Paella is Spain's best-loved dish, popular the world over and perfect to cook for friends. The definitive home-cooking manual on paella from the renowned expert, Alberto Herraiz. Explains everything you need to know in order to cook authentic paella at home, showing the basics step by step and cov[...]

Build agile and responsive Business Intelligence solutionsAnalyze tabular data using the BI Semantic Model (BISM) in Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 2012 Analysis Services--and discover a simpler method for creating corporate-level BI solutions. Led by three BI experts, you'll learn how to build, deploy,[...]

Your guide to quickly turn data into results. Transform your skills, data, and businessand create your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Two business intelligence (BI) experts take you inside PowerPivot functionality for Excel 2013, with a focus on real [...]

An intriguing study of the early days of aviation offers a close-up profile of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont who entertained Europe with his airborne acrobatics and antics beginning in 1906 with a small dirigible, in a glimpse into the tormented mind of a talented man, set against the back[...]

De La Torre and Hernandez's volume probes the murky origins of the satanic legends and beliefs back to their pre-Christian roots in the Middle East. They unearth the Satan's roots in Egyptian and Babylonian understandings of evil. They also show, however, that the ancient Satan has some characterist[...]

As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing t[...]

An authorized compilation of artwork by the acclaimed illustrator follows Vargas's remarkable career from the 1920s to his contributions to Playboy in the 1960s and 1970s, including a selection of original drawings, sketches, watercolors, and paintings, many never before published, as well as a narr[...]

Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokemon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including com[...]

Including overviews on the photochemical processes that occur in organic molecules and transition metal complexes, this book contains sections focusing on metal complexes and organometallic compounds, offering photophysical and quenching data as well as reduction potential values, a key factor in ph[...]

Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.
This volume presents for the first time in English a [...]

"Logics of Worlds" is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring[...]

"In Vogue" is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past "Vogue" editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, [...]

"In Vogue" is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past "Vogue" editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, [...]