Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand both the art and science of search. In "Designing the Search Experience", authors To[...]
Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so many others have drawn inspiration. [...]
Yonder Come the Blues combines three influential and much-quoted books: Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues. Updated with additional new essays, the book discusses the crucial early development of the blues as a music of Blacks in the United States, explaining some[...]
This is the ultimate reference and identification guide to more than 1300 of the most spectacular, best-loved and unusual trees around the globe, with 3000 specially commissioned illustrations, maps and photographs. It provides a valuable insight into the life cycle of the tree; the role the constit[...]
A new generation of illustrated natural history handbooks, produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution. The new DK "Nature Guides" form a comprehensive, accessible, and informative series of illustrated reference books that tackle key natural history subjects in DK's inimitable style. F[...]
A full-colour profile of fifty of the Cotswolds' Finest Gardens
This is the ultimate reference guide and identifier to 550 of the most spectacular, best-loved and unusual trees. It includes a comprehensive collection of indigenous and collected species, such as oaks, yews, junipers, larches, birches, alders, limes, hornbeams and poplars. Beautiful watercolour ar[...]
This is a beautifully illustrated guide to trees from around the world. It is a comprehensive guide to over 600 trees from the tropics and temperate worlds, with more than 800 photographs and illustrations. It includes conifers, deciduous broadleaf trees, striking cacti-like palms and fruit trees. I[...]
An explanation of waves and how they are formed, in layman's terms.
Covers health care security topics and issues, particularly in licensing, regulatory requirements, litigation, and accreditation standards in the US. This book offers practical support for health care security professionals, including operationally proven policies, and procedures.[...]
An analysis of the phenomenon of international retirement migration, tracing the story of the migrants from their old to their new homes, and examining the conceptual and policy contexts of this relatively new form of transnational mobility.[...]