Search Results: Authors starting with D from Emily Green Books

Octopus Books, 1981 Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

OUP Oxford, 2007 See photos. About the book: Here Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods. Throughout, he highlights the relevance of economics to everyday life, providing a very human exploration of a technical subject. Dasgupta covers enduring issues such as population growth, the environment, and poverty. For example, he explores how the world's looming population problems affect us at the local, national, and international level. Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life. Here, Dasgupta goes beyond the basics to show it's innate effects on our history, culture, and lifestyles. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most… Read More

Photos included in listing. Allen Lane, 2001 Photo included. About the book: Is time travel possible? According to internationally acclaimed physicist and science writer Paul Davies, the answer is definitely yes. But if we can travel in time, surely we can glimpse the future and act to change it? Or alter the past, creating all sorts of bizarre paradoxes? This hugely entertaining brain-twisting book reveals how it might be done. With his remarkable gift for easy explanation, Paul Davies shows how to use gravity to visit the future and how to warp space to reach the past; and, in a "tour de force", how to build a time machine from a traversable wormhole. This is the ultimate time traveller's companion. Paul Davies expertly and effortlessly explains the mind-boggling physics that makes time travel possible, and more importantly shows how we can make sense of this very possiblity. Might the inconceivable be achievable? Can we break the last cosmic taboo?. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

Watson-guptill Publications, 1978 An introduction to sharp focus realism demonstrates and explains the techniques for creating transparent, opaque, and acrylic watercolor paintings that focus the viewer's attention on the most minute detail of a subject. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Photos included in listing. Vintage, 2011 About the book: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. 'You have in your hands a masterpiece' Frances Wilson, Sunday Times. 'The most brilliant book I've read for years.A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human' Bettany Hughes, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year. 'A complex and beautiful book' Diana Athill.. Soft cover. As New.

The Folio Society, 1975 Gilted green binding with orange dust cover. One side of dust cover has a little staining from sunlight, but the book inside is in perfect condition. Translated and introduced by J. M. Cohen.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2011 About the book: Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.. Soft cover. As New.

Hardcover. Near Fine.

Photos included in listing. A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 1990 Describes the drawing process, discusses proportions, light, depth, texture, pattern, design, and imagination, and tells how to evaluate one's work. Soft cover. Fine.

Picador, 2010 This book is in perfect condition.. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Simon & Schuster UK, 2011 About the book: The real life account of Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping & life told by her.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

Taschen GmbH, 1996 Hardcover. Fine.

Photos included in listing. Basic Civitas Books, 2006 About the book: When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black; nearly all were poor. The Federal government's slow response to local appeals for help is by now notorious. Yet despite the cries of outrage that have mounted since the levees broke, we have failed to confront the disaster's true lesson: to be poor, or black, in today's ownership society, is to be left behind. Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim and fans all across the color line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Combining interviews with survivors of the disaster with his deep knowledge of black migrations and government policy over decades, Dyson provides the historical context that has been sorely missing… Read More