Confluence - The Trilogy
Confluence - a long, narrow, artificial world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. A world beyond the end of human history, served by countless machines, inhabited by 10,000 bloodlines who worship their absent creators, riven by ...
Distilling Fruit Brandy
This comprehensive, technical guide offers the distiller pretty much everything there is to know about distilling fruit brandies. Raw materials, fermentation, mashing, alcohol determination, clarifying and filtering, and storage are all presented in great detail through text, diagrams, and photos. Each and every aspect of distilling is presented, including timing, yields, detecting distillation errors, and more. This guide also offers a thorough introduction to the proper usage of necessary equipment ranging from measuring devices and vessels to simple stills and stills with enhancement systems, or columns. And for the enterprising distiller there is also an introduction to the process of grain distillation. Here is a great resource for adventurous artisans, home brewers, and vintners.
Distilling Knowledge
Alchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were ac...
The Confluence of Public and Private International Law
A sharp distinction is usually drawn between public international law, concerned with the rights and obligations of states with respect to other states and individuals, and private international law, concerned with issues of jurisdiction, applicab...
Joy of Home Distilling
The complete guide for beginner and intermediate distillers. Make your own brew at home! "If you're going to invest the $100 or so to get a basic equipment and recipe kit, then you'll want to take care in ensuring that your first batch is bre...
Confluence
Because of its location, volume, speed, and propensity for severe flooding, the Rhône, France's most powerful river, has long influenced the economy, politics, and transportation networks of Europe. Humans have tried to control the Rhône for over ...
Confluence of Thought
While much has been written about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., never before has anyone compared the social and political origins and evolution of their thoughts on non-violence. In this path-breaking work, respected political theorist Bidyu...
Art of Distilling, Revised and Expanded
The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updated¿presents the techniques and inspirations of the most innovative micro-distillers working today and ties it together with incredible insider photography. In this comprehensive guide to artisan distilling, ...
Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence (The Nupe. The Igbira. The Igala. The Idioma-speaking Peoples)
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings ...
Unbound (confluence Academy Book 1)
'Elemental powers, deadly trials, found family, political tension and the most chaotic ancient water dragon . . . I'm obsessed' 'Like Divergent, Harry Potter, Zodiac Academy and Maze Runner rolled into one. I literally cannot wait for the second book' 'This book deserves to go as viral as Fourth Wing! I loved it. The characters, the plot... the yearning!!!' A delicious slow burn romance as dangerous as the magic? Check. A final line readers are saying will haunt you for weeks? Double check. An ending that will leave you desperate for book 2? Absolutely.Discover the overnight romantasy sensation. Welcome to Confluence Academy... ---Nineteen-year-old Nessa Thorne expects death when she volunteers for the Empire's selection. Instead, she's thrust into Confluence Academy, where students harness elemental magic and bond powerful beasts, from wolves to ancient dragons.Students are branded by affinity: water, air, earth, or fire. But Nessa's mark is different. A silver spiral - the mark of an unbound. It's a power so dangerous her kind were hunted to extinction centuries ago - or so the Empire claims.To survive, she must hide what she is in a castle where alliances are forged in blood and students kill each other freely for advantage. Nessa's greatest threat may be the only other volunteer, Raith Hollow, a powerful fire affinity with a scorching gaze that follows her every move and secrets that could topple kingdoms.Forbidden desires become impossible to ignore, enemies approach from beyond the castle walls, and something evil has found its way inside - stalking the midnight corridors, hiding in plain sight.Nessa must choose: embrace her terrible potential, or watch everything she's fought for burn.Because at Confluence Academy, students leave as weapons... or they don't leave at all.The story continues in Unveiled (Confluence Academy Book 2) - available to pre-order now!* NEW PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE, NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE BONUS CHAPTER FROM RAITH'S POV! *---Readers are obsessed with Nessa, Raith & Typhon:'Imagine if Fourth Wing and Harry Potter had a book baby in THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE! The amount of action of banter, action, and smut between Nessa and Raith was perfect' 'The world building, found family, magical animal companions and slow-burn love angst is sooo good! I cannot recommend this book enough!' 'This book had me in a chokehold. Loved it all the way' 'I haven't been this hooked on a book since Fourth Wing . . . and that freaking twist? Oh my gosh' 'Fourth Wing and Zodiac Academy vibes! I absolutely ATE this up in two days! This was one of my top reads so far of 2025' 'Full of tension, longing, and those irresistible "touch her and die" vibes' 'This is going to be in my new top five romantasy novels'
Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences
The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's literary output, which includes six novels, a prodigious number of short stories, and two vol...