For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in \"blockbuster\" exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswered question stands out: \"What makes a great exhibition?\" Some of the world\'s leading curators and art historians try to answer this question here, as

Fluid mechanics embraces engineering, science, and medicine. This book\'s logical organization begins with an introductory chapter summarizing the history of fluid mechanics and then moves on to the essential mathematics and physics needed to understand and work in fluid mechanics. Analytical treatments are based on the Navier-Stokes equations. The book also fully addresses the numerical and experimental

This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill\'s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world\'s bestselling author. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha\'s favorite

An unexplained evil is unleashed on a quiet town buried in the mountains of Tennessee. A group of young friends come face to face with something they never expected. As they accidentally unleash this evil on their town, each is forced to fight for their own survival. As they try to find answers, they seek help from the pastor of the quaint little church in their town. After initially rejecting their

The gripping, twisty new psychological thriller from LITTLE SISTER author Isabel

\" An Advent story for everyone who loves Christmas.\" It\'s December and Alva is having fun getting ready for Christmas with her family. But one thing is making her sad. How come Santa never gets any presents when he gives away so many? Alva sets about knitting him a scarf and, in return, Santa makes sure that Alva\'s present is extra special. Key Sale Points A beautifully illustrated look and find

This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at \'The Beginning\' and concluding with \'The End\', chapters range from the familiar, such as \'Character\', \'Narrative\' and \'The Author\', to the more unusual, such as \'Secrets\', \'Pleasure\' and \'Ghosts\'. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royle\'s

At the beginning of 1941, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The Battle of the Atlantic was in full swing. Hitler\'s U-boats were operating in packs, descending on convoys and sinking many millions of tons of shipping. In May, the formidable German battleship Bismarck left port, heading out into the North Atlantic. After sinking the battlecruiser HMS Hood off Iceland, she was eventually

Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that has been carried out by social and personality psychologists.Davis\' approach is explicitly multidimensional. He draws careful distinctions between situational

A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon, the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the whole

Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous

Audrey Hepburn\'s status as a global style icon owes as much to her endless assortment of fabulous headwear as it does to her body of film work. Hepburn and her hats were a match made in heaven and for decades she not only graced the silver screen but the cover of every glossy magazine throughout the world, rarely captured without her signature accessory. Hepburn starred in many great films including

Modern software places increasing reliance on dynamic memory allocation, but its direct management is not only notoriously error--prone. Garbage collection eliminates many of these bugs. This reference presents each of the most important algorithms in detail, often with illustrations of its characteristic features and animations of its

In What A Time To Be Alone, The Slumflower will be your life guru, confidante and best friend. She\'ll show you that being alone is not just okay: it\'s just about the best freaking thing that\'s ever happened to you. As she says, \'You\'re bad as hell and you were made with intention.\' It\'s about time you realized. Peppered with insightful Igbo proverbs from Chidera\'s Nigerian mother and full of

&i>Sunday Times&/i> bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first

Target: Toxic WasteFlying to Northern Canada to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste, the Alpha Force team must dive into an icy river, cross the harsh landscape on snowmobiles and test their caving skills to complete their

Surveys reveal that most corporations devote considerable resources to risk management. However, while the multiple benefits of enterprise risk management (ERM) are evident, many executives remain unsure how to approach it. Written by two experts on the topic, Empowered Enterprise Risk Management offers organisations a set of tools for implementing the proven holistic risk management practices that

The Breakfast Club meets Stranger Things in this thrilling science fiction story about teens from the past and the future who travel across the astral plane to save the ones they