A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved, and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter[...]
There's a ferocious feline in town, and she's out to steal from Gotham's wealthy citizens. Unfortunately, Catwoman makes a mistake when she visits venerable citizen Bruce Wayne and takes Bruce's prized family heirloom. She thinks she made a clean escape . . . but she doesn't know who she toyed with[...]
When members of the Justice League visit Atlantis for a tour with their friend King Arthur, they don't anticipate also running into Black Manta Luckily, Aquaman is ready to face off with his nemesis.[...]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles II: Creatures and Characters explores the amazing cast of heroes, villains, beasts, and beings that populate Middleearth in the fi rst chapter of Peter Jackson's fi lm adaptations of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Richly illustrated with behind-the-scenes phot[...]
Essential Skills--Made Easy! Written to the SQL:2006 ANSI/ISO standard, this easy-to-follow guide will get you started programming in SQL right away. You will learn how to retrieve, insert, update, and delete database data, and perform management and administrative functions. SQL: A Beginner's Guid[...]
Essential Skills--Made Easy! Learn how to create data models that allow complex data to be analyzed, manipulated, extracted, and reported upon accurately. Data Modeling: A Beginner's Guide teaches you techniques for gathering business requirements and using them to produce conceptual, logical, and p[...]
Learning Database fundamentals just got a whole lot easier! Now you can design, build, and manage a fully functional database with ease. Thoroughly updated to cover the latest technologies and techniques, "Databases Demystified, Second Edition" gives you the hands-on help you need to get started. Wr[...]
Developmental Psychology combines the best of two worlds in an accessible, research-oriented new textbook, adapted from the popular US text by Parke and Gauvain. It brings an international outlook to the subject, providing broader coverage of topics and a range of practical learning features to help[...]
After extensive consultation, thorough updating, inclusion of new research and topics, and the addition of a fantastic new online learning platform, "Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour" is better than ever. The second edition is an engaging and exciting introduction to the study of psycho[...]
This fully revised new edition covers the complete radar/ARPA installation and serves as the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on equipment and techniques for radar observers using older and newer systems alike. Suitable for use as a professional reference or as a training text, the book c[...]
Delves into the complexities of fishing to provide positive short cuts to success. This book offers coverage of the major coarse species including roach, bream, pike, tench, crucians, barbel, chub, rudd, perch and dace, and carp. It is intended for anglers of all ages and levels of ability.[...]
In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that have defined his life so far. Will he have the [...]
Words like boldness, adventure and risk are surely coined especially for Andy Kirkpatrick. As one of the world's accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers fear to tread. This autobiography provides his thirteen-day ascent of Reticent Wall on El Capitan [...]
In the late 1960s Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, set out to turn an ordinary book into a piece of pop art. This title was created from audiotapes recorded in and around the Factory between August 1965 and May 1967 and transcribed verbatim, complete with ty[...]
Q. What's worth GBP2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight? A. Britain's influence industry. The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory - it's happening, and it affects every aspect of our lives: the food we eat, the places we live, the temperature of our p[...]
This factsbook covers human and murine cytokines and their receptors. It includes free online access to Cytokine Webfacts, a compendium of facts about cytokines and their receptors, in a variety of data representations, such as text information, signal pathway diagrams and 3D images.[...]
Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Volsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. Ecl[...]
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio[...]
'He created his own universe and became its star'. (David Cronenberg, "Guardian"). Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and, taken from ten years of extraordinary shots, his America aspires to the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring his g[...]
In the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska s Mount McKinley known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down.
Andy Hall, a journalist and son of the park superintendent at the time, was living in the park when the tragedy occurred a[...]
When James Warhola was a little boy, his father, the local junk man, always had the urge to make something interesting out of junk. And when they drove to New York City to visit Uncle Andy, James was truly amazed at how even the most ordinary things can be turned into art. Offering a unique perspect[...]
Determined to become a soldier, but unable to get into Officer's Training School because of family history, Danny Watts must find his grandfather, Fergus Watts, an army hero and notorious traitor, and soon discovers that a dark enemy is fast on his trail who also has a bone to pick with Fergus. Repr[...]