Pier Paolo Pasolini for Art History and Practice - Aesthetics and Politics

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial ea...

Vasari and the Sacred Image - Renovating Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo

Vasari and the Sacred Image explores the iconography, patronage, function, meaning, and afterlife of Giorgio Vasari's paintings for, and ...

The Fighting Jew - The Life and Times of Daniel Mendoza, Champion Boxer

New paperback edition - Full-length popular biography of one of the first boxing superstars. Mendoza transformed boxing from a mere brawl...

Mass Flow Measurement

Mass Flow Measurement describes how Coriolis flowmeters, thermal flowmeters, and mass flow controllers function. It explains how and why ...

The Syrian Conflict - The Role of Russia, Iran and the US in a Global Crisis

This book explores the global impact of the Syrian conflict, and the roles of Russia, Iran and the US in its wake. This second edition ex...

Hegel's Inversion of Philosophy - The Metaphysics of the Made

Hegel's philosophy is often presented as a reconciliation between thought and the world, and thus logic and metaphysics. But what is the ...

Uncivil Democracy - How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face ci...

Prohibited Chemical and Biological Weapons and the Law - Legal Responses to Lethal Innovation

Scientific advances in biological and chemical sciences can offer significant benefits to humanity, but these discoveries may also result...

My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, Vol. 7

An all-night campaign leads to a sleepover date in the seventh volume of the award-winning manga that inspired the anime My Love Story wi...

Alymamah Rashed: Landscapes of Spirit

The first publication dedicated to the Kuwaiti artist, her inspiration and philosophy > The book explores the central themes that shape h...

Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice

Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice offers an in-depth exploration of human behavior theory and helps students connect each th...

Towards a Genealogy of Cosmopolitan Thought - Before and Beyond Liberalism

Liberalism, with cosmopolitanism as its intellectual spearhead, seems to be in retreat, while illiberal and populist narratives have come...

The Harpy Knight

In this thrilling sequel to The Gryphon King, old rivalries and new threats pull Bataar and Nohra into a swirling cauldron of gods, monst...

For, Against, Together - Rethinking Antagonistic Political Emotions

What are antagonistic political emotions, and what do they do? This book explores how such emotions unfold within and shape the political...

Finance for Film and Television - A Guide to Film Accounting

This text provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the day-to-day financial management of film and television productions. The book...

The Roland x0x Series - A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909

The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessi...

Walking on the Ceiling - A Novel

'Savä writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence...' Ne...

The British Are Coming - The Graphic Edition, Volume 1

This striking graphic edition adapts the first half of the New York Times bestselling The British Are Coming, the opening volume in Pulit...

Credit to the Nation - Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873-1930

From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and ...

Community and Problem-Oriented Policing - Addressing Crime and Disorder

Diversity-Driven Evolutionary Algorithms For Solving Engineering Problems

Diversity-Driven Evolutionary Algorithms For Solving Engineering Problems explores optimization algorithms and their applications across ...

How to Win at Chess - The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn chess from International Master and YouTube’s top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in this r...

Everything Is Tuberculosis - The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Anish Kapoor

Beautifully produced monograph of the renowned contemporary artist Anish Kapoor, focusing on his creative output from the past fifteen ye...

Qualitative Research Methods for Sport Studies

Introducing the core concepts and most important techniques in qualitative research, this practical textbook is the perfect companion for...

Reading Champion: Graphics: Kid Pirate: The Sea Monster - Turquoise book band 7

Follow Kid Pirate and his crew in this graphic novel adventure as they are marooned on a desert island. In this story Kid Pirate and his ...

Public Relations and Corporate Racial Responsibility

Public Relations and the Corporate Racial Responsibility introduces corporate racial responsibility (CRR) theory. CRR responds to the ong...

Blood and White Roses

1461, following the Battle of Towton, Bethany Mortimer becomes a Yorkist spy, uncovering a deadly plot to abduct Edward IV's brothers. Ac...

The Motion of Puppets - A nightmarish fairy tale of transformation, captivity and the dark heart of magic

In the Old City of Québec, acrobat Kay Harper vanishes after entering a mysterious toy shop. Unbeknownst to her husband Theo, she has bee...

The Maiden and Her Monster

The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark . . . 'A dark, atmospheric and riveting debut, wreathed around a love story like no o...

Blackness Thirteen Ways - Art, Life, & the Revisions of a Mulatta Lesbian

The art historian and romance novelist close-reads images, moving and still, canonical and lesser-known, that have influenced her evolvin...

