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is Australian poet MTC Cronin's tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force, the sequence consists of one hundred poems, the line-count arcing from a single...

The paperback edition of THE PARADISICAL PICTURES is created to celebrate the opening of the Gilbert & George Centre in East London. Gilbert & George's work confounds and rejects all...

Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight centuries. Focusing on the lives and...

A report of worldwide significance, based on a co-operative venture between MIT and the world's largest car makers from three continents. This book describes the volatile trends that will shape...

Providing full-colour photographs and simple line drawings artists can copy on their own rocks, this book shows how to turn ordinary rocks into various different flowers. No special skills are...

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn't talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla created astonishing, world-transforming devises that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only...

Julien Levy opened his New York gallery in 1931, and the following year assembled the first Surrealist show ever held in that city. Over the next two decades he exhibited...

Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his...

Join Adrian Gilbert in an exciting look at the Mayan calendar and the many mysteries it holds. Discover why the year 2012 is predicted to be a year of exciting...

The business world seems to have given up on loyalty: many major corporations now lose--and have to replace--half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half...

We all possess the powerful life force of Kundalini that can open us to genius states, psychic powers, and cosmic consciousness. For over ten years, this trusted guide has been...

Acts of Memory presents 15 tightly integrated essays that illustrate the active role of individual and cultural memory in tying the past to the present. Memory, or memorialization, is a...

Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game...

A family saga as riveting as any opera, and a matchless mirror of Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things--composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite--and...

Using interviews and official records, this volume traces the twenty-five year involvement of the United States Navy in Vietnam.

Recounts the founding of the U.S. Coast Guard, looks at Coast Guard operations and functions, and looks at how it has changed over the last seventy years.

Traces the development of fast patrol and attack craft by the U.S. Navy, examines the influence of foreign designs, and provides technical information on each vessel.

Traces the life and career of Admiral Towers, and examines his role in the development of military aviation in the United States.

This is the story of the author's journey of self-discovery, in which menopause appears to have served as a catalyst. Along the way she explores the intricacies of relationships with...

This deftly crafted biography explores the event-filled life of Paul Durand-Ruel (1831 - 1922), the dealer who 'made' the professional careers of Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Puvis de Chavannes and other...

Charlotte Bronte found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his...

12 legendary sports stories for kids! 12 legendary sports stories for kids! Meet a champion swimmer who loses his swimmers in the pool. Experience the most amazing handball rally of...