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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
Ambitious Brew, the first-ever history of American beer, tells an epic story of American ingenuity and the beverage that became a national standard. Not always America’s drink of choice, beer finally took its top spot in the nation’s glasses when a wave of German immigrants arrived in the mid-nineteenth century and settled in to re-create the beloved biergartens they had left behind. Fifty years later, the American-style lager beer they invented was the nation’s most popular beverage—and brewing was the nation’s fifth-largest industry, ruled over by titans Frederick Pabst and Adolphus Busch. Anti-German sentiments aroused by World War I fed the flames of the temperance movement and brought on Prohibition. After its repeal, brewers replaced flavor with innovations such as flashy marketing and lite beer, setting the stage for the generation of microbrewers whose ambitions would reshape the brew once again. Grab a glass and a stool as Maureen Ogle pours out the surprising story behind your favorite pint. .
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Don't Miss Out: The Ambitious Student's Guide to Financial Aid (Don't Miss Out) (Don't Miss Out)
Everything you need to know about financial aid, and then some. Packed with useful addresses, Web sites and phone numbers, Don't Miss Out details federal, state, collegiate and private aid sources and helps families maximize their eligibility for each. It explores grants, scholarships, loans, and tax credits, as well as short- and long-term planning strategies. And, it contains all the worksheets families need to estimate their expected family contribution to college costs for the upcoming school year..
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The Art Studio/Loft Manual: For Ambitious Artists and Creators
Three million creative people in this country need adequate studio space. Almost all of them have limited funds. Eric Rudd has written the first practical book to help creative people find, secure, fix up and finance great studio space. No one graduating from art, design, music or theater school should go out into the real world without absorbing the information in The Art Studio/Loft Manual. Seasoned artists and creators will welcome the ideas revealed in this manual. oHow to find great studios; gold mines and pitfalls.
oHow to turn them into living/work combos.
oMoney matters: how to do it cheaply or let others pay.
oReal estate and legal issues; zoning, negotiation, purchase/lease.
oConstruction: how to fix them up and save money.
oDesign and modify large spaces and make them functional for your work and needs.
oCost cutting measures, tricks, ideas, and hard practical advice.
oThink Big! 2,000 SF or 10,000 SF or more!
oHow to make great studio space happen for you. Stop renting. Get out of the spare bedroom or garage: if you need and dream of large studio-lofts, you will need to read this book. Just one idea can save you hundreds of dollars and hours of your time! Just one idea may find you the studio of your dreams. The Art Studio/Loft Manual: For Ambitious Artists and Creators will become the main reference bible for all artists and creators. 246 pages with a color cover and 40 photographs and illustrations.
Price: $19.95
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Romance, Riches, and Restrooms: A Cautionary Tale of Ambitious Dreams and Irritable Bowels
Tim Phelan is a confident, twenty-one-year-old college graduate who is determined to build his future on two solid pillars: meeting the woman of his dreams, and earning a financial fortune. Three months after he lands a job that promises to put him on the fast track to luxury-home ownership and country-club living, Phelans plans begin to unravel: his brain and digestive tract seem to have entered into a diabolical conspiracy, and they appear hell-bent on destroying his ambitious plans, his confidence, and so much more. Set amid the rigid expectations of a polite society where mentioning bodily functions is taboo, this tragically hilarious memoir chronicles one mans desperate quest to conceal and conquer irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Follow the offbeat odyssey of this buttoned-down bachelor as he struggles to navigate the high-pressure world of investment banking and the image-conscious San Francisco dating scene before he becomes a penniless hermit..
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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from the mountains near Bologna, is forced by poverty to take in a child from the city's foundling home to wet-nurse. When Amalia contracts syphilis from the sickly and malformed baby given to her, the city fathers callously dismiss her pleas for treatment and restitution. Bewildered and frightened, she seeks out Augusto Barbieri, an ambitious attorney looking to make a name for himself. He takes up Amalia's cause, fighting the case for years through the Italian courts before winning an unprecedented and stunning victory for his by now broken client. The unforgettable story of a landmark struggle for basic human rights, Amalia's Tale is the moving drama of a rural woman whose life was ruined and the man from the city who would not stop -- or so it seemed -- until he had seen justice done..
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Poisoned Love: The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, his Ambitious Wife, and a Shocking Murder
Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death.
Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack—the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy’s body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy’s case…only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy’s system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy’s first husband alsohave been the victim of Chaz’s treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and POISONED LOVE.
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Lifetime Guarantees : Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching
Educators can pick and choose from the ideas provided throughout the book, depending on the needs of their individual students.
- Childhood Education Shelley Harwayne has communicated a vision of literacy for a lifetime that all children deserve. Full of inspiration and practicality, this book is a must read for teachers and administrators who believe in skilled teaching as the key to children's achievement.
- Irene C. Fountas, coauthor of Guided Reading Imagine a school where students don't just learn to read and write - they choose to read and write, and do it with enthusiasm. Performing with distinction on standardized literacy tests, they are participants in a learning community characterized by academic rigor, a supportive social tone, stunning classrooms, and exemplary teaching. This is the kind of learning environment Shelley Harwayne has helped to establish at the Manhattan New School. Now, in a lucid and engaging new book, she takes us behind the scenes to explore the teaching techniques that have resulted in such dazzling success. Readers will discover how to provide students with real-world reasons to write and engage them in effective writing workshops. There are also suggestions on how the entire school culture can support the teaching of poetry and nonfiction. Readers will learn about the importance of having non-negotiables in the teaching of reading, designing beautiful literacy settings, and providing safety nets for struggling students. A natural companion to Going Public, this book can also serve as a conversation starter at faculty meetings as it is studded with staff development ideas and reproducible materials. Above all, the literacy message in this book will comfort those who have grown anxious about the literacy work they do. Shelley's tone, ideas, and sense of humor will offer information, inspiration, and peace of mind to educators new to the field as well as experienced professionals who are weary when they read yet another negative story about the teaching of literacy in our country. .
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The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless
Contrary to prevailing notions, today's teenagers are the most ambitious generation yet. But they are also misdirected and often feel alone and very alienated. The authors of this landmark study of 7000 teenagers offer practical, specific advice about how parents and teachers can better direct and support adolescents in their efforts to achieve their dreams of success..
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How to Beat 1 D4: A Sound and Ambitious Repertoire Based on the Queen's Gambit Accepted
Rizzitano, author of Understanding Your Chess, presents a full repertoire for Black against 1 d4, based on the Queen's Gambit Accepted (QGA). The QGA is an extremely popular opening amongst players of all levels, as it gives Black free development and counterpunching potential, especially if White takes up the challenge and tries to set up a broad pawn centre. The QGA's soundness is shown by the number of top-class grandmasters who have used it in critical games - it was a key factor in Short's victory over Karpov, and has even been used by Garry Kasparov at world-championship level. Rizzitano has chosen to recommend dependable main lines of the QGA, and throughout emphasizes how Black can create winning chances and White's typical ways to go wrong. The repertoire is completed by a set of weapons against White's alternatives to offering the Queen's Gambit, ranging from the stolid Colle to the weird Hodgson Attack and the reckless Blackmar-Diemer..
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