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"Noble Rot manages to unravel the mysteries of wine with insight
and humour. A wonderful - and essential - read for anyone
interested in the world of wine, or even for those, like me, who
just drink it." Nigella Lawson "The Noble Rot guys have the ability
to describe wines as if they're either future friends, or
rock-stars coming to blow your mind." Caitlin Moran "Noble Rot has
brought originality, humour and now space travel to the very
serious business of drinking wine. About time too." Brian Eno "Dan
and Mark do that thing that only crazy knowledgeable enthusiasts
can do, they make you a crazy enthusiast too. If they said, 'We've
found a wine like no other, a wine that actually lights up the sky,
but you can only drink it in the desert at midnight, are you
coming?' I'd be off, and I'd be confident of meteor showers. They
provoke curiosity - 'how does anyone make this extraordinary drink
just with grapes?' - excitement, joy, and a longing for knowledge.
Now, in this book, they're sharing the knowledge." Diana Henry "To
really know and love a wine one should know the grower and the
vineyard. This isn't always or even often possible, which is why
the Rotters introduce these wines at source. You learn that making
wine, as cooking should be, is an act of love. You will come to
love this book too." Rowley Leigh Choosing wine in a restaurant or
shop can seem an unfathomable business. But, according to Dan
Keeling and Mark Andrew, the duo behind London's Noble Rot, it
needn't be that way. In Wine from Another Galaxy they'll help you
to understand how it is made, where to buy it, what to look for
when you drink it, and how to talk about it. And once you've
mastered the basics, they'll take you on a journey through the best
of European wine culture, meeting the people and places behind
their favourite bottles. Indeed, Dan and Mark have spent years
visiting growers that you probably haven't heard of, from the
original thinkers of the natural wine movement to the iconic
estates of Burgundy and Bordeaux. This is the alternative,
accessible, no-holds-barred guide to wine, where the usual cliches
and rules don't apply.
Energy security has emerged as one of the most important
contemporary geopolitical issues. Access to reliable, cheap energy
has become essential to the functioning of modern economies but the
uneven distribution of energy supplies has led to perceptions of
significant Western vulnerability. At the same time, many in the
West have become wary of China's re-emergence as a major power in
global politics, with its impact on Western foreign policies and
potential threat to Western energy security. This book offers fresh
insights into the rise of China as a global superpower and the ways
in which its rise is perceived to threaten Western energy security,
engaging specifically with how the idea of the China threat has
emerged in popular discourse. The author questions how recent US
foreign policy has sought to position China as an antagonist to
Western energy interests and explores how this image has become the
dominant understanding of China by the West. Rather than treating
these issues as given, which orthodox approaches tend to do, this
book analyses the discursive relationship between US identity,
foreign policy and energy security, which leads to a more nuanced
and critical understanding of perceptions of China's potential
threat to Western energy security. Filling an important gap in the
emerging corpus of research on energy security, this book will be
particularly valuable to students and scholars of Politics,
International Relations and Chinese Studies.
Negative Emissions Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation
provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of
technologies that are being researched, developed and deployed in
order to transition from our current energy system, dominated by
fossil fuels, to a negative-carbon emissions system. After an
introduction to the challenge of climate change, the technical
fundamentals of natural and engineered carbon dioxide removal and
storage processes and technologies are described. Each NET is then
discussed in detail, including the key elements of the technology,
enablers and constraints, governance issues, and global potential
and cost estimates. This book offers a complete overview of the
field, thus enabling the community to gain a full appreciation of
NETs without the need to seek out and refer to a multitude of
sources.
This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to
investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of
different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient
ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these
measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of
social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these
indicators; i.e., some information about the levels of well-being
perceived by Americans. The findings are based on data from more
than five thousand Americans and include results from four separate
representative samplings of the American population. One of the
ways our research is unusual is that it includes a major
methodological component. Typical surveys involve a modest effort
at instru ment development, the application of the instrument to a
group of respondents, and an analysis of the resulting data that
mainly describes the people studied. Our work, however, was
implemented in a series of sequential cycles, each of which
consisted of conceptual development, instrument design, data
collection, analysis, and interpretation. Ideas and findings
generated in prior cycles affected the design of subsequent cycles.
Energy security has emerged as one of the most important
contemporary geopolitical issues. Access to reliable, cheap energy
has become essential to the functioning of modern economies but the
uneven distribution of energy supplies has led to perceptions of
significant Western vulnerability. At the same time, many in the
West have become wary of China's re-emergence as a major power in
global politics, with its impact on Western foreign policies and
potential threat to Western energy security. This book offers fresh
insights into the rise of China as a global superpower and the ways
in which its rise is perceived to threaten Western energy security,
engaging specifically with how the idea of the China threat has
emerged in popular discourse. The author questions how recent US
foreign policy has sought to position China as an antagonist to
Western energy interests and explores how this image has become the
dominant understanding of China by the West. Rather than treating
these issues as given, which orthodox approaches tend to do, this
book analyses the discursive relationship between US identity,
foreign policy and energy security, which leads to a more nuanced
and critical understanding of perceptions of China's potential
threat to Western energy security. Filling an important gap in the
emerging corpus of research on energy security, this book will be
particularly valuable to students and scholars of Politics,
International Relations and Chinese Studies.
