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United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art (Senate Document)

• ISBN:
• 0160511720
• Authors:
• William Kloss, Diane K. Skvarla

Highlights 160 works of fine art in the Senate

Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art

• ISBN:
• 0192801651
• Authors:
• Julian Stallabrass

The art world is bound to the economy, writes Julian Stallabrass, "as tightly as Ahab to the white whale." In Art Incorporated, Stallabrass offers a provocative look at contemporary art and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last twenty years, illuminating the connections between money, politics, and art. Stallabrass notes that the spectacular crash of 1989 profoundly changed the character of contemporary art, shattering the...

The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)

• ISBN:
• 0199229848

Here is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries. The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel to Foucault, Carol Duncan, and Mary Kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography, performative acts, the museum as ritual, digital art,...

The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

• ISBN:
• 0262072890
• Authors:
• Rich Gold

We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound—composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff the "Plenitude." And...

One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

• ISBN:
• 0262112655
• Authors:
• Miwon Kwon

Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent...

Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (October Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262134047

This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of...

Designing Interactions

• ISBN:
• 0262134748
• Authors:
• Bill Moggridge

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions , award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology....

Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

• ISBN:
• 0262201402
• Authors:
• Nancy J. Troy

In Couture Culture , Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also intended to be...

The Grid Book

• ISBN:
• 0262512408
• Authors:
• Hannah B Higgins

Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this wide-ranging and revelatory book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet,...

Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman

• ISBN:
• 0262681064

Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in different countries, in different generations--Cahun in France in 1894, Deren in Russia in 1917, and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet they share a deeply theatrical obsession that shatters any notion of a unified self. All three try out identities from different social classes and geographic environments, extend their temporal range into the past and future, and transform...

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

• ISBN:
• 0415325188
• Authors:
• Simon Bell

In Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape the author explains a range of design principles using tangible, relevant examples covering all types of landscape.

Manga For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

• ISBN:
• 0470080256
• Authors:
• Kensuke Okabayashi

If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings.  You’ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains—along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you’ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring...

Manga Studio For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470129867
• Authors:
• Doug Hills

Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For Dummies makes it easy to get started. Discover how to use Manga Studio to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public. It’s a breeze once you...

Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary

• ISBN:
• 0313293295
• Authors:
• Leslie Ross

Designed as a quick-reference source to the topics, symbols, themes, and stories most frequently found in early Christian, western medieval, and Byzantine art, this work describes topics that include names and narratives drawn from the Bible and apocrypha, the lives of saints, and numerous other textual sources. Authors whose works were frequently illustrated or who were influential on the visual arts are treated, as are selected art historical...

The Social History of Art: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism Vol III

• ISBN:
• 0415199476
• Authors:
• Arnold Hauser

First published in 1951, Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art, from its origins in the Stone Age through to the "Film Age." This new edition of a classic work explores historical and social movements and the effects these have had on the production of art--the centrality of class and class struggle, the cultural roles of ideologies and the determining influence of modes of economic...

Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline

• ISBN:
• 0415228689

Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundation in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labor organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of institutions, considering their impact on movements such as modernism, their role in conveying or denying legitimacy, and their impact of defining the parameters...

Constructive Anatomy (Dover Books on Art Instruction)

• ISBN:
• 0486211045
• Authors:
• George B. Bridgman

This invaluable anatomical reference shows important parts of the human body, both in motion and in repose: hand, wrist, fingers, forearm, neck, thigh, leg, and more. Drawings of bone and muscle structure are also covered in detail. Over 500 illustrations. "Best book on artist's anatomy." — Art Students League News .

Street Logos

• ISBN:
• 0500284695
• Authors:
• Tristan Manco

Subverted signs, spontaneous drawings, powerful monolithic symbols, and curious characters represent a worldwide outdoor gallery of free contemporary art. Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas, and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Los Angeles to Barcelona, Stockholm to Tokyo,...

The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design

• ISBN:
• 0500285608
• Authors:
• Bob Gordon, Maggie Gordon

A visually stunning review of the fast-changing world of graphic design, this book will be essential reading for anyone involved in this broadest of industries. Its succinct but comprehensive coverage of the multitude of technical issues confronting today's graphic designers, coupled with breathtaking examples of graphics from around the world, makes it ideal for those already employed in graphics who feel the need to improve their technical and...

Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Essays in Art and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0674809661
• Authors:
• Richard Wendorf

That Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) became the most fashionable painter of his time was not simply due to his artistic gifts or good fortune. The art of pleasing, Richard Wendorf contends, was as much a part of Reynolds's success--in his life and in his work--as the art of painting. The author's examination of Reynolds's life and career illuminates the nature of eighteenth-century English society in relation to the enterprise of...

Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol (Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)

• ISBN:
• 0691018243
• Authors:
• Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

Pandora was the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present.

Pop Celebration

• ISBN:
• 0711978646
• Authors:
• Erickson, Frank, Edmondson, John, Bullock, Jack, Ployhar, James D.

Contents are: The Gang That Sang ""Heart of My Heart"" * I'm Always Chasing Rainbows * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * Over the Rainbow * Pennsylvania 6-5000 * Great Day * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo * Never on Sunday * Laura * Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky ) * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * The Trolley Song * The Magnificent Seven.

Daylighting, Architecture and Health: Building Design Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0750667249
• Authors:
• Mohamed Boubekri

Daylighting, Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in buildings and human health, considering both psychological and physiological issues and bringing together a range of research in the field. As we are becoming increasingly conscious of global warming and pushing towards energy efficiency in buildings, the book examines the question of daylighting from the perspective of the health of building occupants. It...

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation

• ISBN:
• 0761843388
• Authors:
• Bonnie Noble

Science Fiction And Fantasy Artists Of The Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary

• ISBN:
• 0786434236
• Authors:
• Jane Frank

This biographical dictionary presents information on 400 artists whose influence and illustrative contributions to the fields of science fiction and fantasy literature helped define the 20th century as the "Science Fiction Century" and helped established science fiction and fantasy as unique and identifiable genres. In addition to providing basic, inclusive biographical data on venerable artists from Chris Achilleos to John Michael Zeleznik,...

Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education

• ISBN:
• 0805849718

The Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education marks a milestone in the field of art education. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art educators, this 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the remarkable progress that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly emerging...

Teaching Art and Design (Continuum education)

• ISBN:
• 0826452647

A thorough grounding in art and design is an essential part of a rounded education, yet art and design education is not always given the prominence it deserves. Roy Prentice redresses the balance with a carefully structured collection of chapters. Each article has a different focus and tackles a contemporary issue in the field - looking to exiting new directions for curriculum development. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the gulf between...

Complete Origami Course

• ISBN:
• 0831727926
• Authors:
• Mary Wilder Tileston

Listen & Learn: 101 Japanese Idioms

• ISBN:
• 0844284963
• Authors:
• Michael L. Maynard, Senko K. Maynard

For All Students This flexible book and audio program features 101 Japanese idiomatic and proverbial expressions that enrich students knowledge of Japanese language and culture. Each left-hand page provides the expression in Japanese orthography and romanization, along with a whimsical illustration. Each right-hand page provides a literal translation of the idiom, its definition, cultural notes, and a dialogue in Japanese orthography, Roomaji,...

Fashion Marketing

• ISBN:
• 1405139536
• Authors:
• Mike Easey

'Clothing that is not purchased or worn is not fashion' (to paraphrase Armani) Knowledge of marketing is essential to help ensure success and reduce the risk of failure in fashion. For the designer starting up in business, this book offers a guide to the major decisions that will enable you to fulfil your creative potential and be a financial success: What are the major trends we should be monitoring?; How should we set our prices?; What is the...

Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

• ISBN:
• 1568984456
• Authors:
• Jennifer New

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of these exceptions—books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders...

100% Evil

• ISBN:
• 1568985266
• Authors:
• Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Niemann

"There's evil in the world."—George W. BushAnd lots of it. The question is, just what does it look like? A politician? An ex-girlfriend? Your landlord? Your boss? Hanna Arendt said it was banal. The Red Sox think of the Yankees. And in this hilarious, disturbing, quirky, and brilliant little book, noted illustrators Nicholas Blechman and Christoph Niemann present a catalog of their own misanthropic imaginings. The two met in 1997, when...

How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

• ISBN:
• 1568985592
• Authors:
• Adrian Shaughnessy

Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill. How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid...

Pioneers Of Modern Graphic Design (Mitchell Beazley Art & Design)

• ISBN:
• 184000939X
• Authors:
• Jeremy Aynsley

Graphic design plays an integral role in modern life, its influence felt everywhere from the poster to the web page. This comprehensive reference work profiles over 60 of the most influential designers worldwide, from early leaders of the genre including Peter Behrens to Saul Bass, Neville Brody, and exponents of today's digital technology such as Jonathan Barnbrook. The book also covers the studios and movements that played major roles in the...

Digital Art History (Intellect Books - Computers and the History of Art)

• ISBN:
• 1841501166

This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study and practice of Art. It has become increasingly clear in recent years that this interaction has led, not just to the provision of new tools for...

Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture

• ISBN:
• 1860646913
• Authors:
• Valerie Gonzalez

Five essays explore aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic with examples ranging from the Qur'an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers. Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen...

Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion

• ISBN:
• 0060191449
• Authors:
• Alan Flusser

Dressing the Man is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and look stylish without becoming fashion victims. Alan Flusser's name is synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of men's clothes with his signature wit and elegance to address the fundamental paradox of modern men's fashion: Why, after men today have spent more money on clothes than in any other period of...

The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms: 4,000 Idiomatic Expressions

• ISBN:
• 0071433023
• Authors:
• Peter Weibel

For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Spanish saying only to have the whole add up to nonsense, The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents. With more than 4,000 Spanish expressions arranged by keyword, numerous example sentences, and an extensive index for cross-referencing, you can quickly find...

101 American English Idioms w/Audio CD: Learn to speak Like an American Straight from the Horse's Mouth

• ISBN:
• 0071487727
• Authors:
• Harry Collis

This book makes American English phrases “duck soup.” 101 American English Idioms takes the mystery out of these common U.S. expressions and explains their meanings in context. On the audio CD, native speakers read each of the 101 idioms, so you can hear how American English sounds and practice what you have learned. What Americans really mean when they say . . . Drive someone up a wall --annoy someone greatly Raise a stink --protest...

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192806467
• Authors:
• Julian Stallabrass

Contemporary art has never been so popular, but what is its role today and who is controlling its future? Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality. But away from shock tactics in the gallery, there are many unanswered questions. Who is really running the art...

