Ellis: 2610 books

Three timeless icons of Modernity The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer 1925, The Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1929 and The Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen 1958. This book explores the reasons why these designers were so popular and looks at the effect of Wars on technology and the rise of...

Modern technical drawing a handbook describing in detail the preparation of working drawings, with special attention to oblique and circle-on-circle work, orthographic, isometric, and oblique projections, practical perspective, freehand drawing and "setting-out"; also various styles of lettering by George Ellis. ... Illustrated by nearly 300 examples.

“Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness.” --from the Introduction by Alan L. Ellis Today, that literary blindness...

Leaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny travel through rows of vibrantly colored Greek revival and Creole-style homes. For decades, this stunning architectural display marked an entry into a more authentic...

In this new edition, British resident of Sri Lanka for over 33 years, Royston Ellis, explores the incredible diversity that Sri Lanka has to offer now the entire country is open to visitors, in an easy-to-read narrative packed with entertaining comments and sound advice, based on personal experience.

The origin of these Studies dates from many years back. As a youth I was faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many things. A resolve...

This vintage text contains Havelock Ellis's seminal treatise on the psychology of sex. This fascinating book deals with the importance of the sexual impulse in the human condition, and tackles subjects such as marriage, biology, deviation, and more. The 'Psychology of Sex' will appeal to students...

This is a short tale of a young man from England, qualified as a teacher, who goes to Kanga Creek in Australia to teach at a small school there. The young teacher has never experienced anything like the Australian frontier, but he manages to become accustomed to his surroundings, and even begins to like some aspects of it. And he meets a few girls, but is very shy…

Sexual inversion, as here understood, means sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex. It is thus a narrower term than homosexuality, which includes all sexual attractions between persons of the same sex, even when seemingly due to the accidental absence...

Studies In The Psychology Of Sex, Volume 1 (Of 6) by Havelock Ellis.

The Criminal Justice Act (1998) brought about significant changes to the Youth Justice System. It aimed to ‘nip offending in the bud’ by addressing the offending behaviour in order to prevent reoffending. Youth Offending Teams were to be established and new Orders were to be followed. This...

This book traces a deep misunderstanding about the relation of concepts and reality in the history of philosophy. It exposes the influence of the mistake in the thought of Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Nietzche and Bradley, and suggests that the solution can be found in Hegelian thought. Ellis argues that...

Includes the original poem “The Dash.” I read of a man who stood to speakAt the funeral of a friendHe referred to the dates on her tombstoneFrom the beginning to the end He noted that first came the date of her birthAnd spoke the following date with tears,But he said what mattered most of allWas...

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.Edited by Hugo Award-nominated editor Sigrid Ellis.TABLE OF CONTENTSFICTION:Anthracite...