Greg Noonan's classic treatise on brewing lagers, New Brewing Lager Beer, offers a thorough yet practical education on the theory and techniques required to produce high-quality beers using all-grain methods either at home or in a small commercial brewery.
The "e;hilarious and moving"e; true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants-a 500-pound cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear (Scotsman).
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe.
Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium.
The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century.
Between May 1940 and the summer of 1941 the British people expected a German invasion that, had it succeeded, would have enslaved them into the Nazis' racist war.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh.
Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction';A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution.
A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.
This is the first book to not only select the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of Americas Civil War, but also to rank them in order of significance.
Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherishedand the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day.
The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.
Im frühen Nationalsozialismus entstand mit dem "Ostpreußenplan" ein Kolonisierungsvorhaben, das die strukturschwache, klimatisch ungünstig gelegene und durch den Versailler Vertrag separierte Provinz aufwerten sollte.
In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that have shaped how and what we eat in the United StatesThis exploration of the American table presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation, and culture.
'In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too' KATHERINE STANSFIELDParis, 1940.
Die radikaldemokratischen Forderungen des Friedrich Hecker - in diesem Band der »Bibliothek der frühen Demokratinnen und Demokraten« erstmals in einer Textauswahl versammelt.
Vor der »Weltliteratur« kam die Revolution - Theodor Fontanes frühe politische Texte Dass Theodor Fontane heute den bekanntesten Schriftsteller*innen zuzuordnen ist, war zu seinen Lebzeiten lange nicht absehbar.
Die Grundlagen unserer DemokratieNach der Februarrevolution 1848 in Frankreich kam es auch in den Ländern des Deutschen Bundes zu revolutionären Unruhen.
Erinnerungen an den Kampf für Freiheit und Demokratie 1848/1849Die Buchreihe »Bibliothek der frühen Demokratinnen und Demokraten« feiert das Jubiläum der »Deutschen Revolution« von 1848 mit einem Auftaktband, der Emma Herweghs Bericht über das »Abenteuer« der »Demokratischen Legion« sowie ihre Korrespondenz mit anderen »Revolutionären« enthält.
Die Schriften des vergessenen Wegbereiters unserer freiheitlich-demokratischen GrundordnungRobert Blum, einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der deutschen Revolution, wurde am 9.
"Ich hielt das Leben meines Vaters für das allerunspektakulärste", sagt Tarek Leitner – keine Heldentaten, keine menschlichen Abgründe, keine tragischen Schicksalsschläge.
'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.
"e;Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman"e; is a slave narrative, detailing Austin Steward's early life of enslavement and escape, as well as his years of freedom and work at Wilber force Colony.
The globalization of schooling has become a lively focus for research in the field of international education; however, few scholars have looked at specific model ';global' schools.
El presente libro ofrece una revisión crítica de teorías y etnografías hechas sobre el tema del suicidio en pueblos indígenas en algunos países del continente americano.
How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***AS READ ON RADIO 4***The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Caf explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.
'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
