Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob
Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob provides a distinctive and accessible introduction to the rapidly growing fields of quantum information science and quantum computing. The textbook is designed for undergraduate students and upper-level seconda...
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Sister Alice
Some 10 million years in the future, in a galaxy heavily populated by humans and other advanced species, a thousand trustworthy humans and their cloned offspring have been granted an incredible power that they may preserve a peace that has endured...
Alice Rawsthorn
Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn revises her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of a pandemic, intensified ecological disaster and political crisis Three years after its initial release, Alice Rawsthorn's bestselling volume is republished in an expanded edition, updated in response to recent political and ecological transformations across the world. Entirely revised by the author, the book is enriched by a new chapter on design's response to climate emergency; it also addresses COVID-19's impact on design across numerous updated chapters. Today, the field of design is responding to intense economic, political and ecological instability with resourcefulness and creativity. Public interest is soaring as a new generation of designers uses advanced technologies to pursue their political and environmental objectives in increasingly ambitious projects, as well as to reinvent the objects and spaces we use every day. Written by one of the world's leading design and culture
Robert Ryman
An extensive look at Robert Ryman's formative work from the early 1960s, as well as his last series of paintings. In the 1960s, Robert Ryman began to firmly establish the broad parameters of his radical and inventive practice. While he initially g...
Robert Kuok
Winner of Best Book of the Year at the Singapore Book Publishers Association awards 2018. Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But this legendary Overseas Chinese entrepreneur, commodities trader, hotelier and prope...
Robert Couturier
A passion for luxury and beauty propels the multifaceted work of acclaimed international architect and interior designer Robert Couturier. Robert Couturier's aesthetic is a dialogue between Old World elegance and contemporary design. His masterful...
Robert Duncan
A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including ...
Robert Lowell
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing ...
Robert Burns
The perfect gift for poetry lovers. A comprehensive collection of the Scottish Bard's songs and poems. The 19th-century scholar and educationalist J S Blackie summed up Burns's importance to Scotland and the Scots with the words: 'When Scotland fo...
Robert Smithson
Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics contin...
Robert Duncan
Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure ...
Robert Mathieu
The greatest designer of French lighting, Robert Mathieu, is still little known to the general public today due to the rarity of his pieces on the market, highly sought after by specialised collectors. Unlike a traditional designer, Robert Mathieu...
Robert Frank
Paris - A Short Return is the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. His visit to Paris in 1951 was his second return to Europe after he ...
Robert Frank
In August 1992 Robert Frank's good friend and antique dealer Reginald Rankin invited Frank on a trip to Pangnirtung, a village of around 1,300 Inuit inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. This book is Frank's documentation of the five-day sojourn. Curi...
Alice Tegnér - Musikskapare
12 mars 2014 firas Alice Tegnérs 150-åriga födelsedag. I samband med detta jubileum publiceras en stor bok om en av våra mest älskade tonsättare. Här skildras Alice Tegnérs liv och rika musikaliska verksamhet. Boken innehåller också inte mindre än 72 okända musikstycken: solosånger, körsånger, pianostycken. Och som komplement bifogas en nyinspelad CD med Alice Tegnérs musik.
Story of Alice
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles ...
Robert Silverberg's Belzagor
This re-release of fan-favourite adaptation of Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth is accompanied by the highly-anticipated Children of Belzagor, the original and never before released sequel. From the mind of legendary American science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg. What began in his acclaimed Downward to the Earth continues in this collection! First, Return to Belzagor, the fan-favorite adaptation of Downward to the Earth as adapted by writer Philippe Thirault and Eisner-nominated artist Laura Zuccheri. Then, the story continues in the all-new Children of Belzagor, a Silverberg-approved tale of legacy and the lasting effects of colonialism. Return to Belzagor - Ex-lieutenant Eddie Gundersen returns to Belzagor, where he left behind his youthful illusions, the love of his life, and a shameful history as a brutal colonialist. Today, the planet has been returned to its two native, intelligent species: the Nildorors and the Sulidorors. Acting as a guide for a scientific
Robert Bellah Reader
Perhaps best known for his coauthored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Robert N. Bellah is a truly visionary leader in the social study of religion. For more than four decades, he has examined the role of religion in mod...
Robert Doisneau: Music
Previously unpublished photographs and iconic portraits of musicians from the 1950s through the 1980s offer a new perspective on Doisneau's remarkable talent. Master photographer Robert Doisneau's passion for the joyful energy inherent in the music world comes alive in images that cover the musical spectrum, from classical and jazz to be-bop to the roots of modern rap and alternative rock. With camera in hand, Doisneau crisscrossed Paris to capture intimate moments with star musicians such as Eartha Kitt in a jazz club, Django Reinhardt at home, and Yehudi Menuhin backstage, or with locals at a neighborhood dance or jamming in a brass band. His portraits were commissioned for stars from Juliette Gr co to Charles Aznavour to Claude Fran ois, and a new generation of musicians in the 1980s including Rita Mitsouko and Les N gresses Vertes. This book--curated by the photographer's granddaughter to accompany an exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris--includes more than one hundred