Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel is one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and contradictory composers. This timely new biography - published for the 150th anniversary of his birth - describes Ravel's journey from Parisian apprentice to global musical icon. ...
Night Has a Naked Soul
This exploration of the occult world of the Western Cherokee translates 40 shamanistic texts which deal with such esoteric matters as: divining the future; protecting oneself from enemies; destroying the power of witches; and purifying one's soul ...
Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch
A hundred years or so ago, kids growing up in St. Andrews, Scotland, kids like Bill Kilpatrick's father, took to golf as naturally as to breathing. Accordingly, the prevailing opinion was that any layabout could play golf, whereas a greenkeeper wa...
Nobody's Perfect
Nobody's Perfect
Wuthering Heights
Gems of literature in a luxurious, uniquely designed series by Marjolein Bastin.¿Discover anew the dramatic world of¿Wuthering Heights.¿ The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously ...
Björk's Homogenic
In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her mo...
Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature
Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The literature of this period, from Passion lyrics to Lollard sermons, abounds in documentary language and met...
Stanford Mathematics Problem Book
This volume features a complete set of problems, hints, and solutions based on Stanford University's well-known competitive examination in mathematics. It offers students at both high school and college levels an excellent mathematics workbook. Fi...
Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures
This¿collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judai...
Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity
No one disputes how important it is, in today's world, to prepare students to un derstand mathematics as weII as to use and communicate mathematics in their future lives. That task is very difficult, however. Refocusing curricula on funda mental c...
Brontë Poems
* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine * Full-cloth, flexible covers * Sewn bindi...