Product Description: Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as presented in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and scientific thought and art: man constructing himself as subject in classical antiquity and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity shows how today's environmental and ecological concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society.

Product Description: When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story. With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad range of source materials, periods and places...read more

Product Description: Dave Brubeck is a worldwide musical legend. Brubeck, working closely with his protegé John Salmon, has written a volume of newly-composed works for the jazz piano world. Get ready for a real musical treat! Titles: All My Love * As the Moon Is to the Sun * Crescent City Stomp * Day After Day * Happy New Year * Her Name Is Nancy * I Love Vienna * Mariel * Regret * Snow Falling from the Sky * So Lonely * A Song for Bessie * Themes from ""Elementals"" * Waltzing...read more

Product Description: More than 250 years passed from the founding of the first English colony in the New World at Jamestown in Virginia until the beginning of the American Civil War, and nearly a century and a half more has passed since the Civil War ended...read more

Product Description: After the failed Battle of the Crater in July 1864, in which Union forces burrowed a charge under Confederate lines to blow a hole in the defenses of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of the Potomac under Lieutenant General Ulysses S...read more

Product Description: This is a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated record of London's inter-war church-building activity. It shows the rich variety of Anglican churches erected for the capital's expanding population, some of them by famous and distinguished architects such as N...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive anthology of Dave Brubeck's serious piano works is a must for every Brubeck fan. These dynamic works for the early advanced to advanced player are enveloped within boundaries of romanticism yet remain cutting-edge...read more

Product Description: The seven pieces in this volume are excerpted from two ballet suites composed by Dave Brubeck. "Struttin'" and "Doing the Charleston" are from the four-movement set Glances. Also included are five selections from Points on Jazz: Prelude * Scherzo * Rag * Waltz * A la Turk...read more

Specific issues consideredThe Insecure Workforceinclude: * labor markets and the growth of insecure work * the management of insecure work * trade unions and the representation of insecure workers * job insecurity and personal well-being * insecurity and consumption * insecurity and political behavior. This book will be of interest to students and academics working within the disciplines of management, industrial relations, sociology and economics, who are concerned with employment and labor market change.

Product Description: Presents an overview of contemporary British advertising and its rise to world-class status through the eyes of Collett Dickenson Pearce, a ground-breaking agency, which introduced concept-based advertising to the British in the early 1960s.

This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made significant contributions to classical economies. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the period.

Product Description: Supercomputing research--the goal of which is to make computers that are ever faster and more powerful--has been at the cutting edge of computer technology since the early 1960s. Until recently, research cost in the millions of dollars, and many of the companies that originally made supercomputers are now out of business...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The colour photographs in this book - more than 1,500 of them - constitute the finest and most comprehensive record of the native trees of New Zealand ever achieved. Never before has such a detailed coverage in photographs been assembled in book from...read more