Product Description: This pocket-sized volume, with comprehensive entries ranging from art to zoology, the Middle Ages, pantomimes, Tolstoy, and usury, offers insight into the life of one of the 19th century's most extraordinary men. John Ruskin, author, art critic, architect, social commentator, was arguably the most influential Victorian of them all, with disciples ranging from Gandhi and Martin Luther King to Proust and Oscar Wilde...read more

Product Description: A veritable multiverse of odd scribblings, encompassing forgotten British filmmakers, cartoons and comic strips, rigorous French theorists, the occult, street art, and internationally renowned photographers, presented in playful essays that are at-once compulsively readable and formally sophisticated I have heard it plausibly suggested that were the last 1,000 years of Western literary culture, and all of its cinematographic culture, to disappear from the earth, one of the things you'd need to be able to recreate it would be the contents of Kevin Jackson's brain...read more

Product Description: This book is all about Capoeira, a captivating and deeply cultural art form. This 'fight/dance' like art form is steeped with rich cultural history and controversy. The author explains his passion for Capoeira and how it changed his life...read more

Product Description: F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. Kevin Jackson's study traces Nosferatu's eventful production and reception history, including attempts by Stoker's widow to suppress it...read more

Product Description: The first in a trilogy of comics based around the social ideas of major 19th century philosopher John Ruskin, this one based upon his 1860 essay on economy "Unto this Last"Darren Bloke had always dreamed of being rich, and one day his dream came true...read more

Product Description: Using OpenStack to create your own private cloud is made that much more accessible thanks to this book. Every aspect is covered with crystal-clear instructions enabling you to optimize your implementation of this world-class operating stack...read more

Product Description: OpenStack is a feature-packed cloud operating stack that's hugely popular. This cookbook includes a fantastic range of OpenStack recipes designed to help you move to a cloud environment smoothly and painlessly. Learn how to install and configure all the core components of OpenStack to run an environment that can be managed and operated just like AWS or Rackspace Master the complete private cloud stack from scaling out compute resources to managing swift services for highly redundant, highly available storage Practical, real world examples of each service are built upon in each chapter allowing you to progress with the confidence that they will work in your own environments In Detail OpenStack is an open Source cloud operating stack born from Rackspace and NASA which is now a global success, developed and supported by scores of people around the globe and backed by some of the leading players in the cloud space today...read more

Product Description: A fast-rising star among political pundits puts his comedic spin on the ironies and hypocrisies of politics in America. Sexy Brilliance is not another historical narrative, but more of an observational journey; an attempt to widen your perspective, and show what is happening today that continues to steal your imagination, dreams, and ambitions...read more

Product Description: Its hooves were supposedly a cure for epilepsy; it is the mascot of the Seattle Mariners baseball team and the clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch; and its meat is a delicacy. The moose is a fascinating but elusive animal of the north, and its little-known natural history is the focus of Kevin Jackson’s engaging new book...read more

'Lawrence of Arabia' is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics. This monograph argues that popular wisdom is correct, and that Lean's film is a unique blend of visionary image-making, narrative power, mythopoetic charm and psychological acuteness.

Product Description: Throughout history, most people have lived by the celestial clock of night and day, and by the biological clock of hunger and thirst. Alongside civilization developed the astonishing idea that the day might be divided and subdivided into regular units of time, each with their appropriate behaviors and endeavors...read more

This work provides a window into the life and work of the great British director, Humphrey Jennings.

Product Description: A collection of essays about unacknowledged genres and curiosities of writing, which together provides a richly entertaining journey through the written words neglected corners and heroes. The book is crammed with wonderful oddities and shrewd observations.