Product Description: Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals―intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day...read more

Product Description: This gorgeous artist's book project documents the eponymouscollaborative exhibition between Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins atDavid Kordansky Gallery in 2011. Brian Roettinger s book design is atrue highlight the unique smyth-sewn volume has eight page-foldedsignatures showing detail shots on the external pages, with a perforatedfinishtop and a flush-cut open bottom that reveals full images of worksand installation views in shades of lime green, chartreuse and shockingpurple...read more

Product Description: Accompanying an exhibition at the Hammer Museum, this book is devoted to one of the museum's most important paintings: Gustave Moreau's Salome Dancing before Herod. The art of Gustave Moreau stands apart from that of his Realist and Impressionist contemporaries in 19th-century France, because of the mystical and enigmatic quality of his paintings of biblical and mythological subjects...read more

Product Description: The Hawaiian pineapple industry emerged in the late nineteenth century as part of an attempt to diversify the Hawaiian economy from dependence on sugar cane as its only staple industry. Here, economic historian Richard Hawkins presents a definitive history of an industry from its modest beginnings to its emergence as a major contributor to the American industrial narrative...read more

Product Description: Designing School Systems for All Students provides a clear methodology for school leaders, teachers, and school board members to follow as they redesign their schools for the benefit of students. The authors demonstrate how school leaders set the expectations for all students to learn and grow as important contributors to the culture...read more

Product Description: Beginning with Richard Hawkins' collaged works from the 1990s and ending with his most recent dollhouse brothels, this retrospective volume encompasses themes ranging from male desire, gender issues and pop-star idolization to the struggle of mixed-race Native Americans and the function of hermaphrodite statuary in the Roman era...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The Concise Lexicon of Environmental Terms is a unique guide to the complex language of contemporary environmental legislation and policy. It includes: * practical and concise definitions of over 650 environmental terms and reference * information on the many different environmental organisations and how they can be contacted * a guide to scientific abbreviations * a glossary of acronyms * a schedule of selected EC directives * further references where appropriate The lexicon will be a vital source of information for lawyers, particularly when dealing with expert evidence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain. Original.

Product Description: This work aims to cover the treatment and the prognosis of the range of illnesses that general practitioners can expect to see in their surgeries. The book also aims to enable GPs to understand problems dealt with by other branches of medicine well enough to advise or interpret advice for their patients appropriately...read more

Product Description: Book by Moody, T. W. , and Hawkins, Richard, Eds.