Inspiring writing in art & design education: taking a line for a write

Art

Art and design students today face a wide range of writing tasks – from reflective and self-promotional pieces to reviews, essays and dissertations. This book is an answer to art and design s...

The kennedys at war: 1937-1945

Biography Autobiography

A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and br...

Art, technology, consciousness: mind@large

Art

Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and lo...

Understanding the neolithic

Archaeology

Understanding the Neolithic is a ground-breaking investigation of the period 4000 - 2200 BC. Whilst thoroughly examining the archaeological data of this region, Julian Thomas exposes the assumptio...

Body with soul: steady your sugar, cut your cholesterol, and get a jump on your best health

Biography Autobiography

From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health.Mixing memoir, a wellness program, and inspirational advice, Randy Jackson...

George, being george: george plimpton's life as told, admired, deplored, and envied by more than 300 friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances, rivals--and a few unappreciative observers

Biography Autobiography

Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable ten...

No mountain high enough: raising lance, raising me

Biography Autobiography

From Linda Armstrong Kelly’s NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH:“This is what it means to be a mother, I realized. It had nothing to do with being old enough or knowing everything or keeping to a...

Operation yao ming: the making of a chinese hero and his journey to the nba

Biography Autobiography

The riveting story behind NBA giant Yao Ming, the ruthless Chinese sports machine that created him, and the East-West struggle over China...

Gilded: how newport became america's richest resort

Architecture

A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and t...

A farther shore: ireland's long road to peace

Biography Autobiography

He’s been imprisoned, shot at, denounced, shunned, and banned, yet Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams remains resolute in his belief that peace is the only viable option for the Irish peop...