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RIBA Publishing Healthy Placemaking: Wellbeing Through Urban Design
In modern-day society the main threats to public health are now considered ‘avoidable illnesses’, which are often caused by a lack of exercise and physical activity. Research suggests that architectural and urban design strategies play an important role in reducing the amount of avoidable illnesses by enabling physical activity through healthier streets. Practitioners must now consider how they can encourage people to lead healthier lifestyles and improve health through urban design.This book presents the path to healthier cities through six core themes - urban planning, walkable communities, neighbourhood building blocks, movement networks, environmental integration and community empowerment. Each theme is presented with an overview of the issues, the solutions and how to apply them practically with exemplars and precedents. It's an essential text that provides practitioners across urban design, architecture, master planning with the necessary knowledge and guidance to understand their role in producing healthier places and put it in to practice.
£37.00
CarTech Inc How to Install Corvette Interior Kits
£32.40
Music Mentor Books Long Distance Information: Chuck Berry's Recorded Legacy
£24.99
The Crowood Press Ltd Airbrushing: The Essential Guide
Airbrushing is a versatile and exciting art. The technique has been used for some 150 years, and is now finding ever more applications. This beautiful book, now in paperback for 2022, explains how to use an airbrush. It looks at the fundamentals of how to get started, advises on maintenance of the tool and then gives step-by-step examples of a range of projects. Topics covered include: technical illustration; watercolour landscapes; portraits; painting scale models; cake decorating; T-shirts and leather and finally, custom painting vehicles. With troubleshooting tips throughout, it enables you to get the most from your airbrush and create beautiful pieces with a professional finish. 'To those who airbrush the joys are well known, as well of course, the trials and tribulations of managing the instrument itself. The airbrush student has to learn significant new skills - to master not only colour and shade, but also air pressure, paint consistency and the diverse ways of masking and shading that can help to achieve such wonderful results.' Prof Andy Penaluna
£18.99
Cengage Learning, Inc Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II
Experience the wonders of human creativity in GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME II, 16th Edition! A grand tour of the most celebrated works in Western Civilization, from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory text has been a classroom favorite for 85 years. Every chapter includes rich and compelling discussions of pivotal art works, periods and geographies in art history, as well as new artists and art forms. The bold illustrations on the pages look almost as good as the real thing, especially when you use the unique Scale feature to imagine a work���s stature from the artist���s point of view. And to keep your course success in focus, the text offers Quick Review Captions and Big Picture Overviews, as well as an optional ebook that enables you to zoom in on fine details of paintings, sculptures, and priceless art forms of all kinds.
£192.23
Penguin Random House Australia Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?: Letters to Mister Rogers
£13.55
Hal Leonard Corporation Disney Songs for Fingerstyle Ukulele: 20 Solo Arrangements with Tab
£23.99
Hal Leonard Corporation First 50 Songs: You Should Play on Dobro
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC My Road to Remembrance: A Photographic Journey and History of Over 100 Holocaust Memorials from Auschwitz to New York
£33.75
Monthly Review Press,U.S. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
£11.99
Arc Publications Arboretum for the Hunted
There has always been an intense physicality to D’Aguiar’s work, matched by a penchant for geographic groundedness and a biographical perspicacity, that has made him one of the finest writers of his generation. What is most striking about this chapbook is how much keeps him dreaming, even in places and situations where many imaginations would stumble and falter in the face of the relentless violence to which we have all become far too inured. There is hardly a Black British writer working today who doesn’t owe D’Aguiar a considerable debt, whether they know it or not.
£8.23
Idea & Design Works Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All
£14.99
Astra Publishing House One Day, the End: Short, Very Short, Shorter-Than-Ever Stories
Very short, creative stories pair with bold illustrations in this picture book that will inspire young readers to stretch their imaginations and write stories of their own. "One day. . . I went to school. I came home. The end," says our storyteller—a girl with a busy imagination and a thirst for adventure. The art tells a fuller tale of calamity on the way to school and an unpredictably happy ending. Each illustration in this inventive picture book captures multiple, unexpected, and funny storylines as the narrator shares her shorter-than-ever stories, ending with "One day. . . I wanted to write a book." This book demonstrates a unique approach to writing and telling stories and is a delightful gift for children as well as for teachers seeking a mentor text for their classrooms.
