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The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
by Clay RisenThe dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Single Malt Whisky: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland: Includes Profiles, Ratings, and Tasting Notes for More Than 330 Expressions
by Clay RisenA follow-up to his bestselling American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation's Favorite Spirit, Clay Risen's Single Malt is an introduction to the long history, fascinating science, and incredible diversity of malted whisky, as well as a practical drinker's guide to buying and enjoying hund... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Bourbon: The Story of Kentucky Whiskey
by Clay RisenA visually stunning illustrated guide to the history, craft, and appreciation of Kentucky bourbonBourbon, we soon realized, was not just a good drink. It was a drink with a story, from a place, with an unbreakable tie to the people and the land that produced it.Whiskey expert Clay Risen explores the... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by Clay RisenThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in in American history. It reached deep into the social fabric of the nation to refashion structures of racial order and domination that had held for almost a century--and it worked. ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
New York Times: Disunion
A major new collection of modern commentary? from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs?on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion on-line journal Since its debut on November 6, 2010, Disunion, The New York Times' acclaimed journal about the Civi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Discourse on Colonialism
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2000 -
Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems
Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems presents the issues and technological solutions associated with switching in power systems, from medium to ultra-high voltage.The book systematically discusses the electrical aspects of switching, details the way load and fault currents a... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins
by Chloe Garcia Roberts • Melissa Febos • Jenny Boully • Molly McCully Brown • Michael Torres • Wendy Walters • Torrey Peters • Danielle Geller • Elissa Washuta • Krys Malcolm Belc • Chelsea Biondolillo • Crystal Wilkinson • Jessica Lind Peterson • Lyzette Wanzer • Aisha Sabatini Sloan • Camellia-Berry Grass • Hea-Ream Lee • Jennifer S. Cheng • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram • Thirii Myo MyintLyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of the best lyric essays published in the last sev... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023 -
Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: Seizing the Momentum
by Stuart Gillespie • Amy Saltzman • Kevin Chen • Lawrence Haddad • Mathew Abraham • Prabhu L Pingali • Nicholas Nisbett • Suresh Chandra Babu • Noora-Lisa Aberman • Akhter U. Ahmed • Summer Allen • Ekin Birol • Anne Bossuyt • Howarth E. Bouis • Gerald F. • Olivier Ecker • Jessica Fanzo • Aulo Gelli • Julie Ghostlaw • Daniel O. Gilligan • Derek Headey • Mar Maestre • Hazel Malapit • William Masters • Ruthie Musker • Rajul Pandya-Lorch • Daniel J. Raiten • Marie T. Ruel • Zimeiyi Wang • Sivan YosefAgriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past decade have created an opportunity for reimagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. To support this transformation... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Résurrection
by Maude Gillet • Rain OxfordDerek, un homme solitaire en voyage et sans destination, s'arrête brièvement dans une petite ville du nom de Cider Springs. Avant qu'il ne puisse reprendre la route, des forces d'un autre temps se réveillent et le propulsent dans une succession d'évènements aux racines vieilles de plusieurs siècles.... More
Language: FREDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Les aventures de Benjamin Crosse, épisode 1: La première porte
by Maude Gillet • Rain OxfordTout commença lorsque je reçus une lettre de la part de mon oncle. Me voilà alors perdu dans un monde gouverné par la magie et les monstres, à fuir une sorcière démoniaque qui voudrait faire de moi un ingrédient pour sa soupe... si mes nouveaux amis un peu étranges ne me tuent pas d'abord. Et le pir... More
Language: FREDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Les aventures de Benjamin Crosse. Épisode II: La forteresse ensorcelée
Une aventure palpitante où se rencontrent magie et comédie. Avec ses amis excentriques toujours plus nombreux, Ben voit son aventure prendre une tournure mystique et désopilante. Il doit mener à bien une quête avant de pouvoir prétendre rentrer chez lui. L'étrange et le danger sont au rendez-vous, ... More
Language: FREDerechos de autor: 2016