E-book Eyewitness: Arms & Armor

Full-color photos. "An eye grabber: large, clear photographic layouts of weapons share pages with explanatory text and definitive illustrations. Each double spread covers a subject, from primitive weapons to the 'Guns That Won the West'; it's easy to forget their function in the beauty of the pieces and their clever designs. The weapons from the Middle Ages are breathtaking simply as art. A plu…

E-book Eyewitness Books: Christianity

An introduction to Christian beliefs and culture discusses the life and teachings of Jesus, the Gospels, divisions and sects within Christianity, and Christian life.

E-book 100 Chinese Silences

There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an “orientalist” tradition that has defined modern American poetry, these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American litera…

E-book Eyewitness: Ancient Greece

This Eyewitness guide to the Ancient Greek world provides information on the mythical heroes and gods as well as the temples and statues still surviving today.

E-book Eyewitness Books: Food

Complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by exploring the myriad ways in which food affects our lives.

E-book Eyewitness: Matter

Examines the elements that make up the physical world and the properties and behavior of different kinds of matter

Ebook Eyewitness: Shakespeare

Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.

E-book Eyewitness Companions : Film

History, genres, world cinemas, A-Z of directors, top 100 movies.

Ebook Eyewitness Books: Da Vinci and His Times

An overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance.

E-Book The Italian Protector

Pergi mengunjungi Italia adalah impian terbesar Isabella - ia mencintai tempat itu hampir seumur hidupnya. Ketika akhirnya keinginan itu terpenuhi, Isabella pun berangkat dengan segudang rencana. Namun, pemikiran untuk menggoda pria-pria di sana? Oh, ia sama sekali tidak tertarik. Sampai ia bertemu dengan pria Italia bertubuh tinggi besar yang memancarkan aura menggoda sekaligus berbahaya. Isa…

E-book Eyewitness: Ecology

Discover the diversity of animals, plants, energy, and matter in the world's environments

E-book DK Eyewitness: Early Humans

Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating world of ancient people and their ways of life. Detailed real-life photographs of tools, weapons, jewelry, clothing, and even the remains of the people themselves, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of how human life changed during its first four million years. See the tools used by the first farmers, the oldest surviving food, the weap…

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E-book Greenland in Arctic Security : (De)securitization Dynamics under Clima…

As the Arctic is getting warmer, ice at sea and on land is melting. Great powers appear ready to conflict over resources appearing from under the ice. Science tells us about this climatic thaw already happening; much commentary and great power strategies want us to believe that a geopolitical freeze is inevitable. Either way, the Arctic region we have known since the end of the Cold …

E-book Picturing Royal Charisma : Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000…

From the earliest Near Eastern urban civilizations to modern times, rulers and their retinues have disseminated ideological information with regard to the legitimacy of their status, their obligations, and their rights. The visual expressions of these royal statements were the subject of our research group, under the auspices of the Mandel Scholion In…

E-book Tracks from the Crypt

Is film a medium of communication? This is a basic question of film studies. It is about as old as the field itself, and the discursive frameworks and underlying assumptions that make the question relevant are about as old as the medium, or the art form, of cinema itself. As John Durham Peters argues, “only since the late nineteenth century have we defined ourselves in terms our ability to co…

E-book Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of …

When the Immediations book series at Open Humanities Press was launched, it was done with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the intercessor1 in mind. We were looking for a way to give voice to a kind of collaboration that would work from within the weave of research and writing, a collaboration that would give texture to a voice (or a multiplicity of voice) toward a conversation to come. A conversa…

E-book A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of P…

A Nuclear Refrain is a piece of “spatial fic-tion” that challenges vital but neglected is-sues around the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and the concomitant policy of nuclear deterrence. We issue this challenge via the extension of our geographical imagi-nations into the past, present, and future.The UK’s 2016 decision to replace its Vanguard submarine fleet, as a major step to-w…

E-boo Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

In early 2012, when I visited Theodore (Ted) Schwartz at his home in Del Mar, California, he had recently finished digitising audio recordings of interviews he had conducted with Manus people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from 1953 through 1995; the annotated catalogue went on for many pages.1 Ted gave me an audio tour and we listened to Paliau, his supporters, an…