Free Will and Illusion

• ISBN:
• 0198250185
• Authors:
• Saul Smilansky

Saul Smilansky presents an original new approach to the problem of free will, which lies at the heart of morality and self-understanding. He maintains that the key to the problem is the role played by illusion. Smilansky boldly claims that we could not live adequately with a complete awareness of the truth about human freedom and that illusion lies at the center of the human condition.

Eriugena

• ISBN:
• 019826674X
• Authors:
• John J. O'Meara

The 9th-century Irish scholar Johannes Scottus Eriugena's main work, Periphyseon (de devisione naturae) is a remarkable attempt at an intellectual synthesis between the Bible and neoplatonist philosophy. O'Meara has brought together the results of the most recent research in this study of Eriugena's Irish background, life in France, and career as a teacher, controversialist, translator, and poet. The book also contains an extended and careful...

Begotten or Made?: Human Procreation and Medical Technique

• ISBN:
• 0198266782
• Authors:
• Oliver O'Donovan

The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

• ISBN:
• 019852711X

Did you know that 'flavor of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlors in the 1940s, when a particular flavor would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice of writing impromptu notes on one's shirt cuff before speaking in public? These and many more idioms are explained and put into context in this second edition of the Oxford...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume III

• ISBN:
• 0199542074

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersection of ethical theory and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis...

Drawing the Head and Hands

• ISBN:
• 0670283851
• Authors:
• Andrew Loomis

Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of...

Antique Maps

• ISBN:
• 0714829544
• Authors:
• Carl Moreland

This is a standard reference work, incorporating a general historical background, methods of map making, practical advice on collecting old maps and a list of the major map makers. Organized country by country, it refers to over 600 cartographers active between 1450 and 1850.

Architects and Architecture of London

• ISBN:
• 0750683376
• Authors:
• Kenneth Allinson AADipl RIBA MAPM

Architects and Architecture of London is a visual, highly illustrated guide to London's greatest historic buildings and the lives of the architects who designed them. Read about the architectural forefathers of London, such as Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Robert Adam and John Nash, Butterfield and Street, Blomfield and Lutyens. Learn about those who, in the twentieth century, have helped to form the London we now...

Watercolor Workshop (PRACTICAL ART)

• ISBN:
• 0756619378
• Authors:
• Glynis Barnes-Mellish

Featuring essential techniques, warm-up exercises and inspiring projects with close-up, step-by-step photography and clear, encouraging text, this book is perfect for those who have always wanted to learn to paint with watercolors but don't know where to start.

Drawing Workshop II (Simple Steps to Success)

• ISBN:
• 0756628466
• Authors:
• DK Publishing

For budding artists who completed the exercises in DK's Drawing Workshop , here are twelve new and inspiring projects designed to help artists improve their skills and further develop their own style.

Watercolor Workshop II (Simple Steps to Success)

• ISBN:
• 0756628571
• Authors:
• Glynis Barnes-Mellish

For budding artists who completed the exercises in DK's Watercolor Workshop , here are twelve new and inspiring projects designed to help artists improve their skills and further develop their own style.

Webster's New World 575+ French Verbs

• ISBN:
• 0764577719
• Authors:
• Gail Stein

THE DEFINITIVE FRENCH VERB REFERENCE Now mastering French verbs is easier than ever. Whether you're studying French in high school or college, need to become more fluent for business, or want to brush up for a trip, Webster's New World 575+ French Verbs is the only verb reference you need. This handy resource lists verbs alphabetically in every mood and tense, complete with idiomatic examples-so you'll not only know how to use a verb, but when...

Origami : 30 fold-by-fold projects

• ISBN:
• 0785802622
• Authors:
• Paulo Mulatinho

Art and Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum (Language and Literacy Series)

• ISBN:
• 080774218X
• Authors:
• Arthur D. Efland

An examination of the cognitive implications of education in the arts to see how, or whether, individuals can develop their powers of thought more fully through widening their understanding of the arts. The author discusses three problems that can affect the status of arts within the classroom.

Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

• ISBN:
• 1850434123
• Authors:
• Gen Doy

Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, primarily in relation to contemporary art but also going back to the early modern period and Holbein's Ambassadors. She argues that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, exploring the self and identity--both the artist's and the viewer's--and...

Art and Science (Art and... Series)

• ISBN:
• 1850435847
• Authors:
• Sian Ede

While demonstrating how science is affecting the creation and interpretation of contemporary art, this book proposes that artistic insights are as important on their own terms as those in science and that we can and should accommodate both forms of knowledge. Featuring the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen Chadwick, and art-science collaborative ventures involving Dorothy Cross, Eduardo Kac and...

A Companion to Mexican Studies (Monografías A)

• ISBN:
• 1855661349
• Authors:
• Peter Standish

This most recent of the Tamesis Companion series traces the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. Dealing in turn with the cultures of Mesoamerica, the colonial period, the onset of independence and the modern era, the author explores Aztec arts, the role of the performing arts in the process of evangelisation, manifestations of cultural dependence, of the search for national...

Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self-Presentation in Japan (Dress, Body, Culture)

• ISBN:
• 1859734855
• Authors:
• Brian J. McVeigh

Uniforms are not unique to Japan, but their popularity there suggests important linkages: material culture, politico-economic projects, bodily management, and the construction of subjectivity are all connected to the wearing of uniforms. This book examines what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the expression of economic nationalism in Japan. Conformity in dress is especially apparent amongst students, who are required...

Udon's Art of Capcom

• ISBN:
• 1897376995
• Authors:
• UDON, Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang, Jo Chen, Omar Dogan

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise, Udon Entertainment is proud to present this special volume commemorating the studio's involvement with legendary video game company Capcom. Beautifully reproduced images from Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, Mega Man, Devil May Cry and more are showcased in this lush 300-page art book. Included are rare book covers, pin-ups, sketches, and merchandising artwork by...

Painful Pleasures: The Erotic Art of Lynn Paula Russell

• ISBN:
• 1898998957
• Authors:
• Lynn Paula Russell

Discover a world of Painful Pleasures vividly captured and portrayed in some of Lynn Paula Russell's most outstanding work. Many of the illustrations collected here were commissioned by corporal punishment magazines, Februs and Janus. Paula’s drawings are unashamedly erotic and full of the energies and emotions of sex. Her extraordinary imagination and realistic style carry you effortlessly into a realm of fantasy that is as rare as it is...

D'artiste: Character Modeling (D'artiste Digital Artists Master Class)

• ISBN:
• 1921002115
• Authors:
• Francisco A. Cortina, Pascal Blanch, Steven Stahlberg

No-Copy Advertising

• ISBN:
• 2880467403
• Authors:
• Lazar Dzamic

No-copy advertising does exactly what it says - promotes, publicises and sells without the use of words. Using examples from television, billboard, print and the Internet, Lazar Ozamic examines an intriguing variety of ads from the international arena. The unique relationship between consumer and brand - formed and developed by this method of advertising - is discussed, and (no)copywriters talk about their approach.

Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

• ISBN:
• 1402766785
• Authors:
• George Bridgman

The timeless classic on drawing human figures is back! Following impressive runs by Sterling’s previous editions comes a new, redesigned version of George W. Bridgman’s landmark work. It combines six well-known books by the celebrated artist and lecturer, who taught figure and anatomy drawing for many years at New York City’s Art Students League. This edition preserves Bridgman’s lessons and original sketches, but now features a...

Kerplunk (Authentic Guitar-Tab)

• ISBN:
• 1576236420
• Authors:
• Green Day

Titles are: 2000 Light Years Away * Welcome to Paradise * One for the Razorbacks * Christie Road * Private Ale * Dominated Love Slave * One of My Lies * 80 * Android * No One Knows * Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? * Words I Might Have Ate * Sweet Children * Best Thing in Town * Strangeland * My Generation.

Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere

• ISBN:
• 006170363X
• Authors:
• Charlie Todd, Alex Scordelis

A fake U2 concert. A deranged hypnotist. A book signing by a dead author. Welcome to the wild world of Improv Everywhere. From the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride to the legendary Grand Central Freeze, Improv Everywhere has been responsible for some of the most original and subversive pranks of the Internet age. In Causing a Scene , the group's agents provide a hilarious firsthand account of their mischievous antics. Learn how they created a time...

Freedom within Reason

• ISBN:
• 0195085655
• Authors:
• Susan Wolf

Offering a new view of the conditions of freedom and responsibility, Wolf here makes a case for freedom as the ability to act in accordance with one's values and the ability to form one's values in light of an appreciation of the True and the Good.

Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility

• ISBN:
• 0195095014
• Authors:
• Paul Russell

In this book, Russell examines Hume's notion of free will and moral responsibility. It is widely held that Hume presents us with a classic statement of a compatibilist position--that freedom and responsibility can be reconciled with causation and, indeed, actually require it. Russell argues that this is a distortion of Hume's view, because it overlooks the crucial role of moral sentiment in Hume's picture of human nature. Hume was concerned to...

Reasoning Practically

• ISBN:
• 0195125517

Reasoning Practically deals with a classical philosophical topic, the link between thought and action--how we think about what we do or ought to do, and how we move from thinking to doing. The essays by such renowned contributors as Donald Davidson, Barry Stroud, Cass R. Sunstein, Seyla Benhabib, and Gerald Dworkin, cover a range of issues raised when we link reason and practice. This collection connects state-of-the-art philosophical work with...

The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition

• ISBN:
• 0195126904
• Authors:
• David Carr

Challenging prevailing interpretations of the development of modern philosophy, this book proposes a reinterpretation of the transcendental tradition, as represented primarily by Kant and Husserl, and counters Heidegger's influential reading of these philosophers. Author David Carr defends their subtle and complex transcendental investigations of the self and the life of subjectivity, and seeks to revive an understanding of what Husserl calls...

Leibniz: Nature and Freedom

• ISBN:
• 0195143744

The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought. Where earlier English-language scholarship understood Leibniz's philosophy as issuing from his preoccupations with logic and language, recent work has recommended an account on which theological, ethical, and metaphysical themes figure centrally in Leibniz's thought throughout his career....

Art Nouveau Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)

• ISBN:
• 0486995194
• Authors:
• Dover

black-and-white motifs depict languid ladies, enchanting florals, and other designs that add panache to any print project. All rendered in the sensuous, curvilinear style of Art Nouveau, these enchanting designs can also be adapted for use as borders or cornerpieces for a virtually unlimited number of art and craft uses. Disk contains all items in book.

War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945

• ISBN:
• 0520082362
• Authors:
• Chang-tai Hung

This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino- Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural formsespecially dramas, cartoons, and newspapersto reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the...

Pop Celebration (Contemporary Band Course)

• ISBN:
• 0711978654
• Authors:
• Erickson, Frank, Edmondson, John, Bullock, Jack, Ployhar, James D.

