Focusing on the interrelationship of wild nature and human nature, a collection of short writings and essays explores "Animal Nature, Human Nature," "The Patterns of Nature," and "Nature's Abundance"[...]
Lord Dunsany's dream-like short stories were an important basis not only for H.P. Lovecraft's "Dreamlands" stories, but also for his entire mythos of supernatural entities. Now for the first time ever, all of Dunsany's "Pegana" series is collected in one place.
"The Complete Pegana" contains the[...]
For thirty-five years, almost everyone who was anyone in the arts found themselves in Jack Mitchell's photography studio in New York City. This book distills the finest results of Mitchell's own artistic mission to portray the greatest actors, dancers, painters, composers, writers, choreographers, a[...]
Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban charact[...]
This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development--from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice), to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect [...]
Discusses various aspects of collection development, including publishers, censorship, serials, legal issues, intellectual freedom, resource sharing, audiovisual materials, and electronic materials.[...]
An entertaining and inspirational memoir by one of the most prominent practitioners and evangelists of independent filmmaking, and the acclaimed writer, director, and actor ("Saving Private Ryan, ""Friends with Kids, Entourage") whose first film--"The Brothers McMullen"--has become an indie classic.[...]
"Essential Dermatopathology" is designed to assist pathology trainees, general pathologists, dermatology trainees, and dermatologists in understanding the basics of dermatopathology. It illustrates and defines common dermatopathology terms and descriptions, basic inflammatory patterns and their majo[...]
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expose of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing [...]
This new biography of Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle. Contrary to the claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not child centred: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost 100,000 it[...]
A comprehensive look at rowing training and tecnique. Loaded with illurstrations and photos, provides the reader with everything they need to develop their skills and performance on and off the water. Detailed descriptions of the strokes and the drills leading to perfect technique will allow the fin[...]
This book provides the reader with an explanation of the origin and establishment of quantum mechanics together with a descriptive survey of developments up to the present day. The mathematics is presented in a digestible form yet following the original approach. This second edition presents two new[...]
"Edward Miller has been running a successful B&B enterprise in a peaceful part of the Lake District for over 25 years.Here he tells his story of how it came about and how he learned through trial and error to not only make a decent profit out of it, but to enjoy (nearly) every minute of it.The book [...]
From Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten, Andre Previn and Igor Stravinsky, Edward Greenfield had the privilege of getting to know some of the 20th century's greatest composers, conductors and performers. His lifelong career as a music critic for the Guardian and Gramophone has taken him around th[...]
This memoir of World War II, written by Edward C Arn, an infantry captain who served in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, takes readers on a wartime journey in the European Theatre of Operations. It offers a clear and honest account of combat from the viewpoi[...]
A seminal work on how public opinion is created and shaped, Edward Bernays's 1923 classic "Crystallizing Public Opinion" set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence public attitudes over the past century.
A primer on the then new profession of "public relation[...]
"Mark Edward is an equivocator, fibber, and mountebank. Which begs the question: if a liar admits to lying, can he be telling the truth? He is a literate, informative, intellectual, a student of the psychology of humans, a foe of those who would defraud the public for personal gain, and as an author[...]
Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 - 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a dr[...]
History comes down to us from the winners. And when we encounter the same same story over and over again, we begin to wonder, who wrote the story, anyway? Was it the people who lived it, or was there another agenda? Well, I'm Edward's daughter, digging through his life. The biographies of the last t[...]