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Inhabit Education Books Inc. Lena and Ruby: A Story of Two Adoptions: English Edition
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Marquand Books Inc Dance We Must: The Art and Costumes of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, 1906–1940
On America's first modern dance company and its many collaborators, with reproductions of costumes, sets, ephemera and more Ruth St Denis (1879–1968) and Ted Shawn (1891–1972) pioneered modern dance in the US with their company Denishawn, founded in 1914. Incorporating elements from ancient, non-Western and Native American sources, Denishawn became the first important American dance company. A generation of dancers and choreographers, including Martha Graham, trained and performed with the company, and many artists, including Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, collaborated with them. This catalog reproduces artwork, sets, ephemera and especially costumes, many of which have not been seen since the 1930s. Some of the materials and costumes, as well as the choreography, borrow from East and South Asian and Native American cultures, and the publication interrogates the legacy of cultural appropriation in dance. The materials also demonstrate St. Denis and Shawn’s stylistic and personal connections to American and European modernists, broadening an understanding of American dance in early modernism.
£33.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates
Reunites the editors of Star Trek and Philosophy with Starfleet’s finest experts for 31 new, highly logical essays Features a complete examination of the Star Trek universe, from the original series to the most recent films directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Introduces important concepts in philosophy through the vast array of provocative issues raised by the series, such as the ethics of the Prime Directive, Star Trek’s philosophy of peace, Data and Voyager’s Doctor as persons, moral relativism and the Federation’s quest for liberation, the effect of alternate universes on reality and identity, the Borg as transhumanists, Federation Trekonomics, Star Trek’s secular society, and much, much more…! An enterprising and enlightening voyage into deep space that will appeal to hardcore fans and science fiction enthusiasts alike Publishing in time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the original TV series
£12.95
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Autonomous Cyber Deception: Reasoning, Adaptive Planning, and Evaluation of HoneyThings
This textbook surveys the knowledge base in automated and resilient cyber deception. It features four major parts: cyber deception reasoning frameworks, dynamic decision-making for cyber deception, network-based deception, and malware deception. An important distinguishing characteristic of this book is its inclusion of student exercises at the end of each chapter. Exercises include technical problems, short-answer discussion questions, or hands-on lab exercises, organized at a range of difficulties from easy to advanced,. This is a useful textbook for a wide range of classes and degree levels within the security arena and other related topics. It’s also suitable for researchers and practitioners with a variety of cyber security backgrounds from novice to experienced.
£59.99
West Academic Publishing Selected Income Tax Provisions, Federal Transfer Taxes, Code and Regulations, 2022
This supplement is an invaluable single source for the code and regulations applying to federal transfer taxes, such as gift taxes and the generation-skipping transfer tax. It is a quick and easy, yet comprehensive, reference to the primary law, conveniently sized for carrying in a briefcase or backpack. The 2022 edition includes code and regulation changes up through early February 2022.
£76.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hungry Ghosts: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
_____________________________ * A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 * ‘A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic . . . Sumptuous, brilliantly written’ THE TIMES ‘An astonishing novel – linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘Deeply impressive . . . Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page’ HILARY MANTEL ‘The biggest, most frightening, beautiful and alive novel I’ve read in as long as I can remember’ EVIE WYLD _____________________________ A 2023 highlight for: Financial Times * Guardian * Evening Standard * Daily Mail * BBC News The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air... On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm’s shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops – Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith. When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee’s safety is compromised, farmhand Hans is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend to move to the farm as watchman. But as the mystery of Dalton’s disappearance unfolds their lives become hellishly entwined, and the small community altered forever. Hungry Ghosts is a mesmerising novel about violence, religion, family and class, rooted in the wild and pastoral landscape of 1940s colonial central Trinidad. _____________________________
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Quest Lucie No Legs
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Unicorn Publishing Group The Diary of William Young of Cotchford Farm
William Young was the son of gentleman farmer Henry Young who owned Cotchford Farm in the mid-nineteenth century. At the age of just twenty-three William left the farm for what we might now term a 'gap year’ working in Canada. This book, based on his own diary from 1854/5, tells the fascinating story of his journey via Liverpool and onwards on a three-masted schooner to New York, Buffalo and eventually Lake Erie. The voyage had its own perils, a long way from transatlantic travel today. Unbeknown to our diarist, the ship he travelled on was part of a criminal enterprise and eventually suffered both mutiny and wreck. In the mill towns on Lake Erie Young proves an indispensable worker both on crops and stonework. Just as he is about to return to England he is beset with difficulties..... His is a young, clear voice on life a hundred and sixty years ago.
