Tabatabaian presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with an introduction to the fundamental physics, characteristics, and common models of tu
Set in small-town 1960s, The Country Doctor’s contains four interweaving stories and portrays the scandals and tensions of a year in Everham. Follow Shelagh, a doctor with a desire to not only prove h
North West India, July 1897. Former army scout Simon Fonthill and his wife Alice are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to India for an anniversary party with the Guides Corps. However, an ambus
September, 1900. South Africa. Simon Fonthill, along with his wife Alice, “352” Jenkins, and tracker Mzingeli, is travelling to Pretoria to meet with General Kitchener. With information that the next
London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing
Kostiner is a Chicago-based photographer who became involved with the National Fatherhood Initiative, travelled to community-based NFI programs, and met with and photographed fathers and children. Thi
Weeds Don't Perish is a memoir which combines the political with the personal aspects of the life of someone growing up in Palestine in the 30s and 40s, and living there and in the new state of Israel
Eminent South African novelist and historian Schoeman wrote most of the 17 essays here for the Quarterly Bulletin of what is now the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, with the intention of
The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is a journey of self-discovery and an exploration of man’s relationship with the Creator. Mecca is located in an arid land where nothing grows, and few, if any, earthly di
In the words of author Dianne Stewart, 'African proverbs reflect both the past and the present, and are as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society.' As with so much of Afr
Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialisin
Taking pages from books of nature, art, and architecture, Rachel Fletcher provides visual designers of all disciplines and art forms with geometric methods and techniques for composing spaces and plac
An illustrated novel which combines John Jackson's retellings of Hinduism's foundational myths with black and white illustrations by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, in a style reminiscent of the 'Golden
This is a masterly, immensely readable and totally convincing narrative of 500 years of this great and mightily important British industryIn fact, this new book describes with great insight and clarit
Laurie Brown has long been fascinated with what happens at the edge of cities. In her pioneering, photographic work on Los Angeles, her focus was on the terraforming activities in that quintessential
Richard Boggs first came to Sudan as a volunteer in 1986. He has very much lived among the Sudanese. His is not a life lived with expats and diplomats the warriors of the White Nile; the Nubian wrestl
Haworth parsonage and village will forever be linked inextricably with one nineteenth-century literary family. For it was here, in 1821, that Patrick Bront, an Irish Anglican clergyman, came from Thor
When a young, naively confident Jurgen Schadeberg first arrived at The Star news offices in Johannesburg with a Leica strung over his shoulder, he was informed by the paper's chief photographer that h
Head of the Zoology Department at the U. of Pretoria for 31 years (1954-1985) and chairman of the National Parks Board of South Africa for 15 years (1979-1994), Eloff sites his involvement with the pe
Most of the literature on slavery during the first 60 years in the colony that is now South Africa, is Dutch or Afrikaans, says Schoeman, and his purpose with this volume is to translate that material
Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman has never been happier. Her relationship with Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner is going well and they are buying a house together. At work, a former pro
Escaping to America from the turmoil of her life in Edinburgh, DI Jim Meldrum's daughter, Betty, is lonely and vulnerable. When she meets a witty, charming stranger with an accent that reminds her of
Guy Piran wrote 2,000 letters over a period of three years. It became an obsession, to say the least. When he completed the 2,000th letter he set out across East Sussex with two friends and a van, a
VanGuilder defines environmental audits, explains why to conduct them, and provides detailed guidance on how to conduct them. He also breaks down the environmental regulatory programs into more easily
The Magaliesberg mountains are more than two billion years old - one of the oldest mountain ranges on the planet – and the book traces their creation and the changes in the landscape over this vast pa
Jack Parsons has been investigating the incredible landscapes, amazing light, and diverse cultures of the American Southwest for more than thirty-five years, in turn becoming a master of photographic
In the Hindu world-view, threshold is a profoundly important concept that represents a passage between one space and place and another, creating a visual bridge between the secular and the sacred. Acc
Botros provides the fundamental knowledge necessary to understand how to design and analyze basic digital logic systems and to know how to simulate these systems using hardware description languages (
Richardson combines the research of many different scholars and researchers on the life and work of Edward Thring (1821-1887), proclaimed “the most original educationalist” and schoolmaster during his
Being a Hollywood star isn’t everything when there’s still a lot of kid in you. For 40 years film and TV’s big names were kids again playing baseball in the annual L.A. Dodgers Hollywood Stars Night
A cross between memoir, biography, and coffee-table photographic history book, this volume covers the author's visits to, and photographs of, WWI battlefield sites and the American Battle Monuments Co
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) led an extraordinary life, around the time of Darwin. He was dedicated to locating and identifying butterflies, particularly in South America. Crawforth (PhD candidate,
This is the second volume of two-volume work examining the concept of costless inputs to wealth creation. Costless inputs are scarce, create value, cannot be purchased, and, the author argues, must be
Where the Streets Have 2 Names: U2 and the Dublin Music Scene 1978-1981 features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs of U2 (by award-winning photographer Patrick Brocklebank) from the band'
Drawing on the folklore and mythology of India and Nepal and inspired by author John Jackson’s travels in those countries, Tales for Great Grandchildren is an enchanting collection of 13 illustrated s
When five female munitions workers on the home front are killed in a suspicious explosion, Marmion and Keedy must get to the bottom of who is responsible for such a horrendous act.
There are a few landmark works and authors in the history of urban management and public health administration, from John Snow and his account of the Broad Street cholera epidemic onward. One of the l
Set against the backdrop of World War I and amid the beautiful Cornish countryside, this is the story of a mother and daughter, bound together by a collection of pressed flowers and the memories they
Photographer Chuck Forsman used an old-fashioned Leica film camera to take these black and white photographs of his dog going for walks, mostly in the city streets, parks, and natural areas around Bou
