Is That all You People Think About?
'A fine, if sometimes rude, collection of haikus inspired by modern life' Daily Telegraph 'I'm in here!' yelled Mum. Hide and seek was spoilt again. We never found Dad. The word 'Haiku' invokes images of misty mountains, running streams and fallin...
Wild Life
The new Joe the Bouncer organised crime thriller. To find the killer of NYC's most desirable call girls, Joe will have to plunge into the seediest fringes of Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs.
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania
A close examination of an understudied European Union member state such as Romania reveals that, since 1989, post-Communist state and non-state actors have adopted a wide range of methods, processes and practices of working through the Communist p...
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winni...
Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry
This book offers a critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry in order to assess the impact of the large corporation on American democracy. It offers the first book-length treatment of the power of the nation's largest...
Fundamentals of Astrophysics
This concise textbook, designed specifically for a one-semester course in astrophysics, introduces astrophysical concepts to undergraduate science and engineering students with a background in college-level, calculus-based physics. The text is org...
Fundamentals of Astrophysics
Presenting a concise overview of astrophysical concepts, the second edition of this textbook bridges the gap between introductory astronomy books and advanced astrophysics texts. Designed for one-semester astrophysics courses, the textbook is aime...
Fantastic Four: The Coming of Galactus
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby redrew the comic world when they launched Fantastic Four # 1 in 1961. They went on to populate the Marvel Universe with an incredible array of costumed characters.
Intentional Leadership
This book provides a framework for guiding leaders to shift from linear, cause-effect thinking to an ecology of moral, intentional leadership, paying attention to how their actions are connected to others. Readers are encouraged to act in a determ...
Practice
Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. Drawing on his ...
The Marathas 1600-1818
In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India...
The Marathas 1600-1818
This is a most comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the largest political entity of eighteenth-century India. It explores strategies of maintaining loyalty among elite families a...
American Foreign Affairs: A Compact History
This book provides a compact history of the gradual development of the US into a great power. Most histories of US foreign policy and development concentrate either on economic growth or on relations with the major powers outside the continental U...