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Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Philip Timms' Vancouver: 1900-1910
£36.89
Facet Publishing Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage
This practical and explanatory guide for library and cultural heritage professionals introduces and explains the use of open licences for content, data and metadata in libraries and other cultural heritage organisations. Using rich background information, international case studies and examples of best practice, this book outlines how and why open licences should and can be used with the sector’s content, data and metadata. Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage digs into the concept of ‘open’ in relation to intellectual property, providing context through the development of different fields, including open education, open source, open data, and open government. It explores the organisational benefits of open licensing and the open movement, including the importance of content discoverability, arguments for wider collections impact and access, the practical benefits of simplicity and scalability, and more ethical and principled arguments related to protection of public content and the public domain. Content covered includes: an accessible introduction to relevant concepts, themes, and names, including ‘Creative Commons’, ‘attribution’, model licences, and licence versions distinctions between content that has been openly licensed and content that is in the public domain and why professionals in the sector should be aware of these differences an exploration of the organisational benefits of open licensing and the open movement the benefits and risks associated with open licensing a range of practical case studies from organisations including Newcastle Libraries, the University of Edinburgh, Statens Museum for Kunst (the National Gallery of Denmark), and the British Library. This book will be useful reading for staff and policy makers across the gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) sector, who need a clear understanding of the open licensing environment, opportunities, risks and approaches to implementation. This includes library and information professionals, library and information services (LIS) professionals working specifically in the digital field (including digital curation, digitisation, digital production, resource discovery developers). It will also be of use to students of LIS Science, digital curation, digital humanities, archives and records management and museum studies.
£145.00
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Free Trade and Economic Restructuring in Latin America: A Nacla Reader
£25.00
Headline Publishing Group The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook: The Inside Story of the Beloved Movie Musical
The Sound of Music is firmly embedded in the DNA of a generation. But what was it like to be part of all this? For seven children and young adults, the summer of 1964 was a magical one, spent in Salzburg, Austria, filming. The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook tells their story – both during the filming and once the movie was released. It features hundreds of photographs and memorabilia they have cherished and preserved over the years, including letters home – even a ticket to the world première. If you ever dreamed of marching round the fountains singing 'Do Re Mi', or dressing in a playsuit made from curtains, you will love this enchanting story of how seven boys and girls became a family – and how they kept that closeness for over 50 years. This is a new, improved and updated edition which includes many new, previously unpublished photographs, beautiful full-sized glossy pages, updated information, personal tributes and so much more...
£22.50
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Preparing your Son for Every Man's Battle: Honest Conversations About Sexual Integrity
£14.99
MIT Press Ltd Collage City
£35.63
Vintage Publishing A Climate of Fear
*Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade*THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVELShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene.Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland.How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to a secretive local society? And what does the mysterious sign mean? Commissaire Adamsberg is about to find out.
£10.99
Usborne Publishing Ltd Book and Jigsaw Art Gallery
Welcome to the art gallery! On display you'll discover 12 famous paintings by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat and more. Put together the 300-piece jigsaw, then find out about each painting and artist in the accompanying book - with internet links to find out more online. Presented in a beautiful gift box, this is a fun activity for all the family. Created in association with The National Gallery, London. Completed size of jigsaw: 40 x 59cm.
£11.69
Etruscan Books The Bees of the Horizon
£9.37
Nova Science Publishers Inc Time Hybrids: A New Generic Theory of Reality
What if the Big Bang was an exodus of non-existing reality into existence? In this book a theory of the reality is started from the principle that 'existing takes time' but in states of the universe there are pre-things in moments, thus non-existing, which realize in strings over specific time intervals as existing phenomena. Causality must be reviewed now and new paradigms for reality follow. The existing and observed universe are discontinuous and "limits" in mathematical models do not correspond to reality. New interpretations in evolution theory and the human condition are being investigated.
