Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside the (dodgy) world of popular music - not just a creative industry, but a business that has made people rich beyond their wildest dreams. He balances seductive anecdotes - pulling back the curtain on the gritty and absurd side of the indust[...]

Congo-Paris
Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law
Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa-GangaGlobalization as practiced by Congolese traders who operate a thriving second economy linking Central Africa and Europe.Congo-Paris investigates the transnational trade between Central Africa [...]

Presents a Bulgarian course for beginners. Suitable for self-study or class use, this title delivers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Bulgarian.[...]

Trained as a cosmonaut for the Soviet space programme, the hero of this novel, whose name combines the Russian word for special police force and the Ancient Egyptian sun god, finds that his mission to the moon develops unexpectedly, and builds to a bizarre conclusion.[...]

His great battles against the sea raiders in the Nile Delta have left Pharoah Tuthmosis II frail, but he finds solace in victory and in the welcome he is sure to receive on his return to Thebes. Across the river from Thebes, however, there are those who do not relish his homecoming, and a group of a[...]

Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka shares his love of jazz great Sun Ra, just in time to mark the centennial of the musician's birth.
Jazz musician Sun Ra (1914-1993) always said that he came from Saturn. Being from another planet, he was naturally intrigued by everything earthly -- especially mus[...]

A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die[...]

From the bestselling author of Your Baby in Pictures and Your Child in Pictures, this book contains 40 easy 'photo recipes', explained in simple steps and paired with photo examples. It offers parents easy yet powerful ideas for capturing holidays, portraits and everyday life. In this follow-up to Y[...]

"Magnesium Technology 2008" presents all aspects of magnesium production, properties and application, including primary production, alloy development, performance and the global market. This comprehensive book includes sections on wrought alloys; thermodynamics and phase transformations; casting; al[...]

Stephen Chambers is one of the painter Royal Academicians who has emerged as one of the most interesting and resourceful artists of his generation with work in both public and private collections across the world.[...]