Handbook of Alcoholic Beverages: Technical, Analytical and Nutritional Aspects
Handbook of Alcoholic Beverages is a comprehensive text that describes the science and technology involved in the production of the world's alcoholic beverages. The text describes the major fermentation process that produces these drinks and the major chemical, physical, and technical processes that accompany the production of these beverages are discussed. The multidisciplinary approach used in the book also emphasizes more recent developments and innovations, but with sufficient background for less experienced readers. The book also unifies different beverages in different chapters with extensive cross-referencing and comparison between the subjects.
The Lost Gate – Orson Scott Cardby Orson Scott Card
Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different – and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that he would never show a talent, never form an “outself”. He grew up in the rambling old house, filled with dozens of cousins and aunts and uncles, all ruled by his father. Their home was isolated in the mountains of western Virginia, far from town, far from schools, far from other people. There are many secrets in the House, and many rules...
In this book well-known, award-winning zoologist and TV-host, Desmond Morris takes us on a journey on how we can approach the matter of happiness, how we can define it and he shares 17 different ways to "hunt for happiness" since he believes that the essence of happines lies in the man's "hunting" for happiness in various activities such as sports, dancing, music and so on. He means that when we do something and we reach a certain goal or purpose with it we feel a certain satisfaction with this "hunt/chase" and thus we experience what is known as happiness, and he shares 17 different ways for doing this.
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Farewell my lovely
In general, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY once more finds street-smart and super-savvy California P.I. Philip Marlowe sticking his nose where it has no business being--and when curiosity leads him to follow a massively built white man into a black nightclub he finds himself embroiled in a murder no one cares about solving... at least not until it begins to figure in what seems to be a completely different case with a high-society spin. And encounters with stolen jewels, a spiritualist racket, police corruption, and a gambling ship quickly follow.