£155.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in String Theory Research
£127.79
Forgotten Books Self-Study Manual on Optical Radiation Measurements, Vol. 1: Concepts, Chapter 6 (Classic Reprint)
£17.09
Permuted Press The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews
As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an underground bunker, Auschwitz prisoners Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin escaped and told Jewish leaders what they had seen. Their testimony in early June, 1944, corroborated earlier hard-to-believe reports of mass killing in Auschwitz by lethal gas and provided eyewitness accounts of record daily arrivals of Hungarian Jews meeting the same fate. It was the spark needed to stir a call for action to pressure Hungary’s premier to defy Hitler—just hours before more than 200,000 Budapest Jews were to be deported.
£18.00
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Greetings from British Columbia: A Journey in Vintage Postcards
£25.19
Manchester University Press Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic lantern to the hand-held video camera and the personal computer both shape Gothic subjects and in turn become Gothicised. In a collection of essays that ranges from the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker and Richard Marsh to the music of Tom Waits, world horror cinema and the TV series Doctor Who, this book finds fresh and innovative contexts for the study of Gothic. Combining essays by well-established and emerging scholars, it should appeal to academics and students researching both Gothic literature and culture and the cultural impact of new technologies.
£90.00
Acres U.S.A., Inc The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders
£21.99
Vintage Publishing This Poison Will Remain
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.It isn't long before Adamsberg is investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France. Decades ago, at La Miséricorde orphanage, shocking events took place involving the same species of spider: the recluse.For Adamsberg, these haunting crimes hold the key to proving that the three men were targeted by an ingenious serial killer. His team, however, is not convinced. He must put his reputation on the line to trace the murderer before the death toll rises..._______________________PRAISE FOR THIS POISON WILL REMAIN:'Absorbing... Full of twists and spiced with Vargas's characteristic wit and style' PETER ROBINSON'Vargas is an addictive writer whose surreal touches create a curiously solid world' INDEPENDENT'Vargas's books are...cunning, corkscrew murder mysteries' A.J. FINN
£9.04
Vintage Publishing This Night's Foul Work
On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection between the three cases?In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France's foremost pathologist and Adamsberg's enemy since they argued over a case twenty-three years earlier, and Louis Veyrenc, a new recruit with a grudge, who has been assigned the job of protecting the Commissaire's ex-girlfriend. As the different strands of Vargas's compelling story begin to intertwine, events move towards a gripping climax...Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.
£10.30
Vintage Publishing The Three Evangelists
The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but soil. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend, her niece? They all seem to have a motive. Vandoosler and the three evangelists set out to find the truth.
£9.99
Vintage Publishing Have Mercy on Us All
Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the course of a few days he receives a number of disturbing and portentous messages of malicious intent, all of them referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared on the doors of several buildings: symbols once used to ward off the plague. Detective Commissaire Adamsberg begins to sense a connection, even a grotesque menace. Then charged and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in.
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State University of New York Press God, Evil, and Human Learning: A Critique and Revision of the Free Will Defense in Theodicy
£72.27
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Atlantic City: 1854-1954: An Illustrated History
Often called “The World’s Playground,” Atlantic City is seen over 100 years. More than 250 color images display its evolution into a popular vacation destination. From the beach, boardwalk, and the Miss America Pageant in Convention Hall, to the Apollo Theatre, the world famous Steel Pier, and Traymore Hotel, the city's first 100 years put it on the map and made it a major destination. Relive the magic as you explore the streets that inspired the classic Monopoly game.
£20.69
Columbia University Press Every War Must End
"Mission accomplished," George Bush famously proclaimed in reference to the defeat of Saddam Hussein's military organization. However, as recent events in Iraq have once again demonstrated, it is much easier to start a war than it is to end it. Every War Must End, which Colin Powell credits in his autobiography with having shaped his thinking on how to end the first Gulf War, analyzes the many critical obstacles to ending a war--an aspect of military strategy that is frequently and tragically overlooked. This book explores the difficult and often painful process through which wars in the modern age have been brought to a close and what this process means for the future. Ikle considers a variety of examples from twentieth-century history and examines specific strategies that effectively "won the peace," including the Allied policy in Germany and Japan after World War II. In the new preface to his classic work, Ikle explains how U.S. political decisions and military strategy and tactics in Iraq-the emphasis on punishing Iraqi leaders, not seeking a formal surrender, and the failure to maintain law and order-have delayed, and indeed jeopardized, a successful end to hostilities.
