Are you stalking your ex? Try a Pisco Sour.

Drowning out the ticking of your biological clock? A bee's Knees will do.

Spoiling for a vicious brawl with your dearest loved ones? A Tipperary helps you get there.

Sinking into debauchery underneath the mistletoe at your boss's holiday party? A Presbyterian, what else?

How to Booze has all the answers on what to drink when Armed with nearly one hundred iconic recipes, useful facts on technique and ingredients, and more than enough advice to get you into trouble. You will now know just the right drink for the occasion---and how to prepare it like a professional.

'If you're not sure how to booze, this book will lead the way. If you think that you do know how to booze, it will show you where you've been going wrong.'---Gary Regan, author of the Joy of Mixology

 

 

The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the most significant challenges to global security in the twenty-first century. Limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials may be the key to preventing a nuclear war or a catastrophic act of nuclear terrorism. Going Nuclear offers conceptual, historical, and analytical perspectives on current problems in controlling nuclear proliferation. It includes essays that examine why countries seek nuclear weapons as well as studies of the nuclear programs of India, Pakistan, and South Africa. The final section of the book offers recommendations for responding to the major contemporary proliferation challenges: keeping nuclear weapons and materials out of the hands of terrorists, ensuring that countries that renounce nuclear weapons never change their minds, and cracking down on networks that illicitly spread nuclear technologies.Nearly all the chapters in this book have been previously published in the journal International Security. It contains a new preface and one chapter commissioned specifically for the volume, Matthew Bunn's 'Nuclear Terrorism: A Strategy for Prevention.' Contributors: Samina Ahmed, Chaim Braun, Matthew Bunn, Christopher F. Chyba, Matthew Fuhrmann, ?umit Ganguly, S. Paul Kapur, Ariel E. Levite, Peter Liberman, Austin Long, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Alexander H. Montgomery, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, William C. Potter, Whitney Raas, Scott D. Sagan, Etel Solingen

Nello scrivere questo libro gli autori si sono posti l'obiettivo di aiutare i lettori a padroneggiare i concetti basilari e la pratica del marketing management applicati al settore dell'ospitalità e dei viaggi. Il testo affronta l'argomento con ordine metodologico e con il necessario rigore scientifico, in un ambito dove frequentemente si combinano formule fisse con le improvvisazioni dell'intuizione. L'opera di Kotler e dei suoi collaboratori ha il merito di rendere problematico quel che solitamente è ritenuto scontato. Essa ha anche il pregio di evidenziare la complessità dell'azione di marketing, che non può prescindere da ricerche di mercato, da sistemi informativi e da un'accurata pianificazione, in un settore dove spesso marketing e vendite sono considerati uno stesso concetto. Da qui la visione di marketing olistico sviluppata da Kotler che interpreta il marketing come strumento di raccordo fra la complessa realtà dei mercati e la capacità dell'impresa di ideare, sviluppare e offrire valore al cliente. Il volume assume un aspetto pratico e accessibile grazie ai continui riferimenti al settore turistico e alla presenza di molti esempi concreti. L'edizione italiana è stata arricchita con numerosi casi legati sia alla realtà italiana sia al contesto internazionale.

Farmer, poet, essayist, and environmental writer Wendell Berry is acclaimed for his ideas regarding the values inherent in an agricultural society. Place, community, good work, and simple pleasures are but a few of the values that form the bedrock of Berry's thought. While the notion of reverence is central to Berry, he is not widely known as a religious writer. However, the moral underpinnings of his work are rooted in Christian tradition, articulating the tenet that faith and stewardship of the land are not mutually exclusive. In Wendell Berry and Religion, editors Joel J. Shuman and L. Roger Owens probe the moral and spiritual implications of Berry's work. Chief among them are the notions that the earth is God's provisional gift to mankind and that studying how we engage material creation reflects important truths. This collection reveals deep, thoughtful, and provocative conversations within Berry's writings, illuminating the theological inspirations inherent in his work.

Before the arrival of Europeans, a huge swath of Australia around what is now Perth was the homeland of the Noongar people. With the onset of colonization, that land was lost and the Noongar culture (presumably) disappeared. Employing evidence from anthropology and Noongar oral history, this volume shows how much 'accepted wisdom' about the disappearance of Noongar culture is without basis in fact. Originally prepared for the Noongar's federal court case asserting native title to the Perth region, this volume provides details of the Noongar people's history, customs, and laws; describes their relationship to and their rights and interests in their land; and chronicles their survival as a people into the present day. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Provides information on desiging, implementing, and launching applications for the iPhone and the iTouch.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2009, held in York, United Kingdom, in August 2009.The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on immune system modelling, theoretical aspects of artificial immune systems, and applied artificial immune systems.

Describes the adventures of Buffy after the events covered by the television program, as she faces a mysterious threat called 'Twilight,' while Giles and Faith deal with a rogue slayer.

The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and a founding text in the development of the English novel. The story of Christian, whose pilgrimage takes him through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and the Delectable Mountains, is full of danger and adventure. Together with his trusty companions, Faithful and Hopeful, he encounters many enemies--the foul fiend Apollyon, Judge Hategood, Giant Despair of Doubting Castle--before finally arriving at the Celestial City.
Bunyan's own experience of religious persecution informs his story, and its qualities of psychological realism, the beauty and simplicity of his prose combine to create a book whose appeal is universal. This edition includes the illustrations that appeared with the book in Bunyan's lifetime, giving a sense of its impact on contemporary readers.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

A collection of essays by top international correspondants in print, broadcasting, and photojournalism, International News Reporting offers an introduction to journalism written by the people who have made the profession what it is today.

