California has become the hottest wine producing area in the world, and it happened in less than 25 years. Now the acclaimed "Wine Spectator" columnist and critic Matt Kramer traces the dramatic progress of the California winemaking industry--the who, how, why, what, and where. No one is better equi[...]
Oenophiles know that Matt Kramer is one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. Kramer has written about the subject for 32 years and his full-page column in "Wine Spectator" has appeared in every issue for the last 14 years. The time is ripe for a retrospective and here it[...]
Bob Dylan was recently named by Life as one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century. In this photographic tour of Dylan?s breakthrough years, 1964 to 1965, Daniel Kramer shows the human side of this legendary figure ? playing chess, making coffee, and in one whimsical moment, sitting[...]
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Essential for postgraduate and advanced undergraduates researching, interpreting and applying the principles of environmental law, this work provides an insight into the origins and sources of EU environmental law, the relationship between Community law and the laws of Member States, an overview of [...]
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Whose hands were so big he held the basketball like a grapefruit? Which center singlehandedly changed the way defense was played? From Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, young hoops fans can read about eleven legendary players in this exciting lo[...]
Originally published in 1978, this bestselling novel is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there. Kramer was the co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP.[...]
The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion pl[...]
Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek's guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft's release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost sensor that can detect a[...]
Get tempted by an inspiring array of vegan recipes from the authors of "How It All Vegan "When "How It All Vegan : Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet "was published in 1999, authors Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer were hailed for their fun and outlandish approach to vegan cooking, taking it[...]
From the editor of "Dirty Girls" comes a new anthology of steamy stories for women who don't fit into a size zero--or two, or four--and the men and women who love them.
In this voluptuously erotic collection, editor and best-selling author Rachel Kramer Bussel showcases the sensual side of havin[...]
Rachel Kramer Bussel ties her readers up in knots each year as they anticipate the very best BDSM stories of the year. And, she does not disappoint, defying the odds and occasionally gravity with tales of bondage at its best. These whip-smart tales of domination, submission, spanking, and other high[...]
Known as a master of colour, Emil Nolde used many different types of media besides painting, including watercolor, drawing, and prints, to create works such as his numerous flower paintings and coastal landscapes. The book explores Nolde's expressionist painting technique and reexamines Nolde's moti[...]
In 1997, amid Aerosmith's sold-out world tour and number one album release, word about Joey's troubles was reported in the press.Despite the advice he had received to play it down, Joey revealed in an interview his ongoing struggles with depression. The response from fans and people battling those s[...]
Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions--sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course a[...]
Conceived and written as a history of the modern world rather than a truncated Western Civilization book, this text is one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages. Lloyd Kramer joins the author [...]