A wide-ranging study of the postwar experience in Britain, covering historical change in the aspects of social life, and the artisitic imagination in popular music, film and the visual arts.
This reference book offers photographs of spectacular costumes worn by legendary stars in numerous classics, like MY FAIR LADY and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
This series of practical, authoritative guides is overflowing with new ideas for creating luxuriant color in your garden from bold, seasonal bursts of color to subtle, long-lasting effects. Each book offers tips on garden design, with stunning photographs as inspiration, as well as basic information about maintenance. An alphabetical gallery of ...
Comprehensive, reference work provides biographical/career data for major designers (Adrian, Jean Louis, Edith Head, scores more). Updated to 1988. 177 illus. Index of 6,000 film titles.
Timothy Leese discusses colourful perennials suitable for a wide range of different garden conditions, such as dry borders, boggy ground, and sun or shade loving plants. Further chapters suggest invaluable ground-covering and foliage plants.'
The poets in this anthology - Jacek Dehnel, Agnieszka Kuciak, Anna Piwkowska, Tomasz Rozyski, Dariusz Suska and Maciej Wozniak - belong to a generation whose work stands in stark contrast to the highly individualist writing unleashed by the removal of censorship after the fall of communism, writing with an aesthetic of stylistic brutality ...
"Brill's Encyclopedia of China" (see also www.brill.nl/encyclopediachina ) is a convenient thousand-page reference on China from its early beginnings, with a clear focus on the modern period from the mid-nineteenth century to the 21st century. Written by the world's top scholars, it is the first place to look for reliable information on the ...
Radio channel assignment has attracted considerable interest over many years, spanning disciplines that include radio engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science and economics. Over the last few years, there has been a rapid growth in the demand for wireless communications services, which has in turn created a need ...
The austerity of Marzanna Kielar's mindscape compels with its monochromy. Her poems insistently return to northern Poland cataloguing the sea, fog, wind, lakes, rivers, woods, fields, and crows. "My first homeland is a post-German landscape," she acknowledges, "with wild rose bushes, stone stables, metal window fittings, red roofs." Kielar does ...
Enjoy an unprecedented, in-depth look at our 50 states, starting with the 25 listed here (remaining states will be available in Fall '04). Each "Uniquely title offers readers narrative descriptions, charts, graphs, maps, and biographical sketches, and provides a complete picture of each state--its industry, climate, history, native peoples, ethnic ...
Aimed at health care professionals, a textbook on human nutrition which covers obesity, coronary heart disease, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, food additives, and changing people's eating habits.
Since the lyric beginnings of Polish poetry, writers have been burdened with duties typically delegated to politicians, soldiers, priests, or journalists. The political, social, and cultural changes of the last decade have allowed Polish poets to cast off these burdens, and focus instead on individual expression and varied aesthetic movements." ...
"The British Migrant Experience 1700-2000" is a wide-ranging collection of first-person accounts, together with introductory essays, capturing varied aspects of the British migrant story from the 18th-20th centuries. Building on recent interest in the social, psychological and historical aspects of population movement within and into mainland ...
This practical text has been reworked to provide an account of the subject of cluster analysis - the generic name for a wide variety of procedures involved with identifying groups within data. By organizing multivariate data into such subgroups clustering may help the investigator discover the characteristics of any structure or pattern present. ...
To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, "shell shock" was uncanny, amusing and sad. To those who experienced it, the condition was shameful, unjustly stigmatized and life changing. This study of the British "shell shocked" soldiers of the Great War combines social and medical history to investigate the experience of ...
Gives four generations of issue of each king and queen of England from 1066 to 1399. Genealogical information is given on 11 kings and their queens from William the Conqueror through Edward III (d.1377). Included are three generations of the legitimate is
Each of the books in the "Dimensions of Science" series describes modern scientific discoveries in a social context. This textbook combines the basic physiological facts of human reproduction with an account of the techniques used in IVF (in vitro fertilization), to illustrate not only the scientific and clinical aspects of human infertility, but ...
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