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Greenwich Exchange Ltd Focus On The Wesker Trilogy
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University College Dublin Press The Letters of Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97): v.3: Dublin 1854-1864: v.3: Dublin 1854-1864
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as "the most learned Englishman I know". The remarkable collection of his surviving letters covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The letters in volume three cover Renouf's years in Dublin. He had been invited by John Henry Newman to be a lecturer in French at the opening of the Catholic University, which was later to become University College Dublin. He was subsequently appointed Professor of Ancient History and Geography. In his letters to his family he provides a vivid impression of life in the early years of the university. During this time he married Ludovica Brentano of Aschaffenburg, Germany, niece of the poet Clemens Brentano, and they started a family. On the low salary of the Catholic University, the young couple found it very difficult to make ends meet. Renouf's talents in Egyptology become apparent and he edited the "Atlantis", the university's own journal, and then helped with the editing of Sir John Dalberg Acton's "Home and Foreign Review". His extensive correspondence with Acton is included in this volume. In 1864, Acton helps to obtain a post for Renouf in England as Inspector of Schools.
£47.00
University College Dublin Press The Letters of Peter Le Page Renouf (1822-97): v. 1: Pembroke College, Oxford (1840-42); St Mary's College, Oscott (1842-46): v. 1: Pembroke College, Oxford (1840-42); St Mary's College, Oscott (1842-46)
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as "the most learned Englishman I know". The remarkable collection of his surviving letters covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The letters in volume one cover the early years of Renouf's life, including his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, and as a tutor at Oscott. They include much colourful chitchat about fellow students and teachers; but they also reveal the reaction of a clever and serious young undergraduate to the intellectual and spiritual excitement of the Oxford Movement. Renouf had already published a theological pamphlet in his 19th year. The study of Arabic, Ethiopic, Hebrew and Syriac would influence his future career more profoundly than he could possibly have guessed in these early years. At Oxford and Oscott he came in contact with many prominent Victorians, including Newman, Frederick William Faber, Pugin, Pusey, Wiseman, Lord John Manners, and Ambrose Lisle Phillipps.
£47.00
Nova Science Publishers Inc Psychology of Shame: New Research
£259.19
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Genetics Research: Volume 11
£175.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Social Learning Theory: Phylogenetic Considerations Across Animal, Plant & Microbial Taxa
£191.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Critical Infrastructure
£167.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Binge Drinking Research Progress
£104.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Trolling for a Solution: Ending Abusive Patient Demand Letters
£104.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Genetics Research: Volume 17
£231.29
MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Promise of Youth AntiCitizenship Race and Revolt in Education
£23.99
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana
£54.50
Schiffer Publishing Ltd North Carolina Haunts
Do ghosts exist? Is it possible that certain events can leave a mark on a location and repeat themselves over and over again? In North Carolina the answer is a definite yes! In the mountain town of Asheville, former, long-dead residents of the Smith-McDowell house still linger in the halls, reminding staff and visitors of their presence with ghostly voices. The long-dead crew of the WWII Battleship North Carolina in the Port City of Wilmington comes to life at night—though they lost their lives in battle, they continue to go about their duties. They've been seen walking down corridors in full uniform only to vanish as they pass by witnesses! Don't miss the glowing fog at Cape Hatteras that takes on the shape of a featureless human walking towards the shore at night, and the Devil's Tramping Ground where deadly steps kill all the plant life in the Piedmont. Read 34 haunting tales and ghostly encounters from some of the most fascinating haunted locations that North Carolina has to offer!
