Product Description: What could possibly be better than chocolate? How about good health, self-acceptance, loving relationships, freedom from fear and guilt, and a clear sense of purpose in life. In BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE, happy guy Siimon Reynolds offers 50 bites of advice guaranteed to boost one’s mood instead of one’s blood sugar. From...read more

Product Description: Mixing analysis with interviews, this study of rock music celebrates the "underground" music that has challenged consensual notions of what makes rock "legitimate". Topics discussed include the rise of feminine consciousness in rock and the continuing allure of apocalyptic heavy metal...read more

Product Description: In the early nineties, rave culture exploded with the availability of cheap computers and sampling technology, causing a punk-style do-it-yourself revolution. The resulting upsurge of independent labels and home studio-based artists spawned a legion of subgenres: hardcore, trance, jungle, ambient, gabba, big beat, and many more...read more

Product Description: Published to accompany an important exhibition, this richly illustrated volume outlines the link between the Pre-Raphaelite artists in Britain and the Expressionists on the Continent. It focuses on the important contribution made by artists in Germany to the European Symbolist movement as a whole, providing for the first time a much-needed comparison to developments in England and other countries worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: '...a relentless analysis of the way that things go wrong.' The Times Educational Supplement This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organisations implement policies, systems and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring...read more

Product Description: This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organizations implement policies and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring. The third edition includes an introductory chapter which demonstrates on a theoretical and practical level a number of reasons why individuals and groups of people fail to learn from disasters in the first place...read more

Product Description: British artist Phil Collins (b. 1970) uses films, photographs and installations to explore the mediating power of culture and possibilities of personal expression in areas that are facing political conflict and change around the world, such as Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq, and Northern Ireland...read more

A music journalist and author of Generation Ecstasy explores the inventive and innovative music created in the years following the heyday of punk, looking at the contributions of Talking Heads, Devo, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and others to the evolution of modern music. Original.

Product Description: Iggy Pop once said of women: "However close they come I'll always pull the rug from under them. That's where my music is made." For so long, rock 'n' roll has been fueled by this fear and loathing of the feminine. The first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts captures the paradox at rock's dark heart--the music is often most thrilling when it is most misogynist and macho...read more

Designed for gift-giving, an attractive collection of quotations gathers the investment guru's brightest, wittiest, and most insightful observations on achieving success, culled from speeches, writings, and interviews. (view table of contents)

A look at the geographic, political, economic, and social aspects of the Netherlands. (view table of contents)