The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope...

"From the cofounder of the longest-running bitcoin exchange comes a compelling argument for how this digital currency will transform the global economy-and how it can work for you. Bitcoin may be the best investment opportunity of our time, yet most people have yet to understand its promise. In this book, Bobby Lee, one of the earliest, most successful pioneers in the cryptocurrency space, debunks myths and dispels fears that surround bitcoin, arguing...

Presents the latest updates for the word processing program and explains how to use the latest features to create and edit documents, incorporate graphics, apply diverse styles and formats, check spelling and grammar, and insert tables.

Offers lettering enthusiasts at all levels of experience a step-by-step course that shows how to develop and adapt traditional lettering skills and techniques to a variety of digital platforms.

"In this edition, the author assumes you know most Internet technologies and programs, and that you want to know how to use them to do your genealogy. The potential for finding clues, data, and other researchers looking for your same family names has increased exponentially in the last decade. Since 2000, push technology, streaming video, blogs, podcasts, social networking, and indexed document scans have radically changed what can be found on the...

Traces the steps taken in processing cacao beans and making chocolate, and depicts some of the machinery that does each job.

"A child wonders where chocolate comes from and learns about cocoa farmers and how cocoa beans are harvested in West Africa and how cocoa beans are made into chocolate at a factory. This illustrated narrative nonfiction book includes a map of where cocoa trees are grown, glossary, and further resources"--

"Covers how to secure and authenticate datasets and safely communicate with sources; Python programming basics for data science investigations; security concepts, like disk encryption; how to work with data in EML, MBOX, JSON, CSV, and SQL formats; and tricks for using the command-line interface to explore datasets packed with secrets"--

A number of things have changed in the digital photography world since the last edition published: Consumer priced point-and-shoot cameras with 10+ megapixels have hit the market. Digital SLR cameras have fallen in price to the point that first-time photographers are buying them as their first cameras. New versions of the popular Photoshop Elements editing software have been released. Windows Vista came out with new photo organization tools. New accessories...

Everyone loves chocolate, but do you know where it comes from and how it ends up on supermarket shelves? Follow the story of chocolate through the farming process to manufacturing. Simple text is accompanied by large, attractive photographs.