Contents are: The Gang That Sang ""Heart of My Heart"" * I'm Always Chasing Rainbows * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * Over the Rainbow * Pennsylvania 6-5000 * Great Day * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo * Never on Sunday * Laura * Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky ) * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * The Trolley Song * The Magnificent Seven.

Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, Volume 1

• ISBN:
• 0750683481
• Authors:
• Siobhan Vernon, Nicola Garmory, Rachel Tennant

An indispensable tool for all landscape architects, this time-saving guide answers the most frequently asked questions in one pocket-sized volume. It is a concise, easy-to-read reference that gives instant access to a wide range of information needed on a daily basis, both out on site and in the office. Covering all the major topics, including hard landscaping, soft landscaping as well as planning and legislation, the pocket book also includes a...

How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principles of Animation

• ISBN:
• 0240810333
• Authors:
• Tony White

Become Tony White's personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond.all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. Includes hands-on...

Natural and Enhanced Remediation Systems (Geraghty & Miller Environmental Science and Engineering Series.)

• ISBN:
• 1566702828
• Authors:
• Suthan S. Suthersan

Building on the success of bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies, Natural and Enhanced Remediation Systems explores remediation techniques that use the beneficial effects provided by Mother Nature. Written by a leader in the industry, the book provides state-of-the-art information on natural and enhanced remediation techniques such as monitored natural attenuation, in situ reactive zones, bio-augmentation, in situ chemical oxidation,...

Control Systems for Live Entertainment, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0240809378
• Authors:
• John Huntington

If you are interested in how control systems and computer networks are used in all areas of live entertainment, Control Systems for Live Entertainment is the industry standard reference. With a unique combined focus on computers, networking, art, and practice, this book offers an in-depth examination of control for lighting, lasers, sound, , stage machinery, animatronics, special effects, and pyrotechnics for concerts, theme parks, theatre,...

Secrets of the Hand: Soloing Strategies for Hand Drummers

• ISBN:
• 0963880160
• Authors:
• Alan Dworsky & Betsy Sansby, Alan Alan Dworsky, Betsy Sansby

This book is for advanced hand drummers who want to play complex solos using simple sequences of hand strokes. Whether you play Djembe, conga, or ashiko, the practical hand-pattern strategies explained here will help you get the most out of your hands with the least amount of effort. And whether you want to solo in a traditional African or Afro-Cuban ensemble, in a drum circle, in a band, or in your living room along with your favorite CDs,...

Learning Debian Gnu/Linux

• ISBN:
• 1565927052
• Authors:
• Bill McCarty

Learning Debian GNU/Linux will guide any new user of Linux through the installing and use of Debian GNU/Linux, the entirely Open Source version of the Linux operating system. It demystifies Linux in terms familiar to Windows users and gives readers only what they need to start being successful users of Linux. Learning Debian GNU/Linux takes the reader step by step through the process of installing and setting up a Debian system, and provides a...

Elgar the Music Maker

• ISBN:
• 184383295X
• Authors:
• Diana McVeagh

'The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar is first-rate,' wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study of the composer, published in 1955. In the completely new Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music, scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered and using them to assess the ways in which they affect the compositions. Diana McVeagh explores Elgar's complex personality and his compositional...

Digital Nature Photography: The Art and the Science

• ISBN:
• 0240808568
• Authors:
• John and Barbara Gerlach

Over 50,000 photographers can't be wrong! John and Barbara Gerlach finally write the book their workshop attendees have been asking for! Digital Nature Photography is a how-to guide for photographers who want to take their work to the next level. Written by professionals with over 20 years experience, the Gerlachs reveal enlightening techniques for shooting nature images in the field. The combination of artistic approach and impeccable technique...

The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution

• ISBN:
• 024080998X

Defining photography is impossible. Revealing it is another matter, and that's what The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography does, with each turn of the page. History: The technical origins and evolution of photography are half of the story. The other half consists of the ways that cultural forces have transformed photography into a constellation of practices more diverse than any other mode of representation. Photographers can tell a more...

Lighting by Design, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750687681
• Authors:
• Christopher Cuttle MA FCIBSE FIESANZ FIESNA LC

Lighting by Design provides guidance on where to find inspiration for lighting ideas, how to plan the technical detail and how to execute the plan to create safe, effective and beautiful schemes. Christopher Cuttle's unique three level approach uses Observation, Visualisation and Realisation as the means to achieve these aims. Cuttle is a well known figure in the UK, US and Australia and New Zealand, with a wealth of experience of both teaching...

Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

• ISBN:
• 156592567X
• Authors:
• Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern

Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C shows how to extend the capabilities of the Apache web server. It explains the design of Apache, mod_perl, and the Apache API, then demonstrates how to use them for: Rewriting CGI scripts as Apache modules to vastly improve performanceServer-side filtering of HTML documents to embed special markup or code (much like SSI)Enhancing server log functionalityConverting file formats on the flyImplementing dynamic...

Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

• ISBN:
• 1598631616
• Authors:
• Ph.D., John P Flynt

Perl Power! provides programmers with a learning and reference resource on Perl. All readers will find tutorials that utilize a "learn by doing" approach that they can work from as soon as they get the book home. The tutorials build upon each other throughout the book until a level of expertise is reached. All chapters offer complete programs to demonstrate the topics discussed, with source code available on the book's companion website. These...

An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: An Outline of Theories, Implementation, and Application with Special Consideration of English, French, and German (Cognitive Technologies)

• ISBN:
• 354025031X
• Authors:
• Pierre M. Nugues

The areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics have continued to grow in recent years, driven by the demand to automatically process text and spoken data. With the processing power and techniques now available, research is scaling up from lab prototypes to real-world, proven applications. This book teaches the principles of natural language processing, first covering linguistics issues such as encoding, entropy, and...

Advanced Photoshop Elements 7 for Digital Photographers

• ISBN:
• 0240521587
• Authors:
• Philip Andrews

This essential guide for intermediate/advanced photographers has now been fully updated for Elements 7. Bestselling author and Elements guru Philip Andrews turns his expansive knowledge to this powerful application, delivering, once again, a practical approach in a crystal-clear writing style. For the advanced Elements user, this book offers a standalone guide to advancing knowledge of the software. For those with a little less experience, it...

Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects

• ISBN:
• 0262522934

Puppets and masks are central to some of the oldest worldwide forms of art making and performance, as well as some of the newest. In the twentieth century, French symbolists, Russian futurists and constructivists, Prague School semioticians, and avant-garde artists around the world have all explored the experimental, social, and political value of performing objects. In recent years, puppets, masks, and objects have been the focus of Broadway...

Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity

• ISBN:
• 0292712952
• Authors:
• Cynthia Becker

In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly coloured carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewellery. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly beautiful - and they are typically made by women. Like other Amazigh (Berber) groups (but in contrast to the Arab societies of North Africa), the...

Paradoxy of Modernism

• ISBN:
• 0300108206
• Authors:
• Professor Robert Scholes

In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions—high/low, old/new, hard/soft, poetry/rhetoric—Scholes contends that these distinctions are in fact confused and misleading. Such oppositions are instances of...

Biological Transmutations

• ISBN:
• 0846401959
• Authors:
• C. L. Kervran

Art Nouveau Designs (Design Source Books)

• ISBN:
• 0855329734
• Authors:
• Judy Balchin

Packed with beautiful Art Nouveau designs—flowers and leaves, birds and animals, figures, borders, frames, and more.

Envisioning Information

• ISBN:
• 0961392118
• Authors:
• Edward R. Tufte

A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim

Concept Design: Works from Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers (v. 1)

• ISBN:
• 0972667601
• Authors:
• Harold Belker, Steve Burg, James Clyne, Mark Goerner, Nick Pugh, Neville Page, Scott Robertson

ArtTalk, Student Edition

• ISBN:
• 0078305993
• Authors:
• Glencoe McGraw-Hill

The perfect blend of art criticism, art history, aesthetics, and studio production. ArtTalk has expanded its coverage of art history, strengthened its technology integration features, and placed more emphasis on the performing arts - all while maintaining its focus on a media approach to the elements and principles of art.

A System of Rights

• ISBN:
• 0198273746
• Authors:
• Rex Martin

The justification of political authority is a long-standing issue of political philosophy, one which persistently defies solution. This book provides an original justification by establishing a framework for dealing with this problem. The model that emerges is one in which certain kinds of political rights are emphasized. Martin discusses the implications of such a system for democratic institutions, political allegiance, punishment, and...

The Business of Economics

• ISBN:
• 0198292228
• Authors:
• John Kay

Medicine and business management share certain similarities, writes John Kay. For centuries, the theories behind medical practice were mostly nonsense. Doctors simply applied fashionable nostrums, bleeding one patient, starving another, and sometimes the patient got better, sometimes not. The prestige of a doctor rested more on the social rank of his patients and the confidence of his assertions than on the evidence of his cures. Much the same...

Same Sex, Different Politics: Success and Failure in the Struggles over Gay Rights (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0226544095
• Authors:
• Gary Mucciaroni

Why is it so much harder for American same-sex couples to get married than it is for them to adopt children? And why does our military prevent gays from serving openly even though jurisdictions nationwide continue to render such discrimination illegal? Illuminating the conditions that engender these contradictory policies, Same Sex, Different Politics explains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from...

GMAT For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764596535
• Authors:
• Scott Hatch J.D., Lisa Hatch M.A.

If you’re planning to apply for an MBA program, you’re required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of sharpening number 2 pencils were over! How do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? Never fear. GMAT For Dummies, Fifth Edition , puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. This highly readable, friendly guide makes the study process as painless as possible,...

The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation: Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

• ISBN:
• 1844073645
• Authors:
• K. N. Ninan

* Placing an economic value on biodiversity is seen by many as the best and perhaps only successful way of preserving it while also protecting livelihoods * This is the most comprehensive examination of valuation ever conducted, focusing on one of the world’s top eight biodiversity "hotspots", with principles widely applicable across the world * Original comparisons of the different "values" of biodiversity, trade-offs, incentives for...

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

• ISBN:
• 1576754758
• Authors:
• John B. Izzo

What are the secrets to finding happiness? Why do some people live well and die happy? John Izzo asked thousands of people to identify the 'wisest' person they knew. The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die shares what he learned from over 200 people aged 60-106 whom others said had found the meaning in life. From town barbers to Holocaust survivors, from aboriginal chiefs to CEO's, these people had over 18,000 years of life experience....

Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change

• ISBN:
• 1576754936
• Authors:
• David L Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, Jacqueline M Stavros

One of today's most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from McDonald's to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children. The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has something that works right -- things that give it life when it is vital, effective, and successful. AI begins by identifying this positive core and connecting organizational...

