Suitable for the British Canoe Union navigation courses, this work for sea kayakers covers GPS, reflecting the increased availability and usage of electronic navigational aids. It also includes colour photos, diagrams, maps, and charts, as well as exercises to reinforce and self-assess at the end of[...]

What does it take to recognise and prevent hazards with international causes and consequences? How can we handle the risks related to financial instability, terrorism, pandemics, air pollution, flooding and climate change? The book brings together scholars and senior practitioners from different are[...]

Expressing the wisdom and magic of the ages through Luna's ethereal light, the Silver Witchcraft Tarot Kit combines the rich tradition of the Rider Waite tarot with modern Pagan symbolism, creating a unique and beautiful reading experience. Weaving the phases of the moon and the Pagan holidays into [...]

This 2nd edition volume of Modern Gas-Based Temperature and Pressure Measurements follows the first publication in 1992. It collects a much larger set of information, reference data, and bibliography in temperature and pressure metrology of gaseous substances, including the physical-chemical issues [...]

The actors in James Franco's brilliant debut novel include a McDonald's drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written b[...]

Das Buch Verborgene Gestaltung erschliesst, basierend auf den von Franco Clivio gesammelten Gegenstanden, anschaulich und poetisch jene verborgenen Qualitaten, die den geubten Blick erfordern. Jedes Objekt steht fur die eigenstandige, zuweilen auch eigenartige Losung einer Problemstellung, die oft e[...]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this biography, which uses material from the archives of six countries.[...]

Focuses on RF and microwave switch mode power amplifiers. This title combines theoretical analysis with practical implementation, including the use of computer-aided design examples. It provides information required to design high-efficiency RF and microwave power amplifiers on different types of bi[...]

A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's masterpiece of youthful rebellion--with a foreword by James Franco A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's beloved novel "Demian." E[...]

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic v[...]