Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common to[...]

At first glance, Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbo[...]

Global Financial Accounting and Reporting is a European-focused introductory financial accounting textbook for students encountering the subject for the first time at MBA and Masters level. Structured around European IFRS, the second edition of this text has been fully updated to cover recent change[...]

This title shows you how to decorate and personalize every room of your home with beautiful stencil and stamp techniques for interiors, furniture, storage, fabrics, china and accessories. You can use simple ideas and strong designs to add patterns and tones to walls, floors, furnishings, fabrics, pa[...]

Embarking on a quest to find his muse, Simeon, a modest Renaissance musician, encounters a vast array of rhythms and harmonies that cause him to return home and look inside himself for inspiration, in an enchanting story that is accompanied by a CD read by the author. 100,000 first printing.[...]

How do you find an illustrator to create a piece of artwork? At present, there are a number of methods: Looking through myriad agents' promotional books; browsing annual competition collections; trying to find that pile of unsolicited illustrators' cards you just had on your desk the other day; sear[...]

This revised edition covers both the basic and applied pharmacology required in modern dental courses, emphasising those topics which are particularly relevant to dental practice. It includes new key fact boxes, clinical cases and further reading.[...]

This is a corrected reissue, in Clarendon Paperbacks format with a new cover, of Michael Kennedy's classic study of William Walton's life and works. In this biography by one of England's foremost writers on music, Walton's personality emerges in all its complexity and self-contradiction. Michael Ken[...]

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the [...]