The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the [...]

""John Gardner's work has engaged and inspired more individuals connected with traditional small craft than will ever be counted."--"WoodenBoat "magazine"""Deserves an honored place on the library shelf."--"National Fisherman""Poses clear and impassioned means to go from the armchair to the open wat[...]

Suitable for undergraduate courses in Kinematics or Dynamics of Mechanisms, taught in Mechanical Engineering departments, this book integrates the computational power of MATLAB[registered] into the analysis and design of mechanisms. It applies the use of MATLAB[registered] to the study of kinematics[...]

In Icebreaker, as indestructible as ever, Bond is back in another mission a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort with Bond s opposite numbers from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland. Yet if resurgent fascism is the common enemy, who is really t[...]

How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for [...]

In a series of essays John Gardner has developed distinctive and engaging answers to the central questions of legal philosophy, cutting through the technicalities of the subject to clarify and reinvigorate the main arguments about the nature of law. This volume collects that work to provide a major [...]

For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1960, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is highly sought after by families and scholars alike for it was Gard[...]

On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both fro[...]

This comprehensive and practical book offers a how-to guide to developing new first-year programs and enhancing existing programs. The authors identify and discuss the multiple elements that contribute to sustained student success and the programs that have the capacity to continue to meet student n[...]