Ned Halley is de auteur van een aantal kinderboeken. Hij heeft bijgedragen aan bestsellers zoals How To Do Just About Anything en How Is It Done? Voormalig directeur van de Amerikaanse uitgeverij Rodale Press, Ned schrijft nu vanuit zijn huis in Somerset, Engeland.
This work offers answers to many questions on the arcane language of alcohol. It provides information intended to help the reader to decipher the labels of all kinds of beers, wines and spirits from around the world. It also contains recipes for cocktails, and portraits of wine nations and regions.
This New Albion Press edition contains all ten "centuries," or groups of 100 quatrains, that make up the Prophecies, is illustrated with contemporary paintings and woodcuts, as well as later illustrations, and includes Nostradamus' letters to his son César and to Henri II King of France.