A survey of the life and architecture of the railway station and its evolution. It provides an account of the social and political context of stations over the last 150 years and examines the background of some of the world's major stations and the history of their structure.
Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In 1990s New York, Clarissa Vaughan goes shopping for flowers for a party for her AIDS-suffering poet-friend. This novel meditates on artistic behaviour, love and madness.
This book provides seeker small group leaders with 1,001 seeker-friendly icebreaker questions to start and sustain meaningful interaction in their groups.
A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature.
Stephen Shore is one of the photographers who established colour photography as a legitimate medium of artistic expression. 'American Surfaces' is one of the bodies of work which exemplifies why.
English is full of contradictions and peculiarities and hoodwinks us into believing one thing while meaning something quite different. This hilarious text sorts the homonyms from the heteronyms and introduces the 'antigram'. It highlights a few of life's petty pleonasms and tautologies.
The explosion at the start of this book ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an investigation of another man's life.
An old man sits in a room with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Then, a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is he? What is he doing here? Only time will tell us all.
Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you...
With guidance covering the various aspects of nude photography, including approaching and interacting with models, planning locations and exploring photographic styles, this book showcases some of the author's most commanding black and white work - and some colour work too. It gives a glimpse behind the scenes of his photo shoots.
Health has been a continuing concern of man and the world is now recognizing the holistic principles of traditional medical systems. Ayurveda encompasses the entire corpus of Indian medical wisdom. Ayurveda is the science and art of good living. It is as much a worldview as practical discipline. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine presents details from core texts in Sanskrit, Hindi, Kannada, Telgu and Tamil culled from forgotten and little known manuscript and journals. It thus includes...
Continuarea romanului Prima ziDragostea este aventura suprema. Dar ea nu este lipsita de pericole. Adrian este distrus, fiind convins ca a pierdut-o pe Keira pentru totdeauna. Destinul a salvat-o, se pare, iar ei se vor reintalni, la fel de pasionati de meseria lor si la fel de indragostiti precum in Prima zi, pentru a-si continua aventura cunoasterii. El este astrofizician, specialist in stele extrasolare si vrea sa afle cum s-a nascut Universul. Ea - arheolog si cauta urmele primului om pe...