Form and Forces

The great historical and economic transformations of the late twentieth-century city are vividly reflected in John Schlesinger's oeuvre. In films o...

Reducere. Classical mechanics deals with the motion of macroscopic objects such as projectiles, parts of machinery as well as the astronomical objects includ...

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling autho...

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise ...

In modern Syria, a contested territory at the intersection of differing regimes of political representation, artists ventured to develop strikingly...

Charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoc...

Reducere. DescriptionUlysses S. Grant's memoirs begins with the author's formative years and his military service, continuing through the U.S. Civil War and ...

U.S. History covers the breadth of the chronological history of the United States and also provides the necessary depth to ensure the course is man...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

DescriptionKeynes is one of the most important and influential economists who ever lived. It is almost universally believed that Keynes wrote his m...

In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge t...

On publication in 2009 John Hattie's Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to impro...

DescriptionPublished in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was an almost instant--yet controversial-- classic. Born of a design and research studio led ...

Not so long ago zombies rarely shuffled out of B-grade horror movies and cult comic books, but today they are everywhere. Zombies are proliferating...

How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.In 1950...

Reducere. An autobiographical account of the armed resistance against the Soviet Union, which took place between 1944-1956. Published in English for the firs...

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

Reducere. On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has cr...

Reducere. Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North...

Reducere. Traditional Yor b culture is founded on the idea that everything in Nature has Or or consciousness. This belief leads to the idea it is possible to...

Reducere. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE is the heart-pounding sequel to SPARROW'S TEARS, and part two of the SPARROW'S TEARS TRILOGY. Special Forces Captain James ...

The Waffen SS were Hitler's elite forces during WWII. They were the forces that were feared by the enemy and praised by their allies. During the Nu...

Reducere. DescriptionUlysses S. Grant's memoirs begins with the author's formative years and his military service, continuing through the U.S. Civil War and ...

America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, w...

DescriptionThis second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly strug...

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

Common Sense inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. It was here that our constitutional form of government was first suggested. ...

Reducere. This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's le...

Reducere. Abundantly illustrated, Brothers in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the fam...

Reducere. Spirit and Stone. Song and Sky. Fate and Future all align.On my seventeenth birthday, I finally heard Fate's voice. He whispered to me again and ag...

Sonic ethnography reveals how sound plays a central role in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. By ex...

Reducere. Timeless Embrace is the gut-wrenching sequel to Timeless Soldier, and part five of the Sparrow's Tears saga. Lin Sparrow is a witch. That's what pe...

When U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for twenty-three years. Yet in their attempts to understand...

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep beh...

Many people describe themselves as secular rather than religious, but they often qualify this statement by claiming an interest in spirituality. Bu...

Reducere. Using UFOs and the work of "experiencer" Whitley Strieber as its departure point, Prisoner of Infinity explores how beliefs are created and percept...

Reducere. Weaving Fate presents tools to help restore our connection to the Field, the Others, and our own intrinsic natures. These practices can help us to ...

Reducere. DescriptionMy life will be judged worthwhile to the extent that it is of use to others. For this reason, I wish to tell of the things which have ha...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan SmeleThis volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualization of the compendium of struggl...

Reducere. DescriptionValley of the Shadow joins a fraternity of published first-person accounts of the fall of the Philippines, including the surrender of Co...

Reducere. This book chronicles the healing effects of harmonic sounds and incorporates spiritual points of view and books of ancient civilizations that addre...

Reducere. Dear Bill is, in many ways, a time capsule that illuminates and brilliantly colours the years of 1939-1946 from a uniquely Canadian pioneer perspec...

Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from t...

A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the mi...

Reducere. This is the story of Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker who spent a career with the Delta Forces and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Crowe's stor...

Using first-hand accounts and many previously unpublished images, this highly illustrated new book provides a detailed analysis of Germany's Panzer...

What would you do to protect your home? Lie? Manipulate? Kill?War awaits across the sea. In order to ensure their survival, the Oncoming Storm and ...

What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beg...

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form ... to make histori...

Reducere. "TO SUBDUE THE ENEMY WITHOUT FIGHTING IS THE ACME OF SKILL" (Sun Tzu) Book 2 of 3 in the C.M.L. U.S. Army PSYOP series. Discover how to plan and pr...

Reducere. Liberal education is nothing other then the aquistion of a free mind. Unfortunately, too many of us have a mind shackled by ideologies and moved by...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kristen AshleyOne night, Callum is driven into the woods by instinct, an instinct to protect. In the form of wolf, he meets...

DescriptionFirst published in 1957, this is a classic monograph in the area of applied mathematics. It offers a connected account of the mathematic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Grenville HarropEditor: Rebecca HarropThis is a book that's long overdue: One that provides information that has never b...

In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped th...

Reducere. From a former Israeli operative--and now a #1 London Times bestseller--comes the most authentic spy thriller of the year, perfect for fans of John ...

Reducere. "Suffering is an authentic part of the human experience. But a form of sport? ...what motivates someone to test himself like this?" - Joe De Sena, ...

In this exciting, visionary, and all-too-plausible next chapter in the legendary Dale Brown's New York Times bestselling techno-warfare series, Bra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Massimo ScaligeroTranslator: Eric L. BisbocciThe Logic Against Humanity is considered by many to be Massimo Scaligero's mos...

Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers-Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt-to consider fascism as a form ...

DescriptionThough pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to hi...

Reducere. "In the gripping Fire and Ice, Jance showcases both Beaumont and Brady....The prolific Jance...is in fine form."--Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel New ...

Reducere. In drawing attention to the fundamental elements of form inherent in all graphic and sculptural art, Van James opens our eyes to the alphabet of th...

DescriptionThis landmark study of the life of republican leader Liam Mellows brings together letters, speeches, political writings and captured IRA...

Reducere. "Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees--a top-secret band of brothers--...

A guide to the advanced practice of Inner Alchemy, which brings the physical body into balance with the energy body - Presents the second level of ...

Reducere. On today's complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one-another's weaknesses, there is a demonstr...

Reducere. Drawing on his theory of the origins of the modern mind, Merlin Donald's thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our dis...

Reducere. Kij Johnson has created an achingly beautiful love story, a fable wrapped in smoke and magic set against the fabric of ancient Japan. Johnson bring...

Reducere. On the edge of the Everglades, an eerie crime scene sets off an investigation that sends two agents deep into a world of corrupted faith, greed and...