Books with author GIBSON

While the subject of wine, beer, and spirits continues to grow in popularity, there are very few books that approach the subject in an accessible manner and that also contain the pedagogical features needed by instructors. In addition, most books cover the subject of wine only, while hospitality students need a broader base on knowledge that also includes beer and spirits. After finishing the book, readers will be prepared to take the introductory certification exams of the Court of Master Sommeliers, International Sommelier Guild, and Society of Wine Educators and receive a first-level certification. Divided into five parts, Gibson covers wine, beer, and spirits. Along with a history of each type of beverage, he also covers how these beverages are produced and manufactured, varieties and styles of these beverages, and food pairings. Most importantly, Gibson covers costing, pricing, merchandising, marketing, and storing wine, along with creating a balanced wine list and table service.

Ominous clouds loom over Duncullen Estate.Are they created by mystical forces? Or a family history of insanity?Young heir Richard yearns for an academic life. But his father insists he abandon his foppish dreams and run the estate like a man. Will he defy his father’s tyrannical demands? Or is he destined for a dismal life that is not his own?Fleeing obscene poverty, Eveleen joins Duncullen’s staff where, scrawny and tattered, she is mocked. Yet, Richard’s kindness captivates her. Loneliness draws them together. As their secret, forbidden romance blooms, so does Eveleen’s risk of dismissal. Fiercely in love, she ignores the prospect of eviction and starvation.At the same time, Richard’s father is hell-bent on twisting his son into his own image. Tempers ignite. Pressures intensify. Richard becomes plagued by gruesome visions. It cannot go on. He will stop the torture the only way he can. A killing.You can’t put down this riveting story of love, murder, and betrayal in 18th century Ireland. Get it now!Finalist for 2018 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award2018 Semi-Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards--Literary FictionWinner of Carrie McCray Literary Award for Novel First ChapterFinalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's Literary Contest for Historical Fiction

Nan and Father Alistair walk a treacherous road. One that leads directly to the gallows.Landowners are evicting family after family. The result is homelessness and starvation. Irish peasants have had enough. But can the gentry be stopped?Fifteen-year-old Nan is hell-bent on doing her bit. Little does she know her greatest enemy, Sir Richard Lynche, is her father.Father Alistair spurs the rebels on, reminding them they are children of God. He becomes the gentry’s prime target in their quest to squelch the revolt. Will the priest’s own demons do him in first?You’ll be swept up in this fast-paced saga based on actual incidents that rocked eighteenth-century Tipperary.2018 Winner of the Kindle Book Award--Literary Fiction

•The most detailed and authoritative firsthand account of the Dam Buster raid by its commander, Guy Gibson, VC.•‘An emotional picture as complete as we are likely to get of the way Bomber Command aircrews contrived to do their duty’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.•This new illustrated Kindle edition published by Spitfire Publishers in May 2019 is illustrated with 49 rare contemporary colour and black and white photographs. •Includes a rare interview with Guy Gibson from November 1943 and a complete list of the crews who took part in the Dam Buster raid and their fates. First published in 1946, ENEMY COAST AHEAD is the extraordinary autobiography of ‘bomber boy’ Guy Gibson. Gibson flew over 170 operations over Germany and was one of Bomber Commands most experienced and gifted pilots, making him the perfect choice to lead a crack new squadron – 617 – tasked with destroying three dams deep in German territory. The Dam Buster raid (officially known as Operation Chastise) of the night of 16/17 May 1943 proved to one of the iconic missions of the Second World War. It is not difficult to see why, Barnes Wallis’s ingenious bouncing bomb, code-named ‘Upkeep’, matched to the seat-of-the-pants bravery of the 133 airmen flying nineteen modified Lancaster bombers attempting to precision bomb a tiny and heavily defended target at night. The success of the mission was as much of a PR coup as it was a devastating blow to the German’s industrial might. However, the human cost was high, eight Lancasters were shot down and 53 airmen lost their lives.ABOUT THE AUTHORGuy Gibson was born in India in 1918 to English parents. He joined the RAF in 1936 and led a distinguished career as a bomber pilot and squadron leader culminating in the successful breaching of the Möhne and Edersee dams on the night of 16/17 May 1943 for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Gibson wrote his memoir in early 1944 whilst off operations and on a lecture tour of America at the behest of Churchill’s government, partly to keep the new national hero safe. He was destined never to see it published, he was killed in action over enemy territory in September 1944, aged just 26 leaving a wife, Eve. ENEMY COAST AHEAD was finally published posthumously to critical acclaim in 1946 and would go on, together with Paul Brickhill’s book on the raid, to form the basis of the classic war film THE DAM BUSTERS.PRAISE FOR 'ENEMY COAST AHEAD'‘A moving and memorable book’ THE SPECTATOR‘An emotional picture as complete as we are likely to get of the way Bomber Command aircrews contrived to do their duty’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT‘Records the night-to-night life of the bomber pilot with modesty, humour and rich understanding… unforgettable’ PUNCH‘A magnificent story’ ARTHUR ‘BOMBER’ HARRIS‘An epic of Bomber Command’ THE LIVERPOOL ECHO

