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In the spring of 2002, teacher and author Bill Mares sang Bach's St. Matthew Passion and ran the Boston Marathon in a period of 27 hours. The two events were culminations, as it were, of his life-long hobbies of singing and running. In the beginning they seemed so different, Bach and Boston. But then like Escher's tessellations, they began to merge.
For Mares, neither endeavor was competitive. The cellist' Yo-Yo-Ma's remark on music applied equally to my running: "The reason for playing music is not to compare yourself with anyone, but to bring forth what is inside you."
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Part travelogue, part inspiring social commentary, and part motivating business model, Brewing Change is about one middle manager's quiet, dogged crusade to change the world of coffee. During his 27 years at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Rick Peyser was a persistent voice advocating for a better quality of life in coffee growing communities. He has teamed up with long-time friend and writer Bill Mares to tell the story of his career and of his travels throughout the coffeelands of Latin America and East Africa. Eye-opening and heart-wrenching, Brewing Change is a story that shows us the...

To have your own brewery is the dream of almost every home brewer. Bill Mares was one of those, but he had to wait 40 years to meet and join up with Todd Haire, a real brewer, for this dream to become real.
This book takes brewing full circle from Bill the amateur, making inadvertently wild beers, to Todd the professional, brewing first-class mixed-culture wild and funky beers in oak barrels, using mixed-culture fermentation.
Together, they offer a delightful journey through the craft-brewing revolution of the last four decades.

The is a well-researched, profusely-illustrated history of war memorials and cemeteries, dating from the 19th C. to today in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. The book examines how the American Civil War and the Great War of 1914-1918 launched new practices for honoring the dead as individuals, and how monuments and memorial landscapes have been used for nation-building. We also examined how countless streams of private grief have joined the main stem of public mourning.