This book is a unique reference source for the uniform collector,
modeller and student of military dress and equipment. For the first
time the reader can trace the development of the colour and design
of the Waffen-SS uniforms with confidence: all the uniforms worn in
the 150 colour photographs presented here are rare, original items,
from private collections. All major types of service uniform are
illustrated, together with a full range of the unique camouflage
clothing which was the hallmark of these much-feared divisions.
Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to
practical theology through an examination of fifteen different
approaches-ranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic
to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a. After an introduction
to the field of practical theology and its broad range of practice
today, the book features chapters written by leading experts in the
discipline. Each chapter has an identical structure to facilitate
comparison, covering historical context, key features and figures,
norms and sources of authority, theory-practice, contexts,
interdisciplinary considerations, areas of current and future
research, and suggested readings. Opening the Field of Practical
Theology is an ideal introduction to the field, highlighting the
diverse ways practical theology is engaged today.
Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in
1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands
and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish
colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already
established themselves in the colonies. Journal of a Lady of
Quality is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to
a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and
social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political
atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl
Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
Charles McLean Andrews (1863-1943) was a professor of American
history at Yale University. He and his wife, Evangeline Walker
Andrews, also edited Jonathan Dickinson's Journal.
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the
Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous
generations.
Also Edited By Pierson Underwood, With An Introduction By Charlton
M. Lewis, And An Epilogue By William Rose Benet.
Also Edited By Pierson Underwood, With An Introduction By Charlton
M. Lewis, And An Epilogue By William Rose Benet.
Also Edited By Pierson Underwood, With An Introduction By Charlton
M. Lewis, And An Epilogue By William Rose Benet.
Poetry in the English tradition from an American Orthodox
Christian. Songs of Time and Season is a collection of poetry by
Andrew Stephen Damick, an Orthodox Christian and lover of English
literature. In it, he attempts to come to grips with many of the
central themes of life in Christ -- what it means to love truly,
the inner meaning of repentance, communion with the Divine, the
great feasts of the Orthodox Church, holy places, and other central
themes of sojourn in this earthly life. It features prominently his
epithalamion Tradition's Time, a 12-stanza 365-line poem written
for his own wedding which is arranged around the Church calendar.
He invites you to come and savor with him the traditional forms of
English poetry with a fresh dip into eternal waters. Click here for
a full description and excerpts.
From AD 81-192 almost all bronze coinage circulation in the western
Empire was minted in Rome. This study examines, in some detail, the
distribution by date and by reverse types of the coins. It also
looks at changes in the volume of production and at changes in the
ratio of the different denominations. The reign of Trajan is
pinpointed as the start of the rise of the Sestertius as the main
bronze denomination. The supply of currency to each province is
examined and differences are identified between civilian and
military provinces.
While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its
conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian
backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to
start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and
freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy and politics in
colonial Bengal. "Liberalism in Empire" explores the generative
crisis in understanding property's role in the constitution of a
liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of
peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange. Thus
the conditions for a new kind of vernacular liberalism were
created.
Andrew Sartori's examination shows the workings of a section of
liberal policy makers and agrarian leaders who insisted that norms
governing agrarian social relations be premised on the
property-constituting powers of labor, which opened a new
conceptual space for appeals to both political economy and the
normative significance of property. It is conventional to see
liberalism as traveling through the space of empire with the
extension of colonial institutions and intellectual networks.
Sartori's focus on the Lockeanism of agrarian discourses of
property, however, allows readers to grasp how liberalism could
serve as a normative framework for both a triumphant colonial
capitalism and a critique of capitalism from the standpoint of
peasant property.
Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to
practical theology through an examination of fifteen different
approaches-ranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic
to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a. After an introduction
to the field of practical theology and its broad range of practice
today, the book features chapters written by leading experts in the
discipline. Each chapter has an identical structure to facilitate
comparison, covering historical context, key features and figures,
norms and sources of authority, theory-practice, contexts,
interdisciplinary considerations, areas of current and future
research, and suggested readings. Opening the Field of Practical
Theology is an ideal introduction to the field, highlighting the
diverse ways practical theology is engaged today.
While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its
conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian
backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to
start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and
freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy and politics in
colonial Bengal. "Liberalism in Empire" explores the generative
crisis in understanding property's role in the constitution of a
liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of
peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange. Thus
the conditions for a new kind of vernacular liberalism were
created.
Andrew Sartori's examination shows the workings of a section of
liberal policy makers and agrarian leaders who insisted that norms
governing agrarian social relations be premised on the
property-constituting powers of labor, which opened a new
conceptual space for appeals to both political economy and the
normative significance of property. It is conventional to see
liberalism as traveling through the space of empire with the
extension of colonial institutions and intellectual networks.
Sartori's focus on the Lockeanism of agrarian discourses of
property, however, allows readers to grasp how liberalism could
serve as a normative framework for both a triumphant colonial
capitalism and a critique of capitalism from the standpoint of
peasant property.
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