An illustrated encyclopedia of classic hot rods and street rods, with over 550 photographs, that gives a chronological reference to a legendary style of automobile, covering the early models of the 1920s onwards. It is suitable for automobile enthusiasts.[...]

"This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of two techniques that are rapidly increasing in importance and usage in the natural gas and petroleum industry: acid gas injection and carbon dioxide sequestration. The author, a well-known and respected authority on both processes, disc[...]

A hot rod is an automobile rebuilt or modified for high speed and acceleration. Hot rods are more than that--they're an American icon. Hot rods can be found on the streets and at the dragstrips. This beautifully illustrated guide provides a history of hot rods in America from their first appearance [...]

This is an illustrated A-Z guide to all the major tractor and truck manufacturers around the world. It offers a comprehensive history of tractors and trucks, tracing their evolution from the early pioneers to today's state-of-the-art farming and road machines. It features tractors, farm machinery, m[...]

This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties, while inviting students to reflect on metaphysic[...]

The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel [...]

Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing and textiles in the context of death and burial in Clas[...]

Alice lives an ordinary life, until the day she follows the White Rabbit down, down, down a rabbit hole. She suddenly finds herself in an enchanted world, surrounded by zany creatures like the Mad Hatter, the Duchess, and the Cheshire Cat. Alice is delighted to find that nothing in Wonderland is the[...]

When Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, it set critics awry: here was a book for children written for the pure pleasure of reading. It has since become one of the most famous children's books ever, translated into many different languages, performed as a play, and made int[...]