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'A sense of art history is part of the critical basis on which artists construct 'a future' of art. But the question is, which sense of art history will be…
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Paul Wood
The third edition, completely revised, of the only guide to all the species of tree on London's streets, and further expanded to reflect the continually increasing diversity of London's streets…
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Michelle Wood, Paul Wood
Silent meditation in the Christian contemplative tradition is a prayer practice of learning the art of listening.
This book teaches the practice of silent meditation through its relationship to the…
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Jean Giono
"Giono's prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility." - The Washington Post
Giono's very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on…
Jean-Paul Sartre
A story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism…
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Paul A. Woods
Paul Woods’ revised biography is the most thorough exploration of Lynch’s life and career available - a combined biography and filmography following the surprising course of a genuine obsessive -…
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A tribute to the archetypal 50-foot gorilla, who wreaked havoc on the silver screen since 1933. This vividly illustrated compendium traces the evolution of King Kong, from his predecessors in…
Collating classic music press and magazine articles, this book tells the story of how Morrissey bewitched the 1980s, piqued the 1990s, and inimitably returned in the new millennium. It also…
This film biography fully explores the movie -obsessed world of Quentin Tarantino. The author brings a mi ne of little-known information to make this the ultimate bio graphy of the…
A collection of interviews, articles and reviews on the Coen Brothers movies.
This chronicle analyzes the science fiction and allegorical themes that run through the original film as well as director Tim Burton’s upcoming remake in July 2001. 100 photos.
Modern cinema’s most unusual and dynamic brotherhood duo are always visually and verbally inventive, and Blood Siblings collects best interviews, articles and reviews on their films. Revised and updated to…
This is the fifth title in the highly successful Ultrascreen series from Plexus. Martin Scorsese: A Journey Through The American Psyche collects the best articles, interviews and reviews to present…
Provides a thorough informative analysis of Jackson’s career to date.
Comprises interviews, essays and reviews of Tarantino’s career - from geekish video-store clerk to a cult figure.
Russ Meyer is an American phenomenon. The only independent expolitation-movie director to make a multi-million dollar fortune at the box office. He is also the man who introduced the American…
Tim Burton, the cinematic genius behind many American gothic film classics, has the heart of a child. Revising the imagery of horror movies, TV sci-fi and cartoons, Burton imbues juvenile…
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This book was developed as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the journal Education 3-13, which has always had primary education as its main…
Mr Paul Woods
This research and reference text presents the fundamentals of the engineering of District Heating and Cooling, a system for that has received an increasing amount of investment and has the…
Best known as a moralist and one of the founders of the Scottish Common Sense school of philosophy, Thomas Reid (1710-96) was also an influential scientific thinker. Here his work…
Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Enlightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology and moral theory, he was also an…
Paul Woods
It lasted almost a century, from the horse-and-buggy era to the Internet age. It was beloved by Canadians-mostly women and girls-who ordered goods from its catalogues or flocked to its…
One of the most enigmatic figures in rock history, Scott Walker was known as Scotty Engel before meeting up with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form the Walker Brothers…
For three decades the Toronto Argonauts were a national joke: a team that not only lost most of the time, but usually did so in embarrassing fashion. The franchise bottomed…
It’s long been an accepted, almost celebrated, fact of the creative industries that long hours, chaotic workflows, and egotistical colleagues are just the price you pay to produce great work…
The Asian church has begun to respond and reach out to migrants. However, this concern for the other is patchy and lacks robust theological foundations. This work uses otherness and…
This book is an integral collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China, with a special emphasis on the contributions of Chinese believers. In addition to its…
While the Asian church has begun to reach out to migrants, this concern for others lacks robust theological foundations. The author adapts their previous work and uses otherness and liminality…
Paul Woods’ narrative - drawing on interviews with Suzuki himself, family members, bandmates and friends - evokes the decades-long odyssey of a musical enigma.
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The century-old Toronto Argonauts, like the rest of the Canadian Football League, seemed to be in shambles in 1991. Then everything changed. The Argos were acquired by an unlikely trio…
This volume details methods for the analyses of specific lipid classes and lipidomics analyses of cells such as lymphocytes and oocytes.
The first London walking guide to reveal the amazing variety of the capital’s trees, on a dozen walks around all parts of Greater London, of varying distances from a morning’s…
The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds
At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to…
It’s long been an accepted, almost celebrated, fact of the creative industries that long hours, chaotic workflows and egotistical colleagues are just the price you pay to produce great work
This straight-talking, fun book is aimed at fresh graduates planning a career in the creative industries
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A narrative exploration of London through its trees, including how the trees have shaped the city and how we live with and alongside them
Varieties of Modernism discusses the art of the middle third of the twentieth century. It consists of a short general introduction and four parts, each concentrating on a key aspect…
Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of those…
The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life’s challenges
Getting and staying mentally…
Paul Kevin Wood
Benjamin, a Christian, and his Jewish spouse, Stephen, are already Domestic Partners when they learn they are about to be given the legal right to marry in California. They promptly…
This is a very dangerous, even subversive, book by today's standards. We will dare to discuss the Bill of Rights, The Ten Commandments, the parables of Jesus, the language in…
Paul M. Wood
Paul Wood argues that the problem of extinction can be traced to how we think about biodiversity and democratic societies. He argues that biodiversity should be conceived as an essential…
My son asked me, "What about the boys?" after hearing "The Future is Female." So I explained that the future is male. . . and female. Because men and women…
This volume discusses the latest analytical approaches used to sample defined molecular populations of metabolites via functional group derivatization, specialized chromatographic methods, and ionization techniques.
There is also increased coverage of the animal models used in the study of neuroinflammatory mechanisms, of the new imaging methods that allow the noninvasive evaluation of microglial activation in…
