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I would love this as well because I'm geeky like that. Books that I found interesting that you might as well:

-The Comic Book Story of Beer: A fun way to learn more about the history of beer as beverage. It goes into I'd say a medium amount of detail, enough that if you wanted to go deeper you'd have the right search terms. Plus it's a comic book...bonus! Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Story-Beer-Revolution/dp/1607746352

-National Geographic Atlas of Beer: Another medium level detail book about beer all over the world for a more global perspective plus it's National Geographic so the photography is gorgeous. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Atlas-Beer-Globe-Trotting/dp/1426218338/

-Radical Brewing: Even if you don't homebrew I feel like this book is worth picking up, especially early on in your beer journey because it gives you an idea of what wide range of styles and ingredients can make up a "Beer" (with a capital B). Also, it's a good introduction to Randy Mosher who is a Beer Geek (with a capital B and a capital G). Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Brewing-Recipes-World-Altering-Meditations/dp/0937381837

If anyone has any other books along the same lines they enjoy, feel free to share them.

Cheers!

Hello, I am also spending this winter reading/listening to the Bible. I would like to recommend the Bible app by life church. TV, it is available for Android and the iPhone. Using this program you can instantly switch between multiple different versions of the bible and select the best one for you. With it you can make notes, highlight and bookmark the passages you are interested in. I find it helpful to switch between the King James version and the American Standard Bible. It allows you to learn how each of them are written. I find it best if I hear someone read the Bible to me, this app allows you download narrative text for pretty much all of the documents.

If you have time and a fan of audio books, checkout audible. com. These two audiobooks will give you an idea of what was going on during the years of Jesus, and the Apostles.
https://mobile.audible.com/pd/History/From-Jesus-to-Constantine-A-History-of-Early-Christianity-Audiobook/B00D8DI9PO?s=s
and
https://mobile.audible.com/pd/History/The-Other-Side-of-History-Daily-Life-in-the-Ancient-World-Audiobook/B00DDVPXJG?s=s

I would also like to recommend this Biblical time chart I have found it to be very insightful. It is amazing.
http://www.amazon.com/Timechart-Biblical-History-Charts-Chronologies/dp/0785817530

Drink This - Wine Made Simple - Great book for beginners

The Wine Bible

The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert - Seems like it's a joke, and it sooort of is, but there's some good information there, and the scratch and sniff thing is actually quite useful.

The World Atlas of Wine - Pretty much the ultimate wine book. If you don't want to spend that much on it, consider buying a used copy of the older edition. You can get it for just a few bucks. Obviously it won't be as up to date, but it's still extremely useful.

Pairing Food and Wine for Dummies - John Szabo is legit

Great Wine Made Simple

Up until recently I worked at a book store, these were the books I recommended most frequently to people. If you want ones about specific regions, there are some good ones out there too. These are all more general.

I'm going to actively try to avoid recipe books here in my links (that said, that means you're missing out on Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails, Death & Co, Potions of the Caribbean, and The Joy of Mixology so.... YMMV)

Liquid Intelligence - IMHO must have guide on the technical aspects of bartending. This book is amazing and is the first thing I share with my coworkers that want to broaden their knowledge

The Drunken Botanist - In depth examination of the plants that go into making our favorite drinks, beers, booze, and sundry

Bitters - Has history of bitters, along with instructional on how to make your own.

Shrubs Kind of recipes but also talks about how to make shrubs and good proportions for them, which isn't super common.

Wine Folly Do you want a good intro-to-wine with good, clear reference sheets about styles and pairings? Here's your book

The Wine Bible Want to know way more than you ever thought you wanted to know about wine? This is what you want to be reading.

The Beer Bible - Same as above, but for beer instead of wine.

Holy Smoke! Its Mezcal Mezcal can be hard to pin down and I've found this one to be decent. Includes a table of things that were available in the US at time of publishing and the author's opinions on quality.

Vermouth - pretty in depth history on vermouth, focusing on its place in American cocktail Culture

Imbibe! In depth history of early cocktail culture, focusing on Jerry Thomas and the Bon Vivant's Companion

...I'm sure I could think of more, given the time. I'm trying to just delve into things currently on my shelf, and not in my wishlist.

> I do decant my wine, but also sometimes use the magic decanter to see the difference in taste. Are the magic decanters frowned upon here?

I had to google this because they are marketed differently here and not called magic decanters. But I have used them when I used to work behind tasting bars. They do a little bit of aerating in my opinion, but I tend to just go with the old fashioned decanter. It's all personal preference.

> If there's any popular books you know of which are easy to read (i.e. more for beginners) then please let me know.