Authentic Conversations: Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment

• ISBN:
• 1576755959
• Authors:
• Jamie Showkeir, Maren Showkeir

Talk Does Matter! In this groundbreaking new book, Jamie and Maren Showkeir take something people typically think of as merely functional--ordinary conversation--and show how it can lead to a workforce that is engaged and energized or to one that is alienated and uninspired. All too often workplace conversations create what the authors call parent-child relationships. People hide facts, sugarcoat reality, and claim helplessness to try to control...

Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing

• ISBN:
• 1592138888
• Authors:
• Clinton Sanders, D Angus Vail

Originally published in 1989, this ground-breaking ethnographic exploration of tattooing - and the art world surrounding it - covers the history, anthropology, and sociology of body modification practices; the occupational experience of the tattooist; the process and social consequences of becoming a tattooed person; and the prospects of "serious" tattooing becoming an accepted art form. Curiously, despite the greater prevalence of tattoos and...

Terror and the War on Dissent: Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda

• ISBN:
• 3642006361
• Authors:
• Ian Cram

Located within wider debates about ‘security versus liberty’ in our post 9/11 world, the book analyses the new landscape of UK counter terrorism powers and offences and focuses upon the deleterious consequences of the so-called ‘war on terror’ on freedom of political expression and association. Questioning the compatibility of recent speech-limiting measures with liberalism’s established commitment to free speech and international...

Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives. (Consciousness, Literature & the Arts)

• ISBN:
• 9042025816
• Authors:
• Gregory Minissale

Framing Consciousness in Art examines how the conscious mind enacts and processes the frame that both surrounds the work of art yet is also shown as an element inside its space. These 'frames-in-frames' may be seen in works by Teniers, Velázquez, Vermeer, Degas, Rodin, and Cartier-Bresson and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Buñuel. The book also deals with framing in a variety of cultural contexts: Indian, Chinese and African, going...

Furniture for the 21st Century

• ISBN:
• 067089169X
• Authors:
• Betty Norbury

A unique, up-to-the-minute collection of the finest hand-crafted furnitureA mirror whose exquisite veneering evokes earlier times. An endlessly versatile modular boardroom table in sensuous walnut. A new-century chest whose ten different woods mimic the bold, complex strata of a rock face. Furniture for the 21st Century highlights these and many other superb pieces from thirty-six eminent designer makers whose work has been commissioned from...

Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse

• ISBN:
• 0739127535
• Authors:
• John Ingulsrud, Kate Allen

The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities coming out of Japanese animation, manga, and video games are together called Japan Cool. The origins of the movement are in manga, the practices of the readers, the diversity of the titles, and the sheer number of works.

Midpoints: Identify & Integrate Midpoints Into Horoscope Synthesis (Special Topics in Astrology)

• ISBN:
• 0738709832
• Authors:
• Don McBroom

Midpoints add nuance, detail, and depth to your astrological interpretations. Yet some astrologers shy away from this valuable analysis, perhaps daunted by the sheer volume of measurements involved. Don McBroom offers an easy approach to midpoints for professionals and individuals. You'll learn how to single out the most significant midpoint pictures and interpret them. McBroom explores many focal points-including the Sun/Moon midpoint, which...

Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam

• ISBN:
• 084931707X
• Authors:
• Susan Hansche CISSP, John Berti CISSP, Chris Hare

Candidates for the CISSP exam can now go directly to the source for study materials that are indispensable in achieving certification. The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP Exam is derived from the actual CBK review course created and administered by the non-profit security consortium (ISC)2. In addition to being an invaluable study guide, this book is detailed enough to serve as an authoritative information security resource. Both of the...

A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga

• ISBN:
• 1577310179
• Authors:
• Vimala Schneider McClure

This text covers breathing and relaxation, meditation and mantras, kudalini and chakras, yoga's creation theory, and life changes such as menstruation, pregnancy and menopause.

The Little Book of Yoga Breathing: Pranayama Made Easy. . .

• ISBN:
• 157863301X
• Authors:
• Scott Shaw

Pranayama, the practice of breath control, is detailed here in an easy-to-understand and even easier-to-practise format. Professional yoga instructor Scott Shaw introduces 16 breathing exercises and shows you how to get the best benefit from each of the forms by training, refining and witnessing your breath. Try one of the calming breaths, Nadi Sudi or the Nerve Purifying Breath. Have a long day ahead with no breaks until after dinner? Allow...

15 Minute Gentle Yoga

• ISBN:
• 0756629268
• Authors:
• Louise Grime

No time to exercise? No problem! DK's new 15-Minute Fitness series gives you all the tools you need to squeeze regular exercise into your life. This fantastic new format offers: four detailed gatefolds for easy, step-by-step instruction; a DVD to walk you through each routine; and a fully-illustrated, fully-annotated book to help you perfect your technique. Choose one of four complete mini-workouts each day to target a specific part of the body,...

Yoga and the Luminous: Patanjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom

• ISBN:
• 0791474763
• Authors:
• Christopher Key Chapple

A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.

Maran Illustrated Yoga

• ISBN:
• 1592008682
• Authors:
• maranGraphics Development Group

Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, Maran’s Illustrated Guide to Yoga is a valuable resource for all readers, regardless of age or fitness level. Instead of describing the myriad ways to perform each pose, Maran’s Illustrated Guide to Yoga shows the reader the best way, while the full-color photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions walk the reader through each pose from beginning to end. Thorough topic introductions and...

Surrealism Against The Current: Tracts and Declarations

• ISBN:
• 0745317790
• Authors:
• Michael Richardson, Krzystof Fijalkowski

Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement. Including a wealth of original works, it traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how,...

Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, And the U.S. House of Representatives (Religion and Politics Series)

• ISBN:
• 1589010728
• Authors:
• Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon

Cultural factions are an intrinsic part of the fabric of American politics. But does this mean that there is no room for compromise when groups hold radically different viewpoints on major issues? Not necessarily. For example, in a June 2003 Time/CNN poll, 49 per cent of respondents identified themselves as pro-choice and 46 per cent identified as pro-life. But in the same poll, 81 per cent indicated that abortion should be "always legal" or...

The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music

• ISBN:
• 0380807440
• Authors:
• Don Campbell

In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect®, Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music. Now he shows you how to help the children in your life experience the same benefits. You don't have to be an expert on classical music to use this wise and compassionate book. Focusing each chapter on a particular age -- from prenatal through age ten -- Don Campbell explains how music is the perfect tool to improve children's...

Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy

• ISBN:
• 0415963478
• Authors:
• Lisa Hinz

Expressive Therapies Continuum is distinctive in its application as a foundational theory in the field of art therapy. First developed by Vija Lusebrink, this theory can be used by persons of any theoretical orientation, and has the ability to unite art therapists of varying backgrounds. The information contained in this book demonstrates how the Expressive Therapies Continuum provides a framework for the organization of assessment information,...

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Launching an eBay Business

• ISBN:
• 0789730588
• Authors:
• Michael Miller

A real-world business book for the explosion of eBay entrepreneurs! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Launching an eBay Business guides you step-by-step through the process of setting up an eBay business, and offers real-world advice on how to run that business on a day-to-day basis and maximize financial success. This book covers determining what kind of business to run, writing an action-oriented business plan, establishing an effective accounting...

I Can Draw Magical Creatures

• ISBN:
• 0756619866
• Authors:
• DK Publishing

Fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions take budding artists from basic outlines to finished works of art in this brand-new drawing series. As they create lifelike drawings and develop key illustration techniques, creative kids will be amazed how easy it is to create their very own masterpieces.

Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem

• ISBN:
• 0061434485
• Authors:
• Jack Prelutsky

Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents? Jack Prelutsky has written more than a thousand poems about all of these things—and many others. In this book he gives you the inside scoop on writing poetry and shows you how you can turn your own experiences and stories about your family, your pets, and your...

User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)

• ISBN:
• 140204433X

Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. Some approaches stress the importance of technology and technological innovation, while others focus on behavioral change. Each approach has its limitations, however, since technology and behavior often appear so closely intertwined. Human behavior results not only from intentions and deliberate decisions, but from its interaction with technological...

Dictionary and Introduction to Global Environmental Governance

• ISBN:
• 1844077500
• Authors:
• Richard E. Saunier, Richard A. Meganck

This unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG), written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation of over 5000 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official sources. An introductory essay frames the major issues in GEG and outlines the pitfalls of talking past one another when discussing the most critical of issues facing the planet. It challenges those...

Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids

• ISBN:
• 084930749X
• Authors:
• David W. Nicholson

Finite element modeling has developed into one of the most important tools at an engineer's disposal, especially in applications involving nonlinearity. While engineers coping with such applications may have access to powerful computers and finite element codes, too often they lack the strong foundation in finite element analysis (FEA) that nonlinear problems require.Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids builds that foundation. It...

The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917-1991

• ISBN:
• 0198297386
• Authors:
• Evan Mawdsley, Stephen White

This ground-breaking book examines the Soviet ruling elite over the entire period of Communist rule. It serves as a collective biography of nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991. The book is based on archival research, only available after the collapse of communism, and extensive interviews with former Central Committee members.

Invitation to Discrete Mathematics

• ISBN:
• 0198502087
• Authors:
• Jiri Matousek, Jaroslav Nesetril

Invitation to Discrete Mathematics is at once an introduction and a thoroughly comprehensive textbook for courses in combinatorics and graph theory. It also contains introductory chapters for more specialized courses such as probabilistic methods, applied linear algebra, combinatorial enumeration, and operations research. A lively and entertaining style is combined with rigorous mathematics, and the many illustrations, examples and exercises...

Applications of Combinatorial Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series New Series)

• ISBN:
• 0198511922

In the last thirty years, combinatorial mathematics has found itself at the heart of many technological applications. The aims of the conference on which this book is based were to stimulate combinatorial mathematicians to pursue new lines of research of potential and practical importance, and to uncover the breadth of applications to the subject. Topics covered include neural networks, cryptography, radio frequency assignment for mobile...

Analytic and Elementary Number Theory: A Tribute to Mathematical Legend Paul Erdos (Developments in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0792382730
• Authors:
• Krishnaswami Alladi, P.D.T.A. Elliott, A. Granville, G. Tenenbaum

This volume contains a collection of papers in Analytic and Elementary Number Theory in memory of Professor Paul Erdos, one of the greatest mathematicians of this century. Written by many leading researchers, the papers deal with the most recent advances in a wide variety of topics, including arithmetical functions, prime numbers, the Riemann zeta function, probabilistic number theory, properties of integer sequences, modular forms, partitions,...

