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Author: BJ Miller Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1501157213 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 544
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“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life. “There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.” Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but controllable. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you’re sick. Get advice for how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you’d hoped, and how to talk to your children about your will. (Don’t worry: if anyone gets snippy, it’ll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how to shut down a loved one’s social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is “a book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for this other phase of life” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese).
Author: BJ Miller Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1501157213 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 544
Book Description
“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life. “There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.” Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but controllable. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you’re sick. Get advice for how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you’d hoped, and how to talk to your children about your will. (Don’t worry: if anyone gets snippy, it’ll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how to shut down a loved one’s social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is “a book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for this other phase of life” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese).
Author: Robert J. Harrington Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471794074 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 336
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Food and Wine Pairing: A Sensory Experience provides a series of discussion and exercises ranging from identifying basic wine characteristics, including visual, aroma, taste (acid, sweetness, oak, tannin, body, etc.), palate mapping (acid, sweet, sour, bitter, and tannin), basic food characteristics and anchors of each (sweet, sour, bitter, saltiness, fattiness, body, etc). It presents how these characteristics contrast and complement each other. By helping culinary professionals develop the skills necessary to identifying the key elements in food or wine that will directly impact its matching based on contrast or similarities, they will then be able to predict excellent food and wine pairings.
Author: Chris Milliken Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491799161 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 130
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Chris Milliken offers his readers a casual, fun introduction to appreciating wine. For Chriswho has traveled the globe and enjoyed good food and wine with clients, friends, and familywine is something to be shared, to facilitate friendship and community. The first part of this book offers a brief history of wine and introduces the reader to types of grapes and the wines they produce, wine regions, and the winemaking process from vine to glass. And Chris doesnt mind if you skip this background information and head directly to the practical application of this knowledge found in Part Two. Readers are encouraged to develop their own wine palate by discovering new wines to try and enjoy. There are lots of information here about where to find good wine at any price point and how to pair wine with food from Chriss viewpoint as a chef, sommelier, and winemaker. Part III discusses the accouterments of wine consumption and storage and offers advice on creating a wine survival kit. Finally, Chris teaches readers how to evaluate wine like a pro and order wine in a restaurant without anxiety. Writing in a conversational, accessible style, Chris Milliken is the perfect companion on a delightful journey into the world of wine.
Author: Emile Peynaud Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780471113768 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 372
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Emile Peynaud's Le Gout du Vin has long been considered the definitive book on winetasting by professional tasters. Now, this new English language second edition makes his timeless classic truly accessible to a new generation of American readers. The Taste of Wine is Peynaud's complete examination of the science and practice of winetasting, with detailed treatment of the senses and how they function, tasting techniques and problems, wine balance and quality, winetasting vocabulary, training, and the art of drinking. A brilliant synthesis of the Bordeaux and Burgundy/Beaujolais schools of tasting, Peynaud's unique method combines the subjective description of wine with well-established scientific principles--forming an approach which is definitive, comprehensive, and free of esoteric jargon. With a foreword by Michael Broadbent, this edition features Michael Schuster's excellent translation, which retains all of the wit and sparkle of the original while remaining faithful to Peynaud's precise vocabulary. The text is beautifully complemented by a carefully selected range of illustrations and full-color photographs, which give full expression to the principles and spirit of the book. As vital to increasing our understanding of winetasting as it is to enhancing our appreciation of wine, The Taste of Wine will be savored by professionals and amateurs for generations to come. This English translation of Emile Peynaud's Le Gout du Vin brings a new edition of this classic French work to an American audience for the first time. Erudite yet accessible, as beautifully written as it is scientifically documented, The Taste of Wine is, quite simply, the complete guide to the science and practice of winetasting. Covering all of the essential elements of the subject, from the physiology and experience of the senses to tasting techniques, vocabulary, training, and quality assessment, Peynaud's singular approach is a masterful combination of the empirical and statistical styles of winetasting--a blend as distinctive and enduring as wine itself. Whether you are an oenologist, wine producer, wine merchant, restaurateur, or informed consumer, The Taste of Wine is now yours to enjoy . . .
Author: Phil Scrima Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465377468 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 435
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Harry was your typical small businessman, worked seven days a week, and maintained a one-room office with just a secretary. He had a nice family and a wife, with three kids. The last few years were exciting, and his destiny seemed secure. He owned a beautiful home that was almost paid for, and for the first time in his life, he could afford his dream car. Overall, life was good. Then he got a threatening phone call from a competitor, and the next day his banker phoned him. It was on a Sunday! From that point on, life would never be the same for him, or his family. The excitement and emotional upheaval of a torrid love affair, and the sorrows and tragedies that would follow was beyond imagination. There was only one hope! Nonno, his grandfather knew about the energy tunnel, Harry himself had seen it! This energy beam could be the stepping-stone to immortality, as well as salvation for the human race.
Author: Kathleen Eagle Publisher: Bell Bridge Books ISBN: 1611947588 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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Birch Trueblood--a proud Ojibwe healer, who now works as a shaman, performing rituals for New Age believers and tourists. He does what he has to in order to support his young daughter. But when he's called on to help communicate with ghosts at an historic bed and breakfast, he never guesses it'll be the woman who runs the place that will haunt his dreams. Rochelle LeClaire--owner of Rosewood B&B. She and Birch have crossed paths before, and she has no reason to believe he's anything but a fraud. But then her eccentric aunt hires him--to communicate with the spirits haunting the house of all things! Suddenly he's in her space, in her thoughts . . . and eventually, in her bed. But when long-hidden secrets come to light, will their fragile bond be strong enough to hold them together? Kathleen Eagle published her first book, a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award winner, with Silhouette Books in 1984. Since then she has published nearly 50 books, including historical and contemporary, series and single title, earning her nearly every award in the industry. Her books have consistently appeared on regional and national bestseller lists, including the USA Today list and the New York Times extended bestseller list. Kathleen Eagle lives in Minnesota with her husband, who is Lakota Sioux. The Eagles have three children and three grandchildren.
Author: Bart Jackson Publisher: Board and Bench Publishing ISBN: 1934259578 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 130
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No longer the hidden gem of the wine world, New Jersey's wineries are exploding in popularity and quality. In the first guide on New Jersey wines and wineries published in more than a decade, Jersey's native son, globe traveling wine taster and winegrower Bart Jackson has carefully profiled each of the Garden Sate's wineries. His vivid descriptions, historical and factual data about the vineyards, index of the owners' most prized wines, list of unique vintages, and depictions of special events entice the reader to hit the wine trail. Exact directions and day-size wine trail clusters are also provided. In addition, national experts Gary Pavlis and Anthony Fisher contribute tasting tips and regional essays.
Author: Peggy Albers Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136250581 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 284
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Literacy researchers at all stages of their careers are designing and developing innovative new methods for analyzing data in a range of spaces in and out of school. Directly connected with evolving themes in literacy research, theory, instruction, and practices—especially in the areas of digital technologies, gaming, and web-based research; discourse analysis; and arts-based research—this much-needed text is the first to capture these new directions in one volume. Written by internationally recognized authorities whose work is situated in these methods, each chapter describes the origin of the method and its distinct characteristics; offers a demonstration of how to analyze data using the method; presents an exemplary study in which this method is used; and discusses the potential of the method to advance and extend literacy research. For literacy researchers asking how to match their work with current trends and for educators asking how to measure and document what is viewed as literacy within classrooms, this is THE text to help them learn about and use the rich range of new and emerging literacy research methods.
Author: BJ Miller
Author: BJ Miller
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