A rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen’s beer brewing to James Joyce’s passion for Guinness to E.B. White’s cure for writers’ block—a dry martini—by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp. “The tools that I need for my trade are simply pen, paper, food, tobacco, and a little whiskey.” —William Faulkner “I keep a dictionary, a Bible, a deck of cards and a bottle of sherry in the room.” —Maya Angelou “A writer who drinks carefully is probably a better writer.” —Stephen King Throughout history, there has been no greater catalyst for creativity among writers, so they claim, than a good, stiff drink. In this graphic volume, the authors take us on an unforgettable literary bar crawl, packed with historical factoids, anecdotes, booze trivia, and fascinating detours into the lives of our favorite writers, along with literary-themed cocktail recipes such as Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and Philip Larkin’s Gin and Tonic set to verse. For the literary-minded drinker, whether wine, gin, vodka, beer, whiskey, or tequila is your elixir of choice, A Sidecar Named Desire will whet your appetite. Bottoms up!
A study of key service marketing concepts and how these can be applied to improve turnover, efficiency and profitability. Addressing the needs of all professional service users from accountants to zoo keepers, Marketing a Service for Profit aims to provide the reader with the confidence to market a service.
The journey is fraught with many dangers; the chances of success are slim. But the servants of the Earth spirit know that they are the only hope for the planets ascension. To succeed, they must find the sacred Golden Spiral and the Earths light codes before the scheming Destroyer does. The quest will take them to the spiritual dimensions of other worlds aboard a soul ship called Auroras, chartered by High Command. The servants come from all different walks of life. They have been visited by the celestial spirits of their families spiritual DNA, in preparation for the task ahead. The group must travel to the Spiritual Emperors palace, and then on to Warrior Mountain, where the supreme Shakti Angel guards the sacred gemstone known as the Will of Fire. Back on Earth, the clock is ticking. The worlds portals have been shut down by terrorists, leaving soul ships backed up with their cargo. Meanwhile, Earths precious resources of lovewhich it sells on the intergalactic markets and relies on for trade and securityhave been suspended. Only the team aboard the Auroras can restore balance to the world and prevent the Destroyer from claiming victory over light itself.
The Second Coming, Hell, the Beast, Life after death: these are all themes that fascinate, and sometimes divide us. Beyond Hollywood productions, apocalyptic websites and a plethora of prophetic literature, what does the Bible really say about the end times? In their new book, 666 And All That, John Dickson and Greg Clarke provide a reality check on this hot and controversial topic.
This introductory book is written especially for those who feel that they should know something about the world's most influential text, but may have been afraid to ask, put off by the Church, found the black leather cover and cigarette paper pages ominous, or just never got around to it. In the first half of the book, Clarke explores the question: "Why would I bother with the Bible?" He then tackles questions like "What is the Bible, and what do I do with it?" "What I want to do in this book is explain how and to what extent the Bible is behind so much of Western life. I want to look at where the Bible has influenced different aspects of life, in order to give you some sense of just what a scandal it is that many people have had this knowledge concealed from them.
Sixteen compelling tales of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include stories by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, W. E. B. Du Bois, Harlan Ellison, and others.
Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that follow, the contributors not only explore biographies of both highly esteemed figures and notorious deviants, but also investigate the very concept of Enlightenment as it has evolved from the eighteenth century to today. The final section features chapters that probe the complex interaction of identity, persona, and place, traversing the countless locales in which the British—and the international—eighteenth century emerged. The volume ultimately covers a range of experience that extends from the gallows to the landscape garden and from heroic antiquity to Romantic-era France. Juxtaposing the local and particular against the grand and universal, Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment testifies to the complexity and ongoing significance of eighteenth-century culture.
This text provides independent guidance on the practice and concept of franchising. Updated, this edition is illustrated with case studies of practising franchises and beginners are shown how to decide if franchising is for them, choose a franchise, and grasp the legal and financial aspects.
Providing advice on how to make sure the franchiser is sound, this revised text contains material discussing whether franchising is the appropriate step to take, as well as considering longer-term aspects such as the major pitfalls and exit routes from the franchise.
The more than three dozen poems in this book describe individual parts of the body and what they do for us, and for some parts such as the face, the verses describe how we communicate nonverbally with other people.
The Science Focus Second Edition is the complete science package for the teaching of the New South Wales Stage 4 and 5 Science Syllabus. The Science Focus Second Edition package retains the identified strengths of the highly successful First Edition and includes a number of new and exciting features, improvements and components. The student book includes: Chapter opening pages which include the key prescribed focus area for the chapter and a clear distinction between essential and additional content; Updated and revised content, photos, illustrations and 'science clip' boxes in a format that is easy to read and follow; Unit questions under headings that are structured in a hierarchical progression using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy; Additional questions which include research, creative writing, investigations and internet activities; Practical activities at the end of each unit allowing teachers to choose when to do practical work.; Student CD which contains an electronic version of the student book.
The Pearson Science Second Edition Teacher Companion make lesson preparation and implementation easy by combining full Student Book pages with a wealth of teacher support, to help you meet the demands of the Australian Curriculum: Science as well as the 2017 Victorian Curriculum.
Issue #60 of Clarkesworld, a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. This issue features fiction by Robert Reed ("Pack") and Greg Mellor ("Signals in the Deep"), an interview with Genevieve Valentine, an article on artificial intelligence by Nancy Fulda and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
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