Bruce Dern
One of Hollywood's biggest personalities, Bruce Dern is not afraid to say what he thinks. He has left an indelible mark on numerous projects, from critically acclaimed films to made-for-TV movies and television series. His notable credits include ...
Danish Food and Cooking
Discover the distinctive tastes of this Scandinavian cuisine in this sumptuous new book with over 69 appetizing and authentic recipes. Provides a comprehensive guide to the classic ingredients of the country together with a fascinating overview of...
God is Dead
Drawing on an international range of examples, Steve Bruce offers a comprehensive and up-to-date defence of the secularisation debate.
Fundamentalism
The new edition of Steve Bruce's Fundamentalism grapples with the combination of social strains and religious ideas that have produced an explosion of fundamentalist activity in the wake of 9/11. In a direct and punchy style, the new edition of hi...
Secular Beats Spiritual
The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents. For some it shows a decline in interest in religion as such; for others, religion has not declined, it has only...
Honey, Baby, Mine
THE MOVING, HEARTWARMING, INTIMATE CONVERSATION BETWEEN ACTRESS LAURA DERN AND HER LATE MOTHER, HOLLYWOOD LEGEND DIANE LADD, ON LIFE, DEATH, LOVE - AND BANANA PUDDING 'Wonderful... raw, gossipy, funny, delicate, endlessly compassionate, at moments...
Classic Recipes of Denmark
This book presents traditional food and cooking in 25 authentic dishes. You can discover the distinctive tastes of this Scandinavian cuisine from weekday family meals to dishes for special occasions. It includes traditional recipes for soups, vege...
Honey, Baby, Mine
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'wonderful... raw, gossipy, funny, delicate, endlessly compassionate, at moments devastating, at others spectacularly wise' THE TIMES 'This is the best, truest, most shocking Hollywood memoir I've ever read. It is als...
Choice and Religion
The orthodox view is that the democracies of the western world have become increasingly secular over the twentieth century. Fewer and fewer people have chosen to believe, and the church has declined markedly as religion has changed from being part...
Sociology
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society'...
Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
The more you know about snow stability, the better your travel and rescue skills. And the sharper your decision making, the better you'll be able to avoid avalanche danger and have more fun in the winter backcountry. In Staying Alive in Avalanche ...
Psychology of Executive Coaching
With the first edition of this text, Peltier drew on his extensive experience in both the clinical and business worlds to create a comprehensive resource that brought psychological and coaching concepts together. It quickly became a practical and ...
Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy
Reflectance and emittance spectroscopy are increasingly important tools in remote sensing and have been employed in most recent planetary spacecraft missions. They are primarily used to measure properties of disordered materials, especially in the...
Against Understanding, Volume 1
2014 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize winner for Best Anthology Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary...
Against Understanding, Volume 2
Against Understanding, Volume 2, casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians' expertise and mastery rather than patients' actual itineraries. When a case is presented, the com...
Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons
The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understandi...
Cases in European Competition Policy
Competition between firms is usually the most effective way of delivering economic efficiency and what consumers want. However, there is a balance to be struck. Firms must not be over-regulated and so hampered in their development of innovative pr...
The Search for Life on Other Planets
Does life exist on other planets? This 1998 book presents the scientific basis for thinking there may be life elsewhere in the Universe. It is the first to cover the entire breadth of recent exciting discoveries, including the discovery of planets...
Religion in the Modern World
The people of the Middle Ages did what the Church told them God required. The sovereign consumers of the modern world `pick and mix' their own religions, Starting with the Reformation and ending with New Age spirituality, this book offers a compre...
Thinking about Landscape Architecture
What is landscape architecture? Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky provides a complete overview of the discipline to provide those that are new to the subject with the foundations for future study and practice. The man...
Message of Heaven and Hell
When death breaks into our lives, the great questions of human existence and destiny confront us. What is life? What is death? Is there an afterlife? Often it is only in the midst of tragedy that these issues are given much attention - but the bas...
Teacher's Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques f...
Click Here to Kill Everybody
We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billb...
Security in Post-Conflict Africa
Policing is undergoing rapid change in Africa as a result of democratization, the commercialization of security, conflicts that disrupt policing services, and peace negotiations among former adversaries. These factors combined with the inability o...
Know the Truth
Perfect for anyone starting to study the Bible in greater depth. Are you looking to get an overall view of the teaching of the Bible? This will help Christians grasp the overall pattern of the Bible's teaching. Know The Truth' is a handbook of Chr...
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry an...
New Global History
From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early mod...
Modern Korean Fiction
To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (th...
Politics and Religion
Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession of holy sites; in Egypt, Israel and India political leaders are murdered by religious zealots. In m...
Politics and Religion
Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession of holy sites; in Egypt, Israel and India political leaders are murdered by religious zealots. In m...
Secularization
The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce...
In My Own Process
'Many of you know that I am a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, and, by daily actualizing my potentiality through soulful discoveries and daily exercising, I hope to become also an artist of life.' - Bruce Lee 'I venture that 95% o...
Gym Bible
Get BIG, Get STRONG, Get SHREDDED Learn how to naturally build the body of your dreams faster than you ever thought possible What if you could start getting real results in the gym and see them in just weeks (not months)? Imagine how awesome it would feel to wake up every morning and see your dream body in the mirror Multi-time best selling mens fitness author and influencer, Bruce Harlow, shares with you scientifically proven weight training workouts that are the fastest and most effective at building muscle mass and strength. With millions of fans worldwide reading his blog, books and email newsletters, his fitness programs have resulted in many achieving the body of their dreams. The specific workouts and teachings that are most powerful have been included in this guide Do you struggle to see real results after all the work and effort you put in at the gym? Do you want results faster than you're currently getting? To be stronger and have more lean mass? Or if the idea of following
Jazz and Totalitarianism
Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book...