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"Mamrie Hart is a drinking star with a YouTube problem. As host of the bawdy cult hit You Deserve a Drink, Hart has been entertaining viewers with her signature concoction of tasty libations and raunchy puns since 2011. Finally, Hart has compiled her best drinking stories--and worst hangovers--into one hilarious volume. From the spring break where she and her girlfriends avoided tan lines by staying at an all-male gay nudist resort, to the bachelorette...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Provides a tour through the feminist history of women drinking, revealing the untold female distillers, drinkers, and brewers that played vital roles in potent potable history, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to 1920s bartender Ada Coleman.
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The Harvard Common Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Give parents nutritious alternatives both to cheap juices loaded with high fructose corn syrup on one hand and to healthy but pricey store-bought gourmet juices on the other. Seventy of the 100 recipes are for juices, with about 45 fruit-based and 25 vegetable-based. Half of the remaining 30 are smoothies, including several dairy-free vegan options.
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Aster
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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As the millions who choose to stay sober now know, the propaganda around drinking and sobriety is wonky. Sober doesn't feel stony, or cold. Retired wreckhead Catherine Gray is now in her eighth sober year and has learnt a damn sight more. This book enlists the help of experts and case studies, turning a curious, playful gaze onto provocative questions. Is alcohol a parenting aid? Why are booze and cocaine such a horse and carriage? Once an addict,...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Are you tired of hangovers? Do you wish you could think more clearly during the day or feel less anxious at night? Are you curious about that #soberlife? Many of us want to cut back on our drinking—or even stop altogether. But in a culture that glamorizes the cocktail hour, "white wine playdates," and boozy brunches, you might wonder, What would I do instead? If you're ready for a change, this go-to guide has the answer.
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A look at how alcohol and other intoxicants helped spark the rise of the first large-scale societies by enhancing creativity, alleviating stress and building trust among conflicting tribes to allow them to cooperate with each other.
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Racehorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Reduce inflammation, lower blood sugar, improve digestion, lose weight, promote healing, and more! Drink to your health with detoxifying, clarifying, energizing celery juice! Celery juice is about to change your world. More than just a staple on a crudité platter, celery is making its mark as the next new super plant for a healthy, invigorating, and more nourished life. The Celery Juice Miracle covers the wonders of health benefits of celery, from...
75) Päntsdrunk (Kalsarikänni): the Finnish path to relaxation (drinking at home alone in your underwear)
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Harper Design
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Danes have hygge. Swedes have lagom. But the Finns have the best - "kalsariokanni" or pantsdrunk - drinking at home, alone, in your underwear--
76) Aguas frescas and paletas : refreshing Mexican drinks and frozen treats, traditional and reimagined
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Familius LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Brief History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair...
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Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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In The spirits of America, Burns relates that drinking was "the first national pastime," and shows how it shaped American politics and culture from the earliest colonial days. He details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again and how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. He tells us how "the great American thirst" developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws sprang up to combat it. Burns brings...
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