"THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BOURBON."-Sacramento Bee A Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Bestseller A ROLLICKING BIOGRAPHY OF BOURBON WHISKEY THAT DOUBLES AS "A COMPLEX AND ENTERTAINING" (WALL STREET JOURNAL) HISTORY OF AMERICA ITSELF Few products are so completely or intimately steeped in the American story as bourbon whiskey. As Dane Huckelbridge's masterfully crafted history reveals, the iconic amber spirit is the American experience,...

Asteroids and comets shoot straight through space. They just look like bright lights with tails, but there is much more to these fascinating objects! Learn all about asteroids and comets in this book.

The world is constantly changing. New scientific discoveries are frequently emerging. Jump into an exciting journey into the future and discover what the world is like in those days. The categories in this book include the future of: • Economy • Technology • Space exploration • Transportation • Environment • Entertainment • Demographics • And much more... The future scenarios for the year 2040 in this book are based on...

¿Vale la pena dejarte la piel por un mundo que nunca te aceptará? Laure Mesny está a punto de graduarse en la academia de ballet más prestigiosa de París. Por fin, tras años de someterse a una férrea disciplina, a los desprecios de la élite blanca y rica, y de sufrir dolores inimaginables, tiene sus sueños al alcance de la mano. Sin embargo, no tarda en darse cuenta de que como chica negra de origen humilde no resulta nada fácil conseguir...

Learn how to really listen to, and cultivate, your body's health without a special budget or training, letting you enter and maintain a higher cognitive state regularly and do your life's best work. In our age of chaos, inattention, truthiness and failed leadership, it's time for all of us to step out of the shadows and become our own Commander in Chief. Any one of us can use timeless wisdom and focus to exercise control over ourselves and our future,...

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation...

Instrumentos de naufragio es sin duda alguna el más claro ejemplo de la potencia del narrador y ensayista mexicano Manuel R. Montes, que confirma una herencia insospechada, venida de Jesús Gardea y de António Lobo Antunes. Ejemplo de mi aseveración es Tadeo Mazur, protagonista de esta novela, quien nos muestra que la enfermedad es el motor más lúcido de la ficción. Mazur, trasunto de escritor e invidente, posee recuerdos que son espinas, y...

Willy, a troubled but charismatic gay kid, flees Cape Breton Island for Montreal with hopes of forgetting a newly broken heart by starting a new life in the big city. There, he retreats into a world of fantasy and anonymity, and soon goes missing without a trace. As rumours fly, he is remembered and reinvented by the play's characters.

Every Chrstian has a Mission. What's Yours? "Is it time to change jobs?" "Should I marry?" "Am I called to religious life?" Sooner or later, every thoughtful Christian asks such questions. For everyone ready to make the shift from "What do I want for my life?" to "what does God want for my life?" Fr. Gallagher offers this new book to help you make sense of your major life decisions. Drawing from the timeless methods of Ignatius Loyola and richly illustrated...

Life can be busy with so many moving and demanding parts, work, family, and civic organization duties that it hardly leaves time for a woman to take time to attend a party or a girls' weekend, but Sunday Brunch is a reading adventure that gives you the boost you need from a girls' weekend without the financial pressure, time management, and the looming pressure of what to wear and the frustration of a hangover. Ladies, squeeze a few hours out of your...