Conservation Ethics - The Challenges of Preserving Nature

This book explores the ethical dimensions of nature conservation, discussing how we value the natural world and how it can be protected i...

The Hidden Treasures of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi (Arabic edition)

A timeless journey through the cosmos and life on Earthi > At the heart of this book are extraordinary specimens from the museum's growin...

Vincent van Gogh - Masterworks

A stunning coffee table survey of Van Gogh's art, featuring famous and beautiful artworks alongside extracts and reproductions of his let...

The Missing Half

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from th...

The Makoto Murders

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo paparazzo com...

Bruja Curandera - Spells, Rituals & Ancestor Work from a Mexican Healer & Witch

Discover the magia (magic) and espíritu (spirit) of Mexico with an authentic bruja (witch) as your guide. Within the beating heart of Mex...

The Games that Computers (and Humans) Play - A Non-Technical Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

The Games that Computers (and Humans) Play is a non-technical introduction to AI using games to illustrate the concepts, written by an in...

Active and Engaging Classrooms - A Practical Exploration of P-12 School Contexts

Active and Engaging Classrooms: A Practical Exploration of P-12 School Contexts empowers educators to transform their classrooms into vib...

Reflections on Parenting from a Gestalt Therapist-Father - Life with Leo

This book explores the early father-child experience from an intimate, first-person perspective, through the lens of a gestalt therapist ...

The Blood-Dimmed Tide - Central Europe's Long Great War, 1905-1921

An expansive narrative of World War I's Eastern Front challenges longstanding analytical frameworks, offering a novel and far-reaching ex...

Glory and Dishonour - Victoria Cross Heroes Whose Lives Ended in Tragedy or Disgrace

New paperback edition - The flawed characters of 27 men who were awarded the world's most prestigious bravery award, some of whom ended u...

The Road to Tender Hearts

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school c...

Cruelty Free - A Novel

“Deliciously vicious and unsettlingly hilarious, Cruelty Free is a nasty, thrilling Hollywood take-down for the ages.” —JENNIFER THORNE, ...

Essentials of Business Research - A Guide to Doing Your Research Project

A true guide to the essentials, this book takes you through the whole research process from start to finish. Whether you're conducting a ...

The Family Dynamic - A Journey Into the Mystery of Sibling Success

What explains those rare families that boast multiple siblings who achieve extraordinary success? An award-winning New York Times journal...

Hello Autumn - A sticker activity nature guide

Say hello to autumn through stickers and activities made for the season of change! Filled with fascinating facts about mushrooms, insects...

Contesting Translation - Studies in Honour of Mona Baker

Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, i...

Philology in a Digital Age - Selected Papers

Philology in a Digital Age: Selected Papers brings together more than four decades of scholarship by Gregory Crane documenting the evolut...

The Pocket Lawyer for Comic Book Creators - A Legal Toolkit for Comic Book Artists and Writers

Focal Press' Pocket Lawyer series serves as a legal toolkit for independent producers and artists in the creative industries. The Pocket ...

Reintroducing Raymond Aron

This book reintroduces the work of Raymond Aron and demonstrates the pertinence of his thought for reflection on social interaction and t...

Doing Educational Research in Schools

This is your essential guide to carrying out research in schools. It walks you through each step offering smart practical guidance suppor...

Discovering the Michael Chekhov Technique - In the Studio with Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan

This book unpacks the Michael Chekhov acting technique as interpreted and taught by 2 of the great American teachers - Ted Pugh and Fern ...

Research Design in Politics and International Relations

This textbook offers the definitive guide to starting your research project in Politics and IR. It shows how methods come alive when appl...

All Spooked Up

Paint store owner Laura Meehan makes the discovery of a lifetime in her shop when she stumbles upon a body and . . . her dead father's gh...

Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity - Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views com...

How to Invest - Navigating the Brave New World of Personal Investment: Fully Revised and Updated Edition

Is crypto a scam or a solution? Will that pension plan deliver? And what exactly is a model portfolio? The world of personal savings and ...

The Cove

From blockbuster, internationally bestselling writer LJ Ross comes a gripping, escapist thriller about a woman who survives a notorious k...

It Happened One Murder

Murder has a way of bringing people together... Harriet Baker thought that when she left Logan Island, she was leaving for good. But afte...

Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous

STARDEW VALLEY meets STUDIO GHIBLI in a charming cozy fantasy about healing, redemption, and the subtle magic of simple living. Perfect f...