Marcus\'s Rolling Stone piece on Dylan\'s album Self Portrait - often referred to as the most famous record review ever written - began with \'What is this shit?\' and led to his departure from the magazine for five

Straightforward strategies for achieving sustainable practices and business success in the modern organization In Clean: Lessons from Ecolab\'s Century of Positive Impact, a team of veteran sustainability experts delivers a practical toolkit for creating a forward-looking and sustainability-focused business. From Ecolab\'s origins in sustainability 100 years ago to its ambitious 2030 environment and

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

It includes selections from the 1830, 1832, and 1842 volumes, together with songs from The Princess and In Memoriam; complete poems from the middle period, including Maud, Enoch Arden, and nine Idylls of the King, including the Dedication; and a generous offering from the late period, 1872-92. The authoritative texts are based on the Cambridge Tennyson; additional selections have been taken from Sir

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,

We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. We\'ve all heard the statistics: animal agriculture is responsible for at least 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions; we need to drop our meat consumption by 50 percent simply to feed the world\'s estimated 10 billion people in 2050; a full third of the Earth\'s arable land is devoted to growing

A stunning biography of history\'s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in his hands. He created the greatest of barbarian forces, and his empire briefly rivaled Rome\'s. In numerous raids and three major campaigns against the Roman Empire, he earned himself an instant and undying

Gliding is for everyone who has ever dreamt of riding the air currents with the view stretching to the horizon, and with barely a sound to disturb the moment. Written by an experienced instructor, this book guides you through the first steps to realizing that dream, and goes on to explore the many opportunities offered by this compelling and existing sport. Gliding is for everyone who has ever dreamt

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

16 Key Verses.1 Overarching Story. This book highlights 16 key Bible verses that stand as \"turning points\" in the biblical storyline--enabling us to see God\'s incredible plan to redeem his people and glorify his name from Genesis to Revelation. Whether it\'s exploring the creation of humanity, the establishment of the covenants, or the coming of the Messiah, this book will help Christians see how

Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Ch vez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Ch vez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country\'s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Ch vez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during

Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies, Sean Braune harvests the language that surrounds us-pieces and shards from other writers, conversations, and popular media-reassembling textual fragments into poetic sculptures. Blending together conceptual writing and lyric poetry, Braune locates beauty

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However, on the death of her parents, she undertook an extraordinary decision: with no prior knowledge of the region, she set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological

Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin\'s lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic

The second title in LDA\'s new series of practical books for primary school teachers to support children with special educational needs. This book addresses six different aspects of difficult

This Element addresses the viability of categoricity arguments in philosophy by focusing with some care on the specific conclusions that a sampling of prominent figures have attempted to draw - the same theorem might successfully support one such conclusion while failing to support another. It begins with Dedekind, Zermelo, and Kreisel, casting doubt on received readings of the latter two and highlighting

Sports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism, has covered the NBA for the much of its existence, documenting its expansion from fledgeling league to global force. Curated by editor and bestselling author Chris Ballard, this anthology features the best hoops writing from theSI archives along with new postscripts from nationally renowned basketball journalists including Jackie McMullan,

Book refers to the new omics area: MetallomicsThis book will show the importance of further investigation about metals and their interactions with biomoleculesMetallomics is a transdisiciplinary area. As a result this book is of use to everyone from undergrads to experts in the

Purity\'s stories take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has a breakdown on a bus; a fugitive gains insight from a color wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief proclaims his innocence. And cleaners reluctantly clean up.With weight as well as humor, people are depicted as fallen, in

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