Written as a literary film treatment littered with footnotes like bread crumbs, "Demon Theory" is even parts camp and terror, combining glib dialogue, fascinating pop culture references, and an intricate subtext as it pursues the events of a haunting movie trilogy too real to dismiss.
Tourism: A Modern Synthesis is an accessible and comprehensive core textbook on tourism. A strong business and management theme pervades the book reflecting developments in the teaching and content of modern courses. Tourism: A Modern Synthesis is based around the principles of management and includes case studies emphasising this theme. The core ...
In this book, designer Stephen Skinner discusses various common themes of feng shui - such as water, alignments, mountains, and wind, - and demonstrates these concepts in 26 houses, restaurants and galleries in London, Hong Kong and Malaysia. The selection is highly varied, and includes famous interiors such as designer Kelly Hoppen's home and the ...
This book provides a critical review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. ...
Sams has assembled a team of experts in web services to provide you with a detailed reference guide on XML, SOAP, USDL and UDDI. Building Web Services with Java is in its second edition and it includes the newest standards for managing security, transactions, reliability and interoperability in web service applications. Go beyond the explanations ...
After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with "The Fast Red Road" and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with "The Bird is Gone", Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near-death experience, ...
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the Nazareth, Texas town sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect-an American Indian-holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive's trail, the more he realizes that his own involvement in the case ...
This first in-depth treatment of Philip Schaff's analysis of religion in America examines the development of religion in the United States in the nineteenth century through the eyes of that period's foremost church historian.
"The Holy Spirit and Christian Origins" is an impressive set of essays by twenty-seven leading biblical scholars written in appreciation of James D. G. Dunn's distinguished career of teaching and writing and focusing on one of the most prominent topics in his writings, the Holy Spirit in early Christianity. The book is therefore a Festschrift to ...
This novel plunders the myth and pop culture surrounding the American Indian, by borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the traditional Western.
Splintering Urbanism presents a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium. Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals how new technologies and increasingly privatised systems of infrastructure provision - telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy and water - are ...
For too long information and communications technologies have been lazily portrayed as means to simply escape into a parallel world - to withdraw from the body, or the city, in some utopian, or dystopian, stampede on-line. Such perspectives deny the fact that the so-called 'information society' is also an increasingly urban society. They ignore ...
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If there's a line between the real and the digital, between meat and the game, between past and present, then hold this book close to your mouth and whisper it into the pages. Please. Maybe the kid in there'll hear you. His name is Nolan Dugatti. He's lost, see, running down hall after hall, something both ancient and not-yet born galloping up ...
Imagine a world where the American government signed a conservation act to "restore all indigenous flora and fauna to the Great Plains," which means suddenly the Great Plains are Indian again. Now fast-forward fourteen years to a bowling alley deep in the Indian Territories. People that bowling alley with characters named LP Deal, Cat Stand, Mary ...
Provides an approach to teaching physical education at Key Stages 1 and 2, for non-specialist primary school teachers who have limited training and experience in this area. The text aims to encourage teachers to raise standards of provision, and to know why from a physiological perspective. Practical physical activity ideas for PE are provided, ...
Introduces the reader to the concept of healthy, graceful aging through spa medicine. Part One discusses what the doctors term the "Four Pillars of Wellness": detoxification, nutrition, exercise, and mid-body health. Part Two takes up the "Four Secrets of Longevity": inflammation prevention, nutraceuticals, hormonal therapy, and cosmeceuticals. ...
"We stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian, arrange you like furniture, like you should have something to say to each other." As one character after another tells ...
"Cities, War and Terrorism" is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period. This book presents a path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism and cities. It argues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites of ...
A biography of Peter the Great of Russia dealing chiefly with the man rather than with contemporary history. But the author sensibly and straightforwardly tells us quite enough contemporary history to allow us to see the immense significance of Peter's achievements, even though we may be almost wholly unfamiliar with the history of that part of ...
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