The Russian Civil War 1918-22 (Essential Histories)

• ISBN:
• 1846032717
• Authors:
• David Bullock

The Russian Civil War was the most important event of its kind in the 20th century. It changed the lives of over half a billion people and dramatically shaped the political, human and economic geography of Europe, the Far East and Central Asia. Over a tempestuous four-year period the Communist Red Army and the loosely formed, anti-Bolshevist White Army battled in a war that would totally transform the vast Eurasian heartland and lead to...

Polynomial Representations of GL_n: with an Appendix on Schensted Correspondence and Littelmann Paths (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 3540469443
• Authors:
• J.A. Green

The first half of this book contains the text of the first edition of LNM volume 830, Polynomial Representations of GL n . This classic account of matrix representations, the Schur algebra, the modular representations of GL n , and connections with symmetric groups, has been the basis of much research in representation theory. The second half is an Appendix, and can be read independently of the first. It is an account of the Littelmann path...

Computational Mechanics of Composite Materials: Sensitivity, Randomness and Multiscale Behaviour (Engineering Materials and Processes)

• ISBN:
• 1852334274
• Authors:
• M.M. Kaminski

Composite materials play a vital role in modern engineering, from aerospace to nuclear devices. Computational mechanics endeavors to provide precise numerical models of composites. More recently, it has been necessary to take account of the stochastic nature of their behavior indicated by experiment. COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS stresses the advantages of combining theoretical advancements in applied mathematics and mechanics...

Axiom of Choice (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 3540309896
• Authors:
• Horst Herrlich

AC, the axiom of choice, because of its non-constructive character, is the most controversial mathematical axiom, shunned by some, used indiscriminately by others. This treatise shows paradigmatically that: - Disasters happen without AC: Many fundamental mathematical results fail (being equivalent in ZF to AC or to some weak form of AC). - Disasters happen with AC: Many undesirable mathematical monsters are being created (e.g., non...

Combinatorial Stochastic Processes: Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXII - 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics / Ecole d'Eté Probabilit.Saint-Flour) (v. 32)

• ISBN:
• 354030990X
• Authors:
• Jim Pitman

The purpose of this text is to bring graduate students specializing in probability theory to current research topics at the interface of combinatorics and stochastic processes, in particular the theory of random combinatorial structures such as partitions, permutations, trees, forests, and mappings, and connections between the asymptotic theory of enumeration of such structures and the theory of stochastic processes like Brownian motion and...

Proofs from THE BOOK

• ISBN:
• 3540404600
• Authors:
• Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler

From the Reviews: "... Inside PFTB (Proofs from The Book) is indeed a glimpse of mathematical heaven, where clever insights and beautiful ideas combine in astonishing and glorious ways. There is vast wealth within its pages, one gem after another. Some of the proofs are classics, but many are new and brilliant proofs of classical results. ...Aigner and Ziegler... write: "... all we offer is the examples that we have selected, hoping that our...

Parties and Their Members: Organizing for Victory in Britain and Germany (Comparative European Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0198279183
• Authors:
• Susan E. Scarrow

Why, in an age of television campaigning and direct-mail fundraising, do some parties nevertheless continue to invest in enrolling and maintaining formal memberships? This book answers this question by tracing the post-1945 development of organizing strategies in the British Labour and Conservative Parties, and in the German Christian Democratic Union and Social Democratic Party. Drawing upon often neglected sources, the author shows that party...

Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland 1910-1916

• ISBN:
• 019927357X
• Authors:
• Michael Wheatley

John Redmond's constitutional, parliamentary, Irish Party went from dominating Irish politics to oblivion in just four years from 1914-1918. The goal of limited Home Rule, peacefully achieved, appeared to die with it. Given the speed of the party's collapse, its death has been seen as inevitable. Though such views have been challenged, there has been no detailed study of the Irish Party in the last years of union with Britain, before the world...

On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere

• ISBN:
• 0300122411
• Authors:
• Stuart Finkel

Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In On the Ideological Front , Stuart Finkel tells the story of the1922 expulsion from Soviet Russia of almost one hundred prominent intellectuals, including professors and journalists, philosophers and engineers, writers and agronomists. Finkel’s meticulously...

From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

• ISBN:
• 0300151233
• Authors:
• Joseph E. Lowndes

The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region’s transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in this book, this rightward shift was not...

Dualisability: Unary Algebras and Beyond (Advances in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 038727569X
• Authors:
• Jane Pitkethly, Brian Davey

Natural duality theory is one of the major growth areas within general algebra. This text provides a short path to the forefront of research in duality theory. It presents a coherent approach to new results in the area, as well as exposing open problems. Unary algebras play a special role throughout the text. Individual unary algebras are relatively simple and easy to work with. But as a class they have a rich and complex entanglement with...

Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age

• ISBN:
• 0849312396
• Authors:
• Patrick McBride, Jody Patilla, Craig Robinson, Peter Thermos, Edward P. Moser

Touches all the bases you need to build a secure enterprise. Drawing on the experience of the world-class METASeS consulting team in building and advising on security programs, this guide shows you how to create a workable security program to protect your organization's internet risk. Softcover.

US Hegemony and International Organizations

• ISBN:
• 0199261423

US Hegemony and International Organizations, written by a group of leading scholars from the US and around the world, examines the role of the United States in a variety of global and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank and IMF, the WTO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.

Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader

• ISBN:
• 019926256X

This work brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, of gradience in meaning, word classes and syntax. Issues such as how many grains make a heap, when a puddle becomes a pond, and so forth, have occupied thinkers since Aristotle and, since the 1980s, have been the subject of increasing interest among linguists as well as in fields such as artificial intelligence and computational...

Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University

• ISBN:
• 0199266859
• Authors:
• Thomas Albert Howard

In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia's flagship university in the nineteenth century. In contradistinction to historians...

The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems

• ISBN:
• 0199275262
• Authors:
• Claudio Ciborra

How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants. The former have offered multiple ways to represent, model, and build applications that would streamline and accelerate data flows, while the latter have been busy linking the deployment of ICT's with strategy and the redesign of business processes. This book...

High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning

• ISBN:
• 1857882601
• Authors:
• John Naisbitt

(Nicholas Brealey Publishing) A penetrating look at technology in business and contemporary society, taking the reader on a tour of what the author describes as our 'technology immersion' and our accelerated search for meaning. Examines and probes key trends, focusing on the effects of technology in reshaping society. Softcover. DLC: Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance

• ISBN:
• 1848823002

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance offers the state of the art from leading researchers and experts in the field. This broad ranging volume discusses the topic from various technical points of view and also examines surveillance from a societal perspective. A comprehensive introduction carefully guides the reader through the collection of cutting-edge research and current thinking. The technical elements of the field feature topics from...

Advances in Information and Computer Security: Third International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2008, Kagawa, Japan, November 25-27, 2008. Proceedings (Lecture ... Computer Science / Security and Cryptology)

• ISBN:
• 3540895973

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2008, held in Kagawa, Japan, in November 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptography, signature and signcryption, software security, privacy protection and contents protection, authentication and...

Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology (Interdisciplinary Statistics)

• ISBN:
• 1584888407
• Authors:
• Andrew B. Lawson

Focusing on data commonly found in public health databases and clinical settings, Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology provides an overview of the main areas of Bayesian hierarchical modeling and its application to the geographical analysis of disease. The book explores a range of topics in Bayesian inference and modeling, including Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Gibbs sampling, the Metropolis–Hastings...

Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge

• ISBN:
• 1576751724
• Authors:
• Geoffrey M Bellman

You are not in charge and you want to make a difference: that is the dilemma. You may not know who is in charge in today’s changing, temporary, and virtual organizations, but you know you are not! You are searching for ways to contribute through the work you do and gain some personal satisfaction in the process. This book can help you do just that. In this new edition of his classic book, Geoff Bellman shows readers how to make things happen...

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

• ISBN:
• 1576752321

In helping establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences, POS, this book examines a variety of positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes. Positive Organizational Scholarship does not adopt one particular theory or framework, but encompasses any phenomenon that leads to positive, nurturing results. This collection of essays, written by established senior scholars, explains why and...

Play to Your Strengths: Managing Your Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage

• ISBN:
• 0071422536
• Authors:
• Haig Nalbantian, Richard Guzzo, Dave Kieffer, Jay Doherty

The breakthrough approach for aligning people with strategy for higher profits Organizations that select, develop, deploy, manage, and motivate their people to produce outstanding business results have an extraordinary competitive advantage that others can't copy. Backed by Mercer's nine-year, $10 million study of leading companies around the world, Play to Your Strengths shows how to leverage a company's human capital strategy into business...

Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?: Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization

• ISBN:
• 0131913646
• Authors:
• Robert Mittelstaedt

What catastrophes have in common -- and how to keep them from happening to you! Introducing M3: the first systematic approach to Managing mistakes so they don't lead to disaster Building systems that prevent 'failure chains' from spiraling out of control Avoiding failures in preparation, strategy, execution, and culture Reducing the impact and cost of the mistakes you do make Also includes coverage of the unique 'mistake chains' facing...

The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways To Do Less And Accomplish More

• ISBN:
• 0738209120
• Authors:
• Bill Jensen

In the Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways To Do Less and Accomplish More , Bill Jensen, author of the best-selling Simplicity , offers step-by-step techniques to running your business more successfully and getting more accomplished in a shorter amount of time. In today's extremely fast-paced world, Jensen's user-friendly-and often hilarious-survival guide is an indispensable guide to workplace survival. In a world of more-better-faster, the...

Shape Analysis and Structuring (Mathematics and Visualization)

• ISBN:
• 3540332642

Several techniques have been developed in the literature for processing different aspects of the geometry of shapes, for representing and manipulating a shape at different levels of detail, and for describing a shape at a structural level as a concise, part-based, or iconic model. Such techniques are used in many different contexts, such as industrial design, biomedical applications, entertainment, environmental monitoring, or cultural heritage....

Mastering ACLS

• ISBN:
• 1582553637

Mastering ACLS, Second Edition will help health care professionals successfully complete the American Heart Association's Advanced Cardiac Life Support course and certification exam. This quick-review outline-format study guide covers the core knowledge and skills needed for ACLS--including detailed, illustrated life support techniques, core case studies, arrhythmias, defibrillation procedures, I.V. techniques, cardiovascular pharmacology,...

Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: A Guide to Living with Impeccable Grace and Style

• ISBN:
• 0738212784
• Authors:
• Lucia van der Post

Lucia van der Post has dispensed advice on style and living for more than three decades. Her subtlety, taste, common sense, confidence, and witty, aphoristic style have garnered her legions of fans, a must-read weekly style column in the Times of London, and a longtime perch at the top of UK lifestyle journalism. Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me —a bestseller in the UK upon publication in fall 2007—is van der Post’s warm, intimate guide...

