Hardcover Books

A hidden identities stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a girl who wakes up married in Vegas to her ex-boyfriend's twin brother...From the moment he calls the crisis hotline, I'm drawn to his voice.As I help him through his darkest moments, we...

Two determined best friends. Three unpredictable dogs. One vibrant neighborhood in New York City. A page-turning adventure for kids 8-12 that the entire family will enjoy."I loved this story with all my heart. Simply a treasure." Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author."...a...

Newly married, Oliver and Lisa are having the time of their lives in their small Alaskan town. The kids are thriving, and so is the family business. The café and woodshop are everything Oliver and Lisa dreamt of, and they almost believe they have...

From renowned public health expert Dr. Karabi Acharya comes a profound, beautifully written exploration of what it means to be Multiracial today--and a transformative call to build a culture of absolute belonging. Multiracial people are the fastest-growing population in the United States, yet they...

Robert Morris Copeland (1830-1874) was one of a small number of American landscape practitioners whose written and built work helped establish the foundations for city planning and integrated park systems. As did his colleagues Frederick Law Olmsted and Horace Cleveland, Copeland merged many of...

From the outside, Pizzeria Vesuvio seems just like any other pizza place in West London: a buzzy, cheerful Italian spot on a street where cooks from Sri Lanka rub shoulders with waitstaff from Spain, Georgia, Wales, Poland and more. But upstairs, on the battered...

Leadership is an art. Make it your own. There's a science to leadership--but it's also an art that each one of us has to learn. No matter where you lead--in the marketplace, in ministry, in a nonprofit, or in your home--you are called to...

Readable Feast's 2017 Socially Conscious Book of the Year!In Green Plate Special, Christine Burns Rudalevige shares her recipes for healthy, sustainable, and delicious meals, alongside tips and tricks for greening your kitchen and making the most of your produce. From the farmer's market to...

Author: Carolyn a. DahlISBN-10: 1946163295ISBN-13: 9781946163295Publisher: North Dakota State University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2020Pages: 3Format: Hardcover

Rerun Era is a captivating, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found...

Sweating Together: How Peloton Built a Billion Dollar Venture and Created Community in a Digital World by David J. Miller, PhD (#ChicagoBorn) The ultimate front row look at the meteoric rise of Peloton, one of the hottest consumer and fitness brands in the world....

Nick and Katie didn't sign up to go on an adventure. They didn't ask to be nearly killed by a jaguar, or hunt for ingredients under a volcano. They most certainly did not ask to be sacrificed by some crazy high priest at the...

"Sustainability is not a buzz-word anymore; it's a matter of survival. Meaningful achievement in sustainability will require significant paradigm shifts in attitudes about how we live, how we consume resources, how we govern ourselves and how we transport people and goods. Asti's excellent exploration...

The study of what has become known as Plains Indian ledger art and of Fort Marion drawings in particular, has burgeoned in the last forty years. Joyce Szabo's examination of the two drawing books by Zotom and Howling Wolf encompasses their origins and the...

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created,...

This is the only impact fee book you'll need for the next decade or longer! This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on impact fees by introducing new methodologies, concepts, applications, and theories. The authors contend that it's time to go beyond...

They needed a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. Antonio needed a miracle. When middle-aged English couple Diane and Pete move to rural Spain intending to run a small pony-trekking business, they could never have foreseen that their plans would dissolve within six weeks. Antonio, their...

Are you excited about Photoshop but not how to use the features? Check out our high quality examples of advanced Photoshop features in this book. A book dedicated to walking you through how to use Photoshop on a more advanced level. These examples represent...

Bringing together some of the most talented architects and designers worldwide to showcase inspirational and contemporary trends in residential interiors, this book offers personal views of elegantly-appointed homes around the globe.Author: Andrea BoekelISBN-10: 1920744363ISBN-13: 9781920744366Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.60lbsSize: 12.00h...

Features a variety of projects from luxurious, sleek beach villas and tucked-away mountain retreats, to straw-clad sustainable houses and isolated wooden cabins.Author: Andrea BoekelISBN-10: 1920744991ISBN-13: 9781920744991Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2006Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.13lbsSize: 11.32h x 11.22w x 1.19d

Corinth City has a murder problem...Ten years have passed since Gormon Hughes joined the Scarlet Citadel. Now a legendary agent of its power, Hughes is confronted by a much darker legend. A recent spate of killings has been tied to the old story of...

Bounceback Food CIC is a community cookery school and foodbank supporter that has been proactively fighting food poverty in Greater Manchester, Cheshire and North Wales since 2014.Discover a range of their favourite Secret Dishes From Around the World and find out how they've developed...

This book provides an introduction to the early writings and political activism of Fayez Sayegh, whose passionate and prolific intellectual career was well known within academia and beyond.Today, Fayez Sayegh is mainly known as an articulate defender of the Palestinian cause at the UN...

