Product Description: "If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times." --Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum"Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it...read more

Product Description: Fully updated for the latest version of software, Kelley’s Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Instructor remains organized around step-by-step tutorials — the most effective way to teach and learn this procedure-intensive CAD application...read more

Product Description: Gerard Mace's work challenges the barriers between poetry and the essay. This play between and within genres is essential to his writing-which has been called essai merveilleux-and derives from a questioning of language in its broadest sense...read more

Product Description: In this newly revised edition, David Kelley asks: What is the nature of benevolence toward other people? How does it differ from altruism? How does it relate to the benevolent sense of life? David Kelley answers these questions in a groundbreaking work...read more

Product Description: In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ayn Rand's philosophical novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged made her the most controversial author of her age. Her works have drawn millions of readers and continue to sell at a breathtaking pace. Their impact on American culture runs from libertarian politics to the self-esteem movement in psychology to the rugged individualism of Silicon Valley and the Internet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Savannah's distinct architecture has been studied and admired by scholars, builders, and tourists from all over the world, and the history of its most prolific period of expansion and development is explored in this photographic essay...read more

Product Description: The American television series "Ally McBeal" is an aggressively female chronicle of an emotionally overcharged modern woman and her quest for love, happiness and career fulfilment. This guide to the series includes photographs of the cast and set, and material from the show and its creators...read more

Product Description: The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to support it today. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An inviting alternative to traditional texts in introductory logic, The Art of Reasoning is widely acclaimed for its conversational tone and accessible exposition of rigorous logical concepts.The Third Edition has been meticulously updated and continues the successful pedagogical approach of the two previous editions, guiding students through the fundamental elements of formal deductive logic, classification and definition, fallacies, basic argument analysis, inductive generalization, statistical reasoning, and explanation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of forty-four readings enables students to hone their reasoning skills by engaging fully developed arguments from across the disciplines.Selections are organized around ten broad themes, including education, science, abortion, the causes of crimes, and the existence of God...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: French-English bilingual edition. One of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry is a rigorously ontological poetry, concerned with the very being of things, and with the nature of poetic language itself...read more

Product Description: Tardieu's poetry has an almost childlike simplicity, and in France his work is studied both in universities and schools. He addresses problems of experience and language central to modern literature, bringing lively wit and humor to bear upon an anguished interrogation of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines how the modern city is portrayed in art and literature, discusses modernism, futurism, and expressionism, and looks at the work of Rilke, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Brecht