Chronologically profiles one-hundred significant battles from 1294 BC through the present day, highlighting strategies, tactics, weapons, and commanders
Thirty-four entries focusing on Copenhagen’s thriving new food scene and also on its highly evolved sense of design – the two of which frequently intersect.
The essential handbook for any food lover in Los Angeles, with more than 1,300 concise, clever reviews of the best places to eat, drink, shop, and taste.
A children's picture book with upbeat, rhyming text and brilliantly-coloured illustrations of young children engaging in many different forms of physical activity. It presents multicultural characters
Presents a history of medical innovations from the development of acupuncture in 2700 B.C. to the advent of cloning and the manufacture of bodily organs in 1997.
The book looks at the role in gardening played by torture, eroticism, blasphemy, the grotesque, narcotics, the artificial, and many other subjects dear to the decadent's heart.
Accompanied by feathery companion Filo, Naofumi and Raphtalia travel to Melromarc to gain the strength needed to survive the next battle with one of the fiercest monsters yet.
This stellar collection of Paul Craig Roberts essays dating from 2013 explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalage on other countries and Washington's resurrection of distrust
Photographer Rankin and makeup artist Caroline Saulnier, two of the most respected practitioners of their respective professions, have come together to create a beauty book of unprecedented artistry.
Presents the late author's science fiction works and one of his poems, including the story of a geologist's shocking discovery while investigating an abandoned city covered with hieroglyphs.
Limited boxed edition of glossy fashion book Ten Times Rosie; includes archival print, gloves and signed certificate confirming authenticity in presentation boxThis fashion-related art book sees photo
Walberg, a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Russia, draws on his previous book, From Postmodernism to Postsecularism: Re-emerging Islamic Civilization, to assess Islamic r
Winner - Silver Medal - Nautilus Book Awards.“One of the most beautiful books about a designer, ever.†– SolidSmackIn Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry, artist and designer Cole Gerst brings
Most books about Nirvana concentrate on Kurt Cobain's short tragic life and suicide, whereas this puts Nirvana's music center stage. Over 40 recording sessions, including private recordings, made betw
This collection of essays on corporations, globalization, and the state by long-time social activists takes a perspective far different from mainstream thought. They latch onto some provocative issues
In her celebrated debut volume, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz tackles, among other idiosyncratic topics, love ("Science"), heartbreak ("Lit"), and thieving suburban punks ("Ode to the Person Who Stole My F
Jake, Scott, and their alien friend Nojo continue their quest for the Pillar of Knowledge, traveling to a planet in another universe where the laws of physics are different.
This new translation by Brendan King is the first for nearly fifty years. Capturing the lively linguistic inventiveness of the original, it also includes an introduction and comprehensive notes.First
Presents brief accounts of natural phenomena throughout the world, ranging from the auroras to the great fungus in Michigan, the world's largest living thing, and including islands, deserts, mountains
This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories relat
Just as contemporary economics failed to predict the 2008-09 crash, and over-estimated the subsequent brief recovery that followed, economists today are again failing to accurately forecast the slowin
STATUS FACTORY is a hardcover art book presenting new paintings from street art legend Ron English. In his paintings, English perverts and subverts the establishment, poking fun at religion, consumeri
Discusses how nature provides services to mankind, including how birds protect fruit harvests, how coral reefs shield coasts from storms, and how rainforests absorb billions of tons of carbon released
Best-selling author and Secret Space Program researcher Bara brings us this lavishly illustrated volume on alien structures on Mars. Was there once a vast, technologically advanced civilization on Mar
Discusses how nature provides services to mankind, including how birds protect fruit harvests, how coral reefs shield coasts from storms, and how rainforests absorb billions of tons of carbon released
The Genius of AlekhineIn chess literature, there have only been a very few chess books that have immediately – and permanently – established themselves as classics. Lasker’s Manual of Chess by Emanuel
Collects classic material from 21 years of Tripwire magazine plus it also features new or rarely seen art from a cross section of the world's best comics and genre artists.
The autobiography of Nottingham Forest's legendary and twice European Cup-winning former captain, John McGovern. In the book McGovern talks in detail about playing under the great Brian Clough during
Forty places that bear the city by the bay’s distinctive mark. There are survivors of beatnik-era North Beach, cliff top eateries and cable cars, unconventional horticulturalists, entirely au courant
The thirteenth-century Cathars slaughtered at Monts gur in 1244 today offer an alternative to mainstream Christianity that for many integrates better both with ancient pagan traditions and with modern
Antiepithalamia: & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment is John Tottenham’s second book of poetry, a sequence of mean-spirited love poems, paying particular respect to the institution of marriage,
