Last Overland
* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 * 'This is a fabulous adventure - reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading.' Joanna Lumley 'Alex Bescoby weaves travel, adventure, history and the con...
Last Overland
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 * NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 * 'This is a fabulous adventure - reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading.' Jo...
Atheist's Guide to Reality
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, surprisingly sanguine take on a world without god...
Terrorism and Modern Literature
Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important...
World of Warcraft: Exploring Azeroth - Islands and Isles
WEIGH ANCHOR AND CHART COURSE FOR THE ISLANDS OF AZEROTH! Betwixt the sweeping seas of Azeroth, islands and isles await, bursting with splendid treasures-powerful artifacts, enchanted armor, and rousing tales from ages past. With duty delaying the...
Mastering MongoDB 4.x
Leverage the power of MongoDB 4.x to build and administer fault-tolerant database applications Key Features Master the new features and capabilities of MongoDB 4.x Implement advanced data modeling, querying, and administration techniques in MongoD...
Introduction to African Politics
This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key qu...
Towards a Resilient Architecture
This volume explores the interconnected social, sustainable and spatial principles that underpin the design of more environmentally conscientious buildings and places, illustrated through models, drawings and images of selected key projects by the...
Grow the Pie
A Financial Times Book of the Year 2020! Should companies be run for profit or purpose? In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed finance professor and TED speaker Alex Edmans shows it's not an either-or choice. Drawing from real-life examples spann...
Accelerated Testing and Validation
Accelerated Testing and Validation Methods is a cross-disciplinary guide that describes testing and validation tools and techniques throughout the product development process. Alex Porter not only focuses on what information is needed but also on ...
Absorption and Drug Development
Explains how to perform and analyze the results of the latest physicochemical methods With this book as their guide, readers have access to all the current information needed to thoroughly investigate and accurately determine a compound's pharmace...
Decadence
Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges...
The Edge of Law
The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using the example of the establishment of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey argues...
Foundations of Evidence Law
This book examines systematically the underlying theory of evidence in Anglo-American legal systems and identifies the defining characteristics of adjudicative fact-finding. Stein develops a detailed innovative theory which sets aside the traditio...
Anarchism
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism? This Very Short Introduction provides a new point of departure for...
Hands-On System Programming with Go
Explore the fundamentals of systems programming starting from kernel API and filesystem to network programming and process communications Key Features Learn how to write Unix and Linux system code in Golang v1.12 Perform inter-process communicatio...
Information, Knowledge, and Economic Life
As markets have assumed increasing prominence in societies, economic sociology's insights into their operations have provided some of the most cogent explanations of how they affect our world. The book systematically surveys the most important soc...
Espejos Sagrados: El Arte Visionario de Alex Grey
Esta serie única de pinturas lleva al espectador a un viaje gráfico y vionario a través de la anatomía física y metafísica del ser. En su exploración dentro de la naturaleza del hombre/mujer, Alex Grey retrata el sistema nervioso, el vascular, el ...
New Millennium Boyz
The debut novel hailed by Bret Easton Ellis as a "toxic teenage boy anthem," that shook up the indie lit scene and landed on conservative book ban lists and controversial celebrity bookshelves, finally arrives in paperback. NYLON Magazin...
Teach Now! English
Being taught by a great teacher is one of the great privileges of life. Teach Now! is an exciting new series that opens up the secrets of great teachers and, step-by-step, helps trainees to build the skills and confidence they need to become first...
Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran
Understanding the foreign policy agenda and behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a critical challenge for the world. But where do the principal Iranian regime actors come from in terms of political background, experiences and interests? Whi...
Against Postmodernism
It has become an intellectual commonplace to claim that we have entered the era of 'post-modernity'. Three themes are embraced in this claim - the poststructuralist critique by Foucault, Derrida and others of the philosophical heritage of the Enli...
Learning C# Programming with Unity 3D, second edition
Learning C# Programming with Unity 3D, Second Edition is for the novice game programmer without any prior programming experience. Readers will learn how C# is used to make a game in Unity 3D. Many example projects provide working code to learn fro...