Dan Jones

Nothing beats a good cocktail served in the right glass, at the right time. In this book, Dan Jones teaches us how to make 100 of his favorite cocktails. Loaded with essential knowledge, such as information to equip the bar cabinet, and recipes for syrups, sours, and infusions, you will discover the secrets of the classics. Introducing the basic spirits like gin, rum, vodka, tequila and more, along with insider tips and tricks, this book will become your indispensable guide to making simple, delicious, and creative cocktails.

Whisky: Shake, Muddle, Stir is a beginner’s guide to whisky and bourbon. Dan Jones teaches you how to stock your home bar, pick some of the world’s best whiskies and pull together your own infusions and syrups. Try your hand at classics like an Old Fashioned or The Sazerac, or modern hits like Bourbon Smash or The Rattlesnake. With over 40 whisky recipes, Whisky: Shake, Muddle, Stir shows you just how versatile whisky is.

Under tusen år – mellan romarrikets fall och upptäckten av den nya världen – lades grunden för den västvärld som sedan dess dominerat jordklotet. Framgångsfaktorerna stavades handel, erövringar och kristendom. Makthavarna lyckades hålla fast vid styrka och rikedomar genom att dra till sig – eller stjäla – de mest värdefulla tillgångarna från resten av världen. Det var under medeltiden de europeiska stormakterna började formas, universitet grundades och juridiska system etablerades. Allt mot bakgrund av en begynnande rivalitet mellan väst och öst. Historikern Dan Jones beskriver en värld som kan framstå som märklig och främmande, men som präglades av utmaningar som på många sätt påminner om dagens: klimatförändringar, massmigration, pandemier och svindlande teknologiska språng. Med en kombination av historikerns skarpa blick och den gode berättarens förmåga att fängsla och engagera tar Jones oss med på en fartfylld resa genom Europas medeltid.

The cat-tastic companion to Dogs Who Changed the World.50 awe-inspiring stories of cats who have altered history, inspired art and literature, reunited lost lovers, saved lives, or just ruined everything. These inspiring, humorous, heart-breaking, or just plain weird stories reveal why cats have earned their place as our weirdest, most endearing companions, and how our fascination with them is age-old. Along the way you'll meet Félicette, the first moggy in space; Unsinkable Sam, a sea-faring feline; Tama, the railway cat who saved a community; and Snowball, the crime-solving cat. Cats Who Changed the World celebrates the unique relationship we have with our feline best friends, from contemporary times to all throughout history.

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller Song of Achilles), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the BBC's Doctor Who. Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

Vozmite svoju kareru pod kontrol! Chego vy zhdete ot karery v IT - vysokoj zarplaty, rukovodjaschej dolzhnosti, gibkogo grafika, udalennoj raboty? Don Dzhons, mirovoj ekspert v oblasti postroenija karery i lichnogo brenda v tekhnologicheskoj sfere, pomozhet vam dobitsja zhelaemogo i stat superprofessionalom, za kotorogo budut borotsja vse rabotodateli. Prochtja etu knigu, vy priobretete takie navyki, kak umenie vystraivat rabotu komandy, reshat konfliktnye situatsii, pravilno stavit zadachi, ponimat biznes-protsessy, i mnogie drugie. Chto vnutri: - Lichnyj brend i karernoe prodvizhenie. -Barery, meshajuschie vashemu rostu. - Pravila biznesa. - Analiz rynka dlja aktualizatsii vashikh navykov. Ob avtore: Don Dzhons - MVP Microsoft i uzhe bolee 20 let javljaetsja veduschim mirovym spetsialistom po karernomu rostu. On konsultiruet sotrudnikov krupnejshikh tekhnologicheskikh kompanij, pomogaja im priobretat navyki, neobkhodimye dlja dostizhenija postavlennykh karernykh tselej.

It all started with a doomed war in the Middle East. A group of elite warriors was determined to stand to the death, protecting the holiest places for Christians. The Pope blessed the Templars... To later declare them a hotbed of heretics. Whom did the knights of Christ fear and fight against? What was the relationship to the endless wars in Palestine, Syria and Egypt? How did the innovative banking system developed by the patrons of the Templars work? Dan Jones is ready to tell the history of the order, which was reflected in modern geopolitics, financial schemes and mechanisms of power. It's time to find out who the Knights of the Temple were, heretics and cruel murderers or saints, victims of a ruthless repressive state machine?

