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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Here's Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative. From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world's favorite number, and meets a mathematician...
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"In this fourth and final installment in the Aquatic and Standing Water Plants of the Central Midwest series, veteran botanist Robert H. Mohlenbrock identifies aquatic and wetland plants in eight central Midwestern states, which include Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky (excluding the Cumberland Mountain region), Missouri, and Nebraska. Nelumbonaceae to Vitaceae: Water Lotuses to Grapes contains 346 highly informative and technically...
Publisher
Patrick Iland Wine Promotions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The Grapevine explores the links between the scientific principles and the practice of viticulture. It will be of great interest to anyone involved in viticulture and winemaking as, while it focuses on theory, it also contains practical aspects of growing vines for wine. It covers the basic principles of the molecular, physiological, biochemical and practical aspects of growing vines for wine.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Knowing the factors involved in how we taste can help develop our individual palettes. This book presents a systematic approach based on personal tastes. Covering the most common international and regional wines, the author explains how they relate to the foods we eat. "Homework" assignments matching specific wines with recipes help readers learn how they taste as individuals"--
Author
Series
California studies in food and culture volume 10
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Still drinking Cabernet after that one bottle you liked five years ago? It can be overwhelming if not intimidating to branch out from your go-to grape, but everyone wants their next wine to be new and exciting. How to choose the right one? Award-winning wine critic Alice Feiring presents an all-new way to look at the world of wine. While grape variety is important, a lot can be learned about wine by looking at the source: the ground in which it grows....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics-wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them "overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown" and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature and less to marketers, and stop using additives and chemicals....
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A series of programs providing a rounded view of the world of wine. Wine enthusiast Jancis Robinson travels the world to the major wine-growing regions, interviewing grape-growers, wine-makers, and wine experts. Focuses on popular varieties of wine.
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