The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by employing superior strategies, tactics, and leadership. Designed for the "armchair strategist" with dozens of detailed maps and illustrations, here[...]
This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new entries--over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes.[...]
The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world's economic geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With intellectual roots dating to the nineteenth century, economic geography has traditionally sought to examine the spatial distributions [...]
This book is a new translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegelâs last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory, and the sociology of the modern s[...]
A best-selling course for absolute beginners, Talk has been consistently popular withboth those learning at home and those learning in a class, as well as with tutors. It provides you with a clear, simple and successful way of learning and gives you the best grounding in the basics.[...]
'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis.[...]
"The Diamond Sutra" is the world's earliest dated printed book. It was produced some 600 years before Gutenberg's movable type printing in Europe, and is clearly the product of a mature printing industry in China. This new book, the first to focus on the Diamond Sutra, describes the discovery of the[...]
Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was [...]
Superstar writer Brian Wood (Wolverine & the X-Men: Alpha & Omega, DMZ, Demo, Northlanders) takes over the X-Men When a new race of mutants is discovered, Storm's team investigates - and learns the secret origin of the Proto-Mutants But tensions are running high back on Utopia, as even though Stor[...]
Sales of over half a million made the MGB Britain's most successful ever sports car. Fifty years on from the MGB's introduction, in 1962, its classic lines, affordability, fun factor and certain 'rightness' mean that its enthusiastic following remains undiminished. Here is a new '50th anniversary' e[...]
Kalila and Dimna or The Panchatantra (also known in Europe since 1483 as The Fables of Bidpai) is a multi-layered, inter-connected and variable arrangement of animal stories, with one story leading into another, sometimes three or four deep. These arrangements have contributed to world literature fo[...]
.This classic was listed as one of House Beautiful's Best Books for 2012 and was featured in The New York Times .In a professional design office Pattern Book of Upholstery will join the shelf of primary reference books - one of the fundamental tools of the trade Pattern Book of Upholstery is a rare [...]
Written by Brian Wood Art by Riccardo Burchielli Cover by Wood "If residents of Manhattan often feel at odds with the rest of the country, the comic book series DMZ magnifies that anxiety with its radical premise." - THE NEW YORK TIMES Don't miss the latest volume collecting the red-hot Vertigo s[...]