From basic hand shapes to fully illustrated and described signs, this dictionary offers a comprehensive and up-to-date treasury of signs. Featuring 4,500 signs in an easy-to-use format, this...
"See-through" dress, miniskirts, bold bright colors, "kooky" accessories, and more for two dolls. Spectacular apparel żeby Mary Quant, Paco Rabanne, Oscar de la Renta, and others....
Bargello needlepoint, which originated in sixteenth-century Italy, employs a simple stitch that is repeated over and over again to form a distinctive geometric pattern in vibrant colors. Our...
A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told by the world's leading expert. The narrative also...
This volume reprints, complete and unabridged, Bach's 7 complete concerti for solo keyboard and orchestra in full score from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Detailed Table of...
Features 15 works, including one of the greatest of the Romantic period, the Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49, reprinted from the authoritative German edition prepared aby Chopin's student, Carl Mikuli.
Richard W. Hamming: The Computer IconRichard W. Hamming (1915–1998) was first a programmer of one of the earliest digital computers while assigned to the Manhattan Project in 1945, then for many...
A #1 New Release in Jazz Music on Amazon "Absolutely essential reading." -- The Wire One of modern music's towering figures, composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton has...
This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly...
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays...
Although Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) wrote operas, orchestral, and chamber music, he is today especially renowned for his works for piano, particularly his very popular and frequently performed...
Nearly 100 piano works of varying length and difficulty, reprinted from authoritative Russian editions, represent the full span of Scriabin's musical life from early romanticism to the...
Essential pieces for intermediate and advanced pianists, reproduced from authoritative French scores. Features "Ma mere l'Oye" ("Mother Goose"), "Valse nobles et...
"This is an invigorating book," proclaimed Timothy Ferris in The New York Times Book Review, "a short but spirited slalom for the mind." Author Rudy Rucker, one of the most talented...
Merlin Mission Books 1-4 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time ever!Beyond the realms of time and space are lands that exist only in myths...
Is there "anything" that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane...
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and...
'The chief thing is that they all need him' -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent...
First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system....
Nearly 100 patterns include kingfishers, toucans, and butterflies, and add vibrancy to stained glass projects — lightcatchers, windows, mobiles, and more. Accessible to intermediate/advanced...