This book showcases the drawings of Ken Adam, the man who has created some of the most iconic and memorable sets in the history of film. Presented chronologically, the book takes us from design sketches for his earliest movies, including "Around the World in Eighty Days", through his Oscar-winning w[...]
Gathered together for the first time from a major publisher are the short stories of Adam Roberts. Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry Adam Roberts' trademark elegance of style and restless enquiry of the genre he loves so much. Acclaimed stories[...]
This DVD is an introduction to modern economics and the importance of free markets. The DVD is narrated by Dr Benjamin A Rogge of Wabash College and was prepared with the advice of Professors Ronald H Coase of the University of Chicago and E G West of Carleton University. From his childhood in Scotl[...]
DEN OSYNLIGA HANDEN
Adam Smith i urval
Översättning: Dagmar Lagerberg
Adam Smith har blivit en symbol för både liberalism och ekonomisk forskning. Han stod vid en knutpunkt i den ekonomiska idéhistorien. Många av de element han byggde sin nationalekon[...]
Adam Smith har blivit en symbol för såväl liberalismen som för ekonomisk forskning över huvud taget. Han stod vid en knutpunkt i den ekonomiska idéhistorien. Många av de element han byggde sin nationalekonomiska analys på hade redan tidigare formulerats, t ex av fysiokratiska tänkare som Qu[...]
This text moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment.[...]
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.[...]
Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze.When Chu sneezes, bad things happen.Will Chu sneeze today?
What you need to know to work your way up the fleet--from the first start to winning the finish "With Cort and Stearns' enthusiasm for the topic and straightforward advice, it's hard not to read this book without picturing yourself rounding the buoys just ahead of the rest of the fleet." --Soundings[...]
Graffiti. It can be a diverse form of expression and thought provoking art; whether painted on the side of a train or on a canvas hanging in a gallery. Or, as you will see immortalised in the glorious pages of "Crap Graffiti", it can be crude drunken daubing, nonsensical statements or hilarious outp[...]
This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the[...]
Many Eastern European jokes begin "Two Jews were travelling on a train...", as do many of the charming and hilarious conversations in this book. Adam Biro recounts these tales, where the characters, old and young, gossip and speak about everything from the banalities of the world to the unspeakable [...]
This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as th[...]