L'histoire de Lol Valérie Stein commence au moment précis où les dernières venues franchissent la porte de la salle de bal du casino municipal de T. Beach. Elle se poursuit jusqu'à...
Are digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they?From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation...
Two entwined narratives run through the creation of "Swordfishtrombones" and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped aby his...
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...
"De décembre 1964 à juin 1965, du Pérou aux Cyclades en passant par Tahiti et la Californie, j'ai vécu une aventure dont je rapporte ici les péripéties intérieures.Valet du roman, je suis...
Pursued żeby British forces, Washington and his remaining 5,000 men resolved on a risky strike against the British and Hessian positions across the Delaware River. This book shows how, crossing the...
This is the new edition of Linguistics: An Introduction. It is a bestselling introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. This reworked edition features:. New...
The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm. This book explores the political and...
Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa - battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy...
The 3rd to the 6th centuries saw the collapse of the classical Mediterranean civilization and the emergence of new states in western Europe based on the Germanic warrior society. This book focuses...
Based on extensive interviews with the band, this title tells the inside story of how Madness came to be the most successful singles band of the 1980s.
33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with...
Longlisted for the Booker PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year By: The New York Times Book Review (Notable Books of the Year) * The New York Public Library * The Washington Post * Time.com * The New...
This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a...
This work is the second of six planned volumes in translation of a masterpiece of modern Orthodox theology. The author develops a theology of creation, humanity, the unseen world of angels and...
After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. Pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic...
Covering all the species of birds occurring in the areas bordering the Mediterranean, this guide is illustrated throughout with stunning photographs. The regions examined cover some of the most...
Stylish mermaids, snappy crocodiles and a mysterious package are all part of the mayhem in the second book in the hilarious new illustrated series from the bestselling author of Witch Wars
Through cutting-edge analysis of contemporary style tribes, Japanese Fashion Cultures challenges widely held notions of gender relations and European style imitation in Japan.
'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas,...