Hey flappers and sheiks! Get a slant at the Roaring Twenties Mixer's Manual. It's the cat's pajamas for all kittens and guys wanting to throw a petting party that is the frog's eyebrow! With over 70 authentic Prohibition era drink recipes (no noodle juice here.) Including such classics as The Manhattan, The Daiquiri, and, naturally, The Martini. And lots of crazy of-the-era drinks, such as the Tuxedo and the Za Za. It's the rumble that will make any biscuit pleasantly half cut and ready for some barney-muggins. As if all those, carefully cultivated by barkeeps all over the world, drink recipes weren't kippy enough Roaring Twenties Mixer's Manual has a section devoted to definitions of the spirits of the era (only oilcans drink hooch right?) It also includes all the Ritz toasts (here's to you!) And (let's face it sweeties, you need this) rules for well thrown parities, including party games of the era, like the French variety of blind man's buff, which would shock your dapper. Even duds will have a hotsy totsy time at your whangdoodle, and that's no applesauce. And to top it all off Roaring Twenties Mixer's Manual contains detailed instructions for how to dance that real McCoy of nineteen-twenties hoofers, the Charleston. A dance so swell that it will have even the neckers shaking their dogs. So don't be a bluenose, pull out your anchor and get yourself a copy of Roaring Twenties Mixer's Manual before the buttons get here. Attaboy! Attagirl! Now, let's blouse.

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

Go from novice mixer to expert in no time Learn the ropes from bartender extraordinaire Suzi Parker -101 shot recipes for the perpetually 21 -Over 100 tropical drinks for your next backyard barbecue or beachfront luau -Recreate the Hollywood glam of the Roaring Twenties and the Vintage Cool of Sinatra and the Rat Pack -Martini recipes for the James Bond (The Original) or Carrie Bradshaw (The Cosmopolitan) in all of us -A bartender's must-have list--from the essential ingredients to glassware and tools of the trade -Drinks for New Year's, 4th of July, Christmas and every holiday in between -Fun facts about some of your favorite drinks --Drinks for every time of day and every occasion--you'll never have to serve the same drink twice From the tried-and-true classics you know to exotic new drinks you'll love.

Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware’s “Chateau Country,” have long been leaders in the relentless drive to turn the United States into a plutocracy. The Du Pont story in this country began in 1800. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, official keeper of the gunpowder of corrupt King Louis XVI, fled from revolutionary France to America. Two years later he founded the gunpowder company that called itself “America’s armorer”—and that President Wilson’s secretary of war called a “species of outlaws” for war profiteering. Du Pont Dynasty introduces many colorful characters, including “General” Henry du Pont, who profited from the Civil War to build the Gunpowder Trust, one of the first corporate monopolies; Alfred I. du Pont, betrayed by his cousins and pushed out of the organization, landing in social exile as the powerful “Count of Florida”; the three brothers who expanded Du Pont’s control to General Motors, fought autoworkers’ right to unionize, and then launched a family tradition of waging campaigns to destroy FDR’s New Deal regulatory reforms; Governor Pete du Pont, who ran for president and backed Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Republican Revolution; and Irving S. Shapiro, the architect of Du Pont’s ongoing campaign to undermine effective environmental regulation. From plans to force President Roosevelt from office, to munitions sales to warlords and the rising Nazis, to Freon’s damage to the planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, to the manufacture of deadly gases and the covered-up poisoning of Du Pont workers, to the reputation the company earned for being the worst polluter of America’s air and water, the Du Pont reign has been dappled with scandal for centuries. Culled from years of painstaking research and interviews, this fully documented book unfolds like a novel. Laying bare the bitter feuds, power plays, smokescreens, and careless unaccountability that erupted in murder, Colby pulls back the curtain on a dynasty whose formidable influence continues to this day. Suppressed in myriad ways and the subject of the author’s landmark federal lawsuit, Du Pont Dynasty is an essential history of the United States.

A dictionary with words and drawings on each page which will help you learn Japanese.

"Jeremy Yudkin's" book is a rich music appreciation program that supports the ultimate goal of teaching active listening. By focusing on music of the Western tradition in its social, historical, and global context, this book engages readers in an active listening experience of music through a lively narrative text and innovative activities. Topic coverage includes music around the world, the fundamentals of music, the art of listening, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque Era, the Classic Era, Beethoven, the Nineteenth Century, and the Twentieth Century. For those interested in developing active listening skills and a deeper appreciation for music.

Presents an illustrated A-Z reference containing more than 300 entries related to immigration to North America, including people, places, legislation, and more.

“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House. This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny. The War on Alcohol is history at its best—original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.