Forward by Dr. Chungwon Choue, President of the World Taekwondo Federation: In "Taekwondo: The Illustrated Guide", renowned Master Gilles Savoie has created another great contribution to the sport of Taekwondo. This is an exceptionally detailed analysis of techniques needed to optimally progress i[...]
Does a philosopher have an 'identity'? What kind of 'identity' is mobilized when the work of a philosopher becomes a major reference for certain schools of thought, as in the case of Gilles Deleuze and postcolonial theory? Have the promoters of a generalized Deleuzeanism taken care their usage of hi[...]
Does a philosopher have an `identity'? What kind of `identity' is mobilized when the work of a philosopher becomes a major reference for certain schools of thought, as in the case of Gilles Deleuze and postcolonial theory? Have the promoters of a generalized Deleuzeanism taken care their usage of hi[...]
This book is aimed at helping budding interior designers learn how to draw professional looking interior designs. It is accessible, beautifully illustrated and practical. Guidance is given on drawing perspective, floor plans, drawing furniture and renditions of rooms. Filled with sketches and drawin[...]
This fantastic guide to perspective is perfect for all painting and drawing enthusiasts. Covering everything from how to paint and draw freehand from nature without losing perspective to representing spacial structure, this book is suitable for both beginners as well as more experienced artists. It [...]
A small-scale country on the surface, Panama is a Central American giant and gem just awakening to its vast potential. Among its allures are sweeping rain forests teeming with exotic animals and birds; cloud forests cloaking the summits of rugged mountains; vibrant indigenous cultures that predate t[...]
All the fabled sights are here - the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, the Louvre - with detailed background information on each place and how best to visit (purchase museum pass, for instance, for the best price into museums). You will also discover a plethora of lesser-known sights like the great Parisian[...]
This guide covers all the highlights of the vast, varied, sun-drenched state, beginning with the Los Angeles beach communities, the fabulous Getty Center and the venues of the stars. Moving southward to Orange County's affluent seaside towns, beautiful San Diego's world-class museums and zoo at Balb[...]
The world is open for travel and people are looking for new ways to experience a destination. The acclaimed "National Geographic Traveler" series offers just that. Each guide presents the country in full, beginning with an overview to help develop a game plan. Popular features include insider tips f[...]
A small scale country on the surface, Panama is a Central American giant and gem just awakening to its vast potential. Esteemed travel writer Christopher Baker takes the reader on a journey of this fascinating place in his fully updated edition. Beginning in the cosmopolitan, steamy capital of Panam[...]
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES: DIAGNOSIS, REPAIR, REBUILDING 6E is an ideal book to build readers' technical expertise and critical thinking skills, while providing them with information on current industry trends and concerns. It contains updated, accurate, and comprehensive information on what is needed to d[...]
Offers comprehensive information on what is needed to diagnose, repair, and rebuild automotive engines. This book builds readers' technical expertise and critical thinking skills, while also providing them with information on current industry trends and concerns.[...]
The study of capillarity is in the midst of a veritable explosion. What is offered here is not a comprehensive review of the latest research but rather a compendium of principles designed for the undergraduate student and for readers interested in the physics underlying these phenomena.[...]
Investigations in space have led to fundamental discoveries of the human body to the space environment. Gilles Clement has conducted extensive research in this field. This readable text presents the findings from the life science experiments conducted during and after space missions. About 1200 huma[...]
This book presents the fundamental function spaces and their duals, explores operator theory and finally develops the theory of distributions up to significant applications such as Sobolev spaces and Dirichlet problems. Includes an assortment of well formulated exercises, with answers and hints coll[...]
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus have become one of the most widely-influential bodies of work in contemporary thought. Cinema II is D[...]
Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and[...]
How do the practices of philosophy and film converge in ethical and political theory? Untimely Affects is an ethical and aesthetic interweaving of Deleuzian philosophy and close film analysis to discern how thought persists productively after the horrors of World War II. In the first extensive analy[...]
This guide explains the key arguments of Empiricism and Subjectivity, organised thematically. It features an Appendix with a propositional summary of the book, a final chapter on the movement of the themes of Empiricism and Subjectivity through Deleuze's later work, plus substantial suggestions for [...]
Jean Renoir is widely considered as one of the most important technical innovators and politically engaged filmmakers in cinema history. Reassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through a blend of Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy and previously [...]
Reconstructs Deleuze's philosophy as transcendental empiricism: two philosophies previously seen as contradictory Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques b[...]