EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Wine Pioneers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anton Massel
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0970493223
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book The Wine Pioneers written by Anton Massel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first there were the horticulturists and wine growers, then came the wine makers, the coopers, and the cellar masters. Inevitably there were wine shippers and wine merchants. Chemists and biologists added their skills in the past two centuries, and only very recently came the oenologists and the professional wine tasters. Wine writers play an important role in today's wine trade, and there were always wine connoisseurs and wine snobs. From 5000BC to the modern day, this book provides a chronological history of the wine pioneers through the ages.

Book Viva Vino

Download or read book Viva Vino written by Bruno Roncarati and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Food and Wine Pairing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert J. Harrington
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2007-03-05
  • ISBN : 0471794074
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Food and Wine Pairing written by Robert J. Harrington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food and Wine Pairing: A Sensory Experience provides a series of discussion and exercises ranging from identifying basic wine characteristics, including visual, aroma, taste (acid, sweetness, oak, tannin, body, etc.), palate mapping (acid, sweet, sour, bitter, and tannin), basic food characteristics and anchors of each (sweet, sour, bitter, saltiness, fattiness, body, etc). It presents how these characteristics contrast and complement each other. By helping culinary professionals develop the skills necessary to identifying the key elements in food or wine that will directly impact its matching based on contrast or similarities, they will then be able to predict excellent food and wine pairings.

Book Party Like a Rock Star

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jes Gordon
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2009-10-01
  • ISBN : 0762758228
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Party Like a Rock Star written by Jes Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top Hollywood party planner on how to design a wide range of fabulous fêtes Jes Gordon knows that girls just want to have fun. In Party Like A Rock Star, she shows them how. Gordon—a party-planner extraordinaire who has helmed events for the likes of Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Nicolas Cage, and Jennifer Lopez—presents a fun, comprehensive guide to event planning that reveals her tried-and-true secrets, culled over twenty years in the biz. With color photos throughout, but with step-by-step details that make the book much more than another impossibly perfect photo shoot, Gordon shows readers exactly how to create a unique event, one that reflects their own personalities and individual aesthetics. This hip, easy-to-follow guide will transform anyone’s approach to entertaining—from birthday parties to baby showers to anniversaries. Topics include: *Creating a concept for any party—a concept that reflects you *How to budget—from a small soiree to a big bash *Stocking a home bar and whipping up smart cocktails *Whetting guests’ appetites—with insider secrets from chefs *Being a flawless host—or guest *Etiquette guidelines and gift ideas *How to produce a party from beginning to end—colorful case studies and detailed instructions

Book Terroir

    Book Details:
  • Author : James E. Wilson (Geologist)
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520219366
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Terroir written by James E. Wilson (Geologist) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French word terroir is used to describe all the ecological factors that make a particular type of wine special to the region of its origin. James E. Wilson uses his training as a geologist and his years of research in the wine regions of France to fully examine the concept of terroir. The result combines natural history, social history, and scientific study, making this a unique book that all wine connoisseurs and professionals will want close at hand. In Part One Wilson introduces the full range of environmental factors that together form terroir. He explains France's geological foundation; its soil, considered the "soul" of a vineyard; the various climates and microclimates; the vines, their history and how each type has evolved; and the role that humans--from ancient monks to modern enologists--have played in viticulture. Part Two examines the history and habitat of each of France's major wine regions. Wilson explores the question of why one site yields great wines while an adjacent site yields wines of lesser quality. He also looks at cultural influences such as migration and trade and at the adaptations made by centuries of vignerons to produce distinctive wine styles. Wilson skillfully presents both technical information and personal anecdotes, and the book's photographs, maps, and geologic renderings are extremely helpful. The appendices contain a glossary and information on the labeling of French wines. With a wealth of information explained in clear English, Wilson's book enables wine readers to understand and appreciate the mystique of terroir. The French word terroir is used to describe all the ecological factors that make a particular type of wine special to the region of its origin. James E. Wilson uses his training as a geologist and his years of research in the wine regions of France to fully examine the concept of terroir. The result combines natural history, social history, and scientific study, making this a unique book that all wine connoisseurs and professionals will want close at hand. In Part One Wilson introduces the full range of environmental factors that together form terroir. He explains France's geological foundation; its soil, considered the "soul" of a vineyard; the various climates and microclimates; the vines, their history and how each type has evolved; and the role that humans--from ancient monks to modern enologists--have played in viticulture. Part Two examines the history and habitat of each of France's major wine regions. Wilson explores the question of why one site yields great wines while an adjacent site yields wines of lesser quality. He also looks at cultural influences such as migration and trade and at the adaptations made by centuries of vignerons to produce distinctive wine styles. Wilson skillfully presents both technical information and personal anecdotes, and the book's photographs, maps, and geologic renderings are extremely helpful. The appendices contain a glossary and information on the labeling of French wines. With a wealth of information explained in clear English, Wilson's book enables wine readers to understand and appreciate the mystique of terroir.

