The challenge of the tangram, the original "Chinese puzzle," lies in your ability to arrange seven geometrical pieces -- a square, a rhomboid, and five triangles -- into a variety of...
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career,...
Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. Complete, unabridged text with explanatory...
Superb illustrations, adapted from Godey's Lady's Book, a popular 19th-century fashion magazine, provide authentic views of Victorian fashions — from lace-edged necklines and elongated...
This is the anatomy of our being. This is our flesh, our muscles, our sinews and our limbs all tangled up beside each other. And this, is what they found when we left it all behind.
In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships, and the science behind them. He offers advice,...
Black & White Edition. 412 pages. Vertical Academy is written with the Firefighter and NFPA standards in mind. A simple, no-frills approach for referencing what Firefighters and Fire and Rescue...
- How do unconscious motivational needs (i.e., implicit motives) influence physiological, cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to incentives? - How can implicit motives be measured? - How...
1. Set Theory and Metric Spaces.2. Topological Spaces.3. New Spaces from Old.4. Convergence.5. Separation and Countability.6. Compactness.7. Metrizable Spaces.8. Connectedness.9. Uniform Spaces.10....
What is the Nameless Monster? Some may call it the dark passenger, it goes aby many names and its seeks a name as it devours those who cannot restrain themselves. Will you let the monster have your...
"An essential part of any art library, and a book of permanent value not affected żeby seasonal styles." — American Artist. Bickham's famous treasury of English roundhand calligraphy...
The great surrealist's 1934 collage masterpiece features 182 bizarre, darkly humorous scenes of violent dreams and erotic fantasies. "One of the clandestine classics of our century."—...
Stretching from Antiquity to the Second World War, a major new work of history that examines how battles have been fought-and reveals how wars have actually been won.
Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational.
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North...
Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely żeby men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a...
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced stage of evolution and must assume a new, active,...
R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned żeby mainstream churches,...
Foreword aby Oystein OrePrefaceThe Great Art, or The Rules of Algebra by Girolamo CardanoAppendix: Portions of Euclid's Elements Cited żeby CardanoIndex
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics-not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions, but because it reshapes kanon metaphysical debates and opens up...
Discover kusudama, a traditional Japanese sphere formed aby modular origami construction techniques. Instructions for approximately 25 figures shaped like stars, flowers, and pinwheels. Suitable...
One of the great stories of human courage and dedication recounts life of a remarkable woman and her extraordinary relationship with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Unforgettable portrait of one of the...