Architectural Record - June 2010Architectural Record is your in-depth guide to contemporary architectural design, practice and technology. Each issue offers detailed perspectives of the most interesting projects from around the world. In addition, comprehensive coverage of noteworthy new products and technology will keep you both informed and inspired.
The passion, the glory, the World Cup! Featuring details for all the qualified teams and their stars, as well as exploring the competition's epic history, grittiest scandals and greatest moments, this 132-page collectable guide is a must-have companion for any passionate football fan! The MagBook also features dedicated pages for each national team, including details of World Cup chants, mascots, legends, official tournament footballs and classic shirts.
World Literature and Its Times, Volume 3: British and Irish Literature and Their Times - Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill
World Literature and Its Times helps students and researchers make connections between political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. Each volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from a particular country and region, representing approximately 50 works.
Volume 3 covers British and Irish Literature from Beginnings to 1830s.
Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, Vol. 1, 2, 3, A - Z, Index
In order to address today's global environmental challenges, it is important to understand them within the context of humankind's influences on its environment throughout the ages. The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History provides much needed explanation of urgent social and environmental issues - from urbanization to water shortages, climate change to the extinction of species - in articles replete with the stories of human and natural history.
Perdido Street Station is the second published novel by China Miéville, and the first in a series that is set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, a world where both magic (referred to as 'thaumaturgy') and steampunk technology exist. Perdido Street Station is set in Bas-Lag's large city-state of New Crobuzon.
The novel was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel and Hugo Award for Best Novel. It won the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award in 2000, the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2001, the Premio Ignotus Award in 2002, and the Kurd Laßwitz Award in 2003
