Search results for ""Author Rodolphe""
Cinebook Ltd Kenya Vol.1: Apparitions
Kenya, 1947. A hunting expedition led by American writer John Remington makes a startling encounter, and then vanishes without a trace. Shortly afterwards, Katherine Austin, agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, arrives in Mombasa. Her mission: investigate a series of mysterious sightings and incidents, of which the disappearance of the Remington party could be the latest. Undercover as a teacher, courted by colleagues who may be working for competing secret services, she's about to enter a whole new reality -
£7.62
Cinebook Ltd Namibia Vol. 1: Episode 1
Namibia, 1949. Three years after the Nuremberg trials, a white man is photographed in the middle of a corn field: it's Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, who's supposed to have committed suicide in his cell. Worried about the geopolitical implications of the discovery, MI5 sends Kathy Austin to Namibia. There, along with her new partner a grumpy, misogynistic, racist old war horse, Kathy begins an investigation where the threat of Nazi resurgence soon makes way before more frightening and unexplainable phenomena.
£7.62
Rockpool Publishing The Stars of Football: The World's Best Players
Celebrate the greatest footballers from the world game's current era with over 90 player profiles including action photos and key statistics.The Stars of Football profiles over 90 players, telling the stories of their rise and successes. This fully illustrated book showcases the biggest names to grace the World Cup and other elite competitions including the Premier League. Learn about masters such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, plus other heroes who continue to enhance their reputations, including Harry Kane, Mo Salah, Kylian Mbappe, Karim Benzema, Robert Lewandowski and Kevin De Bruyne. This hardcover book also shines the spotlight on new stars such as Enzo Fernandez and Harry Souttar. Each player is profiled in a dedicated spread with action photos, key statistics and points of interest.
£13.49
Cinebook Ltd Namibia Vol. 2: Episode 2
London, 1949. Onefoggy night, Rosie Lanesees her son Brian on the banks of the Thames.Only he died four months earlier; and when she comes near him, he crumbles intodust. An incident strikingly similar to Kathy's own encounter with Goring in Namibia.Pushing on with her investigation, the young British agent will have to contendwith bloodcurdling phenomena - monstrous insects, accelerated aging - as muchas the hostility of local Nazi sympathisers.
£7.62
NBM Publishing Company Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen
£17.99
Emerald Publishing Limited From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads
Categorization pervades economic life; products, services, firms and industries are continuously being classified by rivals, clients, experts and critics. A stream of research highlighting the importance of market and product categories for organizations and individuals has grown in importance during the past 40 years. This volume contains ten essays on categorization authored by some of the world’s leading scholars within sociology of markets, organization theory, and strategy research. It opens with revisiting the influential theory of “the categorical imperative”, and moves on to present various accounts of the social processes that form part of categorization and elaboration of their consequences. Together, the different chapters effectively show that categorization is a process, tightly connected to actors involved and their specific acts, the characteristics of the entity being categorized, and the context and timing informing these activities. As such, it complements the earlier cognitive perspectives by discussing the evaluative, social, and political manifestations of categorization.
£102.99
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Resilience in Concrete: The Thomas P. Murphy Design Studio Building
This book presents a privileged insight into the design and construction of the award-winning Thomas P. Murphy Design Studio Building through a series of interviews with the main professionals responsible for its conception, design and construction: the lead architects Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Raymond Fort-Brescia and Thomas Westberg; the builders Thomas C. Murphy, Erin Murphy, Nick Duke and Jason Anderson; the curtain wall manufacturers Jose Daes and Carmen L. Guerrero, and the University of Miami Project Manager, Gary Tarbe. It also offers sumptuous, detailed photography to provide a thorough understanding of a building that is not just a brilliant work of architecture in its own right but that also provides an inspiring, tailor-made environment in which to educate the architects of the future.
£49.50
Princeton University Press Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds
Many problems in the sciences and engineering can be rephrased as optimization problems on matrix search spaces endowed with a so-called manifold structure. This book shows how to exploit the special structure of such problems to develop efficient numerical algorithms. It places careful emphasis on both the numerical formulation of the algorithm and its differential geometric abstraction--illustrating how good algorithms draw equally from the insights of differential geometry, optimization, and numerical analysis. Two more theoretical chapters provide readers with the background in differential geometry necessary to algorithmic development. In the other chapters, several well-known optimization methods such as steepest descent and conjugate gradients are generalized to abstract manifolds. The book provides a generic development of each of these methods, building upon the material of the geometric chapters. It then guides readers through the calculations that turn these geometrically formulated methods into concrete numerical algorithms. The state-of-the-art algorithms given as examples are competitive with the best existing algorithms for a selection of eigenspace problems in numerical linear algebra. Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds offers techniques with broad applications in linear algebra, signal processing, data mining, computer vision, and statistical analysis. It can serve as a graduate-level textbook and will be of interest to applied mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists.
£63.00
MIT Press Ltd History of Shit
£20.70
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Perkins & Will Miami: Twenty-Five Years (Hardcover with Slipcase)
This book contains a compilation of the work of Perkins & Will Miami since it’s inception in 1996. Drawing from a legacy of nearly a century of the fabled Chicago architectural Firm, the story of the Miami Studio is one of a search for a regional and critical modernist language unique to its time and place. Starting as a five person office, the studio has grown to a team of 70 architects, interior designers, and landscape professionals who have come together with a single vision of meaning and purpose. The work ranges from one of the most visionary Corporate Headquarters in the country, to a Hospital in Ghana; from the most important new Public Park in Florida to the largest Women’s University in the Middle East; from an Innovation Center in Rio de Janeiro, to an Office Building in Wynwood.
£45.00