E-book Theatre in Towns

While we were researching theatre in towns for this book, a perfor-mance was taking place across Europe. Little Amal, a giant child- refugee puppet, began a walk from Gazientep in Turkey, close to the Syrian border, a city that had become home to half a million refu-gees during the ten-year-long war. Little Amal travelled more than 8000 kilometres be…

E-book Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World

Much of the thought and the practice of human life is irredeem-ably related to Ionia, to Achaea, to classical Greek civilisation. Certainly one, if not the only one, of the central imaginings of ourselves and our world is Ionian. Our mapping of ourselves in our world also owes a huge debt to the classical. The emergence, materialisation, and extra-territorialisation of Ionian spaces of philosop…

E-book Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe : A Performance History o…

The aim of this book is to investigate the performance history of Henrik Ibsen in the Ro-manian theatre from the end of the 19thcentury to the first half of the 20thcentury.On the one hand, the quantitative analysis of data on the early Romanian produc-tionsofIbsen’splaysbetween1894and1947revealsthathewasnotperformedwithgreatfrequency in either the major state or independent theatres. Yet, it…

E-book The Supernatural Media Virus : Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990

In June 2009, a thread on the forum SomethingAwful.com asked usersto participate in a Photoshop challenge involving the creation of imagesdisplaying a paranormal feature. One user named Victor Surge, whosereal name was later revealed to be Eric Knudsen, uploaded two grainyblack-and-white images in response to this call. These pictures showeda faceless and uncannily tall figure in a suit lurking…

E-book The Boggart Sourcebook : Texts and Memories for the Study of the Briti…

This section gathers nineteenth-century boggart ephemera, particularly from newspapers but also from magazines, rare books and broadsides. Given the space constraints, I concentrate on material that other researchers might have trouble finding. I have typically included here actual boggart news (everything from ‘boggart hunts’ to children dying from boggart stories, sic)…

E-book Living with Monsters : Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters

"Did you hear a single thing Uncle said to you, Sarah? A single damn thing?” Marvin shook his head in exasperation. “Don’t go looking for things unless you want them to find you.” These quotes are extracts from some of the chapters that follow, and they superbly condense what we mean by Living with Mon-sters. There is a fundamental distinction between the monsters you will meet on t…

E-book The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and …

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The t…

E-book Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-D…

E-book Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous ''year without a summer'' in North America, food riots in Eur…

E-Book Labirin

Aku dan Han tidak sedang mempermainkan kepercayaan atau tidak menghormati Sang Pencipta. Kami hanya mencari sebuah cara untuk menyadarkan orang tua - Lizda Kami tidak membunuh. Tidak juga berzina. Bukan pula pencuri atau penjahat. Mengapa cinta kami dianggap salah? - Johan Akhir kisah, garis akhir labirin, entah menuju ke mana... Kamu dan aku terlalu jauh berbeda. Bersiaplah memasuki la…

E-book Laporan Informasi Intelijen Bisnis 2019 : Vegetable Oil HS 1516

Penggunaan kelompok animal and vegetable fats and oils (HS 1516) sangat beragam seperti sebagai bahan pembuatan sabun hingga untuk produksi bahan makanan. Namun demikian, salah satu penggunaan utama dari kelompok produk ini adalah sebagai bahan baku untuk produksi makanan olahan. Lemak dan minyak yang didapatkan dari binatang dan tumbuhan merupakan komponen yang sangat penting untuk menjag…

E-book Ring of Fire: An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes, Tsunam…

n March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's coast, triggering a powerful tsunami. The massive destruction that resulted proved that not even sophisticated, industrialized nations are immune from nature's fury. Written to take some of the mystery out of the earth's behavior, this encyclopedia chronicles major natural disasters that have occurred around the Pacific Rim, an are…

E-book Become a Barista

Cofee is grown typically between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn where conditions are ideal for the species. There are two main branches of the cofee varietal, Robust and Arabica. Robusta is less favoursome, high yielding with high pest tolerance. Hence, it is great for cheaper, low-quality instant cofees. Arabica makes up the majority of the cofee grown in the world and is wha…

E-book Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes As Hazards, Disasters, and Catastro…

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E-book Meditations

Marcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarelybeen able to resist applying it to Marcus himself. And indeed, if we seek Plato’s philosopher-king in the flesh we could hardly do better than Marcus, the ruler of the RomanEmpire for almost two decades and author of the immortal Meditations. Yet the title is one that Marcus …

E-book The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, 3rd Edition

The definitive book on Warren Buffett's views on everything from investing to management, this is the classic curated collection of his famous shareholder letters, masterfully arranged according to topic by long-time Buffett expert, Lawrence Cunningham.

