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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rainer Maria Rilke's singular prose masterpiece, a fragmentary modernist novel composed as the observations, memories, and spiritual crises of a young Danish aristocrat living in Paris. Rather than advancing by conventional plot, it unfolds through lyrical meditations on poverty, death, childhood, urban anonymity, and the instability of the self. Its discontinuous form, inward intensity, and symbolic precision place it among the decisive works of ea...

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco. A fascinating and in-depth investigation into the scientific properties of tobacco and brewing ingredients, "Strong Drink and Tobacco Smoke" is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history and development of these industries, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector of related literature. Contents include: "Introductory", "Materials", "How Barley G...

This book is specifically dedicated to film history’s own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions and hidden agendas that determine film historiography until today, also with the aim to act as a critical reflection on the potential future orientation of the field. The edited volume proposes ...

Tim Maltin, Britain's foremost authority on RMS Titanic, can finally reveal precisely why Titanic struck the iceberg. Through vivid images, first person testimonies and forensic investigation Maltin also reveals why the nearby ship, the Californian, failed to come to her rescue, resulting in the death of 1500 passengers. Titanic: A Very Deceiving Night finally draws to a close the world's biggest maritime mystery.

A sizzling hate to lovers, unrequited crush, standalone sports romance by romantic comedy author Gia Stevens…Dessa should have been mine... until my brother kissed her first.Ten years is a long time to be infatuated with your former best friend, especially when she’s dating your brother. So, when I receive a wedding invitation with his name embossed on the front, it feels like a fastball to the heart. But it turns out, my unrequite...

Winner of the prestigious Prix Femina, The Boy is an expansive and entrancing historical novel that follows a nearly feral child from the French countryside as he joins society and plunges into the torrid events of the first half of the 20th century.The boy does not speak. The boy has no name. The boy, raised half-wild in the forests of southern France, sets out alone into the wilderness and the greater world beyond. Without experience of another person as...

An intimate, revealing biography of a talented artist who lived life on her own terms.Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot “The Woman Who Says No.” Talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. From 2012 to 2014, German journalist and author Malte Herwig dropped by her ateliers in Paris and New York to chat with her about life, love, and...

The Scottish Highlands conceal a cunning murderer in this first book in the Whisky Business mystery series…Abigail Logan is the first to admit that what she knows about running a whisky distillery would fit into a shot glass with room to spare. But when she inherits a boutique distillery in rural Scotland, she quickly discovers that she is now part of a high-stakes business – more art than science – that elicits deep passions and prejudices. When one of Ab...

Malt Shop Milestones, Book OneYoung lives. First loves. And a classic American period enlivened by jukeboxes and chocolate malts.Vicky, a bookish sixteen-year-old, wouldn't call herself popular. But around her thriving Black community of West Hill, and especially at school, she's pretty well-known: as "The Brain of West Hill High." In addition to keeping her grades up this year, she's looking to make an impact writing for the schoo...

'Scotland's leading whisky expert' - The TimesMalt whisky has captured the hearts of spirits drinkers worldwide. This companion to Scotland's distilleries explores the history of malt whisky, how it is distilled and the contribution made by each ingredient throughout the process. Author Charles MacLean, a world authority on Scottish malt whisky, shows you how best to appreciate whisky and evaluate its subtleties, as well as how to describe its complex arom...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in German, the semi-autobiographical Notebooks is an uneasy, compelling and poetic book that...

Shortlisted for The Guild of Food Writers Drinks Book of the Year 2024Longlisted for the André Simon Drinks Book of the Year 2023Selected as one of Waterstones Best Books of 2023: Food & DrinkAs featured in Forbes: Whisky Books That Whisky Lovers Will Actually ReadThe Scottish island of Islay produces some of the world's most revered single malt whiskies, and is described by the