Over A Barrel

Author : Melody Carlson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433679256
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lock, Stock, and Over a Barrel written by Melody Carlson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With high hopes, Daphne Ballinger lands her dream job at The New York Times. But it's not long until writing about weddings becomes a painful reminder of her own failed romance, and her love of the city slowly sours as well. Is it time to give up the Big Apple for her small hometown of Appleton? When her eccentric Aunt Dee passes away and leaves a sizeable estate to Daphne, going back home is an easy choice. What isn’t easy is coming to terms with the downright odd clauses written into the will. Daphne only stands to inherit the estate if she agrees to her aunt's very specific posthumous terms -- personal and professional. And if she fails to comply, the sprawling old Victorian house shall be bequeathed to . . . Aunt Dee’s cats. And if Daphne thinks that’s odd, wait until she finds out an array of secrets about Aunt Dee's life, and how imperfect circumstances can sometimes lead to God's perfect timing.

Author : John S. Duffield
Publisher : Stanford Law & Politics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over a Barrel written by John S. Duffield and published by Stanford Law & Politics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a Barrel provides the first comprehensive analysis of the costs of U.S. foreign oil dependence and how they might be reduced.

Author : Raymond J. Learsy
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418551821
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over a Barrel written by Raymond J. Learsy and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy lifts the veil of the Mideast oil cartel, showing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets and destabilizes the world's economy. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Learsy explains how OPEC: twists bogus perceptions of oil scarcity to hike prices and gain political power is compromised by Islamist terrorist connections that fuel anti-American hatred with dollars from our own wallets keeps Third-World nations in abject poverty despite their rich oil deposits and became the de facto master of Iraq's newly liberated oil fields A sharp, sweeping survey of OPEC's methods of economic dominance, this book explains how to bust the Mideast oil cartel and chart our own course toward energy independence.

Author : Peter Driver
Publisher : Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1904433030
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over a Barrel written by Peter Driver and published by Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Pellechia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438455518
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over a Barrel written by Thomas Pellechia and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Regional Category In 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper's son, started a commercial grape juice company in New York's Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was firmly established. Walter Taylor's three sons carefully guided the company through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery in the Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered. In the 1960s, the Taylor family took the company public. Ranked sixth in domestic wine production and ripe for corporate takeover, the company was sold to Coca-Cola in 1977. Three more changes of corporate ownership followed until, in 1995, this once-dynamic and important wine producer was obliterated, tearing apart the local economy and changing a way of life that had lasted for nearly a century. Drawing on archival research as well as interviews with many of the principal players, Thomas Pellechia skillfully traces the economic dynamism of the Finger Lakes wine region, the passion and ingenuity of the Taylor family, and the shortsighted corporate takeover scenario that took down a once-proud American family company. In addition to providing important lessons for business innovators, Over a Barrel is a cautionary tale for a wine region that is repeating its formative history.

Author : Henry H. Work
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780234171
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wood, Whiskey and Wine written by Henry H. Work and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and enlightening account of the significant, but rarely acknowledged, function of wooden barrels over the past two millennia. Barrels—we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest beverages—most notably whiskies and wines—and of course for over two thousand years they’ve been used to store, transport, and age an incredibly diverse array of provisions around the globe. In this comprehensive and wide-ranging book, Henry Work tells the intriguing story of the significant and ever-evolving role wooden barrels have played during the last two millennia, revealing how the history of the barrel parallels that of technology at large. Exploring how barrels adapted to the requirements of the world’s changing economy, Work journeys back to the barrel’s initial development, describing how the Celtic tribes of Northern Europe first crafted them in the first millennia BCE. He shows how barrels became intrinsically linked to the use of wood and ships and grew into a vital and flexible component of the shipping industry, used to transport not only wine and beer, but also nails, explosives, and even Tabasco sauce. Going beyond the shipping of goods, Work discusses the many uses of this cylindrical container and its relations—including its smaller cousin, the keg—and examines the process of aging different types of alcohol. He also looks at how barrels have survived under threat from today’s plastics, cardboards, and metals. Offering a new way of thinking about one of the most enduring and successful products in history, Wood, Whiskey and Wine will be a must-read for everyone from technology buffs to beverage aficionados who wish to better understand that evasive depth of flavor.

Author : Florent Ruppert
Publisher : Rebus
ISBN 13 : 9780615622354
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barrel of Monkeys written by Florent Ruppert and published by Rebus. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing! -Sammy Harkham Florent Ruppert (b. 1979) and Jerome Mulot (b. 1981) began their creative partnership as art students in Dijon, France. Their intensely collaborative comics are drawn by both artists in a shared visual style - simultaneously abstract and gestural - that obscures the individual contribution of either hand. Throughout their work, Ruppert and Mulot deftly interweave the naturalistic and the synthetic, playfully manipulating productive tensions in comics, cognition and social culture. Their complex and dazzling comics pages incorporate visual devices from related media, including film and optical toys. Their cinematic figure drawing enlivens mask-like, schematic faces that alienate even as they solicit involvement. Disorienting, bracing and darkly comedic, Barrel of Monkeys prismatically examines the human bestiary at its most surreal and transgressive. It is their first book to be published in an English-language edition. Rebus Books was founded by Bill Kartalopoulos to publish books of comics and other works of visual exposition that implicitly explore and reveal the expressive possibilities of the comics form. For additional information please visit rebusbooks.net When I’d get Ruppert and Mulot’s books in French, I was perplexed by comics that seemed largely informed by theatre, Eadweard Muybridge and proto-animation. Now that I can read it, I’m delighted by how evil and mean-spirited the work is. -Dash Shaw Ruppert and Mulot explore the dark edges of human behavior like no one else, making the disturbing feel elegant and the elegant feel disturbing. With a light hand, their vignettes tie together slapstick, violence, humor and horror, all while cleverly experimenting with different forms of representation and body language. Barrel of Monkeys is an enjoyable slap in the face from two of the most unique and exciting cartoonists I’ve come across yet. -Lilli Carre

Author : Barbara Brooks Wallace
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595343996
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barrel in the Basement written by Barbara Brooks Wallace and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pudding, the youngest of three Furkins, or elves, living in a barrel in the basement of a human named Noah, proves that a shy Furkin is capable of great deeds like the heroes of the past.

Author : Nancy Kelly Allen
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781455617661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barreling Over Niagara Falls written by Nancy Kelly Allen and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Annie on her daring, life-changing feat! As the threat of the poorhouse looms overhead, Annie Edson Taylor's big idea of barreling over Niagara Falls just might change her rotten luck. She works hard to make her big dream come true by designing a special barrel to take her safely over the Falls. Follow Annie's daring exploits and read about those who followed in her footsteps and took the plunge for themselves!

Author : Jules Feiffer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062059262
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears written by Jules Feiffer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-03-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Prince Roger sets out eagerly on a quest and finds a few adventures, a lot of friends, a damsel or two in distress (not!) and himself, in the end. A ‘carrier of joy’ whose mere presence causes everyone to laugh uncontrollably, Roger finds cruelty and kindness equally amusing, and expects his quest to be a lark. It’s anything but: As Roger passes through the Forever Forest, nearly starves at the Dastardly Divide, sees people at their worst in the Valley of Vengeance, and temporarily despairs in the Mountains of Malice, he sobers up, learns to care for others, becomes an expert peacemaker, does Good Deeds, and falls in love with Lady Sadie, who says what she thinks as she repeatedly saves his bacon.’—K. ‘Feiffer’s worldly-wise, confiding tone and sense of the absurd are highly congenial, and the drawings are a vintage Feiffer delight.’—Publishers Weekly. 100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1995 (NY Public Library)