Many books have been written about the Victoria Cross and its recipients. The first published work on the subject appeared in 1857 - the same year as the first VC investiture. A resurgence of interest in the 1990s led to the publication of numerous...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and...

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe - a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher - looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa,...

Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor's great new abbey was built, it was a major royal centre two miles south-west of the City of London. Within a century or so, it had...

Author: Ian LivingstoneISBN-10: 1911390066ISBN-13: 9781911390060Publisher: SnowbooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2016Pages: 74Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d

A luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead. Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of...

Ioan James celebrates the extraordinary contribution made by Jewish people in mathematics and physics, from the mathematician Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, to distinguished nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Niels Bohr. He tells the life-stories of thirty-five men and women, born in the...

Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence distinct from the particular things describable by those terms? And what must be their nature if they do? This book provides a careful and assured survey of the central issues...

This is a collection of eighteen papers presented at a conference that was held at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Hertfordshire with 122 members and guests from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Norway were present. The papers...

Criminology, or the study of crime, has developed rapidly as a subject in recent years, while crime and the problem of how to respond to it have become major concerns for society as a whole. This book provides a succinct, highly readable - and...

Poetic Architecture is an unusual, fascinating book written for all who are eager to identify, expland and communicate their creative energies through poetry. The author's paintings and drawings open a wide world of imagination and fantasy.Author: Efthymios WarlamisISBN-10: 1901092518ISBN-13: 9781901092516Publisher: Papadakis Dist A/CLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspectives. Such an exciting diversity of views,...

Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry by Gary Wulfsberg is our newest entry into the field of Inorganic Chemistry textbooks, designed uniquely for a one-semester stand alone course, or to be used in a full year inorganic sequence.Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry by Gary Wulfsberg is our...

For poet Steven Nightingale, the sonnet is not just a poetic form, it is the form of our dreams: the dream that poetry can take the mind home to original beauties; that the life of each of us is bound to a joy at...

"It is one of the most perplexing paradoxes of modern life. As technology dramatically expands our ways of communicating, loneliness has become one of the leading causes of premature death in all technologically advanced nations.The medical toll is made heavier by powerful social forces--school...

The Art of Sadhana unveils the secrets of devotion within the Vaishnava tradition with deep penetration and insight. Through story, ethical council and advice on daily practice, this work serves as a long-term desktop reference for any serious practitioner of the Bhakti path. Issues...

Exploration of the New World offered far reaching possibilities for the acquisition of new plants and for trees, but the impact that the introduction of plants from the New World had, and still has, on the English garden is frequently forgotten. Gardens and landscapes...

Presents architect-designed solutions to building homes on remote sites and in varied landscapes, in delicate ecosystems.Author: Peter HyattISBN-10: 1864701501ISBN-13: 9781864701500Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2006Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.31lbsSize: 10.42h x 7.90w x 0.86d

Highlights of the ways that water enhances a residential public or commercial space.Author: Images PublishingISBN-10: 186470036XISBN-13: 9781864700367Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2006Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.20lbsSize: 12.12h x 9.07w x 0.95d

Changes that have occurred in design philosophy are written about as well as depicted pictorially to demonstrate how each firm has adapted to the changes of the times.Author: Kisho Kurokawa,Images PublishingISBN-10: 186470019XISBN-13: 9781864700190Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2006Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.64lbsSize: 13.70h x 9.93w...

Presenting the brilliant artistry and creativity of leading European design firms, this publication concentrates intensively on commercial spaces. Projects are represented in full colour and biographical information is given on featured firms.Author: Images,Images PublishingISBN-10: 1864700106ISBN-13: 9781864700107Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2006Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.34lbsSize:...

Salsa and guacamole wouldn't be the same without cilantro, and you can't make pizza without oregano or a mojito without mint. You can use peppermint to settle an upset stomach, ease arthritis pain with stinging nettle, and heal burns and wounds with aloe vera....

The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. The South Asian Tsunami of 2004. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Hurricane Katrina in 2005. All of these are natural disasters that not only caused massive devastation but actually changed the course of history, and have influenced our...

From Victor Frankenstein to Dr. Moreau to Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the scientist has been a puzzling, fascinating, and threatening presence in popular culture. From films we have learned that scientists are either evil maniacal geniuses or bumbling saviors of society....

To tackle the complex problems of life today, we need to coordinate a wide range of expertise. Systems concepts and methods offer the means of integrating the contributions of specialists, including managers, scientists and engineers.The book introduces simple yet sound concepts and a language...

Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists contains 36 interviews with well-known physicists, including 20 Nobel laureates, Templeton Prize winners, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. Physics has been one of the determining fields of science in the past 100 years, playing a conspicuous...

Optical communications technology is growing increasingly in importance, with a rapid pace of development. Innovative optical devices have emerged from the integration of semiconductor laser diodes, amplifiers and filters with optical waveguide technology. This well-researched volume traces the evolution of semiconductor laser amplifiers (SLAs)...