The Great Philosophers is a lavishly illustrated collection of essays, each devoted to one of history's greatest philosophers.

From the Greek triumvirate of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, whose light shines down the centuries to reach us even now, to the social theorist Michel Foucault, the greatest names of philosophy are represented here. Each essay gives a biographical background for its subject and a description of the main strands of their thought, together with summaries of their major works.

The thirty-four chronologically-organized essays are a comprehensive introduction to Western philosophy's major figures.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

From Socrates to Foucalt

The Great Philosophers

Scott R. Russell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Homebrew Recipes for Your Favorite American and Canadian Beers

Clone the best 150 beers in North America without leaving your kitchen! Each recipe comes complete with partial-mash, all-extract, and all-grain instructions.

North American Clone Brews

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George Fix

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Study of Serious Brewing Issues

The science and mystique of what makes truly great beer is explored with logic and order. The long-awaited second edition of the George Fix classic looks at ways in which fundamental science impacts brewing. This comprehensive and highly technical study bridges the gap between professional brewing texts and standard texts on chemistry, biochemistry and thermodynamics. Recent major developments in brewing science have been significant, especially in the most crucial determinants of beer flavour quality -- fermentation and oxidation. Dr Fix pays special attention to basic chemical pathways used by bacteria and wild yeast, chemical changes that occur during malting, and the application of gas laws to carbonation and dispensation. This is a book no brewer should be without.

Principles of Brewing Science

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John J. Palmer

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right the First Time

Substantially revised and expanded third edition. Everything that's needed to brew beer right the first time. Presented in a light-hearted style, this authoritative text introduces brewing in a easy step-by-step review that covers the essentials of making good beer. Include ingredients, methods, recipes and equipment information. Beyond the first batch, it provides an accessible reference to intermediate techniques like all-grain brewing variations and recipe formulation. A must for any novice or intermediate brewer; perfect for anyone who has discovered the joy of home-brewing.

How to Brew

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Gordon Strong

Master Lesson for Advanced Homeowners

All the insight is laid out for you in a comprehensive format that includes tips, hints, examples, techniques, recipes, analogy, and allegory. This is the one book experienced home-brewers need to up their game. -- from the Foreword

Brewing Better Beer

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Lee W. Janson

Pages are in good condition, but there is a tear on the cover, as seen in photo

The Basics of Homebrewing Chemistry

These simple explanations serve as a guide to the brewing process and demystify the biochemistry of beer, yeast and fermentation, mashing and sparging, and more.

Brew Chem 101

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Randy Mosher

Sam Calagione

An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink

A celebration of the world's most popular beverage spotlights more than fifty international beer styles, revealing how each brew is affected by recipe formulation, brewhouse procedures, yeasts, fermentations, carbonation, filtration, packaging, and other factors and including information on taste and aroma characteristics, historical and regional facts, food pairings, and more. Original.

Tasting Beer

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Gerry Roach

From Hikes to Climbs

Known for its accuracy and comprehensiveness, this is theupdated bestselling guidebook to Colorado's 14ers by well-respected climber and author Gerry Roach."

Colorado's Fourteeners

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David Graeber

David Wengrow

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A New History of Humanity

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

The Dawn of Everything

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Roger Bennett

In good shape. Read once and really enjoyed it.

An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett's signature pop culture flair and humor. One of the earliest beliefs that I still cling onto in life, is that I was born a American trapped in an Englishman's body. That is the kind of story you manufacture about yourself when you grow up in a place like Liverpool in the 1980's. Reborn in the USA is Roger Bennett's homage to an adolescence as a triple outsider (Jewish in largely Catholic Liverpool, middle class in an overwhelmingly working-class community, and obsessed with American culture while his peers tended towards more deviant, borderline hooligan, behavior.) Throw in the fact that his father was a judge who campaigned on behalf of Margaret Thatcher in a town who thought of her as Medusa--the perfect recipe for ostracism. Bennett was happiest when playing chess with his grandfather, watching The Love Boat and Miami Vice, reading his hoarded copies of Rolling Stone, and blasting John Mellencamp's Scarecrow, Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush the Show, or Tracy Chapman's debut Fast Car. An American stuck in his native England. Bennett gives voice to every teenager who longs to leave their hometown behind, who pines for a different life, and who will do just about anything to escape what makes their formative years awful. In this funny and moving book, he beautifully captures the universality of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come from. And when given the chance to taste the sweet fruit of his dream and travel to the USofA, Bennett expresses the reckless abandon that prevails when youth experiences freedom (and The Beastie Boys) for the first time. Rich with late '80s and '90s pop culture references from both sides of the pond--and with Roger's over-the-top sense of humor--Reborn in the USA is both a truly unique coming-of-age story in the vein of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman and the love letter to America that this country needs right now.

John Heggen

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Lee W. Janson

Brew Chem 101

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Lee W. Janson

Brew Chem 101

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