Product Description: In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music...read more

Product Description: An essential guide for mastering failure in order to achieve your goalsSuccess is often just a moment—a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious person's constant companion, often dogging us for months, years or even decades before we finally reach our aim...read more

Product Description: With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of Four, and Devo, postpunk achieved new relevance in the first decade of the twenty-first century through its profound influence on bands such as Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, and Vampire Weekend...read more

Product Description: British artist Phil Collins (b. 1970) uses films, photographs and installations to explore the mediating power of culture and possibilities of personal expression in areas that are facing political conflict and change around the world, such as Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq, and Northern Ireland...read more

Product Description: This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organizations implement policies and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring. The third edition includes an introductory chapter which demonstrates on a theoretical and practical level a number of reasons why individuals and groups of people fail to learn from disasters in the first place...read more

A music journalist and author of Generation Ecstasy explores the inventive and innovative music created in the years following the heyday of punk, looking at the contributions of Talking Heads, Devo, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and others to the evolution of modern music. Original.

Product Description: What could possibly be better than chocolate? How about good health, self-acceptance, loving relationships, freedom from fear and guilt, and a clear sense of purpose in life? In BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE, happy guy Siimon Reynolds offers 50 bites of delightful wisdom that are guaranteed to boost your mood instead of your blood sugar...read more

A look at the geographic, political, economic, and social aspects of the Netherlands. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Published to accompany an important exhibition, this richly illustrated volume outlines the link between the Pre-Raphaelite artists in Britain and the Expressionists on the Continent. It focuses on the crucial contribution made by artists in Germany to the European Symbolist movement as a whole, providing for the first time a much-needed comparison to developments in England and other countries worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Designed for gift-giving, an attractive collection of quotations gathers the investment guru's brightest, wittiest, and most insightful observations on achieving success, culled from speeches, writings, and interviews. (view table of contents)

Amazon.com Review: The Sex Revolts is a book for those who don't just love rock music, but who also love to think about it. The book's subtitle, "Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll" might seem to presage solemn windiness. Yet the book is trenchantly written, well-researched (complete with footnotes and a helpful bibliography) and covers a very wide array of musicians...read more

Product Description: '...a relentless analysis of the way that things go wrong.' The Times Educational Supplement This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organisations implement policies, systems and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring...read more

Product Description: Mixing analysis with interviews, this study of rock music celebrates the "underground" music that has challenged consensual notions of what makes rock "legitimate". Topics discussed include the rise of feminine consciousness in rock and the continuing allure of apocalyptic heavy metal...read more