Search Results: Authors starting with W from Emily Green Books

Photos included in listing. OUP Oxford, 2008 About the book: This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a one-semester graduate course. The first part deals chiefly with the isotropic and homogeneous average universe; the second part concentrates on the departures from the average universe. Throughout the book the author presents detailed analytic calculations of cosmological phenomena, rather than just report results obtained elsewhere by numerical computation. The book is up to date, and gives detailed accounts of topics such as recombination, microwave background polarization, leptogenesis, gravitational lensing, structure formation, and multifield inflation, that are usually treated superficially if at all in treatises on cosmology. Copious references to current research literature are supplied.… Read More

Princeton University Press, 2010 About the book: Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science and, along the way, introduces readers to fundamental concepts and cutting-edge advances in modern astronomy. The age of our universe poses a deceptively simple question, and its answer carries profound implications for science, religion, and philosophy. David Weintraub traces the centuries-old quest by astronomers to fathom the secrets of the nighttime sky. Describing the achievements of the visionaries whose discoveries collectively unveiled a fundamental mystery, he shows how many independent lines of inquiry and much painstakingly gathered evidence, when fitted together like pieces in a cosmic puzzle, led to the long-sought answer. Astronomers don't believe the universe is 13.7 billion years… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 2011 Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that his marriage to Anne was annulled. It is not hard to see how this tangled web of relationships has given rise to rumours and misconceptions that have been embroidered over the centuries. In this, the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject and uncovers the facts about one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age. Her extensive, forensic research has facilitated a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore or the 'hackney' whom the King of France famously boasted of riding.… Read More

William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1932 Hardcover. Very Good.

Jonathan Cape, 2012 About the book: Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work. Mark Renton seems to have it all: he's the first in his family to go to university, he's young, has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his badly handicapped younger brother dies the family bonds start to weaken, his life flips out of control, and he succumbs to the defeatism and the heroin which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. His friends face similar challenges. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job and faces long-term unemployment, while Tommy Lawrence feels that only love can save him from being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence -- exemplified respectively by the thieving Matty Connell and… Read More

Batsford Ltd, 1982 This classic study of perspective is an absolute must for any serious students of design, benefiting amateurs and professionals alike. Dozens of examples are illustrated, including parallel, angular, and oblique perspectives, as well as ascending and descending planes. Other images show how to create a cone of rays, and add depth and realism to curved objects. The techniques can be used for laying out a garden, predicting the shadow effects of a tall building, and accurately capturing the interplay of angles, light, and shadow.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1981 1991 Edition. Absolutely flawless copy. Maybe never read. No internal markings. From private collection.. Soft cover. Fine.

Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1983 Soft cover. Near Fine.

Penguin, 1952 Vintage Penguin paperback #332 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 1952. This is a good copy of the vintage Penguin paperback The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. It is number 332 in the main series and this particular edition is an early reprint from 1952. Condition is good as can be seen from the pictures. Free postage in the UK.. Soft cover. Very Good.

Pavilion, 1986 This is a collection of The Ultimate Alphabet, the Annotated Ultimate Alphabet and the Ultimate Alphabet workbook.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Watson-Guptill Pubns.Inc.,N.Y., 1978 Describes the variety of Oriental brushes and their uses and the unique character of Oriental watercolor papers as well as elucidating the techniques and effects perfected by classic Chinese and Japanese artists. Hardcover. As New/Very Good.

Faber and Faber, 2007 Illus. by Illustrated. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Hilger & Watts Ltd, 1958 This book is in great condition, but has a previous owner sticker inside as this book was presented as a gift to them. See details in the photos.. Hardcover. Fine/Good.

Photos included in listing. Adam Hilger Ltd, 1967 Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Photos included in listing. Fourth Estate, 2000 About the book: Mr. Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michela Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu Sese Seko collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption. This is a portrait of the grotesque as confusion takes over: pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with tracksuited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through hotel wine cellars rather than see bottles lost to the new regime. Congo, Africa's richest county in terms of its natural resources, has institutionalised kelptomania: everyone is on the take. In a country where the minumum wage has dropped to below $150 a year, the government, over twenty-five years, spent $250 million providing courtesy cars. Congo has a vanity nuclear reactor built on a subsiding slope and one of its uranium rods is missing. A century on, nothing… Read More