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Ocean Drive Guidebook: Ask a Local
Ocean Drive in South Beach, Florida, is one of the most thrilling and entertaining roads in the country. It comes alive in this new, groundbreaking, tale-turning book. Collected here are historical stories flavored with intrigue and humor, and well interspersed with current events and style. This book is unrivaled for its information only privy to local residents of the famed South Beach area. Famous Art Deco hotels were born and transformed on this street, while the pulse of the beach quickened, slowed, and quickened again. The 167 sparkling color photos illustrate the many stories told and make this book a beautiful souvenir to show to family and friends who have never been lucky enough to visit Ocean Drive. Come take a sweeping walk up famous Ocean Drive and learn the amusing and engaging stories that happened at South Beach. View the restaurants, bars, clubs, shops, hotels, green space, volleyball, swimming, and sunbathing. Treat yourself to this read and you'll learn why no other location is quite like Ocean Drive.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd A Walking Tour of Lincoln Road, South Beach
Tour the famous Lincoln Road in South Beach, Miami, Florida. This wonderful guide not only points out all the popular sites but spices the tour with humorous tales, intriguing facts, and over 80 beautiful photos. Visit landmark buildings, shops, and restaurants that attract over three and a half million visitors annually. From the Atlantic Ocean to Biscayne Bay, the text takes readers on a walking tour, providing a historically based panorama of culture every step of the way. Some of the tales are shocking, yet always intriguing. Adventurous tourists and inquisitive locals alike will enjoy learning why people keep returning to Lincoln Road!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Gang of Four's Entertainment!
Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk’s smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk’s angry energy to funk’s propulsive beats—and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs—and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth—Jon King’s and Andy Gill’s mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock ‘n’ roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don’t tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen—the misunderstood lyric—seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.’s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that’s the title, too, of rock ‘n’ roll’s Greatest Hits compilation—and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.
£9.99
LWW Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery
Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! A new addition to the best-selling Operative Techniques series, Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery provides superbly illustrated, authoritative guidance on operative techniques along with a thorough understanding of how to select the best procedure, how to avoid complications, and what outcomes to expect. Easy to follow, up to date, and highly visual, this step-by-step reference covers nearly all operations in current use in plastic surgery, and is ideal for residents and physicians in daily practice. Comprehensively covers all areas of plastic surgery including facial aesthetic, breast, hand, trunk reconstruction and body contouring, head and neck reconstruction, craniofacial trauma and reconstruction, lower limb reconstruction, and pediatric plastic surgery. Succinct text, bulleted points, and quick-reference tables allow you to review information quickly and understand best
£554.39
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents
£25.10
MIT Press Ltd Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
£130.50
i2i Publishing In the Big Scheme of Things
Following up on an opportunity to get his book published, David Jones becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue following a murder linked to his publisher and then, the police who investigate it. While trying to establish the right thing to do, Jones finds himself getting drawn into the world of DS Paul Craven, an officer with a chequered past. But Jones and Craven have their own agendas to follow and as one works to attain his ambition to have his book published, the other, unbeknown to Jones or colleagues, tries to bring down a branch of the European mafia while fending them off as they seek their revenge. The two very different strands of the story involve a possible involvement with Hollywood on the one hand and Interpol on the other as both men try to balance the achievement of their aims alongside a deepening involvement with the important women in their lives. Jones and Craven find their lives going in directions and ending up in places they never imagined.
