'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man[...]

In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it our first complete picture of the basic building block of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits - and warnings of the dangers - of genomics ha[...]

Now Eurocode compliant - in line with the compulsory new design codes brought in across the EU and increasingly adopted worldwide. In Soil Mechanics, Barnes clearly sets out the principles of soil behaviour and shows how engineers have applied these solutions in practice, making this an accessible,[...]

States of Sympathy calls for a new approach to reading early American fiction and politics, one that recognizes sympathy as crucial to the construction of American identity: to read sympathetically becomes synonymous with reading like an American. Examining philosophical and political texts alongsid[...]

Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work and this is a catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also lived and worked for long periods in Italy and Engla[...]

The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia scientist who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, established the Foundation in 1922 in Merion, Pennsylvania, as an educational institution devoted[...]

"Here is the first thing you need to know about me: I'm a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that."
"Here is the second thing: that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove--my husband didn't kill he[...]

In these fourteen brilliant stories, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sense of an Ending" examines longing and loss, friendship and love, the historical past and contemporary life--all with his trademark wit and sharply observant eye. A newly divorced man invades his reticent girlfriend's[...]

Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, "The Sense of an Ending" extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling "Arthur & George" and continued with "Nothing to Be Frightened Of" and, most recently, "Pulse."
This inte[...]

Ada has carved itself a niche in the safety-critical/embedded/real-time areas. It is the language of choice in application areas where reliability, long term maintainability and similar features are very important. Typical of such areas are defence embedded systems, railway signalling, air traffic c[...]

A long-awaited second edition to a ground-breaking publication, The New Politics of Disablement has been extensively updated and revitalized to reflect the development in social theory and the understandings of disablement. With a new global angle, it is an essential discourse for anyone interested [...]