This atmospheric tribute to the writer and his city is a visionary photographic journey across the city, accompanied by passages from Chandler's greatest works. Review coverage expected in the film, photography and associated press.[...]

Is Hitler bigger than Napoleon? Washington bigger than Lincoln? Picasso bigger than Einstein? Quantitative analysts are rapidly finding homes in social and cultural domains, from finance to politics. What about history? In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analy[...]

This is the ultimate guide to how to make your own clothes even if you have never done so before. As well as step-by-step instructions for all the basic dressmaking techniques, there are six garments to choose from. It even includes multi-sized paper patterns for all the garments so you can get star[...]

It is a new age of exploration, and the U.S.S. Enterprise is dispatched to "the Odyssean Pass," a region charted only by unmanned probes and believed to contain numerous inhabited worlds. Approaching a star system with two such planets, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew find a massive alien vesse[...]

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, a[...]

Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the methods[...]

By the spring of 1940 the phoney war suddenly became very real. In April Hitler's forces invaded Norway and a month later began their assault on France and the Low Countries. The Anglo/French allies were routed. The British escaped to fight another day after evacuating the bulk of their armies at Du[...]

This book provides the reader with a selection of puzzles that simulate real game scenarios, offering readers a choice of tempting alternatives and requiring them to pick the best[...]