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The world's best-selling annual wine guide.
Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 47th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide.
Providing clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world, the book also reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine 2024 gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both.
This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine includes a colour supplement on Chardonnay, the world's most obliging grape, discussing everything from history and taste to texture, fashion and the role oak plays - and of course who makes the best Chardonnays around the world.
The Handbook of Multi-Level Climate Actions emphasizes the need for
significant climate action by every capable person on the planet at
multiple levels of human experience and society. This includes
individuals/households, formal and informal groups,
organizations/communities, from local to global, and all levels of
businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations. It highlights
the many ways that our species can meet the climate crisis and how
entities at every level of human experience are, could be, and
should be developing and implementing climate solutions, including
those advancing energy efficiency, renewable energy utilization,
and nature’s ability to sequester carbon. Nearly two dozen
knowledgeable, caring, and active authors, representing both
academics and practitioners, from multiple countries and
disciplines, have risen to the challenge of attempting to motivate
as many people as possible to take whatever actions they can as
urgently as possible, to ensure that future generations of both
humans and non-humans on this planet will have a sustainable
climate that meets their on-going needs. This Handbook is an
important work for scholars and practitioners working in the realm
of environmental and climate issues, sustainability and CSR. It
provides a comprehensive exploration of the current global
situation, while also inspiring immediate action and forward
thinking.
Silas Talbot’s life illuminates his time—not with greater
brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but
with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences
and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic—a
citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it. Silas Talbot
was a farmer’s son who went to sea, learned the building trades,
saved and invested his money wisely, married well several times,
fought as a Rhode Island soldier in the Revolutionary War, became a
lieutenant colonel, served with courage and competence, became a
privateer and a prisoner-of-war in the conflict at sea, speculated
in western lands, was elected to the New York State Legislature and
the U.S. Congress, represented the interests of American sailors
forced to serve in Britain’s navy, and finally achieved the rank
of U.S. Navy captain and became the second commanding officer of
the frigate USS Constitution. In a full and energetic life of
sixty-two years he met and served the famous—Washington, Adams,
Hamilton, Lafayette—and also raised a family; advanced in the
social, political, and business circles of New York and Rhode
Island; and was, as the author notes, “among the first of the new
citizens of the new republic to seize its gifts.”
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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