Glass plays Boswell to Gray's Johnson in this first (and very likely last), imaginative yet rigorous biography of Scotland's greatest living novelist.  Meer

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Faber’s life and work across genre and form.  Meer

A family memoir and a memorial to a short life, Joshua in the Sky tells the story of one man's attempt to come to make sense of the death of his baby nephew from a rare blood condition both share, asking the questions: whose life deserves to be remembered?  Meer

A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Arthur Melville) painting in a range of styles, the Glasgow Boys were active around the turn of the 20th century.  Meer

Handelskralen zijn kleine, relevante bronnen bij de bestudering van de navrante geschiedenis van Suriname. Zij reisden van hand tot hand, over zee en over land.  Meer

This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class.  Meer

This book serves as a self-contained reference source for engineers, materials scientists, and physicists with an interest in relaxation phenomena. It is made accessible to students and those new to the field by the inclusion of both elementary and advanced math techniques, as well as chapter opening summaries that cover relevant background information and enhance the book's pedagogical value.  Meer

Adorable Art Class is your step-by-step guide to creating super-cute illustrations of everyday objects using a range of techniques and mediums, from pencil sketching to marker coloring.  Meer

An adapted and illustrated edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery!  Meer

Scientists from both academia and industry in many countries have closely cooperated to arrive at a consensus on the descriptions of all the types of tumour and preneoplastic lesions encountered in laboratory mice.  Meer