Practical Handbook of Grouting
The first complete handbook for every aspect of grouting technology The Practical Handbook of Grouting offers the most comprehensive, single-source reference covering all facets of grouting technology, including its application for control of wate...
Dreamweaver CS3 For Dummies
Packed with the latest Dreamweaver tips and techniques Get up to speed fast and start creating dynamite Web sites! Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that's easy to develop and maintain? Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Web ...
Culture and Management in Asia
Local culture has long been recognised as a critically important factor in shaping management styles in different Asian countries. This book provides a comprehensive overview of culture and management in major East and Southeast Asian economies. E...
Live Wires
We live in an electronic world. Electronic sounds and electronic music have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen...
Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection
For several decades, social work and child protection systems have been subject to accelerating cycles of crisis and reform, with each crisis involving intense media and political scrutiny. In understanding the nature and causes of this cycle, lit...
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings is embedded in...
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-...
Can's Tago Mago
Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear o...
25 Need-To-Know Management Ratios
25 Need-To-Know Management Ratios
Rise and Fall of Intelligence
This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond. During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two su...
Signs & Wonders
Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections. This res...
Monuments and Maidens
Monuments and Maidens
Summer of Blood
Summer of Blood
Mathematical Puzzles For Kids
Do your child love solving various kinds of puzzles? This book is a great way for your kid to spend a few hours in deep concentration, working out complex and fun puzzles and conundrums. Don't delay. Get a copy today
Harry Potter Film Wizardry
This stunning package is a truly immersive reading experience with unseen imagery, concept art and exclusive insights from the cast and crew. It includes exclusive and removable photographs, pull-outs, maps, pamphlets and other artefacts from the ...
Blood Roses
The Wars of the Roses didn't start on the battlefield: Blood Roses traces it back to the beginning. Starting in 1245 with the founding of the House of Lancaster, Kathryn Warner follows a twisted path of political intrigue, bloody war and fascinati...
Alone of All Her Sex
This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of Al...
Tongue-Tied Imagination
Winner, 2021 African Literature Association First Book Award Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twent...
Forms of Enchantment
Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of sever...
Godard and the Essay Film
Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evo...