Author: Larry Habegger
Publisher: Travelers’ Tales
Keywords: travelers, tales, guides, stories, australia, true
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1932361138
ISBN-13: 9781932361131

Platypuses, billabongs, ancient song lines, deserted islands, camel treks, surfing, scuba diving, rock climbing — all come to life when readers travel from outback to rainforest, from the red center to the great barrier reef, as they learn about outrageous adventures, mystical encounters, and endless vistas from some of the world’s finest travel writers. Taking a step off the tourist track, Travelers’ Tales Australia collects sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, and always compelling true-life tales set in a country that is also an island and a continent. Highlights of the boo

Author: Alfred Habegger
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: james, henry, life, father
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2001-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 155849331X
ISBN-13: 9781558493315

A biography of the passionate, contradictory father of William, Henry and Alice James. The author counters the popular view - a view that the James family perpetuated - that Henry James Sr was a "benignant" man who devoted himself to the good of his children, preached tolerance, and practised self-effacement. Instead, he shows us a man who developed a convoluted personal philosophy to account for his own feelings of pain and guilt, his conviction of his essential sinfulness and capacity for evil, and his fragile sense of self. The work sets Henry James Sr in the broader intellectual and cultur

Authors:Jerryll Habegger, Joseph H. Osman,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: third, furniture, modern, sourcebook
Number of Pages: 788
Published: 2005-06-13
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0393731707
ISBN-13: 9780393731705

A comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded. Over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of furniture or fixture make this book the go-to guide for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and dimensions. 1892 photographs.

Authors:Larry Coldren, Carl W. Wilmsen, Henryk Temkin, Larry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: lasers, emitting, surface, cavity, vertical
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $96.99
ISBN-10: 0521006295
ISBN-13: 9780521006293

Written by those at the forefront of VCSEL research and development, provides a clear insight into the physics of VCSELs, as well as describing details of their fabrication and the massive range of their application. The chapters cover VCSEL design, emission from microcavities, growth, fabrication, and characterization, long and short-wavelength VCSELs, optical data links, and free space optical processing.

Authors:Sir Isaac Newton, edited by Larry Pierce, Larry and
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group/Master Books
Keywords: complete, chronology, kingdoms, ancient, revised, history, newton
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2009-02-20
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0890515565
ISBN-13: 9780890515563

When one thinks of Sir Isaac Newton, one normally thinks of a great scientist and mathematician. However, one does not normally think of Newton as a historian. Such was the greatness of his intellect, that he found history a pleasant diversion for his idle moments. He drafted a book on the ancient history and the Gentile nations and worked on it periodically for over forty years but never published it. It was published posthumously in 1728, a year after he died. The same genius he applies to other disciplines, Newton brings to bear on ancient history. He notes that all the pagan nations had g

Authors:Larry Atherton, Larry Schreib,
Publisher: Car Tech
Keywords: design, video, workbench, videobook, chevrolet, small, block, rebuild
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1932494219
ISBN-13: 9781932494211

Rebuilding the Small-Block Chevy: Step-by-Step Videobook is a quality, step-by-step Workbench Book and DVD combination that shows you how to build a street or racing small-block Chevy in your own garage. The book includes over 600 photos and easy-to-read text that explains every procedure a professional builder uses to assemble an engine from crankshaft to carburetor. The DVD includes over two hours of coverage showing in detail all the procedures that the book describes. The DVD is filmed in a bright, well-lit studio that really brings out the detail of the engine-building process. Detailed s

Authors:Larry Brooks, Larry Brook,
Publisher: Runestone Press
Keywords: cities, time, timbuktu, modern, life, ancient, daily
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-03
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822532158
ISBN-13: 9780822532156

Examines the history of the city of Timbuktu, or Tombouctou, from its time as a camping site for nomadic Tuaregs through its prominence in the sixteenth century to the current decline it faces.