O berezhlivom proizvodstve (lean production) - proryvnom podkhode k menedzhmentu i upravleniju kachestvom, obespechivajuschem dolgovremennuju konkurentosposobnost bez suschestvennykh kapitalovlozhenii. Pionerom etogo podkhoda stala kompanija Toyota, kotoraja blagodarja ego ispolzovaniju dostigla vydajuschikhsja rezultatov. OsobennostiBerezhlivoe proizvodstvo - eto bez preuvelichenija glavnoe, chemu stoit nauchitsja u japontsev v oblasti upravlenija. Etot metod dolzhen znat kazhdyj rukovoditel nezavisimo ot otrasli, ved ego osnova zakljuchaetsja v borbe s poterjami. Eta kniga stala mezhdunarodnym bestsellerom, perezhila mnozhestvo pereizdanij. Kniga napisana obstojatelno, jasno i soderzhit ne tolko opisanie teorii, no i mnogo primerov iz opyta veduschikh kompanii SSHA, Germanii i Japonii.

"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-'new' present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated."--Wall Street Journal "A lively history . . . Jones] has managed to touch every major topic. As each piece of the puzzle is placed into position, the modern world gradually comes into view . . . Powers and Thrones provides the reader with a framework for understanding a complicated subject, and it tells the story of an essential era of world history with skill and style."--The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with an epic history of the medieval world--a rich and complicated reappraisal of an era whose legacy and lessons we are still living with today. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet Muhammad and Eleanor of Aquitaine--Dan Jones charges through the history of the Middle Ages. Powers and Thrones takes readers on a journey through an emerging Europe, the great capitals of late Antiquity, as well as the influential cities of the Islamic West, and culminates in the first European voyages to the Americas. The medieval world was forged by the big forces that still occupy us today: climate change, pandemic disease, mass migration, and technological revolutions. This was the time when the great European nationalities were formed; when the basic Western systems of law and governance were codified; when the Christian Churches matured as both powerful institutions and the regulators of Western public morality; and when art, architecture, philosophical inquiry and scientific invention went through periods of massive, revolutionary change. The West was rebuilt on the ruins of an empire and emerged from a state of crisis and collapse to dominate the world. Every sphere of human life and activity was transformed in the thousand years covered by Powers and Thrones. As we face a critical turning point in our own millennium, Dan Jones shows that how we got here matters more than ever.

In The Ultimate Book of Cocktails, bestselling cocktail author Dan Jones shares over 100 of his best-loved drinks. Starting with the basics, Dan covers the essentials of a home bar, from equipment and glassware to spirits needed, also including his own recipes for syrups, sours and brines. The cocktail list will have you powering through that leftover vodka you've had gathering dust in the kitchen in no time! From classic tipples to batch drinks for a crowd, hair-of-the-dog hangover cures, inventive new drinks, seasonal hits, tropical tasters and more, this is the bible of cocktails. Wow your guests with a mojito good enough to impress Ernest Hemingway, get the party started with a big batch of Backyard Sangria, and knock the socks off of winter with a hot and steamy Mexican Hot Chocolate. From summer tipples to winter warmers, this is the only cocktail book you will ever need. All written in Dan's witty, engaging style, The Ultimate Book of Cocktails is perfect for the cocktail-lover in your life.

Bestselling historian Dan Jones and the brilliant artist Marina Amaral have combined their talents to create a illuminating visual history of women around the world. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, the acclaimed team behind The Color of Time, combine their talents again to explore the many roles--domestic, social, cultural and professional--played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colorized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the home or the science lab, protesting on the streets or performing on stage, fighting in the trenches or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and full color the female experience in a century of extraordinary change. Each chapter will be introduced by a woman who works in that field today and the book includes photographs of Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Mildred Burke, Eva Peron, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Simone de Beauvoir, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Emmeline Pankhurst, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas in Japan, protestors on the Salt March, teachers and pilots, nurses and soldiers. In combination of vivid pictures and stirring prose, The Color of Time: Women in History, brings history to life from the vantage point of women who lived it.