Experimental Sound and Radio

• ISBN:
• 0262731304

Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review , explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Taking the approach that there is no single entity that constitutes "radio," but rather a multitude of radios, the essays explore various aspects of its apparatus, practice, forms, and utopias. The...

Clinical Manual of Anxiety Disorders

• ISBN:
• 1585620769

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent, persistent, disabling, and costly psychiatric disorders, yet they are often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Fortunately, there have been major advances in understanding and treating these conditions in recent years; this is one of the most exciting areas in modern medicine. This clinical manual has earned its place in the literature as one of just a few volumes that covers all of the major anxiety...

SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing

• ISBN:
• 0226165086
• Authors:
• Johanna Drucker

Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge.            Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and...

Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

• ISBN:
• 0803216084
• Authors:
• Prof. Annette Stott PhD

As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the “Wild West,” cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together...

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

• ISBN:
• 1406516961
• Authors:
• Faxian

A recording of the Chinese Buddhist monk's travels to bring Buddhist scriptures to India and Sri Lanka between 399 and 412AD.

Functional Beauty

• ISBN:
• 0199205248
• Authors:
• Glenn Parsons, Allen Carlson

Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson offer an in-depth philosophical study of the relationship between function and aesthetic value, breaking with the philosophical tradition of seeing the two as separate. They begin by developing and defending, in a general way, the concept of Functional Beauty, exploring how the role of function in aesthetic appreciation has been treated by some notable thinkers in the history of aesthetics. They then consider the...

3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body

• ISBN:
• 1931777985

3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body covers the areas of modeling and animating 3D synthetic human models at a level that is useful to students, researchers, software developers and content generators. The reader will be presented with the latest, research-level, techniques for the analysis and synthesis of still and moving human bodies, with particular emphasis in facial and gesture characteristics.

Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax

• ISBN:
• 0060528478
• Authors:
• Kate Berridge

Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity. In Madame Tussaud , Kate Berridge...

Graphics Programming Methods (Graphics Series)

• ISBN:
• 1584502991
• Authors:
• Jeff Lander

The capabilities and computational speed of today’s hardware have dramatically enhanced graphics technology. These improvements happen so quickly, however, that it is often difficult for programmers to keep pace. Graphics Programming Methods is a unique collection of application and technique-driven articles that provide practical methods for solving problems facing every graphics programmer. Each article is written by an experienced...

Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication

• ISBN:
• 0792376188
• Authors:
• Carl R. Nassar, Bala Natarajan, Zhiqiang Wu, David A. Wiegandt, S. Alireza Zekavat, Steve Shattil

Multi-carrier technologies have emerged as important instruments in telecommunications. OFDM is in the forefront, with its adoption by the IEEE 802.11 standards committee and the European HYPERLAN standards group. Following OFDM, MC-CDMA is also demonstrating considerable promise when compared to competing technologies. According to the authors, these technologies are just the beginning in the coming multi-carrier revolution. In Multi-Carrier...

Applied Software Engineering Using Apache Jakarta Commons (Programming Series)

• ISBN:
• 1584502460
• Authors:
• Christian Gross

Applied Software Engineering with Apache Jakarta Commons is a software engineering based guide to the Apache Jakarta Commons components (e.g., Betwixt, Digester, Discovery, Collections), other Apache projects such as Ant, the Axis Web Service toolkit, and the popular JUnit framework. The book emphasis focuses on solutions to complex problems using a simple task-driven approach. In this task-driven approach, the idea is to define a generic...

Animating Real-Time Game Characters (Game Development Series)

• ISBN:
• 1584502703
• Authors:
• Paul Steed

Learn the basics of what makes a great character model and gain new insights to the many issues facing the character animator. Using the tried and proven methods found in Animating Real-Time Game Characters, youíll quickly bring your character animation to the next level. Find detailed coverage on modeling, rigging, and weighting real-time game characters using 3ds max and character studio. Explore effective keyframing techniques that focus on...

The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation)

• ISBN:
• 019927665X
• Authors:
• Christina Riggs

This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art, supported by catalogue entries, the study explores...

MEMS and NEMS: Systems, Devices, and Structures

• ISBN:
• 0849312620
• Authors:
• Sergey Edward Lyshevski

The development of micro- and nano-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) foreshadows momentous changes not only in the technological world, but in virtually every aspect of human life. The future of the field is bright with opportunities, but also riddled with challenges, ranging from further theoretical development through advances in fabrication technologies, to developing high-performance nano- and microscale systems, devices, and structures,...

ASM Handbook: Volume 8: Mechanical Testing and Evaluation (Asm Handbook) (Asm Handbook) (Asm Handbook) (Asm Handbook)

• ISBN:
• 0871703890
• Authors:
• Howard Kuhn

This book is ASM's standard reference on the mechanical characteristics and testing of metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites. Understand the basics of mechanical behavior with in-depth coverage on testing methods for those materials. Comparative mechanical properties and the mechanical characteristics of metals, plastics, and ceramics are included throughout for general reference. Updated references to ISO, ASTM, DIN, EN, JIS and other...

The Great Goddesses of Egypt

• ISBN:
• 0806132027
• Authors:
• Barbara S. Lesko

Insect Symbiosis (Contemporary Topics in Entomology)

• ISBN:
• 0849312868

Insect Symbiosis is a collection of chapters written by world authorities on the microbes that can be called symbionts that are associated with insects and mites. Whether bacteria, fungi or spiroplasmids, and whether endosymbionts or casual gut symbionts, the authors describe some of the latest work in a field that has grown rapidly since the development of the newer molecular methods, which allowed for the identification of even minute samples...

The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)

• ISBN:
• 1845115201

NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENTNew Encounters: Arts, Cultures, ConceptsSeries Editor: Griselda PollockThis timely new series, with eminent art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock as series editor, brings together major international commentators and also introduces a new generation of emerging scholars. Resisting both the rejection of theory and the current displacement of art history in favour of visual culture, New Encounters instead...

Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900

• ISBN:
• 0199276684
• Authors:
• Geoffrey Cantor

How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science: scientific research, science education, science-related careers, and...

From Resource Allocation to Strategy

• ISBN:
• 0199277443

Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert have collected together some of the leading experts on strategy to examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Is strategy a coherent plan conceived at the top by a visionary leader, or is it formed by a series of smaller decisions, not always reflecting what top management has in mind? Often it is by examining how options for using resources are...

The Origin of Satan

• ISBN:
• 0679401407
• Authors:
• Elaine Pagels

A study on the role of the devil in biblical and modern times theorizes that dissident social groups that resisted Christianity, such as Jews and Pagans, were typically portrayed as demons and therefore established as threats. 35,000 first printing.

Models of Mechanics (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

• ISBN:
• 1402048343
• Authors:
• A. Klarbring

This is a textbook on models and modeling in mechanics. It introduces a new unifying approach to applied mechanics: through the concept of the open scheme, a step-by-step approach to modeling evolves. The unifying approach enables a very large scope on relatively few pages: the book treats theories of mass points and rigid bodies, continuum models of solids and fluids, as well as traditional engineering mechanics of beams, cables, pipe flow and...

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

• ISBN:
• 1591842247
• Authors:
• Geoff Colvin

Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune , a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance . One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called “What It Takes to Be Great.” Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch--are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn’t come from DNA but...

The Chemistry of Metal Alkoxides

• ISBN:
• 0792375211
• Authors:
• Nataliya Ya Turova, Vadim G. Kessler

The study of the chemistry of metal alkoxides, which began more than 100 years ago, is now experiencing a renaissance due to the broad application of these compounds as molecular precursors in the synthesis of advanced technological materials based on simple and complex oxides. The solution of this problem is occupying a wide circle of inorganic chemists, technologists specializing in fine synthesis in nonaqueous media, and those working on the...

In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain Function (Methods and New Frontiers in Neuroscience)

• ISBN:
• 0849323894

The major advantage of in vivo optical techniques is the ability to study many levels of function of the CNS that are inaccessible by other methods. This rapidly expanding field is multidisciplinary in nature and findings have thus far been scattered throughout the literature. In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain Function brings together, for the first time, a review of the wide variety of optical imaging techniques that have recently emerged for...

The Art of Calligraphy

• ISBN:
• 0751301493
• Authors:
• David Harris

For those interested in learning the craft of the brush and pen, this book provides a guide to each step. For the student of the hand-lettered script, it provides a guide to the development of calligraphy from antiquity to the electronic age. Every major form of Latin-based script is covered from Imperial and Roman hands, through Gothic and Renaissance scripts to Italic and Copperplate. Step-by-step illustrations and descriptions explain the...

Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX

• ISBN:
• 0240810287
• Authors:
• Steve Horton, Jeong Mo Yang

Combine high-end manga storytelling theory and advice with the tools for digital creation in Manga Studio, guided by expert professional manga-ka. You'll discover manga storytelling techniques, from speed lines to technology, from toning to big sound effects. Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Yang then show you how best to accomplish these techniques using the leading manga art creation program, Manga Studio EX. Every ounce of theory is backed up with...

Introduction to Drawing (Art School)

• ISBN:
• 0751300705
• Authors:
• James Horton

Unlike most other how-to art books, the precise focus of this series's tuition benefits both the beginner and those with more experience. Each book takes the aspiring artist through a series of projects based on a specific medium or a favourite subject of their choice. This book focuses on all the materials used for drawing - from pencils, pen and ink, and watercolour - then looks at the techniques of drawing, layout and composition, before...

Amphetamines and Other Stimulants (Junior Drug Awareness)

• ISBN:
• 0791097129
• Authors:
• Lianne Warburton, Diana Callfas

Amphetamines, including crystal meth, are some of the most powerful and addictive drugs available today. In the past few years, their illicit use has devastated communities all over North America. Ritalin, which remains a popular treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, continues to be prescribed in large amounts in addition to being used for illegal purposes. Compared to milder stimulants, such as caffeine, these drugs are very...

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

• ISBN:
• 0195368347
• Authors:
• David Kilcullen

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge." Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla , Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to...

Adaptive Atmospheric Modeling: Key Techniques in Grid Generation, Data Structures, and Numerical Operations with Applications (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 3540333827
• Authors:
• Jörn Behrens

This book gives an overview and guidance in the development of adaptive techniques for atmospheric modeling. Written in an educational style and featuring an exhaustive list of references, it is a starting point for everyone who is interested in adaptive modeling, not restricted to atmospheric sciences. It covers paradigms of adaptive techniques, such as error estimation and adaptation criteria. Mesh generation methods are presented for...

Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts

• ISBN:
• 0817312730

Known widely in Europe as "interpretive narrative archaeology", the practice of using creative methods to interpret and present current knowledge of the past is gaining popularity in North America. This is a compilation of international case studies of the various artistic methods used in this new form of education. Plays, opera, visual art, stories, poetry, performance dance, music, sculpture, digital imagery - all can effectively communicate...

Artificial Intelligence: Modern Approach

• ISBN:
• 0131038052
• Authors:
• Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig

A highly accessible, up-to-date professional reference for programmers, software engineers, system administrators, or technical managers, this book integrates state-of-the-art AI techniques into intelligent agent designs using examples and exercises to lead the reader from simple reactive agents to full knowledge-based agents with natural language capabilities.

Working with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team System (Pro-Developer)

• ISBN:
• 0735621853
• Authors:
• Richard Hundhausen

Get a pragmatic overview of the new team-based system of products that bring Visual Studio development tools to the enterprise—allowing architects, developers, testers, and project managers to collaborate in a single, extensible development environment. With insights from the Microsoft Visual Studio product team, early users, and the author's hands-on experience, readers will understand how to use this tightly integrated set of lifecycle...

Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform

• ISBN:
• 1934356174
• Authors:
• Ed Burnett, Burnette Ed

Android is a new software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. In a few years, it's expected to be found inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices. Getting started developing with Android is easy. You don't even need access to an Android phone, just a computer where you can...

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code

• ISBN:
• 193435628X
• Authors:
• Paul Butcher, Butcher Paul

If you develop software, sooner or later you're going to discover that it doesn't always behave as you intended. Working out why it's misbehaving can be hard. Sometimes very hard. Debug It! is here to help! All bugs are different: there is no silver bullet. You've got to rely upon your intellect, intuition, detective skills and yes, even a little luck. But that doesn't mean that you're completely on your own-there is much you can learn from...

Ubuntu 8.10 Linux Bible

• ISBN:
• 0470294205
• Authors:
• William von Hagen

Bring yourself up to date on everything you need to know about Ubuntu Linux The Ubuntu Linux Bible  covers all of the latest developments in version 8.10 and 8.04, including tips for newcomers as well as expert guidance for seasoned system administrators. Learn about topics like the Gnome Desktop, the Bash shell, virtual machines, wireless networking, file sharing, and more. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as...

SmartDraw For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470396717
• Authors:
• Daniel G. Hoffmann, Doug Lowe

Diagrams, organizational charts, flowcharts, even floor plans — they’re all types of business graphics. Only one tool does ’em all: SmartDraw. SmartDraw For Dummies shows you how this business graphics software helps you make boring presentations exciting and how to create graphics that can help you sell, manage, inform, motivate, and more. You’ll learn how to set up the program, navigate its somewhat unique interface, and work with...

Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

• ISBN:
• 184719804X
• Authors:
• Tracey Porst

Keep your web site up-to-date and maintain content and users with ease Add, edit, and manage content, from articles and text to images, audio, and videoQuickly master the administration area of your new web site and make yourself familiar with the navigation and how the content is organizedGet to grips with managing users, slaying spam, and other activities that will help you maintain a content-rich siteIn-depth caoverage for content...

R Programming for Bioinformatics (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer Science & Data Analysis)

• ISBN:
• 1420063677
• Authors:
• Robert Gentleman

Shows how R can be used to solve bioinformatics and computational biology problems Due to its data handling and modeling capabilities as well as its flexibility, R is becoming the most widely used software in bioinformatics. R Programming for Bioinformatics explores the programming skills needed to use this software tool for the solution of bioinformatics and computational biology problems. From the co-developer of R and lead founder of the...

Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom

• ISBN:
• 0470410906
• Authors:
• Jennifer Smith, Aquent Creative Team, AGI Creative Team

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that...

Windows 7: The Definitive Guide: The Essential Resource for Professionals and Power Users

• ISBN:
• 0596800975
• Authors:
• William R Stanek, Stanek William

This book provides everything you need to manage and maintain Windows 7. You'll learn all of the features and enhancements in complete detail, along with specifics for configuring the operating system to put you in full control. Bestselling author and Windows expert William Stanek doesn't just show you the steps you need to follow, he also tells you how features work, why they work, and how you can customize them to meet your needs. Learn how to...

jQuery 1.3 with PHP

• ISBN:
• 1847196985
• Authors:
• Kae Verens

Enhance your PHP applications by increasing their responsiveness through jQuery and its plugins. Combine client-side jQuery with your server-side PHP to make your applications more efficient and exciting for the clientLearn about some of the most popular jQuery plugins and methodsCreate powerful and responsive user interfaces for your PHP applicationsComplete examples of PHP and jQuery with clear explanationsNo JavaScript expertise or jQuery...

GCSE Mathematics (Instant Revision)

• ISBN:
• 0007109725
• Authors:
• Paul Metcalf

This guide provides instant revision notes, with self-check questions and grade-boosting tutorials in a pocket-sized pack.

AS Maths (Instant Revision)

• ISBN:
• 0007172699
• Authors:
• Jenny Sharp, Stewart Townend

Instant revision notes for AS, with self-check questions and grade-boosting tutorials in a handy A5-sized book. Written by experienced teachers who know what students need for that final -- instant -- check!Ready made revision notes cover the whole of the AS course and cut down on revision time. Self check questions at every stage ensure revision is active and effective. Grade-boosting tutorials from the examiner provide expert advice on how to...

Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

• ISBN:
• 0028621166
• Authors:
• Alan H.; Buff, Sheila Pressman

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s And 30s

• ISBN:
• 0028624157

Complete Idiot's Guide to Personality Profiles

• ISBN:
• 0028638158

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published

• ISBN:
• 0028639197
• Authors:
• Sheree;Sander, Jennifer Basye Bykofsky

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Smart Landlord

• ISBN:
• 0028639340
• Authors:
• Brian F.; Craig, Susannah; Edwards, Casey Edwards

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Vegetarian

• ISBN:
• 0028639502
• Authors:
• Frankie Avalon Wolfe

Complete Idiot's Guide to Real Estate Investing

• ISBN:
• 0028639766
• Authors:
• Stewart Rider

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Retiring Early

• ISBN:
• 0028640128

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tantric Sex

• ISBN:
• 0028641752
• Authors:
• Judith; St.John; Jeff Ph.D. Kuriansky

The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to the Book of Revelation

• ISBN:
• 0028642384
• Authors:
• Stan Campbell, James S. Bell Jr.

Guide to the Book of Revelation

The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Playing the Harmonica

• ISBN:
• 0028642414
• Authors:
• William Melton Randy Weinstein

The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to the Crusades

• ISBN:
• 0028642430
• Authors:
• Paul Williams, Paul L. Williams

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles

• ISBN:
• 0028642589
• Authors:
• Darwin Holmstrom

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s

• ISBN:
• 0028642732

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating Your Own CDs (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0028642910
• Authors:
• Terry Ogletree, Todd Brakke

CD-ROM "burners" are a standard feature on many new PCs. This title provides expert advice on creating CD-ROMs in an easy to comprehend language. Topics covered include: CD burning troubleshooting, copyright and format issues.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boating and Sailing (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0028643542

The Complete Idiot's Guide To Amazing Sex (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0028643763
• Authors:
• Sari Locker

In The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Amazing Sex, Sari Locker taught us all that sex doesn't have to be restricted merely to the old missionary position; she amply illustrated how to put some exciting sizzle into our sex lives, by casting aside inhibitions and experimenting with sexual positions that would have made the authors of the Kama Sutra blush. Now, in the updated and revised edition, Ms. Locker has added even more titillating tips...

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Vol. 1: Aalt-Cone

• ISBN:
• 0028655265

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Vol. 2

• ISBN:
• 0028655273

Wet Mind

• ISBN:
• 002917595X
• Authors:
• Stephen M. Kosslyn

A readable synthesis of a decade's work in neurobiology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and medicine provides a fascinating update on the latest developments in the study of the structure and function of the mind and brain. 15,000 first printing.

Holt Mathematics: Course 3

• ISBN:
• 0030385423
• Authors:
• Jennie M. Bennett, Edward B. Burger, David J. Chard

Holt Geometry Textbook - Student Edition

• ISBN:
• 0030700523
• Authors:
• Schultz

Free-Surface Hydraulics

• ISBN:
• 0046270094
• Authors:
• J. Townson

Free-Surface Hydraulics is a unified, pragmatic account of the water surface and its underlying mechanics. Based on the author's 30 years experience of research and teaching in civil engineering hydraulics, this text is designed to help students achieve a coherent understanding of a subject often obscured by empirical detail and unstructured approaches.

Choosing Happiness: Keys to a Joyful Life

• ISBN:
• 0060008040
• Authors:
• Alexandra Stoddard

Bursting with creative ideas and brimming with illuminating anecdotes, this concise, joyful, and practical book shows how to find -- and forge -- happiness in the large and small events of everyday life. Based on her more than thirty years as a noted thinker and speaker on personal contentment, Alexandra Stoddard shares what she has learned about the small but significant changes you can make in your mind, heart, and surroundings to be happier...

The Essential Drucker

• ISBN:
• 0060010541
• Authors:
• Peter F. Drucker

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

• ISBN:
• 006001203X
• Authors:
• Robert C. Atkins

Weight loss, weight maintenance, good health and disease prevention through the Atkins nutritional approach. Dr. Atkins' original Diet Revolution helped millions lose weight and maintain their weight loss for life. His sensational follow-up, Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, concentrated on total wellness in addition to weight loss -- and spent more than four years on the New York Times bestseller list. Now the world's #1 diet and complementary...

Mao: A biography

• ISBN:
• 006014243X
• Authors:
• Ross Terrill

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative biography to date of Mao Zedong, enriched by information only recently made available in China.

Parenthood by Proxy: Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them

• ISBN:
• 0060191252
• Authors:
• Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Children's welfare is the driving force behind Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mission. A devoted mother to her son, Deryk, she identifies herself as "her kid's mom" because that's her most important job.Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshalls compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of America's children and convincingly condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. Parents, special interest groups, and professionals...

Buddhism: A Concise Introduction

• ISBN:
• 0060506962
• Authors:
• Huston Smith, Philip Novak

Going well beyond the masterful presentationof Buddhism in the bestselling The World's Religions , Huston Smith and his premier student Philip Novak offer an expert, contemporary, yet highly readable and incisive guide to the heart of this vibrantly diverse and rapidly growing tradition, one that has an increasing presence and importance on the American scene. Smith is universally regarded as the leading authority on the world's religious...

Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships

• ISBN:
• 0060512601
• Authors:
• Laura C. Schlessinger

1. Stupid Secrets Withholding important information for fear of rejection 2. Stupid Egotism Asking not what you can do for the relationship but only what the relationship can do for you 3. Stupid Pettiness Making a big deal out of the small stuff 4. Stupid Power Always trying to be in control 5. Stupid Priorities Consuming all your time and energies with work, hobbies, errands, and chores instead of focusing on your relationship 6. Stupid...

The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

• ISBN:
• 0060520612
• Authors:
• Laura Schlessinger

In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Laura urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they yearn for in marriage. Women want to be in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Yet disrespect for men and disregard for the value, feelings, and needs of husbands has fast become the standard for male-female relations in America. Those two attitudes clash in...

100 Simple Secrets of Happy Families: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It (100 Simple Secrets Series)

• ISBN:
• 0060545321
• Authors:
• David Niven

The Simple Science of a Happy Family From raising children to getting along with in-laws, what do people with close and loving families do differently than those with strained or unfulfilling relationships? Sociologists, therapists, and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of family dynamics, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts. Now,...

Fork It Over: The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater

• ISBN:
• 0060586303
• Authors:
• Alan Richman

A hilarious series of culinary adventures from GQ's award-winning food critic, ranging from flunking out of the Paul Bocuse school in Lyon to dining and whining with Sharon Stone. Alan Richman has dined in more unlikely locations and devoured more tasting menus than any other restaurant critic alive. He has reviewed restaurants in almost every Communist country (China, Vietnam, Cuba, East Germany) and has recklessly indulged his enduring...

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish

• ISBN:
• 0060587016
• Authors:
• Neil Gaiman

"I'll swap you my dad," I said. "Oh-oh," said my little sister. What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father? What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done? The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is a hilarious adventure and was the first book for younger readers from the acclaimed author and illustrator of the New York Times best-sellers The Wolves in the...

Early Greek Thinking

• ISBN:
• 0060638427
• Authors:
• Martin Heidegger

Heidegger's key essays on the pre-Socratic philosophers; an unexcelled look at the roots of Western philosophy.

The Problem of Pain

• ISBN:
• 0060652969
• Authors:
• C. S. Lewis

Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good. An answer to this critical theological problem is found within these pages.

Zen 24/7: All Zen, All the Time

• ISBN:
• 0060778784
• Authors:
• Philip T. Sudo

Enlightenment is within reach -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you're searching for revelation and contentment, look no further than a handshake, a cup of coffee -- even your laundry pile. The most mundane details of life contain zen's profound truths, if you're of the mind to look for them. By awakening to and embracing the zen in your life, you'll listen, watch, eat, work, laugh, sleep, and breathe your way to truth -- every moment of...

Cowgirl Cuisine: Rustic Recipes and Cowgirl Adventures from a Texas Ranch

• ISBN:
• 0060789395
• Authors:
• Paula Disbrowe

Who hasn't fantasized about leaving behind the chaos of everyday life and moving someplace where life is simpler? Well, that's just what chef and food writer Paula Disbrowe did when she left New York City and moved to Texas. She traded her subway MetroCard for a pickup truck and her stiletto heels for a pair of down-home cowboy boots. In Cowgirl Cuisine , Paula tells her story through food. She weaves together romance, adventure, and more than a...

Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen

• ISBN:
• 0060797029
• Authors:
• Susie Theodorou

Freezers are one of the most useful––and most neglected––tools in the kitchen. Particularly great for those dark winter months when you want to get dinner on the table 15 minutes after you get home from work––think lasagna, stews, curries, and soups––freezers are also useful for entertaining friends when time is short. In Can I Freeze It? Susie Theodorou explains the tips, tricks, and rules of freezing food, from containers and...

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

• ISBN:
• 0060833459
• Authors:
• Peter F. Drucker

What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Drucker identifies five practices essential to business...

How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience

• ISBN:
• 0060928069
• Authors:
• Laura C. Schlessinger

The reason so many Americans feel lost and unhappy, explains Dr. Schlessinger, is that we have abandoned the high road and indulged in the feel-good pop psychology of the last decade. Mistaking fun for happiness, we have set ourselves up for "short-term thrills and long-term agony." "How could you do that?!" she asks. In this wise and witty book, she topples the lame excuses we try to make when we do the wrong thing. Americans know what the...

The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life

• ISBN:
• 0060929960
• Authors:
• Laura Schlessinger, Stewart Vogel

The Ten Commandments are the first direct communication between a people and God. Designed to elevate our lives above mere frantic, animal existence to the sublime levels humanity is capable or experiencing, they are the blueprint of God's expectations of us and His plan for a meaningful, just, loving, and holy life. Each commandment asserts a principle, and each principle is a moral focal point for real-life issues relating to God, family, sex,...

The Ultimate Brownie Book: Thousands of Ways to Make America's Favorite Treat, including Blondies, Frostings, and Doctored Brownie Mixes

• ISBN:
• 0060937610
• Authors:
• Bruce Weinstein

Thousands of Brownie Recipes Gooey, fudgy, or cakey, flavored with chocolate chips, coconut, or nuts, frosted or enjoyed as is, who doesn't love brownies? In this ultimate guide to America's favorite treat, discover old-time classics such as Chocolate Syrup Brownies and Butterscotch Brownies, and new tastes such as Cranberry Brownies and Malt Brownies. For those who prefer blondies, try Peanut Butter Blondies and Jam Swirl Blondies. Short on...

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

• ISBN:
• 006095339X
• Authors:
• Ron Rosenbaum

When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers...

Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future

• ISBN:
• 0061135909
• Authors:
• Patricia B. Seybold

How dynamic businesses of every size can unleash innovation by inviting customers to co–design what they do and make. Reading line: The 8 Roles Customers Play in Trend–Setting Companies The refrain is familiar for Patricia Seybold in her journeys as a top technology and management strategist: "I want our company to be acknowledged as the most admired and most customer–valued in our industry and to be recognized as the company that has...

Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship

• ISBN:
• 006123494X
• Authors:
• Frederic Luskin

Finding the love of your life and holding onto that relationship is more difficult than ever. The problem hasn't gone unnoticed. From relationship therapists to speed-dating, self-help books to online matchmaking, an entire industry has developed to help us navigate the bumpy road of relationships. Yet in spite of the availability of all these resources, many of us still struggle to discover and keep the love of our lives. That is, until now....

The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles)

• ISBN:
• 0061239216
• Authors:
• Zecharia Sitchin

Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? Is history destined to repeat itself? Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when? It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought to life the Sumerian civilization and its record of the Anunnaki—the extraterrestrials who fashioned man and gave mankind civilization and religion. In...

Almond Eyes, Lotus Feet: Indian Traditions in Beauty and Health

• ISBN:
• 0061246530
• Authors:
• Sharada Dwivedi, Shalini Devi Holkar

A national bestseller in India, Almond Eyes, Lotus Feet is the fictional memoir of a wise Indian princess, who recalls the ways the women of the Indian court found friendship, faith, and love through their beauty traditions. We journey with her as she recounts a lifetime of comforting rituals, tantalizing textures, colors, and fragrances, exquisite jewels and adornments, and assorted beauty and health secrets passed through generations of women...

Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present

• ISBN:
• 0061661163
• Authors:
• Jonathan Fenby

No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction. Its imperial rulers, heading an anachronistic regime, were brought low by enormous revolts, shifting social power patterns, republican revolutionaries, Western incursions to "split the Chinese melon" and a disastrous defeat by Japan. The presence of predatory foreigners has often...

What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

• ISBN:
• 0061686549
• Authors:
• John Brockman

Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers were brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates. Read Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution • Richard...

How To Love Like a Hot Chick: The Girlfriend to Girlfriend Guide to Getting the Love You Deserve

• ISBN:
• 0061706442
• Authors:
• Jodi Lipper, Cerina Vincent

Hot Chick: A confident, passionate, honest woman. . . . You want to be around her to soak up those good vibes. The duo that taught you to embrace your body and indulge without guilt in How to Eat Like a Hot Chick is back to remind you of something that will transform your love life forever—you are a Hot Chick! With their feisty humor and uplifting message, Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent will help you figure out what you want, how to get it,...

God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along

• ISBN:
• 0061710156
• Authors:
• Gerald Schroeder

In this groundbreaking exploration, a biblical scholar and M.I.T.-trained physicist combines decades of research to change the debate between religion and science, presenting a new paradigm of how to understand God. Gerald Schroeder has spent his career revealing the hand of God in the intricate discoveries of physics. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to this force, examining both the Bible and the physical world to discover the...

Home Repair

• ISBN:
• 006173456X
• Authors:
• Liz Rosenberg

Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve, whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale. Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming, boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her life: hopping into his car in the middle of a garage sale with no forewarning and departing their formerly happy upstate New York home for points unknown. Now Eve's a boat adrift, subsisting on a...

Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay

• ISBN:
• 006176230X
• Authors:
• Gordon Cucullu

The U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay—known to the public as Gitmo—has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic medical services. Gordon Cucullu, a retired army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for...

Standard Handbook of Audio and Radio Engineering

• ISBN:
• 0070067171
• Authors:
• Jerry Whitaker, Blair Benson

More than 70% all-new material! THE #1 ON-THE-JOB AUDIO ENGINEERING GUIDE--NOW UPDATED WITH THE LATEST DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Get clear answers to your every question on every aspect of audio engineering in the updated reference of choice of audio and video engineers and technicians, Standard Handbook of Audio Engineering, Second Edition. You'll find no other source that covers such a broad range of audio principles and technologies--with an...

Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science

• ISBN:
• 007008498X
• Authors:
• Michael Browne

This book will save you time as you master the basics taught in first-year, calculus-based college physics courses. You'll firmly grasp the all-important building blocks needed for every physical science and all branches of engineering. The many problems included with guided solutions make this potentially daunting subject much easier. Additional problems with answers give you a chance to reinforce what you've learned and gauge your progress as...

Industrial Water Pollution Control

• ISBN:
• 0070393648
• Authors:
• Jr.,W. Eckenfelder

This classic text is intended for the student in courses related to industrial water pollution control, as well as a guide for someone in the industry. It is very strong on biological treatment and reflects better than any other book actual industrial treatment practices. This new revision contains new material on hazardous waste disposal and improved coverage of adsorbtion and partionaing.

Illustrated 2000: Building Code Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0070494371
• Authors:
• Terry L. Patterson

*The first book to reference the new International Building Code, making it a definitive resource for all practicing architects and engineers *The only illustrated code book in existence--dimensioned line drawings help designers and builders visualize code requirements quickly and easily, speeding along the building process *Points out differences between the newly integrated universal building code and the old Uniform, Southern, and National...

Ace the Corporate Personality Test

• ISBN:
• 0071359125
• Authors:
• Edward Hoffman