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The Man Who Tried to Prove Too Much
In The Man Who Tried to Prove Too Much, Philip Hills provides an unflinching account of what it takes to reflect on one’s life and achievements. Philip Hills had an unquenchable thirst for success. Always driving forwards without stopping to reflect, Philip was blissfully unaware that he was fuelled by past hurts and fears. Until the day his life changed forever. Diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, Philip sets course for the biggest journey of his life: a reckoning with his past that becomes a powerful tool for healing, not just for Philip but for those around him, too. In this beautifully honest and soul-searching book, Philip looks back on a life motivated by a dream and a deep drive, and asks us to reflect on the true meaning of success and self-fulfilment.
The Founder's Tale
This is the story of how one man, with a bit of help from his friends, created a revolution in the hitherto staid world of Scotch Whisky. But by creating the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, he gave whisky drinkers access to the finest distilled liquor on the planet – and what's more, he had a great time doing it. The book is a collection of stories about Pip and his friends and how they brought Scotland's finest product to a waiting world. It begins in a small farm in Aberdeenshire and moves through high places (The World Trade Centre) and low (a jungle dive in the South Seas), with the help of the famous and the obscure, the good, the bad and the mildly delinquent. There are high mountains and wild seas, and a trip (with whisky) to Communist eastern Europe in a vintage Lagonda.
The Scotch Whisky Directory
Phillip Hills, one of the world's leading whisky experts, offers an authoritative yet accessible guide to the flavors of Scotch whiskies.
Appreciating Whisky
As with fine wines, there is a social cachet in being able to "appreciate" a good Scotch. But how exactly do you learn this skill? This illustrated book offers the reader detailed, structured tuition on how to develop his or her palate for whisky. Readers are taken on a detailed tour of how whisky is produced, what each of its constituents and each of the stages of its manufacture bring to the final product. With this grounding, they are then introduced to the various chemical processes at work during distillation and maturation that give each whisky its distinct characteristics. Using specific popular whiskies which readers are encouraged to have to hand as they work through the book, they are taught how to recognise what it is they are tasting and smelling, and how to describe this in the language of the experts. Armed with this knowledge, readers should ultimately be able to develop their own informed impressions of the whisky they drink, rather than receive them second-hand from books.
Appreciating Wine
There is an undoubted social cachet in being able to 'appreciate' a good wine.
The Star Drive
Discover the technology that may take humanity to the stars. In May 2018 NASA called a press conference to announce the successful test-run of their tiny nuclear reactor KRUSTY (Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology). This revolutionary technology, which runs on heat alone, may have profound consequences for the future of mankind, enabling us to maintain permanent bases on the Moon, on Mars and other planets, and eventually power a starship. On earth too it could have enormous benefits as a new way to generate power at a time when climate change is threatening our very existence. This book is the amazing story behind this invention, which began with Robert Stirling's original designs for a heat exchange engine in 1816. An invention truly ahead of its time, the practical application of the Stirling Engine has taxed the minds of scientists and inventors for almost 200 years. Only now is it possible for its full potential to be realised. Phillip Hills weaves science and history together to tell the story of one of the most exciting scientific developments the world has ever seen.
The Star Drive
Told for the first time, this is the extraordinary story of how an obscure Victorian Scottish minister invented the technology which may take us to the stars. Phillip Hills weaves science and history together to tell the story of one of the most exciting scientific developments the world has ever seen.
Scots on Scotch
In this work, Phillip Hills of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has brought together a distinguished and challenging team of writers on the dram. In this illustrated volume George Rosie discusses the place of whisky in the politics and economics of Scotland over the last 100 years; Trevor Royle examines the role of whisky in the British Empire; Murray Grigor assesses the portrayal of whisky in the media; David Daiches considers the place of whisky in Scottish society; Hamish Henderson looks at the amber nectar in folk song, ballad and broadsheet; Alan Bold ruminates on the impact of the national liquor on Scots literature; Ruth Wishart confronts the issue of women and whisky; while Derek Cooper deliberates on how whisky is coming to be perceived by discerning drinkers worldwide. Norman McCaig, Liz Lochhead and Hamish Henderson contribute poetry and verse.
Port Phillip Settlement
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
