Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to prosper in the frothy world of beer appreciation. Never again confuse your grist with your gruit, your wort with your yeast, or your butt with your firkin (108 gallons versus nine gallons, since you ask).
A delightful and essential compendium of words, new, old or abused through Brexit.
Horace's words have become some of the most memorable, durable phrases, lines and poems ever written and, although he lived over 2000 years ago, the intricately woven poems of this humble son of a freed slave have something to say about how to live all these centuries later. 'Horace and Me' charts Harry Eyres' evolving relationship with the Latin poet to show how, in a time of affluence and excess which seems to be hurtling out of control, Horace can help us navigate our way in these uncertain times.
Conducts the bluffer through circumstances in which the bluffer will encounter wine and the wine expert and equips the bluffer with vocabulary and evasive techniques to avoid being found out.
Written by experts and offering readers the opportunity to pass off appropriated knowledge as their own, the Bluffer's Guides provide hard fact masquerading as frivolous observation in one witty, easy read.
This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from “the necessary distance” has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia. In particular, it reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as nurturing mother and the more recent conception of the Earth as a neutral resource able to be infinitely exploited by humankind. The 1968 Earthrise photograph, showing the beauty and fragility of the Earth, helped spark a worldwide environmental movement; now the comprehensive coverage of global change provided by satellites has the potential to convince us beyond reasonable doubt of the huge alterations being wrought upon the Earth and its climate system as a result of human actions, and of the need to act more responsibly.
Ta seria jest dla ciebie dla dowolnej płci hipstera, yuppie czy scuppie, dla metro- i drwaloseksualnych, a także dla wszystkich niezrzeszonych. Jeśli chcesz zabłysnąć w towarzystwie (a przynajmniej nie pozostać w cieniu) ta seria jest dla ciebie. Nic nie wiesz o winach? Nie szkodzi. Nauczymy cię blefu w tej dziedzinie, pozwolimy kompetentnie konwersować. Uważaj jednak, to pułapka: po lekturze będziesz wiedzieć więcej w tej materii niż 99% ludzkości. Nigdy więcej nie pomylisz rocznika z nauką o uprawie winorośli i produkcji wina, ulażu z enologią, sabrage z c�page. Rozkoszuj się podziwem towarzystwa, śmiało rozprawiaj o pochodzeniu wszystkiego, co masz w kieliszku (lub w ustach), i dumnie staw czoło szyderstwom sommelier�w.
Tato kniha vám umožní okamžitě si osvojit všechny znalosti potřebné k tomu, abyste se ve světě someliérů a znalců vín cítili jako doma. Ohromte opravdové znalce svými vědomostmi o původu jednotlivých odrůd, naučte se ochutnávat i správně přivonět ke sklenici lahodného moku. Žádná ochutnávka vín ani posezení ve sklípku už pro vás nebude noční můrou. Svět vína je ohromný a rozmanitý, takže znalosti a typické vlastnosti odrůd z jednotlivých zemí se vám rozhodně neztratí. Takže sklenici do ruky a na zdraví!
