Product Description: Trying to make the guards laugh at Buckingham Palace. Touring the Tower of London. Shopping in the flea markets of Camden and Notting Hill. These are but a few of the activities that would make up the perfect London vacation. It’s a trip everyone should take--but until you can, there’s Greetings from London!This unique book offers an introduction to what makes London so special: its history, its architecture, its people and its places...read more

Product Description: When it's time to go back to the daily grind, it's easy to miss the fun and excitement of vacation — especially if you've just spent time in a city like New York. Home to remarkable landmarks like the Empire State Building, a vibrant counterculture centered in neighborhoods like the East Village and Williamsburg, and the quieter pleasures of places like Central Park, it's the type of place that inspires anyone who visits...read more

Product Description: The third printing of this classic volume by Bruce Marshall. The evolution of New York's built environment is chronicled in this breathtaking history organized chronologically by site from architectural masterpieces to engineering marvels...read more

Product Description: Bruce Marshall's account of how Paris came to be the most admired city in the world is lavishly illustrated with rare, sometimes unpublished images from Getty Images, Roger- Viollet and other sources. Its accompanied by Marshall's illuminating text which is always factual and often anecdotal...read more

Product Description: Starbright is a candle who wants to be something in her life, but she doesnt know what. One day, an important day, she will come to find out not only that her life has a purpose, but that her light will be a glimmer of hope for generations to come.

A visual record that reveals how the city of London was built and introduces the great architects and engineers. This book contains images from the earliest days of photography.

Product Description: Christology has to do with Jesus' identity and significance, with who he is and the difference he makes. Reflection on Jesus' identity and significance does not, of course, begin in modernity but has been central to the notion and study of Christian theology from its earliest beginnings...read more

The bestselling story of one of the most important and influential SOE agents in the last war A truly harrowing tale the true extent of what the Gestapo and the SS were capable of 'Unforgettable' - H.E. Bates 'Strong meat...an inspiring and terrible document' - Evening Standard Equally famous as a film

The focus of leaf development modeling in the last two decades has been on predicting commercial crop yields and identifying the constraints on them. The weakness of this approach: the implicit belief in the existence of a "global brain" deciding which parts of the plant are deficient and directing remedial action. Leaf Development and Canopy Growth presents an alternative view based on "local rules" - the simple results of metabolic processes within each cell. These rules and the interconnections between them provide the means for self-organization within the plant and emergent global behavior - the "apparent" brain. The book discusses the evolution of plant forms in relation to fitness for survival. It demonstrates the potential for the existence of several alternative forms which are locally optimal on a fitness landscape - alternatives that increase with the number and order of selection pressures imposed. It covers the leaf laminae and their utilization of absorbed energy to fix carbon from the atmosphere. The editors consider a diverse range of species, both as monocultures and mixed-plant communities.The evolution of plant forms affects the diversity and survival of the whole canopy and diversity within the canopy. Leaf Development and Canopy Growth explores this relationship in a thorough and thought-provoking manner. It places the leaf and canopy in the context of the whole plant and the survival of community diversity - both within and between species.

Exhibits how the knowledge of geography can enlighten and embellish the study of humankind's relationship with the environment