In "Don Juan", Peter Handke offers his take on the famous seducer. Don Juan's story - 'his own version' - is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes[...]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot--and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to f[...]
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei
In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the s[...]
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memoriesa dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, [...]
Knives are the most common pieces of equipment in the kitchen, yet few cooks know the basic techniques that can allow them to carve, chop, slice and mince effectively. Peter Hertzmann teaches the reader skills that encompass everything they need to do with a knife in the kitchen, whether they're a f[...]
Peter Piot has had an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease - the Ebola[...]
West of Last Chance is a unique collaboration between celebrated photographer Peter Brown and award-winning author Kent Haruf. The result is a profound visual/verbal dialogue of short prose pieces and large-format color images that brings to life this sometimes brutal and incredibly beautiful part o[...]
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous pe[...]
Peter Piot has had an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease - the Ebola[...]
The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres, styles, conventions, forms, techniques, and materials. The Seventh Edition includes new twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by Adams, Bernstein, Carter, Golijov, Higdon, Revueltas, Saa[...]
The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres, styles, conventions, forms, techniques, and materials. The Seventh Edition includes new twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by Adams, Bernstein, Carter, Golijov, Higdon, Revueltas, Saa[...]
A valuable tool for students, this classroom-tested Study and Listening Guide provides chapter objectives, chapter outlines, study questions, lists of key terms and names, review questions, musical exercises, and guides for listening.[...]
Performers include: Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherland Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein The Berlin Philharmonic, the Ch[...]
Performers include: Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherland Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein The Berlin Philharmonic, the Ch[...]
Performers include: Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherland Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein The Berlin Philharmonic, the Ch[...]
4 Blood Types, 4 Diets. That was the call that brought more than 300,000 people out to buy the most innovative diet book of the decade, the first to tell us what everyone instinctively knows: that different people need different diets. After nearly twenty years of research, Dr. D'Adamo revealed the [...]
This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for [...]
How can universities ensure that they are preparing their students for today's competitive job market? This book tackles the highly topical subject of graduate underemployment with insight and clarity. The authors argue the case for more sophisticated research into employability with passion and vis[...]
A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable. With an international perspective, the book describes urban environmental agendas and how they arose in the context of globalization, urban economic restructuring, and the need to make cities competiti[...]
The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in [...]
Developing key topics in depth and introducing students to the notion of independent study, this full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through the transition from AS to A2 and is the perfect guide for the new AQA A2 Media Studies syllabus. Individual chapters, writ[...]
A guide for the WJEC A2 Media Studies syllabus. It deals with the areas such as: Research and Production Skills; Passing MS3: Media Investigation and Production; Developing Textual Analysis; Issues and Debates; and, Passing MS4: Media - Text, Industry and Audience.[...]
This book explores the exportation and application of European Union legislation beyond EU borders. It clarifies the means and instruments of the voluntary application of the EU's norms by third countries and analyses in detail the process of legislative approximation between the EU and its East Eur[...]
The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles th[...]