Rob: 2367 books

Indexing and information retrieval work properly only if language and interpretation are shared by creator and user. This is more complex for non-verbal media. The authors of Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works explore these challenges against a background of different theories of language and...

For ex Philly cop, PI Brad Lovett, the three-month-old savage killing and castration of televangelist Phil Calhoun symbolised a cold case. Until one sweltering Florida evening, when the preacher’s body parts turned up at the crime scene of ritualistically murdered photographer Michael Andre. A...

When Pl Brad Lovett receives a cell phone video from reporter and close friend Paul Fabre, celebrating a birthday in Pinky's, a New York nightclub, he couldn't know, a week later Paul would be found dead of a massive heroin overdose. And that two other revellers on the video would also soon be dead,...

Recently fired London crime reporter Harry Kinsella is writing his long promised book. Battling alcohol and prescription drug dependency, Harry's hoped for redemption is halted when a plaster cast of a murder victim's head turns up in a London hotel room. The grisly modus operandi a mirror...

The ultimate shopping guide for the stylish Angeleno life. INCLUDES Clothing for men and women Furniture and housewares Vintage/antique Many more things you never knew you just had to have With over 200 listings, The Serious Shopping Guide: Los Angeles is the ultimate hands-on manual...

Delicious Gifts celebrates the best, beautifully styled, handcrafted food gifts for all occasions, direct from Rob and Amber Kirby's family kitchen. Eighty delectable recipes are accompanied by stunning photography by Lara Holmes, along with inspiration, guidance and ideas for how best to wrap and...

`It is well written and well organised and I'm sure it will be of help and interest to researchers and practitioners concerned with the therapeutic action of psychodynamic treatment' - Penelope Waite, Nurturing Potential Change is the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy, but...

Sometimes happiness is right there for the taking and other times it is elusive and slips out of our grasp. Whether we realize it or not we are all on a journey to attain happiness in this life. Some journeys may take longer than others; some may lead to dead-ends while others lead to happiness very...

Do you struggle with feeling like an impostor in your own leadership? Do you carry a secret anxiety about being revealed as a fraud?   We all long to belong, especially those in positions of leadership. But deeply rooted shame can keep leaders from connecting authentically and vulnerably. Reverend...

An in-depth study dispelling the myths and misinformation about wolf reintroduction in Idaho and exposes the problems of the Endangered Species Act. In the 1990s, Canadian grey wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park as well as the Idaho backcountry by the US Fish and Wildlife...

The poems included in this volume are drawn from Rob Halpern's four collections and two chapbooks-Common Place, Disaster Suites, Imaginary Politics, Music for Porn, Rumored Place, and Weak Link-one long writing project for which [ –--–– ] stands here in lieu of a proper title. The writing collected...

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think...

The Orus system’s Orussians had found a brilliant way to harness the power of labor by engineering ant-monkeys, a hard-working and unswervingly loyal slave species—until the uprising. Having further manipulated the genes of her own male ant-monkey, Inoatar, and granting him free will, bioscientist...

The Copyright Wars, started by a quantum-blockchain-heist, have ended with the creation of the dangerous Debrisphere, so has the age of communication, as has the age of both conventional and cryptocurrency. In the post-war world where printing-base is the new currency, a young forensic scientist...