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" is the perfect gift for friends, family, fraternity brothers, and bar buddies. Because whether they're paying homage to stouts, draughts, ales, porters, malts-or just plain cold ones-everyone needs "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall!"
Author : Peter H. Gleick
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597265284
Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business. Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
Author : Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1466829206
Ten Green Bottles is the story of Nini Karpel's struggles as she told it to her daughter Vivian Jeanette Kaplan so many years ago. This true story depicts the fierce perseverance of one family, victims of the forces of evil, who overcame suffering of biblical proportion to survive. It was a time when ordinary people became heroes. To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffee houses, she cherished the city of her birth. But in the 1930s an undercurrent of conflict and hate began to seize the former imperial capital. This struggle came to a head when Hitler took possession of neighboring Germany. Anti-Semitism, which Nini and her idealistic friends believed was impossible in the socially advanced world of Vienna, became widespread and virulent. The Karpel's Jewish identity suddenly made them foreigners in their own homeland. Tormented, disenfranchised, and with a broken heart, Nini and her family sought refuge in a land seven thousand miles across the world. Shanghai, China, one of the few countries accepting Jewish immigrants, became their new home and refuge. Stepping off the boat, the Karpel family found themselves in a land they could never have imagined. Shanghai presented an incongruent world of immense wealth and privilege for some and poverty for the masses, with opium dens and decadent clubs as well as rampant disease and a raging war between nations.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 4347 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN :
This eBook edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Jefferson has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had been elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. He was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. Contents: Autobiography Letters Written Before His Mission to Europe— (1773-1783) Letters Written While in Europe— (1784-1790) Letters Written After His Return to the United States Down to the Time of His Death — (1790-1826) Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State Inaugural Addresses and Messages Replies to Public Addresses Indian Addresses Notes on Virginia Biographical Sketch of Peyton Randolph Biographical Sketch of Meriwether Lewis Biographical Sketch of General Kosciusko Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin The Batture at New Orleans Parliamentary Manual The Anas Miscellaneous Papers
Author : Todd Alexander
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2019-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925791343
Once I was the poster boy for corporate success, but now I’m crashing through the bush in a storm in search of a missing pig. How the hell did we end up here? Todd and Jeff have had enough of the city. Sick of the daily grind and workaday corporate shenanigans, they throw caution to the wind and buy 100 acres in the renowned Hunter Valley wine region, intent on living a golden bucolic life and building a fabulous B&B, where they can offer the joys of country life to heart-weary souls. Todd will cook, Jeff will renovate. They have a vineyard, they can make wine. They have space, they can grow their own food. They have everything they need to make their dreams come true. How hard can it be? ‘This joyously honest account will make you laugh till it hurts, and you’ll shed more than a few tears while being captivated by Todd, Jeff and their menagerie of loveable animals’ Bradley Trevor Greive AM, international bestselling author of The Blue Day Book and Penguin Bloom
Author : Augustus Baldwin Wadsworth
Publisher :
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Laboratories
ISBN :
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Bottles
ISBN :