£22.00
McGraw-Hill Education Managerial Accounting ISE
- Builds Student Interest by engaging and motivating students by presenting accounting in the context of recognizable companies such as Bombas, Starbucks, Toyota, HGTV, IKEA and others including Apple; Whitecotton then integrates those companies throughout the chapter discussions.- Fosters Decision Making and Analytical Skills by showing students how managers use accounting information to make business decisions in companies they know from their everyday lives. This approach helps students develop the analytical and critical thinking skills they will need to succeed in their future careers.- Helps Students Become Better Problem Solvers by putting their skills to the test through robust end of chapter content, as well as Demonstration Cases and Skills Development Cases to practice their comprehension and understanding of the material.- Uses Technology to Enhance Student Learning through McGraw-Hill Connect, including adaptive and interactive study features such as SmartBook, Interactive Presentations, New Integrated Excel, and Guided Examples, tied directly to Managerial Accounting, will improve students' engagement in and out of class, help them maximize their study time, and make their learning experience more enjoyable.
£55.99
Manchester University Press Youth Policy, Civil Society and the Modern Irish State
This book, now available in paperback, explores the development of youth policy and youth work in Ireland from the mid-nineeenth century to the present day. Based on original research, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), it looks at the social construction of youth, the emergence of the early youth movements and the nature and scope of contemporary youth work. Key issues include: the shift from mainstream to targeted provision, the professionalisation of the sector and the increased partnership between the state and voluntary sector. A second major theme is the treatment of young people in industrial and reformatory schools, with particular reference to the findings of the Ryan Report on child abuse (2009). This is the only book which combines an exploration of the history and current scope of youth work and youth policy, and which is based on comprehensive original research. It will be essential reading for lecturers and students in youth work, social sciences, social history and related fields.
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Usborne Publishing Ltd Who Let The Dinosaurs Out?
You'd better not open the flaps... because the dinosaurs just might jump out if you do! Children will love exploring the deliciously unexpected world of this book, as each page reveals a hilarious pop-up dinosaur springing out of a cupboard or a fridge or the shower. The chaos increases with every page turned, until all the dinosaurs are revealed together in a spectacular pop-up at the end.
£12.99
Aurora Metro Publications Encounters with James Baldwin
Celebrating the centenary of the birth of James Baldwin with this wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of the writer and activist who spoke truth to power during the era of the fight for Black civil liberties in the US, and after.
£15.95
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Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd. Published This Day: Marketing Books in Victorian England
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Andersen Press Ltd Santa Claus vs The Easter Bunny
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2018!Santa has it so easy: a workforce of elves to make the presents, a team of reindeer to deliver them, even a hi-spec factory! The Easter Bunny has to make and wrap all the chocolate eggs in his garden shed, and deliver them himself on foot. No wonder you often find them thrown all over the place in your garden! Now Bunny has had enough he hatches a genius, chocolately plan with unexpected results.''Wonderfully bonkers'' JIM FIELD
£11.99
Facet Publishing Organizing Exhibitions: A Handbook for Museums, Libraries and Archives
This ground-breaking book is the first to provide museum staff, librarians and archivists with practical guidance on creating and organizing successful exhibitions.Drawing on international museum practice but applicable to any exhibition or display, the book sets out a time-line from the initial idea to the final legacy. Backed up by advice and guidance and with a list of resources for those who require in-depth knowledge, it has up-to-date information on new developments such as sustainability and flexibility in environmental conditions. Also included are the ten biggest mistakes and the top ten tips for exhibition success.Part One covers the 10 key stages for a successful exhibition: idea, planning, organization, packing and transport, installation, openings, maintenance and programmes, closure, touring, and legacy. Part Two is a directory of advice and resources, supplementing the information provided in Part One.
£140.00