Intended for children learning English, this is a 6 level series of readers bringing together a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles. It provides reinforcement of the basic structures and vocabulary contained in the most major primary courses.[...]
Show me the money! This is the frantic cry of the "old guard" of senior executives as they desperately struggle to deal with commoditizing markets, the loss of their differentiator and the inevitable impact on profitability.
At the same time the new breed of enlightened, customer-focused executi[...]
To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it[...]
"Prior to this book project I wrote for the Indianapolis Star. I traveled throughout Indiana writing about people and situations I found interesting. On my long drives through the state, I'd pass old homes along country roads or around courthouse squares and wonder who lived in them, and why? Who ha[...]
For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering hodge-podge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages. The original mosaics (dating from as early as 1904), displaying a variety of serif and sans serif letters and decorative elements, were suppleme[...]
The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of typography and culminated in the release of the first movie ever made starring a typeface. Yet Helvetica's fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with[...]
When dealing with the devil...It's taken years for the Dimitri-Kalakos-sized hole in Louise Frobisher's heart to heal. Yet now she has to face him once again - she needs the ruthless magnate's financial help...but absolutely nothing more! Be prepared to play with fire! Louise is offering the one th[...]
Blackmailed into His Bed! Wanted: Bride Rafiq, heir to a desert kingdom, thinks innocent Lizzie will be the perfect wife for his brother. But Lizzie isn't agreeing, so Rafiq plans to blackmail her! Then suddenly, Rafiq's demanding her for himself! Sold...to the Desert Prince Victoria McCallan had to[...]
In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influenc[...]
This provocative book explores the cross-fertilization between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reassessing the work of a wide range of composers and artists including Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and John Cage, Simon Shaw-Miller demonstrates how[...]
Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work-hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Sta[...]
Is it possible to capture the spirit of Buddhist meditation, which depends so much upon silence and unspoken wisdom? Can this spirit be found after two millennia? This wise and reassuring book reminds us that the Buddhist meditative tradition, geared to such concerns from its inception, has always b[...]
Back in the thirties and forties, when New York City was the capital of the jazz worldyou could hail a cab, ask the driver to take you to "The Street," and find yourself on 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Musicians, jazz lovers, college students, big businessmeneverybody knew that this[...]
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of "5 People Who Died During Sex. "Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw's eclectic lists of the world's ver[...]