Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings.[...]

Lights A nine-year-old boy in New Zealand's Pukerua Bay stays up late and is spellbound by a sixty-year-old vision of a giant ape on an island full of dinosaurs. This is true magic. And the boy knows that he wants to be a magician.Camera Fast-forward twenty years and the boy has begun to cast a spel[...]

The Mongols had a huge impact on medieval Europe and the Islamic world.  This book provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol world-empire from the first appearance of Chinggis Khanâ s armies in 1221 down to the death of Tamerlane (1405) and the battle of[...]

Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates. Words like 'choice' and 'convenience' are often used as explanatory terms in understanding consumer behavior but are cle[...]

A major new study of French foreign and security policy before, during and after the First World War.[...]

The human iris provides a unique window into our bodies, offering clues to our past, present, and future health. Its related science--iridology--allows us to assess our wellbeing and provides pathways to follow to ensure we remain physically and emotionally fit. Iridologist Peter Jackson-Main demons[...]

Demonstrates that studying the history of intelligence enriches our understanding of its role in international relations today Intelligence has never been a more important factor in international affairs than it is today. The 9/11 commission in the US, and the Hutton Report in Britain, have placed i[...]

Filling a new need in engineering education, Getting Design Right: A Systems Approach integrates aspects from both design and systems engineering to provide a solid understanding of the fundamental principles and best practices in these areas. Through examples, it encourages students to create an in[...]

This is a comprehensive guide to the nature of language and an introduction to linguistic analysis. This is a brand new edition of "An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language", the bestselling English Language textbook. With comprehensive coverage of the nature of language and linguisti[...]

The debate about Muslim integration throughout Europe has been increased by the recent shocking events in Norway. This highly topical book aims to undermine unsubstantiated myths by examining Muslim integration in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, states which dominate the deb[...]