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  It's been a drink of the gods, a muse for poets, and a reason to gather friends and family. Now, it's your turn to join this timeless tradition.More than just a hobby, it's about: • Creating memories• Understanding the nuances that go from grape to glass• Impressing your friends with a wine label that has your name on it But where do you start? The endless sea of advice out there could leave you more confused than a cork floating in a vat of grape juice. You might even wonder, "Can I really pull this off?" Yes, you can. Whether you want to make wine for your own sipping pleasure, to share with friends and family, or even to sell and make a profit, this book is your simple guide to making it happen.Inside, you will discover:• How to unleash the winemaker in you, without getting lost in the vineyard – navigate the world of winemaking like a pro, from choosing grapes to fermentation• A treasure trove of insider secrets that will have your guests asking, "This is homemade?" Yep, and you'll know every trick to make it truly excellent!• The not-so-boring science behind winemaking – yes, there's science, but this book makes it as exciting as popping a bottle of your finest vintage• An easy-to-follow shopping list of must-have equipment, so you're not wandering around stores like a lost grape• The art of blending, which is your secret sauce to crafting a wine that’s uniquely yours – it's like being a composer, but your symphony is a bottle of delicious wine• How to bottle, label, and store your wine so it ages like fine...well, wine – no more shoving bottles into random cupboards!• Pro tips on sharing and enjoying your wine – from hosting wine tastings to pairing your vintage with meals, become the sommelier of your social circle

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  In Praise of Hands

  Victoria Charles, Henri Focilon

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  To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thoughts and to explore their point of convergence on the canvas or the stone. With this text, Henri Focillon delivers one of the most beautiful odes to the hand and, simultaneously, to the talent of artists, studying Hokusai, Cézanne, and even Rodin. What do artists such as Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, and Hokusai have in common? A virtuosity of the hand, replies Henri Focillon. The viewer often forgets that behind the works, it is first and foremost a hand and its fingers which guide the paintbrush, the pen, or the stylus. Focillon’s text recalls the importance of this part of the body, in which the artist’s talent comes to life. Within his text, he grants the hand the recognition that it deserves.

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  Take Our Cat Please

  Darby Conley

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  The humor is a wickedly authentic blend of young-professional-bachelor shtick and pets-from-hell high jinks. . . . And, perhaps best of all, the strip keeps getting better." -Milwaukee Journal-SentinelGet Fuzzy was named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society. Satchel, the Shar-pei-Lab mix in the Get Fuzzy family who actually believes what TV commercials say, and his owner-housemate Rob Wilco, a single, somewhat befuddled, Red Sox-obsessed ad exec, endure the scourge of their daily existence, Bucky Katt. Whether baiting the ferret down the hall for battle, gorging on rubber bands (and the ensuing gastric consequences), or joining the gun repair club, Bucky continuously tests the patience and endurance of his hapless mates.Three Get Fuzzybooks, Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun, Blueprint for Disaster, and Say Cheesy, have been New York Times best-sellers.

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  Mountain Madness - Found and...

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  With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?

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  The Khmer Empire - History of...

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  Historians describe Cambodia as the Khmer State or the Angkorian Empire (Khmer:) from the 9th century to the 15th century, when it was a Hindu/Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia. The empire, which developed from the old societies of Funan and Chenla, governed and/or "vassalized" the majority of mainland Southeast Asia and parts of Southern China, covering from the suggestion of the Indochinese Peninsula northward to modern-day Yunnan province in China, and from Vietnam westward to Myanmar. The Khmer Empire was greater at its peak than the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) that existed at the exact same period. 
  The site of Angkor, in modern-day Cambodia, which worked as the Khmer capital throughout the empire's prime time, is maybe its most long-lasting tradition. The stunning Angkor structures, like Angkor Wat and Bayon, attest to the Khmer Empire's incredible strength and wealth, remarkable art and culture, architectural strategy, visual accomplishments, and the series of belief systems that it bought from in time. Angkor was the world's biggest pre-industrial cosmopolitan center between the 11th and 13th centuries, according to satellite photography. 
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