In this exciting Level 1 reader, young fans will delve into the world of the "Star Wars" galaxy, learning about the people, droids, and creatures -- including Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 -- who have kept it safe from the clutches of evil. Packed with images, new animation, and fascinating facts, this a[...]

Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color is the outcome of a workshop, held in Leuven, Belgium, in May 2000. The editors bring together contributions from philosophy, history, classics, psychology, and anthropology to discuss the production of theories, technologies and instrumentalities -[...]

The Whole Tone Workbook. In a similar format to his other Mel Bay Publications, in Symmetric Solutions The Whole Tone Workbook author Bruce Saunders uses exercises, etudes and chord progressions from jazz standards to explore the sound of the whole-tone scale, the augmented scale and drop-2, drop-3 [...]

A small, pretty volume of beautiful Japanese floral images from the turn of the last century, which were the result of cross-pollination with European Art Nouveau, drawn from various books in the collection of the MFA Boston (follow-up volume to Plants and Their Application to Ornament).[...]

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"
Includes an extended conversation with David Sedaris
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short[...]

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of "The New York Times, " where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one [...]

This book presents modern algebra from first principles and is accessible to undergraduates or graduates. It combines standard materials and necessary algebraic manipulations with general concepts that clarify meaning and importance. This conceptual approach to algebra starts with a description of a[...]

An accessible, informative and critical introduction to Patrick Marber's award-winning (and often studied) play.[...]

The race by Montgomery's ground forces, principally 30 (British) Corps, to relieve the US & UK airborne troops at Nijmegen and Arnhem respectively has been the subject of fierce controversy since that dramatic summer of 1944. In the first of three books covering the Battles on the road to Arnhem, ex[...]