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It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the...

Soon to be a major motion picture from New Line/Stone Village Pictures, this movie tie-in edition of the bestselling book traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love."

They served it ice cold in Alex: pale amber Rheingold beer in tall, dewy glasses. This is the image that haunts Captain George Anson. Stationed in the North African desert...

Vesuvius - this was the mission on which the success of D Day depended. The chosen squadron was no. 633, and their target was a fjord in Norway, where the...

Building on the arguments of her previous books, the author challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Criticism condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, cable television and hypermedia. Believing...

A theory of place for interaction design. Digital Ground is an architect's response to the design challenge posed by pervasive computing. One century into the electronic age, people have become...

The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same...

How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future.The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television....

This text takes an interdisciplinary approach to visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media and art forms. It includes contributions by scholars, artists and entrepreneurs who combine...

Hypertext electronically linked texts) and hypermedia (the extension of linkages to visual and aural material) enable users to call up the usage in different time periods of a particular word,...

Explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communication to claims that cyberspace creates new realities. The book...

The Weightless World is the first book to map an economic world that has been turned upside down by digital technology and global business. How will our careers, businesses, and...

Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to manipulate matter-to program matter-with atomic precision will...

Parallel distributed processing is transforming the field of cognitive science. "Microcognition" provides a clear, readable guide to this emerging paradigm from a cognitive philosopher's point of view. It explains and...

Cyberspace has been defined as "an infinite artificial world where humans navigate in information-based space" and as "the ultimate computer-human interface." However one defines it, this "virtual reality" is clearly...

Discover the stories behind 20 of the world's most infamous unsolved murders. MURDERS THAT DEFY DETECTION. Discover the stories behind some of the most infamous unsolved murders of the last...

This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature,...

Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit...

So far the "Science Wars" have generated far more heat than light. Combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus...

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our...

Vagabond Press are proud to re-release Beth Yahp's first novel The Crocodile Fury in 2017. Set in a convent school on a jungle-covered hill on the outskirts of a Southeast...

Public Relations Writing and Media Techniques is the most comprehensive and up-to-date PR writing text available, with real-world examples of outstanding work by public relations professionals. The text thoroughly integrates...

Introduces precalculus concepts using computer and calculator-based graphing.

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from...

First published in 1994, this collection of humorous and bizarre anecdotes focuses on episodes involving national politicians, from European settlement to the 1990s. Includes references and index. Editor has worked...

This book is intended for undergraduate students of immigration, Australian History, sociology and political science.

Thomas Carlyle was one of the most influential commentators of the 19th century: writer, critic, historian, biographer and brilliant correspondent, he dominated his age. Described as "the greatest writer of...

Sam Shephard, a young sole-charge police constable in Mataura, is the main character in a new series of crime novels set in New Zealand. When a young mother in the...

Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details...

Roger McGough made his name in The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10, published in 1967 and a bestseller ever since. Over the years, McGough has continued to delight readers...

A tender and spirited novel about five women from two generations of the Minton family in Townsville. Theirs is a story of secrets, loyalty and the elusive ties that bind.

From one of Ireland's most talented journalists, an extraordinary fiction debut, compelling, colourful and romantic. Kathleen is a 49-year-old travel writer, an Irishwoman based in London who has not been...

Four women, Judy, Kate, Pagan and Maxine, are summoned to a New York apartment where they are asked which one of them is the mother of the host. As they...

Nearing Howard Island, about to land on a specially constructed airstrip, at noon on July 2nd 1937, Earhart and her navigator lost radio contact and disappeared into the Pacific. The...

A sinister labyrinth of greed, ambition and deceit Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody, and her forthcoming book is about to expose the leading figures...

The Son of God is back on Earth and starring on American Pop Star... God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks...

Her biological clock is in overdrive. But she's in love with a gay man. Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks...

An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times. Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy knockglen. When...