£9.95
Green Magic Publishing Astrology of The Runes
£9.99
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Wordfire Press LLC Selected Stories: Fantasy
£31.48
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hungry Ghosts
_____________________________* A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 ** WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 *A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic' THE TIMESAn astonishing novel' BERNARDINE EVARISTODeeply impressive ' HILARY MANTELThe music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air... On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith. When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee's safety is compromised, farmhand Hans is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend to move to the farm as
£9.99
University of North Carolina Press The Violent World of Broadus Miller
£33.26
JP Medical Ltd Essentials of Hand Surgery
Essentials of Hand Surgery provides a practical manual on the diagnosis and management of hand disorders. The first section covers the basic principles, including anatomy and examination and investigation techniques. The major part of the book is divided between emergency surgery following trauma and those disorders that can be managed by elective surgery. Throughout the emphasis is on providing clear, well-illustrated guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis and management, with discussion of the surgical skills and techniques required for an optimum outcome. A practical guide to the management of hand disorders for trainee hand surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons and plastic surgeons Covers the key procedures for both emergency and elective surgeries Concise text enhanced by a lavish collection of over 400 photographs and 200 artworks in full colour
£125.00
Hachette Children's Group Gatty's Tale
From the winner of the Guardian Children's Prize, comes a story of Medieval times, told from an entirely new perspective. Gatty the village girl - steadfast, forthright, innocent and wise - has never been further than her own village. But when she is is picked by Lady Gwyneth of Ewloe to join her band of pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem, Gatty's previously sheltered life changes forever. A joyful, heartrending, triumphant novel that creates a magnificently vivid and realistic picture of life and times in 1202, shown through the eyes of a young girl.Shortlisted for the 2008 Carnegie Medal, this is a companion novel to the Arthur trilogy (The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places, King of the Middle March).
£9.67
Nova Science Publishers Inc International Extradition and Interstate Rendition
This book demonstrates how extradition and rendition have evolved as various courts have spoken on and interpreted these issues. It shows how these issues are of both theoretical and practical importance. While careful steps have been taken to discuss important and relevant cases, it must be acknowledged that recent political events and cases warrant further discussion and will continue to develop. Nevertheless, it remains clear that as the world becomes more connected economically and politically, the issue of extradition and rendition will continue to be important in the United States and around the world.
£127.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Genetics Research: Volume 21
£199.79
Wordfire Press Skeleton in the Closet
£18.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Energy Efficient Digital Networks & Data Centers: Technology & Policy Issues
£143.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Genetics Research: Volume 10
£191.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Genetics Research: Volume 9
£179.99
Waterford Press Ltd Waterfowl Id Set
£14.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Genetics Research: Volume 3
£215.09
Rowman & Littlefield Divorce and Second Marriage: Facing the Challenge
A substantial challenge facing the Church today is to help young married couples grow in the attitudes and skills needed to take seriously the indissolubility of their marriage. In a sense, Kelly contends, young couples must begin to realize that they have to create the indissolubility of their own marriage, if it is to exist. Kelly also suggests that the Church should develop an effective theology of pastoral care for those who have been through the trauma of marriage breakdown. While remarriage is not a panacea for everyone wounded in this way, for some it brings real healing and new life. This new edition contains a new introduction and a substantial new Appendix containing a rich collection of articles and book extracts related to divorce and remarriage in the Church. A useful and informative resource for those who minister to the married, divorced and remarried within the faith community.
£19.99
GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
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Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Treasures of the Brooklyn Museum
Located in the heart of King's County, the Brooklyn Museum is an anchor of New York City and a world class institution. The museum's 560,000-square foot building is a Beaux Arts masterpiece, housing over one-and-a-half million works of art, from ancient Assyrian reliefs to striking period homes and Old Master paintings, as well as works by the top contemporary artists of today. This handsome little book illustrates a curated selection of these pieces, including highlights of the museum's renowned ancient Egyptian collection, its expansive holdings in American art, and its unrivaled selection of contemporary feminist art, including Judy Chicago's Dinner Party. The perfect souvenir from the museum's shop, or for any visitor to the borough, this Tiny Folio features spectacular photography throughout, as well as a special selection of images highlighting Brooklyn's rich artistic history.
£9.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sempervivum: A Gardener’s Perspective of the Not-So-Humble Hens-and-Chicks
Sempervivum have long fascinated gardeners and are useful plants for gardening situations in which other plants might fail. Many people are aware of only a single, rather uninteresting green cultivar, but selections from the wild and the work of hybridizers have resulted in over 7,000 cultivars with a range in size from 1/2 in. to over one foot in diameter and colors from gold to black. Clearly the gardener has never had a better choice. This book covers all aspects of their history, taxonomy, culture, propagation, hybridizing, people involved in the production of Sempervivum, and a long list of cultivars that are recommended for the gardener. Color illustrations show not only the cultivars, but garden uses and cultural practices.
£28.79