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  • Medieval English Verse

    Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Radical Adaptation

    Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World

    by Brian Stone, Jr ...
    This book considers the everyday conduits through which climate instability is revealing itself: the storm sewer drain on your street, the powerlines transporting your electricity, the mix of vegetation in your backyard or neighborhood park – these are the pathways through which climate change is most likely to impact your life. For many, these are the last places we expect it to. The first book ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Theory and Practice of Motion Design

    Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice

    Edited by R. Brian Stone, Leah Wahlin ...
    This collection offers an expansive, multiplatform exploration of the rapidly-expanding area of motion design and motion graphics, taking into account both theoretical questions and creative professional practice. Spanning interaction design, product interfaces, kinetic data visualizations, typography, TV and film title design, brand building, narrative storytelling, history, exhibits and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Chatter and Machine Tools

    by Brian Stone ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Focussing on occurrences of unstable vibrations, or Chatter, in machine tools, this book gives important insights into how to eliminate chatter with associated improvements in product quality, surface finish and tool wear.Covering a wide range of machining processes, including turning, drilling, milling and grinding, the author uses his research expertise and practical knowledge of vibration ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Love Visions

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Stone ...
    Translated by Brian Stone ...
    Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The City and the Coming Climate

    Climate Change in the Places We Live

    by Brian Stone, Jr Jr ...
    This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

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  • Donne: Everyman's Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596. He was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper (later Lord Chancellor), in 1598, but forfeited his worldly prospects when he secretly married Ann More, Lady Egerton's niece, in 1601; he was dismissed by Egerton and briefly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • John Dryden: Everyman Poetry

    by John Dryden ...
    An elegant and witty writer, poet laureate from 1668, Dryden was on of the major dramatists, critics and poets of his age. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Portable Chaucer

    Revised Edition

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Translated by Theodore Morrison ...
    Series series Portable Library
    In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Translated by Burton Raffel ...
    Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.This ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Pope: Everyman's Poetry

    by Alexander Pope ...
    Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by John Dryden ...
    A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his time as Poet Laureate and loyal servant of the crown, including the Biblical allegory 'Absalom and Achitophel', in which the poet attacked those who intrigued against the King and earned himself a ... Read more

    $21.29 USD