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Dive deep into the world of cocktail lore, classic recipes, and
hard-won wisdom in Cocktail Dive Bar: Real Drinks, Fake History,
and Questionable Advice from New Orleans' Twelve Mile Limit. In
this irreverent and engaging guide T. Cole Newton, the owner and
proprietor of the beloved Louisiana bar Twelve Mile Limit, brings
classic and original cocktail recipes to life with a combination of
colorful invented histories and real stories, alongside advice
drawn from his experience as a young bar owner in the Crescent
City. Lively tongue-in-cheek mini-essays on a range of topics
(including such illuminating takes as why the unflappable Maury
Povich is the ideal role model for the service industry and how bar
owners can work to be community allies) break up this alphabetical
compendium of cocktail recipes. Make the book your own by taking
recipe notes or coloring in the playful, graphic drawings by Bazil
Zarensky and Laura Sanders. A detailed index of ingredients,
infusion recipes, and more makes this an ideal companion for any
at-home mixologist or industry professional.
Three years ago when Professor Garry Cole visited our Mycology unit
at the Pasteur Institute we discussed the possibility of organizing
a small International Symposium on "Isolation, Purification and
Detection of Fungal Antigens" limited to 8 American/Canadian
scientists and to 8 French participants. The location chosen was
the Pasteur Institute because of the historical and current
importance of the Institute as a Center for Research in Immunology
and Medical Mycology. The interest demonstrated by all medical
mycolo gists we contacted led us to expand the small original
meeting to an international symposium in which all aspects of
antigens of pathogenic and allergenic fungi and actinomycetes
related to man, animals, and even plants would be discussed. Our
wish was also to hold this Symposium in the same week as the
Anniversary meeting of the French Society of Medical Mycology which
was founded at the Pasteur Institute 30 years ago with my
colleagues Gabriel Segretain and Francois Mariat."
Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not
a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination.
From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their
American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of
American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially
sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand
British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the
Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep
an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war
was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding
generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war,
and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of
the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole
Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according
to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which
emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating
prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not
last long. As the British denied customary protections to their
American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in
capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes.
Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they
viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American
auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled
out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence
into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones
contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound
impact on the character and consequences of the American
Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first
comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy
prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's
political revolution and the war waged to secure it.
Steeped in foreboding mythology, the dark underbelly of heavy metal
ignites debate to this day. Guitars playing abrasive, discordant
riffs, the thunderous double-kick of the drums acting like an
accelerated heartbeat, and porcine, guttural vocals pummeling
twisted lyrics. Courting controversy from inception to its modern
day iteration, death metal presents a number of contradictions:
Driven and adventurous musicians compete to make uncomfortable
noises; it is crude and far beyond parody and yet consistently
popular; and the music is pig-headedly uncommercial despite making
a few labels, albeit briefly, wealthy. This book explores the
history and methodology of the genre, charting its aims and
intentions, its crossovers to the mainstream, successes and
failures, and tracks how it developed from the bedrooms of
Birmingham and Florida to the near-mainstream, to the murky cult
status it enjoys today.
What inspires us? What is the source of our joy, peace, wisdom and
happiness? No matter who we are, where we are from, our religious
beliefs, or how we identify ourselves, there is one thing that
unites us: our belief and relationship in a Higher Power. What we
call this power is as varied as we are. Whether it is God, Jehovah,
Allah, Yahweh and the like, it is our need for a spiritual
foundation that connects us. Like a finely woven thread in an
elaborate tapestry, we are united purely on that basis, creating a
beautiful image of a kind of solidarity, if we take the time to
recognize it. In this intimate collection of poems, you will see
this in action, as poets from all walks of life, hailing from both
the near and the far, have allowed us to peek inside the deepest
parts of themselves. With beautiful prose and rhyme, you will enjoy
both the diversity of expression, and the connection of our love of
the Divine that sustains us all.
Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not
a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination.
From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their
American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of
American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially
sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand
British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the
Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep
an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war
was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding
generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war,
and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of
the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole
Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according
to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which
emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating
prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not
last long. As the British denied customary protections to their
American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in
capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes.
Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they
viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American
auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled
out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence
into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones
contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound
impact on the character and consequences of the American
Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first
comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy
prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's
political revolution and the war waged to secure it.
The ongoing problems in the U.S. housing market continue to impede
the economic recovery. House prices have fallen an average of about
33 percent from their 2006 peak, resulting in about $7 trillion in
household wealth losses and an associated ratcheting down of
aggregate consumption. At the same time, an unprecedented number of
households have lost, or are on the verge of losing, their homes.
The extraordinary problems plaguing the housing market reflect in
part the effect of weak demand due to high unemployment and
heightened uncertainty. But the problems also reflect three key
forces originating from within the housing market itself: a
persistent excess supply of vacant homes on the market, many of
which stem from foreclosures; a marked and potentially long-term
downshift in the supply of mortgage credit; and the costs that an
often unwieldy an inefficient foreclosure process imposes on
home-owners, lenders, and communities. This book provides a
framework for thinking about directions policy-makers might take to
help the housing market.
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