Driving Force

His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most famous ho...

Top Gear's Richard Hammond is in the driving seat for this turbo-charged tour through the nuts and bolts of car technology - now in paperback! Unde...

For Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials, the driving force is the pluralist, objective stance on introducing students to core concepts...

The RSPB's Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense ...

Reducere. Since its very beginnings, St. Louis has been at the forefront of America's struggle for equality. Many people have contributed to the fight for ju...

Reducere. 'If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is orga...

Reducere. A pivotal work in the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" puts forth many of the foundational ideas ...

Reducere. American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents--and contine...

Reducere. When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Södergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today s...

Reducere. From bestselling author Ralph Compton-an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody ...

A pioneer of cloud computing and big data offers his vision of the future world taking shape around us. Jian Wang was the founder and architect of ...

Reducere. From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important yet overlooked figures of American...

Reducere. Tobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes l...

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, demonstrating just how central anti-semitism was to Nazi ideology and ...

Reducere. For legions of soccer fans, the players on the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team are the game's standard-bearers. Together their accomplishments in...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

Reducere. When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine...

"It is increasingly evident that the dramatic consequences of the Earth's changing process cannot be avoided, that our civilization today is not wi...

Reducere. In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which...

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms ind...

Reducere. DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS ARE DRIVING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS To the uninitiated, digital ecosystems are like swirls of mist, more nebulous apparition than...

Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Reducere. A deluxe, new edition of a classical esoteric text with unparalleled color plates.About the AuthorStephen Skinner began his career as a Geography l...

Reducere. Explore the ancient and mysterious secret wisdom of Taoism Are you curious about Taoism? Would you like to know more about the wisdom of the Ancien...

Reducere. Water ... nothing alive is going far without it. Earth is approximately 70 percent covered in water, and we are also 70 percent water.Every little ...

Reducere. Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Reducere. St. Petersburg, Zurich, Shanghai, and Miami are the background for this extraordinary novel that takes place during the post-Soviet era. A large pa...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

A magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in its spread. Human mig...

Reducere. The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. "Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Gl...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of...

Reducere. More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Ra...

Reducere. From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross, this candid, colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises he weathered ...

Reducere. The creative genius who gave us the Little Black Dress and Chanel No. 5. Almost 50 years after her death, Coco Chanel remains one of the world's mo...

Reducere. Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of th...

This Guide to Semiconductor Engineering is concerned with semiconductor materials, devices and process technologies which in combination are the dr...

Reducere. How does evidence happen? And when evidence happens badly, how can we find a fitting response to those making extraordinary claims? These are the q...

Reducere. Purpose must be known before it can become the driving force of any life. Vision creates the path to achieve such pursuit.This book has introduced ...

Reducere. In the first book in THE RISE AND FALL OF DANI TRUEHART series, RISING STAR, fifteen-year-old Dani Truehart is living a life that is not quite her ...

An entertaining and accessible profile of business leader Reed Hastings, the driving force behind Netflix

The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literatureLeft off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but des...

Reducere. In this book on the 3.Nc3 French, Harikrishna offers practical ideas from White's perspective to make your preparation more effective. At times, th...

Some of the most striking passages in The Story of My Heart are descriptions of the controlled chaos of London, which represented for Jefferies the...

An International Bestseller, the Story behind Henry Markram's Breakthrough Theory about Autism, and How a Family's Unconditional Love Led to a Scie...

From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group Jack Black and man...

Reducere. Can Jameson Drake save his sister and the woman he loves?Spencer Gordon wasn't expecting the call from Kathleen Drake, a woman she'd spent years ke...

Reducere. "We are not a monolith: Our experiences of what it means to be black in America aren't alike. The question at hand is, what is our unifying factor?...

Reducere. In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life...

Reducere. From "one of the bonafide rock stars of the thriller genre" (The Real Book Spy) comes another tour de force in the #1 New York Times bestselling FB...

Reducere. Summary"The Farm: The Memories Laughs and Tears" is the fictional story told by John Riegal a young man growing up on the family farm. While some o...

On a good day, any sane person could never imagine what it would feel like to be on a doomed crashing jetliner, much less live to tell the tale. A ...

Reducere. Anan Ameri played a pivotal role in the creation of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The Wandering Palestinian chronicles h...

Tells the tale of Blue Sky's success, from its origins as a live-action vfx company to its reinvention as a driving force in computer-generated ani...

Reducere. Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television's premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s an...

Reducere. How do you do two seemingly opposite things at once? How can you be candid and diplomatic, provide structure and flexibility, keep things stable an...

William Butler Yeats, was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and B...

Reducere. Current Special Forces doctrine is very limited concerning the conduct of guerrilla warfare combat operations in urban environments. The focus of t...

First in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on the hunt for R...

The RSPB's Book of the SeasonThe distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense p...

Reducere. First in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on the hunt for R...

The solidarity of Europe, the driving force behind social and economic integration, has given way to suspicion and nationalism. If Europe, as a com...

Reducere. DescriptionLacking motivation? Life throwing too many curveballs at you? I know how you feel, I've been there Life threw a lot of curveballs at me,...

DescriptionEverything you have been told about creativity is wrong. From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, may...

Reducere. DescriptionLuna was destined to be alpha once he became an adult, but before he got the chance, his own brother, Rajor, framed him for a crime no o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Neo-Soul Guitar Book is a one-stop shop for the multi-faceted style of Neo-Soul guitar playing. In recent times Neo-Soul has emerged...

Reducere. Oregon Book AwardsWinner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller"It makes good music sound better."-Janet ...

Reducere. Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer...

Reducere. One of today's foremost mystics introduces readers to the thought of one of the most important spiritual teachers of the past century.Bede Griffith...

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be "smart enough, " using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities, where...

Strong-willed Tirzah wants to join her people in driving the enemy from the land of Israel and undergoes training for a secret mission inside the s...