This book examines the burning existential questions of meaning and the mystery of consciousness from a scientific and psychological perspective. It is authore...
Take one small boy abandoned by parents too young to cope. Add grandparent's with an abundance of devotion and a heart broken by their children's rejection. Gently blend their lives while adding th...
The Silver Spoon, the most influential and successful Italian cookbook of the last 50 years, is now available in a brand new revised edition. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant clas...
A luxurious collection of the best recipes from the world's leading Italian cookbook - with all new photography and designFirst published in 1950, Il Cucchiaio d'Argento, or its English...
The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the 'subject' (who comes into existence as ...
The Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales collects 100 fairy and folk tales from around the world that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story, "The Snow Queen.&quo...
The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, a...
The first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the United States and around the world. The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the...
Dental Implants have advanced considerably in the past decade. They can remove most of the hassles of traditional dental procedures while improving patient satisfaction, giving better r...
‘Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!’ declared the architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded as an art school in 1919 and forced to close...
The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest stair is complex, requiring great knowledge, skill and ingenuity. This vol...
In contrast with the immobility of the objects it depicts, still life has been speedily making a comeback onto contemporary platforms—from glossy magazines to Instagram feeds. This book showc...
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?Discover the glittering Sofonisba ...
This book tells the story of the Perinatal Mental Health Service that developed in the Cardiff ' Vale area in South Wales, UK, from 1998 until the author's retirement in 2020. Childbirth poses a...
The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential campaign and been ...
In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Kar...