The definitive home-roasting guide for coffee lovers from the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Coffee Review , the author of 21st Century Coffee .In the past decade, home coffee roasting has gone from a small but growing trend to an increasingly mainstream audience. Still, for many in the current generation of coffee lovers, roasting remains a mysterious process. In this comple...

The popularity of espresso, coffee at its purest and most intense, has grown exponentially in the past decade. In this revised edition of his book on the ultimate coffee, Kenneth Davids provides a lucid, engaging examination of espresso's lore, legend, and culture. A finalist for the James Beard Award upon its original publication. Espresso is the perfect introduction to the world of specialty coffee.

An updated edition of the "amusing and informative book . . . the best available guide" for coffee connoisseurs ( The Atlantic Monthly).Now in its latest revised edition, Kenneth Davids's comprehensive and entertaining Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying remains an invaluable resource for anyone who truly enjoys a good cup of coffee. It features updated information and definitions, a history of coffee culture, tips on storing and brewin...

"Towards a Sustainable Future: The UN's 17 Goals" by Kenneth David Thomas is an essential guide to understanding and advancing the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book explores how these goals, which were established as a universal call to action, aim to address some of the world's most pressing challenges by 2030—including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and injustice. Thomas breaks down each goal with clarity a...

The twentieth-century environmental movement owes much to a single man: David Brower. Countless natural wonders would have been lost if not for his efforts and the tremendous energy put forth by organizations he directed and/or founded (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth Island Institute). A tireless defender of wild areas, Brower worked to protect iconic places, including the Grand Canyon and the California redwood forests, and his work and passion helped defin...

A dramatic true story of a Kansas family extending over four continuous generations. Tragedy after tragedy would haunt this family, including the mama burning to death on New Year's Day of 1927. Papa's enduring love prevails as he raises two families of five children each. Papa's five-year-old daughter, Faithe, would be the oldest witness of seeing her mama burning to death. As a result, she would live a lifetime of depression and mental illness, leaving her to become an abusive wife and m...

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Brazilian national expression and self-definition for the twentieth century and into the present, with renewed relevance as Brazil plays an increasingly important role in global affairs. Artists such as Tarsila do Amaral and Roberto Burle-Marx are appearing for the first time in museums in the Uni...

In the natural world pretty much all species are locked into a behavior pattern to find food, shelter, and propagate their kind. This can be done individually or collectively, such as in a hive of bees. They fulfil their inherent purpose, and seldom go to hockey games for entertainment and/or gratuitous violence. Homo sapiens is different. This species has largely figured out how to do all of the above, has supposedly civilized itself, risen above the food and shelter grind, and yet actual...

In The Riftbound Legacy, the third book in the Moonlight Pact series, Kenneth Thomas delivers a thrilling tale of ancient betrayal, shifting alliances, and the enduring fight to save a fractured world.Centuries ago, a forbidden ritual unleashed a deadly rift—a force alive, consuming everything in its path. The scars of that night linger, as witches and wolves struggle to maintain a fragile peace while remnants of the rift continue to spread.Elara Kwan, a s...

What if trees could talk to each other? How do you know they dont? And if they do, what do they say to each other? And how is it that we cant hear what they say? After all, the dance card of your average tree is not all that full, and they have lots of time to learn to talk while we are busy babbling at each other. Some people believe that not only trees, but also rocks and peaches converse with each other too. Leafy and Sprucy invites the reader to pause and consider the conversation of a...

Who is that guy sitting up there on the hydro pole every day? Whats he doing up there? Where did he come from? Why is he there, anyway? Who sent him? The Watcher invites the reader to pause and consider the merits of quiet enjoyment, time set aside to meditate on matters of lasting value, and step back from the brink of being consumed by the fur-lined mad-house of todays society, one palpably designed to suck us into the maelstrom of collective cacophonous chaos.

Exactly when do we stop seeing through the eyes of little children? When do we quit seeing and talking with our guardian angels? Let us explore the constant battle of our morality through the eyes of a child!