This engaging guide traces the history, cultivation, and culture of coffee, as well as the major factors influencing the industry today. Robert Thurston provides a readable, concise overview of coffee from the time the seeds of the coffee fruit are planted to the latest ideas in roasting and making beverages. He considers cultivation and its challenges, especially climate change; new research on hybridization; the history of coffee and cultural change surrounding it around the world; devices, new and old, for making coffee drinks; the issue of organic versus conventional agriculture; and the health benefits of the brew. The first book that coffee lovers naturally will turn to, it will also appeal to anyone interested in globalization, climate change, and social justice.
Examining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s. It suggests that more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by it.
This early work by Robert Thurston Hopkins and Forbes Phillips was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'War and the Weird' is a novel about strange occurrences on the front lines of the Great War. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.
Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a ‘persecuting society’ in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.
A professional problem solver investigates Mormon origins through the eyes of Bible critics, forensic scientists, logicians, statisticians, and above all, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Based on these sources, Part 1 has important lessons in methodology, in non-technical language, for scholars and students of any ancient religious literature, including the Bible and the Book of Mormon. The remainder of the book applies these simple methods to the Book of Mormon, reconstructing the origins of the book in agreement with all of the evidence. It incorporates the work of the finest Mormon scholars and the most talented non-Mormon researchers. Many puzzling anomalies which have defied scholars on both sides are here explained for the first time. Yet the book doesn't claim to have the final answers. The concluding sections show what work remains to be done, especially by Mormon and non-Mormon scholars, working together. The book is written not only for scholars, but for average readers of the Book of Mormon, and even for non-Mormons. It should be of interest to anyone who loves a good mystery story, and is eager to see how it all comes out in the end.
The stories and poems in Ghost on the Threshold are an interconnected expression of love and remembrance. This is what love does. It collects fictionalized annual memories and makes them perennial.
In the not distant future the world hasn't changed so much - men and women still fall in love, laugh, and sip wine - but some have changed, some will live forever as retreads, old souls implanted surgically in the empty bodies of the young. Voss Geraghty is a retread, a retiring government researcher who has been rewarded with a new body. What he wants out of his new life is fun, sex, and adventure, what he finds is disappointment. But there's a growing radical underground that sees the inequity in a society that allows the young to die so that the old may live on... Alicia II is the undisputed science fiction masterpiece by Robert Thurston (* 28. Oktober 1936 in Lockport, New York; † 20. Oktober 2021 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey) and was first published in 1978; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic novel in its ENGLISH SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS series.
The Incredible Life Of Willie Sharp Act 2Saved By John The Pope Once again, we find ourselves on the magical streets of North Oakland California, where everything is not what it seems. We follow John Mungu a young brother whose life was upended by the tragic death of his father. Come travel with us as young John struggles on his adventure to get clean from addiction. Cue our favorite whimsical wizard, Mr. Willie Sharp a.k.a "Salamander," who guides the young warrior to his place of redemption. John cannot do it alone, so he enlists his cousins and uncle. They create a great army of Rahsan warriors consisting of strong leaders from the North, West, and East sides of Oakland. They compose a great unified conglomerate to take on Hsub and the Nashar one more time...
At the end of a bloody thousand-year war against an invincible enemy, an uneasy peace has finally been achieved between humans and the dreaded cyborg warriors of the Cylon Empire. But peace soon turns to bloodshed when the Cylons launch an unexpected attack against humanity's twelve Colonial worlds, wiping out most of the inhabitants. Written by series creator Glen A. Larson and author Robert Thurston, this volume collects for the first time the novelizations of two classic Battlestar Galactica television episodes: the pilot "Saga of a Star World" and "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero.
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