In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was gone. Blue Sky Dream is a book incredibly rich in ideas, in ways of seeing the recent past with stunning clarity. David Beers explores issues that define our times—downsizing, middle-class anxiety, the profound anger with government, the sense that something has gone awry with the United States—with such skill, personal immediacy, and compassion that readers will see their own histories in his prose. Blue Sky Dream can rightly be called a communal memoir, because in telling his family’s tale—growing tensions and disillusionment in their suburban paradise, a son rejecting his parents’ values, one sudden and inexplicable moment of violence—Beers tells the story of his people, the blue sky tribe “who imagined ourselves to be living the inevitable future, and are very surprised today to discover we were but a strange and aberrant moment that is now receding into history.”
In this comprehensive guide to homebrewing, Miller clearly explains the best techniques for every step of the entire brewing process. Clear enough for the novice but thorough enough to earn a home in the libraries of brewmasters, this is the essential volume on brewing great-tasting beer at home.
Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of the intersectional inequalities that such realities gloss over. This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.
Considered the father of all lagers, continental pilsener changed the course of brewing around the world. Noted author and brewer David Miller examines each country's version of pilsener, including ingredients and brewing stages. The Classic Beer Style Series, from Brewers Publications, examines individual world-class beer styles, covering origins, history, sensory profiles, brewing techniques and commercial examples.
For half a century David Beers Quinn wrote on the history of the early relationship between England and North America. This volume was presented in tribute to his meticulous and authoritative but cautious scholarship, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. It includes his "Reflections" on a lifetime of research, and his bibliography. But his interests in the early period of "the expansion of Europe" have never been limited to England or North America, and this volume accordingly takes as its theme the widest historical context of the subject and period, the whole European outthrust and encounter, in its first phase. Ten contributions by recognized scholars provide select exemplars, to serve as a stimulating introduction to this vast theme. Three overview essays deal with specific regions of the outthrust, chosen because of differences in outcome: Ethiopia, the Far East, and Siberia. The remaining essays consider specific episodes in localities ranging from Guayana to China, and their discursive echoes, and are essentially concerned with a leading feature of David Quinn’s scholarship, the discovery, examination and interpretation of sources. A preliminary essay discusses the theme and links the various contributions within a framework of critical generalization.
A young poor mother of four small children, wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for the brutal killing her two-year-old son. And the real killer was granted immunity.
Discover The World Of Beer! This Extensively Researched Book Provides You With A Fascinating Introduction To The World'S Most Renowned Beers. Including Key Facts And Figures, The Complete Guide To Beer Is An Indispensable Companion To Anyone Who Enjoys T
This all-new collection of David Shrigley's addictively strange and entertaining work reveals fresh, unsettling truths and anxious amusements in a format that welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful.
America's love of imported beers has encouraged the spread of small breweries all across the country and spawned a strong home brewing movement. Now, brewmaster Dave Miller offers practical, concise information on the latest equipment, ingredients, and techniques used by expert home brewers. The book includes 85 recipes designed to produce beer with "Old World" flavor.
On September 12, 2001, Michele Harris went missing from a smalltown in upstate New York. She has never been found, and themystery surrounding her disappearance remains. Four years aftershe went missing, her wealthy husband, Cal Harris, was arrestedand charged with her murder.With neither a body nor a murder weapon, Cal wasshockingly tried and convicted of her murder. Then new evidencesurfaced. His conviction was overturned, and a new trial granted.But once again, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to lifein prison. That conviction, too, was overturned on appeal. The sagacontinued as Cal went on trial for the third time. This one ended ina mistrial.By the time Cal went on trial the fourth time, Michele hadbeen missing for nearly 15 years.Defense investigator, David M. Beers, worked on the CalHarris case from start-to-finish. His account, "Reign of Injustice,"walks you through the details and events of the case never beforerevealed. It provides a inside view of the scandalous case facts youwill not find elsewhere, including why he considers Cal's story areign of injustice.
A manual dedicated to recreating the brewed beverages that existed in the American Colonies. All of the historic recipes were documented as dating from 1800 or earlier, and all were taste-tested. The book consists of more than fifty recipes for ale, beer, mead, hard cider, and mixed drinks, including an award winning recipe for porter. Along with the recipes is a how-to chapter on brewing. There is an additional chapter on non-alcoholic brews, such as tea and coffee, and herbalsubstitutes for both. Plus, a section on making non-alcoholic beer, and carbonated soft drinks.
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