An informative, fun guide to making your own wineIt's estimated that one million North Americans make their own wine. Relatively inexpensive to make (a homemade bottle costs from $2 to $4), a bottle with your own label (and grapes) is a fantasy even someone with modest aspirations can fulfill. Author Tim Patterson, an award-winning home winemaker, shows how it's possible for anyone to create a great wine. In Home Winemaking For Dummies, he discusses the ar...

The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains...

I documenti segreti che stanno facendo tremare il potereNegli ultimi mesi migliaia di atti giudiziari, deposizioni, e-mail e accordi riservati – i cosiddetti «Epstein files» – sono diventati di dominio pubblico, riportando il nome di Jeffrey Epstein in prima pagina in tutto il mondo. Questi documenti rivelano come un uomo presentato per anni come genio della finanza e filantropo di Harvard e del MIT sia riuscito a costruire una rete di potere capace di coinvolgere presidenti, princ...

Het waargebeurde Filthy Rich van James Patterson beschrijft op verbijsterende en indringende wijze hoe ver de tentakels van Jeffrey Epstein reikten, en hoe hij jarenlang aan gerechtigheid wist te ontkomen. Gebruikmakend van originele politieverhoren, rechtbankdocumenten en getuigenissen van slachtoffers, reconstrueert James Patterson de opkomst en ondergang van een man die zelfs ná zijn eerste veroordeling als zedendelinquent zijn gang kon blijven gaan.In 2019 werd Epstein dood aangetroffe...

“Il più potente e disgustoso dei casi venuti a galla con il #MeToo.”James Patterson“Epstein è fantastico. Con lui ci si diverte sempre.”Donald Trump“Si parlerà ancora a lungo del triste caso di Jeffrey Epstein, dei suoi turpi delitti, delle sue pacchiane dimore, dei suoi amici, e ovviamente della sua m...

Jason Isbell describes Will Johnson’s songs as a poetic manipulation of language that employs “multi-syllable words used almost as musical instruments [and] detailed images flying at the listener with no time to fully decipher meaning before the next image appears.” Similar sentiments are echoed in many engaging essays shared here by John Krajicek in Patience for the Ride: The Art and Life of Will Johnson. Recollections from fellow musicians and artists show unwavering appreciatio...

How to successfully navigate and prevent conflictFrom the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success—he's his company's top revenue driver, and his take-charge attitude gets the job done. However, when he is passed over for promotion—again—after losing two direct reports, who cite his abrasive style as their ...

A pragmatic handbook for aspiring theater professionalsTheater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facets certain to enlighten students contemplating a theate...

The Americas have had native groups living there for more than ten thousand years, but Columbus was surely not their first visitors. Uncharted covers a range of cultures who seemingly have been visiting the Americas since long before Columbus. Evidence is explored of potential Roman and Phoenician shipwrecks off the coast of South America through to Celtic and Norse exploration of Northern America. Put simply, the history of the discovery of the North America is all wrong. How did...

For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments. In light of this shocking and harsh reality, how does the show go on? Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson answer this question and many others in this updated edition of their popular, straightforward guide to understanding professional theater finances and the economic realities of theater production.This revised edition of Stage Money not only includes the latest...

Het waargebeurde Filthy Rich van James Patterson beschrijft op verbijsterende en indringende wijze hoe ver de tentakels van Jeffrey Epstein reikten, en hoe hij jarenlang aan gerechtigheid wist te ontkomen. Gebruikmakend van originele politieverhoren, rechtbankdocumenten en getuigenissen van slachtoffers, reconstrueert James Patterson de opkomst en ondergang van een man die zelfs ná zijn eerste veroordeling als zedendelinquent zijn gang kon blijven gaan.In 2019 werd Epstein...

State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been tak...