"Glittering World" tells the remarkable story of Navajo jewelry--from its ancient origins to the present--through the work of the gifted Yazzie family of New Mexico. Jewelry has long been an important form of artistic expression for Native peoples in the Southwest; its diversity of design reflects a[...]
Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary at Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusion--a futile attempt to escape a world that wouldn't leave him alone. During that time, two men served as t[...]
Marketers, merchandisers, and sales executives alike are struggling with Big Data - the data streaming at increasing speeds from myriad channels and options for communicating with customers. The tools are likely to continue to multiply, paralyzing many executives with simply too many choices. Using [...]
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and tra[...]
The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousa[...]
Whilst young ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were expected to have many creative accomplishments, they were not expected to travel unaccompanied, and certainly not to the remote corners of Southeast Europe, then part of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. But Edith Durham was no ordinary lady. [...]
In the past decade and a half the unique requirements of dual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have radically altered the appearance and capabilities of the British Army's infantry soldiers. Gone are the tactics uniforms and equipment of the Cold War, replaced by an elite fighting force, skilled in coun[...]
"We constantly notice when we are out talking to winemakers in different wine regions that more and more producers pay attention to how what they do in the vineyard affects the environment. Many winemakers that we meet start the process of 'converting' to organic farming. There are rules for what th[...]
Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art features all of the best-known works of one of the most famous artists in the world, preceded by a fresh and thoughtful introduction providing lively commentary on his life, society, places and style and techniques, inclu[...]
This specially priced two volume set brings together Adrian Wright's highly acclaimed two books on the Musical in Post-War Britain. A Tanner's Worth of Tune is not an encyclopaedia of the British musical in the twentieth century, but an examination of its progress as it struggled to find an identit[...]
There have been many books written about football's most uncompromising firms, but for years little has been revealed about one of the most secretive and ruthless of them all - Spurs. And for the last fifteen years, the 'Tottenham Massive' have been nurtured and guided by one individual - Trevor Tan[...]
From the author of the best-selling "Tottenham Massive" comes this incredible follow-up--the most searingly honest and brutal book ever written about football. In this all new account of life with the firm, he reveals the emotional stress and headache of the year long trial which resulted in him wal[...]
Ryan's Daughter, winner of two Oscars, was a very successful film that lured Michael Tanner to the Dingle Peninsula. He researched this story by focusing on identifying locations and interviewing local people involved in the film's shoot. The result is an unvarnished account of the troubled shootin[...]
As the National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) extends into secondary schools, this text for trainee and practising mathematics teachers provides practical guidance on developing effective strategies for the teaching of numeracy of Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 based on the DfEE requirements.[...]
Edexcel GCSE Mathematics The right formula for success! Edexcel's own teaching resources for the two-tier GCSE Maths specifications.[...]
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree[...]
I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt. I took a deep breath, drawing in the scent of the blood inside the humans below. They weren't the only humans around, but they were the closest. Who you were going to hunt was the kind of decision you had to make before you scented your prey. It was too la[...]
Construction of History. Jubilee Speech Sermon Protestant Historiography] The manner in which the memory of the Reformation is presented and the history of the Reformation is constructed, is up to this day a reflection of the -spirit of the times-. An anniversary is not only a means to pass on tradi[...]
Wie wandeln sich Menschenbilder? Durch welche sozialen Praktiken organisieren Menschen ihr Zusammenleben? Und hat die menschliche Natur eine Geschichte? Entlang dieser Fragen gibt Jakob Tanner eine problemorientierte Übersicht über die Historische Anthropologie und argumentiert gegen eine Arbeitst[...]