\"Eames: Beautiful Details\" celebrates the seamlessness and fluidity in which Charles and Ray Eames operated as both a husband and wife team and as designers unrestricted by traditionally professional boundaries. Select details of their life and work, from their refined designs to their innovative experiments, and even including images depicting the everyday poetic moments of their lives, and are

The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both the complex temporality of theater and the historical persistence of race, they identify and pursue critical alternatives to the conceptualization,

In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people\'s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana\'s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of

A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events. The book offers a systematic guide to organising successful events, examining areas such as event design, logistics, marketing, human resource management,

Kidnapped OR RescuedOpportunity OR TrapLies OR TruthLove OR LustStay OR GoVictoria\'s captives refused to talk face to face and only communicated with a grey notebook passed through the wall. She was treated better than she had been her entire life, and Victoria needed that more than anyone could know. Would she be able to trust enough to take this opportunity and continue this lavish life or chose

Readers will find their peace, understand their purpose, and manifest the life of their dreams with this beautifully illustrated guidebook for dreamers and seekers. The universe is filled with positive energy, and this book will help readers claim it. Through insightful lessons, mindful meditations, and intriguing exercises, readers will learn how to align body, mind, and spirit with the natural

A debut thriller about the subtlety of memory and manipulation, in which a young woman must find her way back to a New England cabin, armed with only hazy, haunting memories and a half-written book by the father in Guatemala she never knew, to finally uncover the truth that could save her. Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic

This book is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire. It reflects on how the Soviet Union was home to many ethnic minorities, and how their fates, and that of the USSR itself, were bound to the question of how the Soviet state responded variously throughout its existence to the fundamental question of ethnic difference across its

Bumper book of all types of fun puzzles to stretch the mind and keep you occupied when the relatives

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as \"genius,\" comes a \"wild, and exhilarating\" (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare\'s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her--but at what cost?Miranda Fitch\'s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain,

\"After years of walking around with a heavy heart and a longing for something sacred, Amber, a woman in her twenties, living in a big city, gets initiated in the path of the Shaman. With no clue of what she was getting herself into, she undergoes powerful andean rituals, awakens her psychic and mediumship abilities, and discovers that her mission here on Earth is far greater than she could\'ve ever

The Laugavegur is one of the big walks. It is the most famous trek in Iceland and crosses other worldly landscapes formed by recent volcanos. I did it from north to south and it runs over 80km from Landmannalauger via Thorsmork to Skogar on the coast. The trail is normally open from late June to mid-August. I started on the 15 June, the first day the bus ran to Landmannalaugar. I hadn\'t booked the

From the fiery kimchi of Korea to American dill spears; from the spicy achar of India to the ceviche of Latin America; from Europe\'s sauerkraut to brined herrings and chutneys, pickles are unquestionably a global food. They are also of the moment. Growing interest in naturally fermented vegetables--pickles by another name--means that today, in the early twenty-first century, we are seeing a renaissance

A beautiful book retelling the movie story of Snow White, accompanied by original concept art and sketches from classic Disney

The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America\'s most beloved

Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world\'s most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces. This book tells the full, fascinating story of the regiment, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa during World War II to present action in the Middle East, and incorporates jungle, desert and urban warfare, counter-terrorism and an

The pre-publication version of Translating New York was awarded the 2017 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for the best unpublished book-length manuscript on modern language literature. The cultural production of Spanish-speaking New York is closely linked to the Caribbean and to Latin America at large, but the city also plays a pivotal role in the work of a host of authors from the

Presents the history of the Exploded Planet hypothesis. Rejecting naturalist and materialist assumptions of catastrophism forwarded by other researchers, this work asserts that the causes are based in ancient myths of a Cosmic War in the

Clover Press and The Library of American Comics prove that size does matter as we fulfill fans\' long-standing requests to produce new editions of the first six volumes of Chester Gould\'s The Complete Dick Tracy. This is no simple reprinting - these volumes have been reformatted to be the same larger size as Volumes 7 through 29. In this premiere offering, we return again to those hardscrabble days