Alcohol: A History, Hardcover

Reducere. Baijiu and Huangjiu are the mainstream alcoholic drinks in China because of their long history and abundant cultural components. With a history of ...

Reducere. Arkansas's booze scene had a promising start, with America's biggest brewing families, Busch and Lemp, investing in Little Rock just prior to Prohi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lukasz KamienskiShooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of stat...

Reducere. Once known as the "Dry Capital of the World, " with all sales of alcohol prohibited within the village limits, Westerville's formal incorporation c...

Reducere. The Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans's longstanding drinki...

Reducere. Milwaukee is best known for its beer--and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz,...

Reducere. Some Bardstown, Kentucky residents argued for an alcohol ban as early as the mid-1800s despite the fact that whiskey and bourbon were local staples...

Thieves, rumrunners and rapscallions all color the unsavory side of Litchfield County history. Townspeople accused women of witchcraft simply for n...

Reducere. How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground" "R...

Reducere. While known for the twang of its country music, Nashville is also home to a colorful and salacious past. The earliest settlers to lay claim to the ...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...

This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movem...

Reducere. Colonial New England was awash in ales, beers, wines, cider and spirits. Everyone from teenage farmworkers to our founding fathers imbibed heartily...

Reducere. There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dave PelzerThis book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history...

DescriptionLost on the Yellow Brick Road is the study of a woman in terror much of her life, who had obstacles to climb, pitfalls that may as well ...

Reducere. Ocean City, which calls itself "America's Greatest Family Resort, " is today best known for its wide, clean beaches and a yearly bayfront celebrati...

DescriptionAn irresistible set of 100 postcards from the Imperial War Museum collection, in a beautifully designed box. Featuring iconic posters an...

Reducere. This book is not just about me. It's about life, relationships with parents, siblings, children, and friends. It's about addictions, it's about you...

Alcohol meets alchemy in this fun and darkly fascinating collection of cocktail recipes to suit your every mood and whim. Astrology, tarot, palmist...

Ginspiration' to keep you shaken and stirred. Gin may be the national spirit of Britain, but it is now a drink that belongs to the world. It's gone...

Master your own custom perfume blends with ingredients to benefit your mind, body, and emotions in All-Natural Perfume Making. Just like magic, tur...

For readers of Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about a...

DescriptionEmerging from the unlikely locale of Basildon at the dawn of the Eighties, the unassuming Depeche Mode became pioneers of British electr...

DescriptionDrink your way through Japan (even from home) with the help of this book Japan is home to some of the world's most interesting alcoholic...

Reducere. Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to a...

Reducere. Description"It's a collection of industry advice and tips, it's a beverage history lesson, and it's a proudly feminist look at the professional cha...

Reducere. DescriptionGerald Grant Leeman emerged from a life of poverty and addiction to become one of the greatest wrestlers and most beloved coaches in Ame...

Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in t...

Reducere. My email to cousin Danny Gasman, professor of history in New York. 8 July 1999 I left IREX 15 months ago. Maybe I'm slow in these matters but by th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry DodsonEditor: Shelia BellFinally, the much anticipated and surprisingly candid memoir of songwriter, producer, gold a...

The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. "We owe to wine a blessing far more precious...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas P. MoneyThe great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of o...

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and s...