Packed with photographs, illustrations and detailed maps, "Eyewitness Travel Guide: Scotland" will lead you straight to the best attractions this wild country has to offer. Discover Scotland region by region; from the culturally diverse and architecturally magnificent Glasgow to the peerless beauty [...]

Featuring 43 creative darts games - some classic, most unique to this set - this kit will offer hours of skill-building, competition and fun. You can test your accuracy on sports-themed boards; try your hand at poker, billiards, and pinball; get silly trying to whack a mole, pop balloons, or pick to[...]

In this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition become great art, while others are relegated to the ignominy of plagiarism. Her discussion reveals that plagiarism is not the objective textual fact it is often taken for, but a phenomenon gove[...]

An investigation into the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls offers a stunning exposT of the link between the LAPD Rampart scandal and gang violence and controversial rap celebrities as it describes how members of the LAPD became involved in criminal activities and how high-level officials co[...]

Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching is a paperback book packed with creative tips on how instructors can enhance and improve their physics class instruction techniques. It's an invaluable companion to Randy Knight's Physics for Scientists and Engineers - or for any physics [...]

Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influe[...]

About Poetry and the Age: "Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, "New York Times Book Review""Randall Jarrell's book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The reader is exhilarate[...]

Discusses plastic wastes in the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream and in the industrial sector. This book describes quantities of plastic wastes generated, characterization of the wastes, their environmental impact, and management of the waste stream. It also covers costs of recycling processes, te[...]

The South Pacific has long been in need of a comprehensive guide to reef and shore fishes. This volume covers the inshore fish fauna of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, the southern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Tuvalu, Fiji, the Wallis Islands, Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, th[...]