Are you thinking of just tasting books, to help you get in the swing of things? If so, here are a few:

• How To Taste
  
  
• Wine: A Tasting Course
  
  
• Wine Folly - this one is basically a lot of infographics and so it may not be as helpful on its own but in conjunction with one of the others it's good
  
  These are good starter books. Once you get the hang of it, invest in the Oxford Companion or other lovely tomes that may be a bit dense at the moment.

The Society of Biblical Literature (the main learned society for the field) launched an educational site this year called Bible Odyssey, featuring the complete contents of the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary and a lot of original content. Have a look through the "Bible Basics" section. Before the site was launched, it was announced that it would include the great, scholarly articles from the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, and let us all hope that this will eventually be accomplished.

In buying a Bible, remember that it is a collection of literature written thousands of years ago in exotic foreign cultures; such a journey is not to be undertaken without a guide. You need an annotated edition. The HarperCollins Study Bible and the New Oxford Annotated Bible are both excellent references. Those Bibles have maps in the back, but the Oxford Bible Atlas may be a useful supplement. If you're not looking to spend a lot, the New American Bible is a great translation with lighter, but still very illuminating notes.

For background on the societies in which the Bible and Christianity were formed, The Ancient Mediterranean World: From the Stone Age to A.D. 600. For studies on what can be known about Jesus from historical evidence, The Historical Figure of Jesus by E. P. Sanders and Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart Ehrman. (Ehrman has a blog which is worth the subscription; you can also learn a lot from his lectures and interviews on YouTube.)

For the perspective of modern Christians and not just information about the religion's history, Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton and Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis are two books that are considered classics by many Christians today, across denominational lines. There's a sort of intellectual line running through the two, since Lewis was converted from atheism by reading Orthodoxy (although he did not become a Catholic like Chesterton, as his friend J. R. R. Tolkien had hoped).

Have fun!

It's great to have you! The best way to learn is to start drinking a variety of different wines, and once you find something you really like, hone in on that varietal (e.g. Cabernet, Bourdeaux, Pinot Blanc) and become familiar with it. It's so much easier to go from being a journeyman with one kind then broadening your pallette to another. I also highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1592408990/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518533806&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=wine+tasting&dpPl=1&dpID=51QG%2BsOuFXL&ref=plSrch

It's an excellent and visually appealing way to learn about the vast world of the vine. Some books are far too technocratic, but this one is approachable by a complete novice. The key is to read any and all materials you can get your hands on. Ask a lot of questions. Good luck, and enjoy this lifetime of a trip!

Hrm. Some questions I have for you:

1. Is she a huge fan of getting drunk, and wine is just her weapon of choice, or...
   
   
2. Is she a connoisseur of wines and very particular about which she drinks? (not entirely mutually exclusive, but probably one or the other)
   
   
3. Does she have nice wine glasses, or el-cheapos? (and can she have nice things, or will they be broken by Thursday?)
   
   
4. Would she appreciate or be insulted by a case of wine? You could essentially make her a wine tasting menu of bottles. 6/12 bottles representing different regions/varietals of wine. She invites people over so they can watch her down them like a pro (or maybe she shares, whichever).
   
   Then there's things like a caraffe so wine can breathe more quickly. Or a wine rack to keep bottles on (if she has unopened bottles, not every wine fan has such a thing around the house)
   
   Also: this which my girlfriend got for me, and I enjoyed. (It's on my table outside my office now)

I use The Flavor Bible regularly as a cocktail reference. Rather than just looking for pairings with the spirit as an ingredient, try looking for pairings for the flavor profile of the spirit/liqueur. For example, I was in a cocktail competition and knew that I wanted to incorporate Falernum, so I checked through the pairings for lime, ginger, clove and allspice to get a little inspiration. I haven't yet, but it would be fun to take a unique gin and look through the flavor pairings for each of its botanicals.

The other Page and Dornenburg book What to Drink with What You Eat is more focused on drink pairings for food and not so much on looking at what drink components go with what.

Not quite what you're looking for, but Kevin Liu's Craft Cocktails at Home has a very nuanced discussion of balancing drinks and the interactive effect of sweet, sour, bitter, and salty (I'm going to start in on my sub-threshold salting experiments once Graduation weekend (anyone who has worked in a college town will understand) is over).

A book I've seen but not read that you might find interesting is Taste Buds and Molecules: The Art and Science of Food, Wine, and Flavor by Francois Chartier. This is more geared toward wine pairing, it seems, but I believe discusses the molecular explanations for flavor affinities which would likely have some cross-application to cocktails.

Hey, I made this infographic several years ago! It's more like a fun guide for exploration of some major wines than a dataset of all the wines there are in the world. I was attempting to make sense of categorizing wines by intensity, primary flavors, and sweetness profile. Since then, we've created a book, which is much more detailed and accurate. Still, this poster is fun to explore!

