The inspiration behind the blockbuster movie, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2" once again uses classic characters from familiar literature to tell a tale of epic proportions in Victorian England. When alien invaders from Mars mercilessly attack London, the throne quickly calls upon the League to defend against the invasion with ...
A rip-roaring novelisation based on the bestselling League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book series by Alan Moore, soon to be a major motion picture starring Sean Connery and Stuart Townsend. London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) ...
Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters, a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier.
Museums and galleries in the 1990s face unprecedented changes and challenges. Cuts in public funding have pushed museums into the marketplace, where they must compete for visitors, market their "product" and generate their own income and sponsorship. Museums must develop more effective management and marketing, if they are to survive and prosper ...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--which includes such luminaries as Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain, and Dr. Jekyll (along with, quite naturally, Mr. Hyde), among others--must escape their own personal demons before they will be able to successfully battle an evil mastermind determined to destroy London.
The inspiration behind the blockbuster movie of the same name, this book uses classic characters from familiar literature to tell a tale of epic proportions in Victorian England. Suggested for mature readers.
Charles W. Moore, who died in 1993, was not only a celebrated architect but a writer on the subject. This selection of his essays articulates his views with elegance and wit and includes not only some classic pieces but many heretofore unpublished ones as well.
The Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine is an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive guide to the management of the acutely ill patient. It relates pathophysiology to clinical features to help the reader make the diagnosis quickly. It identifies priorities for treatment and leads the reader, step-by-step, through the management of the patient while ...
From 1906 to 1934, Eugene de Salignac shot over 20,000 stunning 8x10-inch glass-plate negatives of New York City. As sole photographer at the Department of Bridges/Plant and Structures during that period of dizzying growth, he documented the creation of the city's modern infrastructure--including bridges, major municipal buildings, roads and ...
The management of acute medical emergencies is the most demanding and stressful aspect of medical training. Most textbooks of medicine can only go into general detail about the management of medical emergencies, and it is difficult for the practising doctor to keep up-to-date with the latest guidelines while doing a busy clinical job. The Oxford ...
A timely exploration of one of the big geopolitical questions of our time. ""'Empire' for a time became a quaintly antiquated word, banished from the political spectrum with the collapse of European colonial rule in Africa and Asia. Now, the word has come back as journalists, scholars, and politicians try to come to grips with the singular power ...
This monograph studies the design of robust, monotonically-convergent iterative learning controllers for discrete-time systems. Two key problems with the fundamentals of iterative learning control (ILC) design as treated by existing work are: first, many ILC design strategies assume nominal knowledge of the system to be controlled and; second, it ...
In the months since September 11, millions of Americans have belatedly awakened to the fact that they ignore the world at their peril. A sudden surge of interest in international affairs represents a dramatic turnaround from a decades-long decline. Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from Around the World provides deep perspective on the ...
As a young boy, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) set about passionately recording his life in photographs, first documenting his domestic circle and later capturing the auto races, air shows, and fashionable watering holes of the Belle Epoque. His images have so bewitched modern viewers that even scholars have failed to see them clearly. In ...
The complete engineering resource for implementing the NIST real-time control systems software library The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) real-time control systems (RCS) library is a highly useful tool for engineers developing and implementing hierarchical and distributed real-time control systems. This book serves as a user ...
With contributions from Homi Bhabha, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Will Hutton, Jurgen Habermas and Amartya Sen, among others, this dazzling compendium of some of the world's most prominent and diverse thinkers examines the question, 'What is the future of culture in the age of globalization?'. These essays represent a major theoretical and methodological ...
Every day you are faced with difficult new cases of pediatric neurologic disease that are uncommon and very challenging. This new addition to the "DI" series - written by A. James Barkovich, MD, and many of the best-known names in pediatric neuroradiology - contains many quality images and a vast amount of information about many of the most common ...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--which includes such luminaries as Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain, and Dr. Jekyll (along with, quite naturally, Mr. Hyde), among others--must escape their own personal demons before they will be able to successfully battle an evil mastermind determined to destroy London.
The Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine is an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive guide to the management of the acutely ill patient. It relates pathophysiology to clinical features to help the reader make the diagnosis quickly. It identifies priorities for treatment and leads the reader, step-by-step, through the management of the patient while ...
Going the Distance identifies eight key obstacles to the long-term success of great businesses--and shows exactly how to overcome them. Former Cisco SVP Kevin Kennedy and leading consultant Mary Moore show how to assess corporate health and correct weaknesses in leadership, strategy, product, marketplace alignment, governance, and more--before it ...
This work is designed to place Thomas Hardy's writing within the context of 19th-century fiction writing as a genre. The author regards his examination of Hardy's work as a form of archaeology, as well as a genealogy of the romantic figure in fiction, from Wordsworth to Hardy. Moore provides readers with an interpretation of Hardy's method of ...
Volume II is aimed at two distinct categories of readers: 1) Intermediate players who are ready for a wider range of rhythms to study and use in live playing situations; and 2) Experienced congueros who have digested Volume I and now seek to understand the roots of the modern Cuban conga style. Having assimilated the material in Volume I, the ...
Volume III is the first educational product to tackle the complex subject of Timba, the new musical genre which has been played in Cuba since 1989. Timba represents a quantum leap for all the instruments of the rhythm section and especially the congas. The recordings of Toms Cruz are considered the most advanced examples of Timba conga-playing and ...
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