The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850–1960 explores the many roles – domestic, social, cultural and professional – played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colourized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the science lab or protesting on the streets, performing on stage or fighting in the trenches, running for election or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and full colour the female experience in a century of extraordinary change. Photographs include: Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Eva Peron, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Rosa Parks, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas in Japan, protestors on the Salt March, teachers and pilots, nurses and soldiers.

Dogs Who Changed the World is a beautifully illustrated, heart-warming book that celebrates all dogs and proves that every single one of them is absolute magic. Dogs have trotted at our collective side for tens of thousands of years, bound up in the story of humanity. They have inspired great works of art, caught spies, reconnected lost lovers, dragged the drowning to safety... or have just haplessly and happily ruined everything. These 50 tales acknowledge our unbreakable relationship with the dog, the ?rst-ever domesticated animal, and their dedication, heroism and unending sense of fun. Along the way we'll meet big-boned Barry, the hefty St Bernard credited with saving the lives of more than 40 lost souls in the Swiss Alps in the 1800s. We'll discover Sigmund Freud's calm-inducing chow chow, Jo?, who would sit in on his psychotherapy sessions (and never spilled a secret), and feel the frustration of Sir Isaac Newton, whose little terror Diamond apparently knocked over a candle and destroyed the physicist's most important manuscripts.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator, Books of the Year'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year'An amazing masterly gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A badass history writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan'A triumph' Charles SpencerDan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce, conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones's trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting – or stealing – the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations – Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople – and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and women. This is a book written about – and for – an age of profound change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Also available in audio, read by the author.

Pervye koroli dinastii Plantagenetov unasledovali ot svoikh predkov-normannov zalitoe krovju tsarstvo i prevratili ego v imperiju, prostiravshujusja ot Shotlandii do Palestiny. V etoj epicheskoj khronike muzhestva, predatelstva, ambitsij i obmana Den Dzhons voskreshaet nepokornuju korolevskuju dinastiju, kazhdyj predstavitel kotoroj byl zamechatelnoj i zapominajuschejsja figuroj. Pered glazami chitatelja projdut: Genrikh II i ego zhena Alienora Akvitanskaja, dvazhdy koroleva i samaja izvestnaja zhenschina v khristianskom mire; ikh syn Richard Lvinoe Serdtse, kotoryj srazhalsja s Saladinom v Tretem krestovom pokhode; i ego kovarnyj brat korol Ioann, vynuzhdennyj podpisat Velikuju khartiju volnostej, stavshuju pervym v Evrope primerom ogranichenija korolevskogo proizvola. Sochetaja poslednie akademicheskie issledovanija s darom rasskazchika, Dzhons jarko vossozdaet velikie bitvy pri Bennokberne, Kresi i Sljojse i pokazyvaet, kak koroli Eduard II i Richard II vstretili svoi poslednie dni. Eto epokha rytsarstva i Chernoj smerti, tamplierov, osnovanija parlamenta i Stoletnej vojny, kogda natsionalnoe samosoznanie Anglii bylo vykovano mechom i sudejskim molotkom.

'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' ObserverThe epic, harrowing and world-changing story – in words and colourized images – of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb. The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the international tensions, conflicting ideologies and malign economic forces that set them in train, but also the civil wars of the interwar period in Ireland and Spain, wars in Latin America, Britain's imperial travails in such places as Ireland, Somalia and Palestine, and events on the domestic 'fronts' of the belligerent nations. Like The Colour of Time, this is a collaboration between the gifted Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, and the leading British historian Dan Jones. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words, The World Aflame offers a moving – and often terrifying – perspective on the bloodiest century in human history.'A new perspective on the bloodiest half-century in history' Daily Mail'Immensely vivid' Sunday Times'Brings history to life in breaktaking technicolour' Financial Times'Revelatory' Daily Express'The past – even its grimmest, darkest hours – was not in black and white' Guardian

A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On 15 June he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world. A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the 'Great Charter' established an Englishman's right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights. Dan Jones's elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English.