I bought this book from Amazon last year as a gift for someone who wanted to know more about wine and was just starting to drink it. They loved it and said it was pretty useful.

https://www.amazon.com/Biblica-Social-Historical-Journey-Through/dp/0764160850

My dad gave me this book a few years ago, and I love it. It starts out by painting a picture in your mind about all of the places featuring in the Bible. How the people lived, what the landscape was like, culture, economy, etc.

Then it simply starts with context about Genesis and continues to go through the Bible like that. It's really helpful to me!

> What are the main objective arguments for the foundation of Israel on (what was at least thought to be) Palestinian land?

It was never "palestinian" land. It was Jewish, Babylonian, Persian, Jewish, Greek, Roman, Muslim, something about short-lived Crusader states, more Muslims, then the Ottomans, and the Brits, and back to the Jews.

If your question is "why do Jews need to live in Israel, instead of making their country in Uganda," then you should visit Israel, especially the Old City of Jerusalem (and all of its museums), Ir David, and the Kotel. You should visit Abraham (father of Yitzchak and Ishmael), and his grandson Yaakov, who are buried in Hebron. You should visit the archaeological site at Shiloh, where the Tabernacle sat until King Solomon built the First Temple in Jerusalem. Go to the places outside Beit Shemesh, where David fought Goliath, and where Samson is buried. Go to Shechem, where Yosef is buried. Go to Mt. Carmel in Haifa, where the prophet Eliyahu humiliated the idolatrous King Ahab and Queen Jezebel in a public contest.

All of Jewish heritage is in Israel.

> Don't the Israelis agree that the Palestinians have the same claim to the land as them? They also were promised it after the war by the British.

No. The British promised that the Arabs could have Jordan. The Peel Commission came along in 1937, 8 years after the Arabs murdered all of the Jews living between Hebron and Jerusalem, decades before Israel was even established as a country, and drew a map that showed only Arabs lived in those places. The UN Partition Plan in 1947 was based on this.

> How is the occupation of Lebanese territory justified?

> I'm a 20 year old from Lebanon

Israel already tried to save Lebanon from occupation by the PLO. Now, it's your turn to go tell the Ayatollahs in Iran to stop occupying your country with their Hezbollah and IRGC soldiers.

> How much of a theocracy is Israel? Don't take this literally, but more along the lines of "how centered around religion is Israeli politics", do politicians rally the masses under religious flags?

Not much. The importance of religion is a neighborhood-by-neighborhood thing, not a national policy. Some politicians claim to represent the face of Jewish theology, and those politicians tend to be perceived as the greatest disgrace of Jewish theology outside of their respective constituents-- people on both the political "right" and "left" agree on that much.

> To what extent does the average Israeli support his government? Is it a decent loved one? Are the people happy with whom they elected?

It's a coalition system, not a democratic republic. Everyone is upset about something, and happy or at least satisfied with other things.

Finally, here are some books you should read:

Six Days of War by Michael Oren <---- Nothing happens in a vacuum. The first half of the book describes the events leading up to the war, from 1956 to 1967. The author is a former Israeli ambassador to the USA.

The Revolt by Menachem Begin <---- Excellent discussion of the events leading to the War of Independence, and how Israeli politics evolved once the State coalesced. The author led Etz"L during the War for Independence, and served as the first non-Labor-party Prime Minister from 1977 to 1983.

The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog <------- Excellent summary of all of Israel's military actions. The author is a former Israeli president.

Like Dreamers by Yossi Klein HaLevi <---- The different ways that everyone all over the Israeli spectrum believe in Zionism.

The Israelis by Donna Rosenthal <----- snapshot of Israel's diverse population. This book is from 2005, so the description of certain events and especially their outcomes is a bit dated.

Catch the Jew by Tuvia Tenenbom <----- All the different ways that international organizations meddle in Israeli affairs, looking for ways to blame Israel for malfeasance, as well as all the different ways that the Arabs can't keep their story straight.

Voice of Israel by Abba Eban <------ The author was Israel's ambassador to the UN.

Letters from Tel Mond Prison by Era Rapaport <---- The schizophrenia of post-1967 Israeli policy in Yehuda/Shomron, and how Israeli citizens dealt with it.


The Daat Mikra Bible Atlas: A Comprehensive Guide to Biblical Geography and History by Yehuda Elitzur and Yehuda Keel <--- Maps of the Middle East, Africa and Europe, showing the location of events as they unfold in TaNaKh.

The ESV Bible Atlas is a pretty good one. Makes a good coffee table book as well.

Probably an intro book that's not particularly necessary for most folks reading this, but as a newbie myself, I quite enjoyed The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert that my wife got me as a gift last year.

