The Oxford Companion to Cheese (Oxford Companions) editedby Catherine Donnelly
English | November 22, 2016 | ISBN: 0199330883 | EPUB | 872 pages | 51.3 MB
The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, and equally complex and varied tastes, textures, and, yes, aromas. In fact, after a long period of industrialized, processed, and standardized cheese, cheesemakers, cheesemongers, affineurs, and most of all consumers are rediscovering the endless variety of cheeses across cultures.
The One Thing You'd Save
By Linda Sue Park
2021 | ASIN : B08B3CQPRL | English | 63 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
The New Breed: How to Think About Robots by Kate Darling
English | April 20th, 2021 | ISBN: 0241352991 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 6.21 MB
'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. Pepperberg
Anna Pochmara, "The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel"
English | ISBN: 0820359025 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The Nadir and the Zenith is a study of temperance and melodramatic excess in African American fiction before the Harlem Renaissance. Anna Pochmara combines formal analysis with attention to the historical context, which, in addition to postbellum race relations in the United States, includes white and black temperance movements and their discourses. Despite its proliferation and popularity at the time, African American fiction between Reconstruction and World War I has not attracted nearly as much scholarly attention as the Harlem Renaissance. Pochmara provocatively suggests that the historical moment when black people's "status in American society" reached its lowest point― what historian Rayford Logan called the "Nadir"―coincides with the zenith of black novelistic productivity before World War II.
Simon Cooke, "The Moxon Tennyson: A Landmark in Victorian Illustration "
English | ISBN: 0821424262 | 2021 | 254 pages | PDF | 14 MB
A new perspective on a book that transformed Victorian illustration into a stand-alone art.
The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (Sterling Milestones) by Clifford A. Pickover
English | September 4, 2012 | ISBN: 9781402785856 | 528 pages | MOBI | 21 Mb
Following his hugely successfulThe Math BookandThe Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses "obvious" historical milestones-the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project-with unexpected and intriguing topics like "truth serum," the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants.
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Sterling Milestones) by Clifford A. Pickover
English | September 1, 2009 | ISBN: 1402757964 | 528 pages | MOBI | 60 Mb
Math's infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this follow-up to the best-sellingThe Science Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting anthology: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares from centuries ago, the discovery of pi and calculus, and the butterfly effect. Each topic gets a lavishly illustrated spread with stunning color art, along with formulas and concepts, fascinating facts about scientists' lives, and real-world applications of the theorems.
The Lunar Tao: Meditations in Harmony with the Seasons By Ming-Dao Deng
2013 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0062116886 | EPUB | 12 MB
From Taosim expert Ming-Dao Deng comesThe Lunar Tao: Meditations in Harmony with the Seasons,bringing to life the Chinese Lunar Calendar via the prism of Taoism.InThe Lunar Tao,each day of the Lunar year is represented with a reading meditation, beautiful Chinese illustrations, and interesting facts about the festivals and traditions, providing readers with the context that gives Taoism such depth and resonance.Ming-Dao Deng, the bestselling author of365 Tao: Daily Meditations, shows how to bring the tenets of Taoism into everyday life.
Darby Penney, "The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic"
English | ISBN: 1934137146 | 2009 | 208 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 5 MB + 4 MB
"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum-the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny's careful historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us." -Oliver Sacks
The Last Children of Mill Creek
by Vivian Gibson
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1948742640 | 150 Pages | ePUB | 0.95 MB