Book The Ultimate Wine Lover s Guide 2006

Download or read book The Ultimate Wine Lover s Guide 2006 written by Fred DuBose and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wine guide with more than 1,000 wine selections, as well as useful directories and special indexes to increase your appreciation of the fruit of the vine. Whether a wine lover or casual sampler, you probably know which kind of Chardonnay or Merlot you prefer--but still have the thirst to know more. With more than 1,000 descriptions of different varieties, this ultimate guide will expand your horizons. It offers suggestions for wines you've heard of but never tried; inexpensive wines to have with pizza or pasta; unusual and rare wines; and hard-to-find must-haves (along with advice on locating them). The easy-to-follow chapters group red and whites by grape, then by price, and you'll also enjoy the features on wine tasting, letting wine breathe, chilling wine, and wine storage. Best of all, each entry comes with a list of suggested food pairings.

Book The International Brigades

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giles Tremlett
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-15
  • ISBN : 1408854007
  • Pages : 721 pages

Download or read book The International Brigades written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, these disparate groups of idealistic young men and women formed a volunteer army of a size and type unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve? In this magisterial history, Giles Tremlett tells – for the first time – the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group. Drawing on the Brigades' archives in Moscow, as well as first-hand accounts, The International Brigades captures all the human drama of a historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.

Book Italian Food

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth David
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1999-02-01
  • ISBN : 1101573848
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Italian Food written by Elizabeth David and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth David's Italian Food was one of the first books to demonstrate the enormous range of Italy's regional cooking. For the foods of Italy, explained David, expanded far beyond minestrone and ravioli, to the complex traditions of Tuscany, Sicily, Lombardy, Umbria, and many other regions. David imparts her knowledge from her many years in Italy, exploring, researching, tasting and testing dishes. Her passion for real food, luscious, hearty, fresh, and totally authentic, will inspire anyone who wishes to recreate the abundant and highly unique regional dishes of Italy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book Valle Incl  n s Ruedo Ib  rico

Download or read book Valle Incl n s Ruedo Ib rico written by Alison Sinclair and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1977 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Book Viva Vino 200

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruno Roncarati
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780903551182
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Viva Vino 200 written by Bruno Roncarati and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963 the Italian Government instituted the system of Denominazione di origine controllata, the now familiar DOC. Not only did the DOC determine where a wine might be made, from what grapes and what quantity; it also described what the customer should expect to find in his glass. In this book the author reviews the much-augmented official list of DOCs and adds his own wide experience to the offical version. The new top grade of DOCG wines comes under review, along with some fifty recent recruits to the status of DOC.

Book International Transactions in Goods

Download or read book International Transactions in Goods written by Martin Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Transactions in Goods: Global Sales in Comparative Context explains the complex transactional structures common in international sales, from both an international and a domestic legal perspective. In a straightforward, accessible style, this course book sets out typical business models and commercial practices, including sample legal and commercial documents, and outlining the laws that govern them. Closely attuned to practice, this course book covers transactions on a commercial scale and gives full treatment not only to legal topics, but also payment, security, carriage, and insurance, addressing both traditional topics such as letters of credit, bills of lading, and the Incoterms, as well as modern practices like electronic funds transfers, and waybills. Martin Davies and David V. Snyder emphasize the strategic questions that lawyers and businesses face when negotiating and documenting deals, and when litigating transactions that have gone awry. As many of the strategies revolve around choice of governing law, the book treats not only international law, particularly the UN Convention on the International Sales of Goods (CISG), but also exemplary domestic laws from both common law and civil law jurisdictions, including the US Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), English law, French law, and German law. This book is designed to be accessible to students and readers of all levels, whether from common law or civil law backgrounds, by providing basic explanations of fundamental theories and attitudes in international law, common law, civil law, and international business. The format includes the methods of different traditions, with extensive text familiar to civil law readers, case excerpts familiar to common law readers, and a large array of problems-based on real cases and transactions-to demonstrate the concepts and to practice and evaluate what has been learned. The book also tackles current ethical and moral issues in international transactions, particularly the relation of law and contracting to environmental protection, workers' rights, and similar matters.