Recollection. Celebration. Lament. Ambivalence. Ode to life, black life, and the narrative through the eyes of one woman amidst the city and the soil surrounding it. This work is non-fiction, it is memoir, it is storytelling that can be defined as swift, rooted, organic, and immersive in its nature. Split into four segments: Breed, Burden, Bury, and Blossom; Gibson grapples with the ongoing brunt and beauty between the thick of the soil. The collection is accompanied by a photographic exhibition captured by the author/artist herself.

Ominous clouds loom over Duncullen Estate.Are they created by mystical forces? Or a family history of insanity?Young heir Richard yearns for an academic life. But his father insists he abandon his foppish dreams and run the estate like a man. Will he defy his father’s tyrannical demands? Or is he destined for a dismal life that is not his own?Fleeing obscene poverty, Eveleen joins Duncullen’s staff where, scrawny and tattered, she is mocked.Yet, Richard’s kindness captivates her. Loneliness draws them together. As their secret, forbidden romance blooms, so does Eveleen’s risk of dismissal. Fiercely in love, she ignores the prospect of eviction and starvation.At the same time, Richard’s father is hell-bent on twisting his son into his own image. Tempers ignite. Pressures intensify. Richard becomes plagued by gruesome visions.It cannot go on. He must stop the torture the only way he can.A killing. You can’t put down this riveting story of love, murder, and betrayal in 18th century Ireland. Finalist for 2018 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award2018 Semi-Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards--Literary FictionWinner of Carrie McCray Literary Award for Novel First ChapterFinalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's Literary Contest for Historical Fiction

Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nanoengineered superdrug on humanity. Civilization is now a collection of mindless addicts confined to automated treatment centers that tower over drone-dominated cityscapes. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them.But when a mysterious stranger and a demonic woodland creature appear and threaten their family, the twins are drawn back to a disintegrating, drug-addled San Francisco. There, biomechanical gods and monsters vie for control of what's left of humanity's consciousness. Armed with only a knife, an old hunting rifle, and their secret, cryptophasic twin language, Clo and El realize that surviving the apocalypse was just the beginning--now they've got to face it head-on.The first book in the Babylon Twins trilogy, this epic adventure takes readers on a journey filled with sci-fi spectacle and darkly humorous twists and turns, not to mention some good old-fashioned butt-kicking.

Meet Cloe and Elizabeth Yetti: antisocial, semi-homicidal eighteen-year-old twins casually surviving the AI apocalypse.Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nanoengineered superdrug on humanity. Civilization is now a collection of mindless addicts confined to automated treatment centers that tower over drone-dominated cityscapes. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them.But when a mysterious stranger and a demonic woodland creature appear and threaten their family, the twins are drawn back to a disintegrating, drug-addled San Francisco. There, biomechanical gods and monsters vie for control of what’s left of humanity’s consciousness. Armed with only a knife, an old hunting rifle, and their secret, cryptophasic twin language, Clo and El realize that surviving the apocalypse was just the beginning—now they’ve got to face it head-on.The first book in the Babylon Twins trilogy, this epic adventure takes readers on a journey filled with sci-fi spectacle and darkly humorous twists and turns, not to mention some good old-fashioned butt-kicking.