Archives for April, 2008
A lad from Scotland is sent by his Italian butcher Parents for summers to an idyllic nautical-theme children’s camp run by Mussolini’s Blackshirts. That artist was to become U.K.’s Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. Somehow, he just had to turn out different. One of Britain’s finest working sculptors, there is nothing tepid about his multimedia work. A [...]
Made by children in a school from cardboard, paper and egg boxes the recycled animals Collin the crocodile,Viny the kangaroo, Zoey the zebra and Arfur the elephant become friends and when the school caretaker and cleaner decide to salvage the friends during the school holidays their adventures begin and for two of them movement becomes [...]
Marie-Gabrielle is a graphic BDSM novel that is definitely not for the weak at heart. It is the story of young noble woman who visits a strict Catholic nunnery where wanton women are punished harshly for indulging in sins of the flesh. As she tours the dungeons, pits and workcrews where these unfortunately drudges are [...]
The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics is a monumental reference work that surveys the entire literature on law and economics in over 3,000 pages. The entries consist of two elements: a review of the literature written by an authority in the field and a bibliography which covers most of the published material in the particular [...]
The Champ’s Edition: No. 1-1,000 - The “Champ’s Edition” has a white silk cover with pink lettering. - Limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons. - Four gallery-quality silver gelatin prints signed by photographer Howard L. Bingham and Muhammad Ali. Jeff Koons has created an original art piece for the [...]
This study covers the world outlook for wedding dresses across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative [...]
This work was merely the abridged version (the actual version is 3000 pages long), but Gibbon’s command and use of the English language is so rich and varied that one must take the time necessary to savor and fully digest his arguments. Besides, at nearly 800 pages, this isn’t light reading. Editor David Womersley did a [...]
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM is by far the most exhaustivereligious encyclopeda ever developed. Only about two thirds completedthe work is already generally recognized as one of the greatest collective achievements of History of Religions scholarship. With the CD-ROM edition now available for instutions and scholars the availablity of this masterful reference work will have an [...]
MEIJI NO TAKARA: TREASURES OF IMPERIAL JAPAN: Lacquer Parts One and Two . This volume covers Japanese cloisonne enamels which were a technical triumph of the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-26) periods. The 107 examples in the Khalili Collection offer a panorama of the achievement centred around the work of three artists: Namikawa Yasuyuki, Namikawa [...]
The textile processing industry is complexly structured – just as complex, even impenetrable is the know-how that an expert in the textile field should have. The new Encyclopedia of Textile Finishing is designed to bring some order into the confusion of technical terms in this sector. The encyclopedia was devised with the specialists in mind [...]
This book continues to be the commercial cake maker’s ‘bible’. The previous edition, published more than two decades ago, has been considerably updated with contributions from leading industrial companies in the field. Authoritative accounts of raw material handling and processing are given in sufficient detail to provide an essential background for the manufacturer of flour [...]
“Internet Recruiting” is an exceptional and comprehensive resource guide on the subject of web-based recruiting. Written especially for technical recruiters, executive recruiters, corporate staffing organizations, and agency professionals, Internet Recruiting contains the very latest in specific recruiting techniques and methodologies for you to build a stronger and more effective recruiting strategy. Based on Internet recruiting training to [...]
Ralph Snart Adventures is the story of a mild-mannered accountant gone mad. Creator Marc Hansen takes the reader into Ralph Snart’s fantasy otherworld, while the evil Dr. Goot kidnaps his physical body, seeking out Ralph’s powerful brain! At times of such duress, his brain triggers another satiric adventure into his otherworld.
If you are looking for a perfect gift that is sure to put a smile on someone’s face, look no further than Oliver Gaspirtz’s latest book, A Treasury of Police Humor. In light of all the negative press police officers had to endure over the past few years it is a pleasure to find a [...]
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra: Art Edition . Natural selection. A Ford exhibition is like a storybook in which animals have inherited the earth. The New York Times, New York Walton Ford’s life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they’re not. Something strange and usually sinister is [...]