Taste Buds and Molecules talks about how families of flavor molecules are related and why this leads to excellent food and wine pairings, like Sauvignon Blanc with lamb and mint (they all share a common flavor molecule).

The Atlas of Beer would be a great gift!

If you dig that, you'll enjoy this: https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Press-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262611732/

Been one of my coffeetable books since forever, and I'm glad to see it's still in print.

[Edit. Oh, and Amazon reminds me I should read https://www.amazon.com/Gaining-Ground-History-Landmaking-Boston/dp/0262534835/ some day.]

The Atlas Daas Mikra is your friend here. Seriously, it's a great (arguably essential) tool when learning Tanach.

To free is creative mind, http://www.amazon.ca/Taste-Buds-Molecules-Science-Flavor/dp/1118141849/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412591473&sr=1-9 .

> This section, along with the preceding one describing the “stream” rising up to water the ground (2.6), may draw on the ancient tradition that a temple is built on a primal mountain of creation from which the waters of the earth flow. The rivers mentioned here combine world rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates (both in Mesopotamia) with the local Gihon that flowed from Mount Zion in Jerusalem (Ps 46.4; Isa 7.6; Zech 14.8), although Cush is generally either Ethiopia or in Arabia. Pishon is unknown; Havilah is probably in Arabia.

• The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
  
  > Where are the ancient centers of civilization according to the Bible? The answer to this is hinted at in the
  description of the four rivers emerging from the Garden of Eden. It is natural that the ancients should
  believe the rivers of Eden to be those flowing through the lands most abundant in water, the foremost
  being the Tigris and the Euphrates in Mesopotamia. The Pishon and the Gihon have not been identified
  and may have merely been symbolic. But since Havilah is one of the regions of Cush (Gen. 10:7), it would seem that the two major branches of the Nile (the Blue and the White) may have been intended.
  
  
• The Carta Bible Atlas

http://www.amazon.com/Wine-Tasting-Course-Marnie-Old/dp/1465405887

If you need visuals to learn easily, this is really good.

I'm new to wine too so I picked up a copy of The Essential Guide to Wine and I've cross referenced it with recommendations of cheap wines. An article I started with was this 150 best wines under $15. I've found some really tasty wines for $8-$10. One that I'm in love with right now is Chops and Burgers which was around $8 a bottle.

What kind of history? Because you are posting on this subreddit I assume that you would want Biblical history?

I was given this book as a present for Christmas and I am enjoying it. It covers ancient times to the spread of Christianity.

I have The Zondervan Bible Atlas and I really like it.

You may be interested in the book Mapping Boston.

http://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262611732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414183559&sr=8-1&keywords=mapping+boston

The ESV Bible Atlas is invaluable. Here is a YouTube demonstration of it in action!

Biblica

Look into becoming a Sommelier

1. Wiki
   
2. Study
   
3. Test

This one too:

http://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262611732/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346441847&sr=1-1&keywords=mapping+boston

My understanding on marriageable age was whenever menarche occurred, which usually had some corresponding marker or coming of age ceremony, but would obviously be different for each girl. So some girls would be marriageable at 12 and others not till 14 or 15.

Your link cites a National Geographic reference called "The Biblical World." I looked it up on Amazon and searched for menarche, menstrual, mensturation, period, and puberty. The only result I found was page 276, which says:

>Girls in first century Palestine, like Mary, were probably betrothed shortly after puberty began, around age ty [sic] or 14. Both parents would negotiate the marriage contract...

It does not make reference to any actual scientific records, and indicates some ambiguity ("probably") as well as noting they were betrothed at 14, not necessarily married at that age (though I have no idea how long the contract negotiations would take, or the average betrothal time.)

>I'm honestly VERY skeptical about the claims of such late average menarche in your source. Age 17 in the early 1800s? And the slope of the line indicates even higher ages earlier. I seriously doubt it. As I said earlier, I think it's very likely we're seeing some type of reporting bias here.

I don't see it as being that crazy. Jane Austen wrote fairly auto-biographically about her times (1700s England), and women were commonly married around 20. Laura Ingalls Wilder, who admittedly fictionalized large parts of her semi-autobiographical books, evinces shock at hearing of a girl who gets married at 13 or 14 (only a year or so older than her at the time, circa late 1870s). Understandably, records are kind of sketchy-- women didn't talk about their periods, certainly not with men, so it's possible, say, the only records we have are of people who sought medical help for girls who didn't start menstruating until late.

>I doubt there has been any serious changes in puberty for thousands of years. You will certainly see fluctuations due to environmental factors and ethnic differences throughout history.

This is probably the biggest factor. There appear to be often enormous differences between ethnic populations, especially based on geographical regions (see the first link, there's a list about halfway down). So it's possible we're both right-- Northern European women just hit puberty a lot later than women in the Middle East.