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Elizabeth A. Fisher, Jane Morgans, Andrew Nairne
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Jean Giono
"Giono's prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility." - The Washington Post
Giono's very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on…
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Jean-Paul Sartre
A story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism…
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'A sense of art history is part of the critical basis on which artists construct 'a future' of art. But the question is, which sense of art history will be…
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Paul Brannen
Planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material. With the built…
Al Feldstein
The Weird Science archives take flight at Dark Horse in an affordable, oversized paperback!
Don't miss any of the sci-fi classics from such visionary artists as Wally Wood, Al Feldstein…
Mr Paul Woods
This research and reference text presents the fundamentals of the engineering of District Heating and Cooling, a system for that has received an increasing amount of investment and has the…
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Paul Woods
It lasted almost a century, from the horse-and-buggy era to the Internet age. It was beloved by Canadians-mostly women and girls-who ordered goods from its catalogues or flocked to its…
Best known as a moralist and one of the founders of the Scottish Common Sense school of philosophy, Thomas Reid (1710-96) was also an influential scientific thinker. Here his work…
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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Enlightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology and moral theory, he was also an…
This volume details methods for the analyses of specific lipid classes and lipidomics analyses of cells such as lymphocytes and oocytes.
One of the most enigmatic figures in rock history, Scott Walker was known as Scotty Engel before meeting up with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form the Walker Brothers…
For three decades the Toronto Argonauts were a national joke: a team that not only lost most of the time, but usually did so in embarrassing fashion. The franchise bottomed…
The Asian church has begun to respond and reach out to migrants. However, this concern for the other is patchy and lacks robust theological foundations. This work uses otherness and…
While the Asian church has begun to reach out to migrants, this concern for others lacks robust theological foundations. The author adapts their previous work and uses otherness and liminality…
Paul Wood
The first London walking guide to reveal the amazing variety of the capital’s trees, on a dozen walks around all parts of Greater London, of varying distances from a morning’s…
This book is an integral collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China, with a special emphasis on the contributions of Chinese believers. In addition to its…
The century-old Toronto Argonauts, like the rest of the Canadian Football League, seemed to be in shambles in 1991. Then everything changed. The Argos were acquired by an unlikely trio…
Varieties of Modernism discusses the art of the middle third of the twentieth century. It consists of a short general introduction and four parts, each concentrating on a key aspect…
Paul Woods’ narrative - drawing on interviews with Suzuki himself, family members, bandmates and friends - evokes the decades-long odyssey of a musical enigma.
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This straight-talking, fun book is aimed at fresh graduates planning a career in the creative industries
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Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of those…
It’s long been an accepted, almost celebrated, fact of the creative industries that long hours, chaotic workflows and egotistical colleagues are just the price you pay to produce great work
A narrative exploration of London through its trees, including how the trees have shaped the city and how we live with and alongside them
The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds
At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to…
The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life’s challenges
Getting and staying mentally…
Shizhen Li
Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods.
The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese…
This book was developed as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the journal Education 3-13, which has always had primary education as its main…
Paul A. Woods
Paul Woods’ revised biography is the most thorough exploration of Lynch’s life and career available - a combined biography and filmography following the surprising course of a genuine obsessive -…
This is the fifth title in the highly successful Ultrascreen series from Plexus. Martin Scorsese: A Journey Through The American Psyche collects the best articles, interviews and reviews to present…
Provides a thorough informative analysis of Jackson’s career to date.
Collating classic music press and magazine articles, this book tells the story of how Morrissey bewitched the 1980s, piqued the 1990s, and inimitably returned in the new millennium. It also…
This film biography fully explores the movie -obsessed world of Quentin Tarantino. The author brings a mi ne of little-known information to make this the ultimate bio graphy of the…
Modern cinema’s most unusual and dynamic brotherhood duo are always visually and verbally inventive, and Blood Siblings collects best interviews, articles and reviews on their films. Revised and updated to…
Russ Meyer is an American phenomenon. The only independent expolitation-movie director to make a multi-million dollar fortune at the box office. He is also the man who introduced the American…
This chronicle analyzes the science fiction and allegorical themes that run through the original film as well as director Tim Burton’s upcoming remake in July 2001. 100 photos.
Tim Burton, the cinematic genius behind many American gothic film classics, has the heart of a child. Revising the imagery of horror movies, TV sci-fi and cartoons, Burton imbues juvenile…
A collection of interviews, articles and reviews on the Coen Brothers movies.
Comprises interviews, essays and reviews of Tarantino’s career - from geekish video-store clerk to a cult figure.
Paul Wood (University of Victoria Canada)
Andrew Paul Wood
A vigorous strand of interest in the occult, the spooky and the mysterious has been part of our history since 1840.
Paul Wood (University of Loughborough UK)
Cousin Albert has a joy for life but also that adventurous spirit that starts out fun but ends in disaster.
At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to prison for many years. To a young man like Paul…
