This unique hand-drawn book is the latest in the Family Trees series. Traces the history of bands from every musical era including Buddy Holly, Black Sabbath, The Smiths, and Black Grape. Exhaustively researched and endlessly fascinating.[...]

Kirkman and Scott don't just have their fingers on the pulse of the modern middle-class family; they have a grip on its wrist like a mother pulling a three-year-old past a grocery store cookie aisle.
Tadpoles in the toilet, backseat border wars, emergency homemade diapers . . . welcome to anothe[...]

This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into focus a crucial turning point in her life.[...]

In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of buildings both ancient and modern. This new book explores the principles of these appar[...]

"Evolution of the Transatlantic Liner" follows the changing form of the transatlantic ocean liner from inception in the nineteenth century to the jet age of the 1960s. This book details the way a changing world, politics and technology led to the construction of ever larger, faster and grander ocean[...]

Explore more than 25 finely crafted timber frame homes, inside and out. Guided by floor plans, this photographic journey takes you from an overall look at the exteriors of stately, custom-built homes, through the interiors. Whether designed to be warm and cozy, or awesome and impressive, these homes[...]

This is the first book to promote project management competence on all three levels necessary for overall effectiveness. J. Davidson Frame uses the guidelines he helped develop for the renowned Project Management Institute to define the most important competencies for individuals, teams, and organiz[...]

Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in isolati[...]

A patient views her horrendous experiences in two mental institutions