Iain: 509 books
Telling Tails
From Hopeless Hounds to Tyrannical Tortoises: Animal Letters to The Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
SIR – Our dog Ben has savaged all electioneering material pushed through our letterbox, with the exception of any communication from the Conservative Party. My son even tried reposting the same flyer, but still no mauling from Ben. Are we to conclude that our dog swings to the right?
SIR –...
by Iain Levison
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Una laurea in letteratura inglese diventa un biglietto di sola andata per il precariato. In quest’autobiografia Levison racconta 10 anni di lavori e lavoretti, alcuni in condizioni brutali, per i quali i suoi studi sono sempre stati inutili. Dal Colorado all’Alaska, attraverso un mare di annunci...
by Iain Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Do bad people look like good people, like friends and brothers and boyfriends and students, until they have their hands around your throat? All of these men standing around me, drinks in hand, backs to this screen… smiling, laughing, flirting, and they look harmless. But any one of them could be...
The Dissertation
A Guide for Architecture Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course. This classic text provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and what the major pitfalls are.
This is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture...
Understanding Art Markets
Inside the world of art and business
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The global art market has recently been valued at close to $50bn - a rise of over 60% since the global financial crisis. These figures are driven by demand from China and other emerging markets, as well as the growing phenomenon of the artist bypassing dealers as a market force in his/her own right.
This...
Hybrid Practices in Moving Image Design
Methods of Heritage and Digital Production in Motion Graphics
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book, written from the perspective of a designer and educator, brings to the attention of media historians, fellow practitioners and students the innovative practices of leading moving image designers. Moving image design, whether viewed as television and movie title sequences, movie visual...
The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its...
by Iain Maitland
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This practical guide for succeeding in aptitude tests, which are increasingly being used to test applicants for jobs and academic courses, offers general information (benefits, drawbacks, use of tests) in addition to many examples of themed tests with recommended answers and explanations. This practical...
Ways of Attending
How our Divided Brain Constructs the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.
Forget...
The Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant Cookbook
Recipes & Tales from a Classic American Restaurant
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
“A big, handsome book full of wonderful photographs, nostalgic tales and enticing recipes—some dating back to the restaurant’s opening 100 years ago.” —The Miami Herald
Situated in midtown Manhattan’s beautiful, bustling train station, Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant stands...
by Lee B. Smith, Rod T. Mitchell, Iain J. McEwan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This volume provides a brief résumé of the history of testosterone research, from the early pioneers through to the most recent advances in the field. We discover how steroid hormones were first identified and how testosterone was shown to be essential for male development. Moving forward we explore...
by Sir Iain Chalmers, Robert Herbert, BAppSc
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Evidence-based practice has become a central part of physiotherapy today, but it is still an area which is constantly expanding and being updated. Written by an international team of experts, this second edition continues to outline the basic definitions of evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning,...
Lifeline
A British Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
On March 21, 1918, the 29th and 3rd Casualty Clearing Stations RAMC were encamped at Grévillers, just behind the front line, when Germany launched its final, massive offensive. These Field Hospitals were the lifeline to the rear for the unabated deluge of wounded which soon overwhelmed both units....
New Media
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken...