229 results for '"ABEL,A"'

What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school but do we really understand what we are seeing in the night sky? Expert astronomers Chris North and Paul Abel, provide a...

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of André Bazin. Richard Abel...

Former London detective Jake Jackson--introduced in the acclaimed mystery Death Under a Little Sky--finds his new life in the country threatened by an old case from the past in this absorbing mystery...

A Library Journal Best Book of 2015Go behind the scenes of seven of today’s most popular narrative radio shows and podcasts, including This American Life and RadioLab, in graphic narrative. Every...

"Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children while her husband pursues his music career in New York City, she's frustrated, bored, and above all, lonely when she runs into Demeter, a...

"Jordan Abel’s extraordinary new book and debut work of fiction, Empty Spaces, grows out of his groundbreaking visual expression in NISHGA. That book integrated descriptions of the landscape from...

A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen--the first bullet train,...

This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema—both movies and movie-going—in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the...

A new course of material to accompany First Second's widely acclaimed 2008 comics textbook.In their hotly anticipated follow-up to 2008's comics textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, School of...

A kaleidoscopic memoir by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara, director of the cult classic filmsBadLieutenant,King of New York, and Dangerous Game, offering an unflinching look at his life, career, and...

"An A to Z collection of roughly 130 entries on all things shark"--

"A marvelously illustrated look at the life of the shark. No two species of shark have the same life history, yet these magnificent creatures share many things in common. This one-of-a-kind narrative...

Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant...

For courses in Intermediate Macroeconomics. A Unified Approach to Economic Theory Demonstrating a balanced treatment of both classical and Keynesian economics, Macroecomomics presents macroeconomic...

How remittances—money sent by workers back to their home countries—support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration...

A richly illustrated and comprehensive introduction to the world’s sharks. Sharks are the top predators in many marine ecosystems. But tales of the killer instincts and fearsomely sharp senses of...