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Extreme Wine
Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In Extreme Wine, wine economist and best-selling author Mike Veseth circles the globe searching for the best, worst, cheapest, most expensive, and most over-priced wines. Mike seeks out the most outrageous wine people and places and probes the biggest wine booms and busts. Along the way he applauds...
Wine and Identity
Branding, Heritage, Terroir
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In an increasingly competitive global market, winemakers are seeking to increase their sales and wine regions to attract tourists. To achieve these aims, there is a trend towards linking wine marketing with identity. Such an approach seeks to distinguish wine products – whether wine or wine tourism...
Napa at Last Light
America's Eden in an Age of Calamity
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Napa tells the captivating story of how the Napa Valley region transformed into an extraordinary engine of commerce, glamour, and an outsized version of the American dream—and how it could be lost—in “a strong plea for responsible stewardship of the land”...
by Robert A. Musson M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Beginning in the mid-1800s, the beer-brewing industry in Cleveland experienced its most extensive growth due to the rapidly increasing immigrant population of mostly Germans,Czechs, and Irish. The breweries enjoyed great success until the Prohibition era closed all brewing operations down for 14 dry...
Free Flight
Inventing the Future of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological...
Reservoir Engineering
The Fundamentals, Simulation, and Management of Conventional and Unconventional Recoveries
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the oil and gas industry to meet both economic and technical challenges. Written in easy to understand language, the book provides...
Geofluids
Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Geofluids: Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes is the definitive source on paleofluids and the migration of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins—ideal for researchers in oil and gas exploration.
There’s been a rapid development of new non-destructive...
Pressure Transient Formation and Well Testing
Convolution, Deconvolution and Nonlinear Estimation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
This reference presents a comprehensive description of flow through porous media and solutions to pressure diffusion problems in homogenous, layered, and heterogeneous reservoirs. It covers the fundamentals of interpretation techniques for formation tester pressure gradients, and pretests, multiprobe...
by Bruce G. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Clean Coal Engineering Technology, Second Edition provides significant information on the major power generation technologies that aim to utilize coal more efficiently, and with less environmental impact. With increased coal combustion comes heightened concerns about coal’s impacts on human health...
by Colin McPhee, Jules Reed, Izaskun Zubizarreta
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Core Analysis: A Best Practice Guide is a practical guide to the design of core analysis programs. Written to address the need for an updated set of recommended practices covering special core analysis and geomechanics tests, the book also provides unique insights into data quality control diagnosis...
Shale Gas
Exploration and Environmental and Economic Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Shale Gas: Exploration and Environmental and Economic Impacts explores the shale gas exploration and production activities that are increasing globally, also presenting a basic understanding on the geological, geochemical, and geophysical aspects. The book is a key reference that is useful for researchers,...
by Michael Moe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A fun, yet factual guide to thrive not only in Silicon Valley, but in the emerging Global Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley has become synonymous with big ideas, start-ups, and inventing the future. But today, the magic of Silicon Valley has gone viral and global. From Austin to Boston, from Shanghai...
Colossus
How the Corporation Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Big business has been the lever of big change over time in American life, change in economy, society, politics, and the envelope of existence--in work, mores, language, consciousness, and the pace and bite of time. Such is the pattern revealed by this historical mosaic.
--From the Preface
Weaving...
The New Media Monopoly
A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers,...