Product Description: Andy Hamilton gets inside British beer in a quest to uncover new and unusual beers and to find that elusive perfect pintThe American craft brewing scene owes much to the UK. Join award winning brewer and best selling home brew author Andy Hamilton as he takes your through every aspect of brewing a perfect British Pint including how to grow your own hops and barley, malt barley, culture yeast, decifer a malt anylsis sheet, taste beer, which glasses to choose and every aspect of brewing beer right from kits to full grain...read more

Product Description: A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification...read more

Product Description: This is the complete radio series, in seven volumes, of the fiendishly funny comedy set in Hell, from co-creator Andy Hamilton. Andy Hamilton stars as Satan with Robert Duncan as Scumspawn, Jimmy Mulville as Thomas and Geoffrey Whitehead as Roland Kingworthy...read more

Product Description: “Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself...read more

Product Description: “Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself...read more

The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for students of aesthetics, but also for anyone with an interest in philosophy and the arts. Aesthetics and Music; is a fresh and often provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It draws on the rich heritage of the subject, while proposing distinctive new ways of thinking about music as an art form. The book looks at: The experience of listening Rhythm and musical movement; What modernism has meant for musical aesthetics; The relation of music to other 'sound arts'; Improvisation and composition as well as more traditional issues in musical aesthetics such as absolute versus programme music and the question of musical formalism. Thinkers discussed range from Pythagoras and Plato to Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno. Areas of music covered include classical, popular and traditional music, and jazz. Aesthetics and Music makes an eloquent case for a humanistic, democratic and genuinely aesthetic conception of music and musical understanding. Anyone interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say about music as an art form will find this thought-provoking and highly enjoyable book required reading.

Introduces manta rays, killer whales, sharks, sea snakes, and other ocean animals.

Profiles the appearance and behavior of a variety of noteworthy insects and other animals commonly known as 'bugs,' including spiders and other arthropods and microscopic creatures, and offers related jokes.