• Contributors identify the major areas of professional practice which students and young journalists need to know in order to work safely in, and understand fully, the field of international news gathering
• Looks at events from conflicts to humanitarian disasters
• Covers crucial topics such as how to report stories about the developing world, how to avoid stereotyping, the uses and abuses of blogging, and risk assessment for journalists in conflict zones

Describes the adventures of Buffy after the events covered by the television program, as she faces a mysterious threat called 'Twilight,' while Giles and Faith deal with a rogue slayer.

Chronicles the history of Canadian exploration from John Cabot's first voyage to Newfoundland and Jacques Cartier's discovery of the Saint Lawrence River to Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's trip to the North Pole.

The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves explains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law. Making sense of the dramatic debate from his perspective as an American anthropologist in France at the time, John Bowen writes about everyday life and public events while also presenting interviews with officials and intellectuals, and analyzing French television programs and other media.

Bowen argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religion in schools, feared links between public expressions of Islamic identity and radical Islam, and a media-driven frenzy that built support for a headscarf ban during 2003-2004. Although the defense of laïcité (secularity) was cited as the law's major justification, politicians, intellectuals, and the media linked the scarves to more concrete social anxieties--about 'communalism,' political Islam, and violence toward women.

Written in engaging, jargon-free prose, Why the French Don't Like Headscarves is the first comprehensive and objective analysis of this subject, in any language, and it speaks to tensions between assimilation and diversity that extend well beyond France's borders.

Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure. Edited and with contributions by Owen King (We're All in This Together) and John McNally (America's Report Card), Who Can Save Us Now? enriches the superhero canon immeasurably.

With mutations stranger than the X-Men and with even more baggage than the Hulk, this next generation of superheroes is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill caped crusader. From the image-conscious and not-very-mysterious masked meathead who swoops in and sweeps the tough girl reporter off her feet; to the Meerkat, who overcomes his species' cute and cuddly image to become the resident hero in a small Midwestern city; to the Silverfish, 'the creepy superhero,' who fights crime while maintaining the slipperiest of identities; to Manna Man, who manipulates the minds of televangelists to serve his own righteous mission, these protectors (and in some cases antagonizers) of the innocent and the virtuous will delight literary enthusiasts and comic fans alike.

With stunning illustrations by artist Chris Burnham, Who Can Save Us Now? offers a vibrant, funny, and truly unusual array of characters and their stories.

Our hero, Timmy McAllister, lives in the 100% pure vanilla town of Cherry Creek, Indiana (pop. 23,745) where everyone and everything is...normal. Normal and boring. At least until French toy designer/entrepreneur/conceptual artist Jacques starts packaging and selling the most bizarre objects, people and creatures of the outside world to plain everyday kids like the ones in Cherry Creek. And things will never be the same. TOKYOPOP is the leading North American publisher of manga. This genre is the fastest growing segment within publishing and young readers are clamoring for more. Mail Order Ninja are full-manga books for readers of all ages. Spotlight is a division of ABDO and features licensed editions of popular fiction printed and bound specifically for the library market. Each Spotlight book is printed on the highest quality paper with reinforced library bindings.

Timmy McAllister's life is awesomeness incarnate now that he has his very own ninja! The two of them have completely upended the school's social hierarchy – bullies quake in fear while the nerds own the hallways. But as Timmy boogey-woogeys at the school dance, Felicity seeks revenge with a little mail order madness of her own! And when Jiro falls in battle, Timmy must stand alone against the forces of evil and uncoolness. Action, drama, ninja disco dancing – this book's got it all! TOKYOPOP is the leading North American publisher of manga. This genre is the fastest growing segment within publishing and young readers are clamoring for more. Mail Order Ninja are full-manga books for readers of all ages. Spotlight is a division of ABDO and features licensed editions of popular fiction printed and bound specifically for the library market. Each Spotlight book is printed on the highest quality paper with reinforced library bindings.

Showcasing the work of leading designers from across the country, a beautifully illustrated volume takes homeowners through the complete process of planning, designing, building, and decorating an outdoor kitchen to suit any taste or budget, with tips on developing a floor plan, selecting appliances, creating food preparation and dining areas, amenities, and more. Original.

If you want to learn about survival and success, learn from people who have survived hundreds of years in the most hostile environments in the world. The indigenous people of the world cannot afford the modern corporate luxuries of complexity and confusion. For them, the penalty of failure is not to miss a bonus, the penalty is often death.

Once you strip away all of the corporate life support systems of HR, IT, Legal, Help Desks and manuals you discover the real rules of leading for survival and success, you discover the heart of management.

From his extensive research with tribes around the world, Jo Owen gives us insights in to the rules of success, survival and leadership, accompanied by colourful photographs.  Tribal Business School reveals the lessons of survival and success from traditional societies and shows how business can profit from rediscovering the essence of leadership and the basics of what makes some organisations survive and others fail. Structured around seven simple lessons, with one tribe representing one lesson, this book is a rare combination of credible and highly topical - forget the high-brow theory; this is the ultimate primer in business survival.