Cuello
The Maya built one of the great ancient civilizations in the New World, between AD 250 and 900. Famed for over 150 years for its cities buried deep in the Central American jungle, the origins of Maya culture have, nevertheless, remained obscure un...
Sentness
Sentness
Programming for Linguists
This book is an introduction to the rudiments of Perl programming. It provides the general reader with an interest in language with the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language. Exposes the general read...
Arabic Poems
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marlé Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for ...
Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age
Literature has experienced two great medium shifts, each with profound implications for its forms, genres, and cultures: that from orality to writing, and that from writing to printing. Today we are experiencing a third shift, from printed to digi...
Pop Culture Arab World!
The first book to explore how Arab pop culture has succeeded in helping forge a pan-Arab identity, where Arab nationalism has failed. Pop Culture Arab World! is the first volume to explore the full scope of Arab cultural life since World War II. T...
The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction
This book provides a clear and very broadly based introduction to crystallography, light, X-ray and electron diffraction - a knowledge which is essential to students in a wide range of scientific disciplines but which is otherwise generally covere...
Python for Linguists
Specifically designed for linguists, this book provides an introduction to programming using Python for those with little to no experience of coding. Python is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages as it's also available fo...
Cold War Literature
The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or fina...
The Strangeness of Tragedy
This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others a...
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialist...
Playing with Truth
Pascal's Pensées is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century France, an unfinished work which has both inspired and perplexed readers in succeeding centuries. Playing with Truth is the first comprehensive b...
Electromagnetism for Engineers
This book is a concise introduction to electromagnetic fields for students on degree and diploma courses. Physical processes and their descriptions are elucidated in words rather than mathematical symbols. Only simple differentiation, integration,...
Media, War and Postmodernity
Media, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for...
Media, War and Postmodernity
Media, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for...
Vegan Cannabis Cookbook
Prepare Delicious Marijuana-Infused Vegan Recipes And Edibles Learn how to get the most out of cannabis in your kitchen with respect for life & other creatures. Do you love your taste buds as much as getting high and do you want to consume a healthy, plant-based diet? With cannabis cooking for vegans, you'll get the absolute best of what you can find in greens; no animal products. Enjoy the natural, creative and medical benefits of marijuana without the harmful carcinogens that are inhaled by smoking weed: Learn how to make vegan edibles that are delicious, prepared in a snap and most importantly, drop like a bomb. Become the chef that your friends come to for edibles Expand your skill set today by learning how to cook plant based weed snacks, edibles, THC-recipes, CBD-treats and more. In this book, you'll find an impeccable assortment of mouthwatering edibles and recipes to prepare: * Almond and Banana Cannabis Vegan Ice Cream * Cannabis Oatmeal Bars with Peanut Chocolate * Cannabis
Literature in the Digital Age
Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literatur...
The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction
This book provides a clear and very broadly based introduction to crystallography, light, X-ray and electron diffraction - a knowledge which is essential to students in a wide range of scientific disciplines but which is otherwise generally covere...
Climate Change and Post-Political Communication
For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their effo...
Literature in the Digital Age
Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literatur...
Serbian: An Essential Grammar
Serbian: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of Serbian as used by contemporary native speakers of the language. Refreshingly jargon free, it presents an accessible description of the l...
Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide
This practical guide argues that both mentor coaching and supervision be mandated by the professional coaching bodies as part of coaches' continuous professional development. Mentor coaching is not just for those coaches seeking a credentia...
Framing Post-Cold War Conflicts
Since the end of the Cold War there have been many competing ideas about how to explain contemporary conflicts, and about how the West should respond to them. This study examines how the media interpret conflicts and international interventions, t...
Wreckers Must Breathe
The spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. But below the Cornish cliffs, hidden by churning seas, the enemy is very real indeed, and much closer than anyone could suspect. Craig a...
Wreck of the Mary Deare
The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking. But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be sa...
How To Steal a Dragon
Being BAD has never felt so GOOD! The second book in the villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond. For fans of Amelia Fang, Dog Man and Grimwood. Don't miss¿the third installment,¿How to...
How to Win the Gruesome Games
Being BAD has never felt so GOOD! The third book in the villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond. For fans of Amelia Fang, Dog Man and Grimwood. Check out the complete series¿- Villains ...
Car Science: An Under-The-Hood, Behind-The-Dash Look at How Cars Work
From Top Gear's Richard Hammond, Car Science is an intuitive and exciting children's science book on all things cars. In four sections, Car Science includes a timeline of automotive invention; a how it works guide to modern cars, with exploded diagrams, cutaways, and computer graphics; key physics concepts, all relating to cars and how they run; and a look into the future of cars, including eco-friendly concept cars. This car book for kids is the perfect resource for curious minds.
Shaman's Mind
The Shaman's Mind
Draw Real People!
Having trouble drawing a nose that looks like a nose? In this step-by-step guide, Lee Hammond will teach you how to draw realistic-looking portraits of your favorite people-more easily than you ever thought possible. Really! The secret is in the b...
China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future
China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future