Not for novice or beginners, a must have for coffee Experts very technical, the bible of the coffee industry. I feel lucky just to have one.

"Coffee Technology" was the only book I needed when i helped establish a coffee co-op in Haiti. It contained more information on the growing, processing and roasting of coffee than any other source I read (including the famed Urker's book). Not for the coffee beginner but could be used as a teaching and training tool to those new in the business. Highly Recommended!

Coffee Technology was written in 1963, it contains all the wealth of experience gathered by Mr. Sivetz, a chemical engineer and coffee consultant, while designing, installing, and starting up coffe processing plants all over the world. The subjects covered range from drying the grain, psychrometric charts, roasting coffee, percolation, aromatizing soluble coffee, packaging roast coffee. All subjects are covered in depth in a "Theory and Practice" format where the process is analized with formulas for pressure drop, temperature and pressure changes, mass flow and later, experimental results are provided. Allthough it was written over 27 years ago, the information is valid because the markets for coffee change but the physics of the process is the same.

Beautifully written book, best for students at the B.B.A & M.B.A level.

Would be very useful for students who are working at the managerail level .

The examples provided gives an insight to the thoertical & partical aspects fot the problem.

This is a 3-story anthology with nuclear war as a common theme. By far the best is Spinrad's entry, which (I think) is not available anywhere else. It's a hilarious tale of a pot-smoking Arab oil sheik bent on acquiring nukes to annihilate Israel, and an attendant power struggle between a screwball American president (a former used-car salesman) and a computer-animated corpse of the Soviet Communist Party Secretary General. All the comdey ingredients are there and Spinrad makes the best of them!

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i finally found one no one has reviewed! anyway i strongly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in norman mailer but maybe doesnt want to go thru a novel to get his ideas. Norman is an articulate person and the format of interview and dialogue here places his ideas and opinions in the center without allowing to much superfluity.
he talks about...running for mayor of new york, making films, women and men, vietnam, media(there is a good discussion with m macluhan too) politics, sex, art, writing...
that said i should say that i rented it from the lib, but it really is concise and informative with a minimum of repetition.
(and if you want a similar read but more essayish find "cannibals and christians").

Well organized, clearly written, and comprehensive, this book describes the unique nutritional needs of all developmental stages of human life. It has extensive chapters on pregnancy, breastfeeding, infancy, childhood, adolescence and old age. It addresses the special nutritional needs of women, minorities and populations in the Third World. Extensively illustrated, it provides a fascinating journey through the human lifecycle, showing how nutrition is a primary influence on growth, development and aging. Highly recommended.

I stumbled across this book as I was perusing the European History shelf. As a high school French Teacher, I look for ways to introduce my students to French history. I also try to instill an awareness of the nature of language, and the etymology of English. In this process, I have become aware of the Latin, French, and German and Scandinavian roots of our own language. Until I read this book, I did not understand how the English that we speak evolved from so many seemingly disparate cultures. Michael Wood did a masterful job of clarifying this for me, while drawing me into a fascinating account of English history.

Wood opens with the purpose and content of the Domesday document, which in and of itself would be dry and dusty. Because the Norman Conquest was such a pivotal point in the history of England, many British historians have built on the premise that post-Conquest civilization was actually created and defined by the incoming French ruling class. Wood challenges this position, tracing the roots and institutions of English medieval society back to influences which pre-date the Norman Conquest by more than a thousand years.

As an anthropologist, Wood uses a number of tools to reconstruct the development of this social fabric. Any one of these tools - tax records, geographical analyses, lists of village names - if considered in isolation, would be as opaque as Domesday itself. But with the insight and skill of a master storyteller, Wood uses clues provided by their data to sketch the evolution of a people, and then to paint an engaging portrait of the common man in 1086. Along the way, he introduces us to the native, colonizing, mercenary, and migratory populations alike: Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts, Romans, Danes, French. We watch as the dynamics of domination, subjugation and assimilation characterize their interactions with one another. And we conclude with him that the Conquest was not the beginning of civilization, as some would have it, but the interruption and re-routing of the history of a very old, already well-defined society. Further, it is a testimony to the strength of that society that it survived and thrived in the wake of the devastation of the Conquest, maintaining the essential fabric of long-held beliefs and institutions.

I find that many of my students share my fascination with the historical background behind the etymology of our modern-day languages. While I do not use this book directly in the foreign language classroom (it is an expository text), I have found it very helpful to give me a solid foundation for understanding the curiosities I try to share with my students. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the link between history and the development of language.

Encyclopedia Of The Korean War: A Political, Social, And Military History is deftly edited by Spencer C. Tucker and presents the reader with a thorough, comprehensive, in-depth, and deeply researched compendium of knowledge over the Korean conflict often referred to as "The Forgotten War." Entries are listed in A to Z format; black-and-white photographs sparsely illustrate the detailed, matter-of fact text. Strongly recommended for school and community library military history collections, the Encyclopedia Of The Korean War is a superbly presented reference for looking up details concerning people, places, weapons, politics, military actions and much more about this pivotal Asian conflict.

I absolutely recommend this textbook not only for current students but for environmental professionals. I refer to it frequently for background information, opinions of the state of the environment and the role of EPA as an administrative agency. Highly recommended...

This is the new edition of "Environmental Policy in the 1990s," a series now considered to be the most important in the field. This edition has some of the classic essays from earlier editions, but is expanded to cover the Clinton administration and address issues of a global nature.

I have been using this series as a basic text in graduate courses in environmental policy for years. I consider it to be a primary source of not only teaching, but research and basic information. All of the essays are clearly written and as unbiased as possible. I give this my highest recommendation.

This is the best single book for history of my family name. I even found out that people with my surname inhabited a castle in Ireland!