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Holst: The Planets
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 26.00The first comprehensive guide to Holst's orchestral suite considers the music in detail and places the work in its historical context. more...
Graham Greene
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 24.95There have been a number of Graham Greene biographies, but none has captured his voice, his loves, hates, family and friends?intimate and writerly?or his deep understanding of the world, like this astonishing collection of letters. Graham Greene is one of the few modern novelists who can be called great. In the course of his long and eventful life... more...
Edith Sitwell
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; Not AvailableBorn into a privileged family of eccentrics, Edith Sitwell set out during the years of the Great War to create a life in the arts. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein, she ran an unlikely London literary salon that attracted most of the great writers and artists of the day. Her quips and anecdotes grew legendary,... more...
Edith Sitwell
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 26.90Born into a privileged family of eccentrics, Edith Sitwell set out during the years of the Great War to create a life in the arts. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein, she ran an unlikely London literary salon that attracted most of the great writers and artists of the day. Her quips and anecdotes grew legendary,... more...
Boardwalk Empire and Philosophy
Open Court 2013;From Machiavellian city officials to big time mobsters (such as Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, and Al Capone) to corrupt beat cops to overzealous G-men to suffragettes to abolitionists to innocent citizens caught in the crossfire, Boardwalk Empire is replete with philosophically compelling characters who find themselves in philosophically interesting... more...
Mainstreaming Retardation Delinquency
R&L Education 1990; US$ 27.99This collection of papers presents ideas and research that helps to find a link between the retarded child's educational setting and the onset of delinquency. The first section presents the impacts of the judicial system on the mentally retarded offender, and researcher attempts to find a relationship between intelligence and delinquency. more...
Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities
Wiley 2005; US$ 185.00The Second Edition of the Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities provides chemists, technicians, and engineers with a thorough, lightening-quick resource to use during experimental preparation and in the event of an emergency. Includes: Hard-to-find data on over 11,000 chemical compounds 2,000 more chemical listings than the First Edition Alphabetical... more...
Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities
Wiley 2009; US$ 202.95"This book should be a required reference on the laboratory's safety shelf as no where else is so much useful information available in a single volume." ? Inside Laboratory Management , on the Second Edition "...a portable reference on reactive substances to guide all personnel...in charge of the handling, storage, and transportation of chemical materials."... more...
Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy
Open Court 2010; US$ 19.95Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead , zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory... more...
Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy
Open Court 2007; US$ 17.95The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in ... more...









