A detailed and well illustrated work on leathercraft and production, first published in the 1940s. Contents Include : Foreword Plates Introduction Materials Design Cutting Your Pattern and Material: Construction Notes Small Articles Handbags Travelling Equipment Gloves Slippers. Many of the earliest[...]

Born in Brooklyn, Polisi was a member of one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, when the Mafia was at the height of its vast wealth and power. Known by his Mob name, Sally Ubatz ("Crazy Sally"), he ran an illegal after-hours gambling den-The Sinatra Club-that was a magic kingdom of crime an[...]

This volume, both comprehensive and accessible, introduces all the key concepts in pattern recognition, and includes many examples and exercises that make it an ideal guide to an important methodology widely deployed in today's ubiquitous automated systems.[...]

Montreal 1970. The "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped a[...]

Can a graphic designer be a catalyst for positive change? Green Graphic Design reframes the way designers can think about the work they create, while remaining focused on cost constraints and corporate identity. Simple, eco-innovative changes are demonstrated in all phases of the design process, inc[...]

Bipolar II is a form of bipolar disorder in which a person, when in a manic cycle, is crippled by anxiety, irritability, and highs just intense enough to be embarrassing. Instead of being the life of the party, someone with Bipolar II might be too nervous to go to the party at all. And, unlike the[...]

There are many different methods that can be used to fight unarmed, but each has its own strengths and weaknesses. The Self Defence series simplifies the subject for the reader, How to Defend Yourself focusing solely on the varieties of defensive moves that can be performed in unarmed combat.[...]

This modern textbook makes explicit the many connections between physical organic chemistry and critical fields such as organometallic chemistrry, materials chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, and biochemistry. In the latter part of the twentieth century, the field of physical organic chemistry went th[...]

A definitive, wide-ranging study of the armies of Antiquity Spanning some 3500 years of history and moving from the Bronze to the Iron Age, Warriors of the World: The Ancient Warrior 3000 BC - 450 AD describes the armies that fought on the battlefields of the Classical World. The book shows how the[...]

Battles of the Ancient World is a comprehensive visual guide to battles of the Ancient era. Arranged chronologically to cover all the major battles, the book includes every major clash of arms over a 2000-year period, from the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II's victory at Kadesh, to the defeat of Attila[...]

Battles that Changed Warfare features 20 key battles in which new weapons have had a revolutionary impact on the battlefield. Beginning with the battle of Megiddo (1457 BC) where Pharaoh Tuthmosis III's chariots defeated the Canaanites and finishing with the first Gulf War (1991) the most important [...]