Book ICCA Awards Series  Volume I  2023

Download or read book ICCA Awards Series Volume I 2023 written by Stephan W. Schill and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ICCA Awards Series is a new ICCA publication dedicated exclusively to significant arbitral awards and decisions that shape the field of international arbitration. The ICCA Awards Series continues ICCA's longstanding commitment to providing primary resources to the international arbitration community, and expands upon the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration's longstanding tradition of publishing awards. Volume l(2023) includes: anonymized arbitral awards made under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC); two new indexes covering all reported awards: a Table of Instruments and an Index by Subject Matter; a Compendium of Arbitral Awards published in the Yearbook between 1976 and 2022, covering more than 600 awards. The ICCA Awards Series is edited by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the world's leading organization representing practitioners and academics in the field of international arbitration, under the general editorship of Prof. Dr. Stephan W. Schill and with the assistance of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. It is an essential tool for lawyers, arbitrators and scholars involved in the practice and study of international arbitration.

Book N

    N

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Scott
  • Publisher : Brandl & Schlesinger
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1921556498
  • Pages : 730 pages

Download or read book N written by John A. Scott and published by Brandl & Schlesinger. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accidental death of MP Norman Cole precipitates a hung parliament allowing a core of extreme right-wing politicians to seize power. Telford, a high-ranking but unworldly public servant, is approached by Cole’s wife who believes her husband was murdered and asks him to investigate on her behalf. The reward for this, he hopes, will be her love. Despite the bizarre and threatening nature of his investigations, he remains convinced that the ‘scribbled note’ about the meeting with ‘N’ holds the key to what he seeks. Meanwhile in an increasingly nightmarish city, in a countryside owing more to the Middle Ages than to the 1940s, or in two distant prison camps, a range of Australians struggle to find their own truths, a way back to love, and a means of survival — be it Roy and Vic, each struggling to validate and empower their painting; be it the artist’s model Missy, torn between passion and fidelity; or the writer Henningsen and Head of the Emergency Government Warren Mahony, each battling with their tenuous sanities. Told in a wide range of styles, N is a remarkable work of imagination woven about two unforgettable love stories.

Book The Bj  rling Sound

Download or read book The Bj rling Sound written by Stephen Hastings and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed examination of the vocal and interpretive artistry of the great Jussi Björling.

Book International Sales Law

Download or read book International Sales Law written by Christiana Fountoulakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for international trade lawyers, practitioners and students from common law and civil law countries, this casebook will help practitioners and students assimilate knowledge on the CISG. The cases, texts and questions aid readers in their comparative law and international sales law studies, drawing attention to the particular issues surrounding specific CISG provisions and provoking careful consideration of possible solutions. In addition to this book’s function as a didactical aid, it is a reference work for leading cases and an introduction to the individual problem areas. In particular, it acts as a preparatory and complementary work for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Book International Business Transactions

Download or read book International Business Transactions written by Daniel C.K. Chow and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on private international business transactions, International Business Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials, Fourth Edition covers the planning, structure, and implementation of transactions in today’s global economy. New to the Fourth Edition: New materials on the International Chamber of Commerce’s Incoterms 2020 coming into effect on January 1, 2020 Additional discussion of China’s new Foreign Investment Law coming into effect on January 1, 2020 A Discussion of the recent U.S. trade sanctions against China and other trading partners and the rise of U.S. economic nationalism Updates regarding recent changes in U.S. tax policy affecting foreign investment, including the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 Updates to all statistics, tables legislative and treaty changes to the most currently available data Professors and students will benefit from: Compact but comprehensive coverage of the subject. This book covers both international business planning and international litigation. Thorough coverage of the United Nations Convention on International Sales of Goods. Practical knowledge of the types of international business transactions. Knowledge for how to handle international business litigation and arbitration. An understanding of international sales and investment transactions.

Book Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

Download or read book Contracts for the International Sale of Goods written by Franco Ferrari and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contracts for the International Sale of Goods provides an examination of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Extensively referenced, the volume focuses on the exact determination of the CISG’s sphere of application; both the non-conformity of delivered goods and the notice of non-conformity; and the determination of the rate of interest on sums in arrears.