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Ian Johnston
Air-conditioning is one of those universal modern conveniences whose origins are entirely unknown to the general public. Online sources credit the first commercial system to the American Willis Carrier in…
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One of the great names in British industrial history, the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan, Glasgow, was always associated with innovation ? particularly the development of the compound…
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Mo Zi
Contains sections explaining the ten key doctrines of Mohism; lively dialogues between Master Mo and his followers; discussion of ancient warfare; and an extraordinary series of chapters that include the…
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Ian M Johnston
What is it about old tractors that is so fascinating and entrancing? The sounds and smells of these old relics? The hunt to find the rarest of models? Or simply…
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a giant insect.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We will have achieved much for the study of aesthetics when we come not merely to a logical understanding but also to the immediately certain apprehension of the fact that…
Illustrated Edition: Includes beautifully crafted illustrations that vividly depict the story. Summary: A concise overview of the plot and themes. Author Biography: A brief look into Franz Kafka's life and…
An English translation of the complete work and the first bilingual version in any European language. It is one of the small number of key texts surviving from the first…
A companion to the highly successful Clydebank Battlecruisers, this collection of stunning shipyard photos, most previously unpublished, further showcases the work of a major shipbuilder during the Great War. Although…
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-First published in 2000 as Ships for a Nation by West Dumbartonshire Libraries & Museum.-
An informal historical approach that shows the evolution of both theory and application at the intersection of physics and music. It features an examination of psycho-acoustics and its role in…
Ian Johnstone
A glorious epic fantasy in the grand tradition of CS Lewis and Philip Pullman. The Mirror Chronicles will take you into another world, and on the adventure of your lifetime…
US enthusiasm for peace operations has fluctuated markedly in the post-Cold War era. This book considers current US peace operations policy from the perspective of fifteen years of fluctuating commitment.
This is a biography of musician Nick Cave, from his early days with The Birthday Party . Charting his career, it explores Cave’s idiosyncratic, obsessive lyrical visions, which make no…
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This epic finale to the thrilling Mirror Chronicles trilogy sees our heroes undertake the perilous journey to Old Kemet, the place that first broke the worlds in two …
The second volume in an epic fantasy trilogy that will thrill everyone who loves rich stories of wonder and magic.
A volume of stunning shipyard plate photos, most previously unpublished. Devoted to the most popular ship type of the Great War. Top of the range production combined with affordable price.
How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organised, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some of the key elements of…
An album of stunning shipyard photos, most previously unpublished. Showcasing the work of a major shipbuilder during the Great War. A companion to the highly successful Clydebank Battlecruisers.
Ian Johnston,Ian Buxton
A new affordable softcover edition of a bestselling work on the perennially popular subject of battleships. Well researched and thoughtfully illustrated. Fascinating insights into a great industrial achievement.
Ian Buxton,Ian Johnston
The most comprehensive coverage of a single British battleship ever attempted.
Galen
In Galen’s four treatises he not only provides a framework for the exhaustive classification of diseases and their symptoms as a prelude to his analysis of their causation, but he…
In the three works in this volume, On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine, The Art of Medicine, and A Method of Medicine to Glaucon, the physician, philosopher, scientist…
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In his treatises Hygiene, Thrasybulus, and On Exercise with a Small Ball, Galen of Pergamum addresses topics of preventive medicine, health, and wellness that continue to resonate with practices of…
In On Temperaments, Galen of Pergamum sets out his concept of the combination of the four elemental qualities (hot, cold, wet, and dry), which is fundamental to his account of…
The Excellence in Literature Handbook for Writers is a unique one-stop reference for how to write essays, as well as a guide for punctuation, style, and usage.
Ian Johnston,Rose Gailey
Culture is a powerful invisible force, the set of unspoken assumptions that shapes the everyday experience of people connected to an organization, both inside and out. When tightly linked to…
Die Verwandlung, Metamorphosis, is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and…
Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is…
For eight hundred years, scholars have regarded the Daxue and the Zhongyong as essential critical studies on Confucian doctrine. ranslated by Ian Johnston and Wang Ping, this volume contains two…
Ian Johnston,Wang Ping
The Mingjia is a notional grouping of philosophers first recorded as such in the Shiji. Their identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the correct use of…
Yanwu Gu
A selection of Qing Dynasty scholar Gu Yanwu’s general writings from his Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge) and his Tinglin Shiwenji (Collected Poems and Essays). Gu Yanwu is regarded…
Denis Diderot
A fictional conversation written by Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of the French Enlightenment.
Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early-twentieth-century work.
Ian William Johnston
How this little book came about.
Upon discharge from hospital on the second occasion after a battle with a brain tumour, my wife Ruth and I set about the first…
Ian Johnston (University of Tasmania)
This volume presents the Greek text of Euripides’ Bacchae, as edited by Gilbert Murray, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Johnston on facing pages, which will be useful to…
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, with…
The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations provides an authoritative account of the law and politics of international organizations. Looking at the role, function, and history of organizations, this Handbook offers…
Friedrich Nietzsche
Provides a history of ethics, a text about interpreting that history, and a primer on interpretation in general. The book also has elements of archaeology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and etymology.
Pat Willmer,Graham Stone,Ian Johnston
Includes chapters on Nerves and Muscles and the Endocrine System. This book also includes comparative systems physiology and environmental physiology. It analyses and integrates problems and adaptations for each kind…