E-book How to Hack Computers: How to Hack Computers, Hacking for Beginners, P…

Hackers are shrouded in a cloud of mystery, and most people don't understand who they are, what they do, how they do it, and what motivates them. As a network security engineer, I want to reveal the mysterious world of hackers to beginners so you can get your feet wet hacking. Not only will I teach you the background of hacking, but I will also expose you to some of the latest software and even…

E-book Arts of The Samurai

The legends of the Japanese warrior-statesmen, referred to as the samurai, are renowned for accounts of military valor and political intrigue—epic conflicts between powerful lords, samurai vassals, and the imperial court—as well as accounts of profound self-sacrifice and loyalty. The term samurai is derived from the word saburau, or “one who serves.” The evolution of the samurai from mo…

E-book Hacking: Beginner to Expert Guide to Computer Hacking, Basic Security,…

This book will teach you how you can protect yourself from most common hacking attacks -- by knowing how hacking actually works! After all, in order to prevent your system from being compromised, you need to stay a step ahead of any criminal hacker. You can do that by learning how to hack and how to do a counter-hack. Within this book are techniques and tools that are used by both criminal a…

E-book The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the …

From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an important role in countless medical and technological advances. Covering entertaining stories and unexpected applications, chemist and journalist Derek B…

E-book The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the History of…

Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs lik…

E-book Time for the Ancients : Measurement, Theory, Experience

n this chapterIexploreGraeco-Roman techniques of, and attitudes towards,time measurement,from the twin perspectivesofeverydaylife andmedicine. Isurvey literary and archaeological evidence for the twomain available technol-ogies of timemeasurement,sundials and water-clocks, and consider what thisevidence tells us about their differential accessibility and context of use, andabout Roman attitudes…

E-book The Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience, 250 …

What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterlings Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being, it touches on such controversial topics as phrenology, sexual taboos, electroshock therapy, …

E-book Pynchon’s Sound of Music

When Penguin announced the upcoming release of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice in 2009, they heightened the suspense with two marketing gimmicks. One was a series of short movie trailers with Pynchon providing Doc Sportello’s slurred voice. The other one was a playlist of songs that would be mentioned in the novel. The choice of media was fitting since film…

E-book The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Mi…

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Programme at NCSU, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas, including chemical…

E-book The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

When Carl Maria von Weber conducted Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Dresden in the 1820s, one of the people sitting in the auditorium was the Italian singer Luigi Bassi who had created the title role back in 1787. And he was not pleased with what he saw. ‘Bassi generally passed the judgement on all Don Giovannis whom he and I saw performing’, his friend Count Hohenthal recalled a few years afte…

E-book The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the Hi…

From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-winning author Cliff Pickover (The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important thinkers and ideas in the history of science. This unique omnibus edition includes 250 thoughtfu…

E-book Under Construction : Performing Critical Identity

At the turn of the 2020s, identity seems to remain an omnipresent and somewhatunseizable term, serving different views in and outside academia, in politics,in everyday talk, in intellectual and popular jargon, as well as in the arts. While,currently, identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend tosimplify and reduce life experience to simple factors globally …

E-book Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications : 1…

The effects of neurodegenerative diseases on speech are well known. Phonation, articulation, prosody and fluency are speech characteristics strongly affected by Parkinson’s Disease (PD) [1]. On the other hand, it is also well known that neuroacustical stimulation based on binaural beats may modify the brain activity measured in the cortex by…

E-book Verdi in Victorian London

Giuseppe Verdi’s first success was Nabucco, given in Milan on 9 March 1842. Although this was Verdi’s third opera,1 the composer referred to it as the first milestone in what would become a life-long, successful career. “With Nabucco,” he declared to Count Opprandino Arrivabeneyears later, “my career can be said to have begun.”2 However, when Verdi made his f…

E-book Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Ryme is found in verbal arts throughout the world. In the appendix tothis introduction, we offer a partial list of languages whose associated verbal arts sometimes have rhyme.Rhyme is most commonly found in texts which are poems, including sung poems (songs). Poems are dened as texts which are divided into lines, where lines are a sectioning imposed on the oral or written …