Can high-rises make a fruitful contribution to making cities more sustainable? Many argue that high-rises deliver positive environmental effects, such as densification, and reduction of traffic and carbon dioxide emissions. But is it really that simple? On closer critical observation many questions [...]

Ingen världsstad har blivit mer älskad och mer hatad än Los Angeles. Entusiasterna hävdar att den har allt. Belackarna ser den som en ständigt solbelyst avstjälpningsplats där människor förruttnar utan att märka det. För Mike Davis, författaren till denna intensiva, stilistiskt säkra oc[...]

1918-1919 dog mellan fyrtio miljoner och etthundra miljoner människor av en dittills okänd influensa som gått till historien som "spanska sjukan" - den dödligaste enskilda händelsen i mänsklighetens historia.
1997 utbröt i Hongkong en ny typ av influensa - H5N1 - som sedan dess spridit s[...]

The successful "B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs" hardcover - the first of four epic volumes collecting the entire "Plague of Frogs" saga from "Hollow Earth" to "King of Fear" - returns as an affordable paperback! With over 400-pages, there's never been a better time to delve into the haunting world of the[...]

A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's "Red Dirt" unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears wit[...]

Within these pages you'll find bizarre investigations into haunted trains, Nazi war criminals, vengeful spirits of drowned witches and an imprisoned sewer goddess as well as an all-new short story by Mike Mignola with Catwoman artist Cameron Stewart. Featured creative teams include Miles Gunter and [...]

Following the Bureau's catastrophic encounter with the monster-god Katha-Hem, Kate heads to France with hopes of bringing Roger back to life, and Daimio reveals the truth about his death in the jungles of Bolivia. The coming frog apocalypse heats up as Abe meets a secret society of Victorian cyborgs[...]

The current education climate has brought the development of classroom drama as an art form to a standstill. Practitioners need to make a qualitative leap forward in both theory and practice in order to respond to the cultural demands of the times. By linking the best of the ground-breaking work of[...]

En varm septemberdag 1920 parkerade den italienske invandraren och anarkisten Mario Buda sin häst och vagn i korsningen mellan Bond och Wall Street i New York, just utanför J.P. Morgans bank. Klockan i den närbelägna Trinity Church slog tolv slag när en eldboll steg mot skyn och följdes av en [...]