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Beijing's Global Media Offensive is a major analysis of how China is attempting to build a media and information superpower around the world, and to use it to impact many countries' societies, media markets, politics, and economies. Joshua Kurlantzick traces the ways in which China is trying to build an information and influence superpower and critically examines the new conventional wisdom that Beijing has been extremely successful in these e...

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.Rouaul...

This is how it feels to be a Cold War front-line fighter pilot. Fly in the Phantom with the author and follow him into the bar for some epic nights of drinking. The triumphs and the disasters are all laid out here in a completely open and honest way as the author looks back with a certain sense of nostalgia and mild embarrassment. What a blast!

One of the most captivating and provocative artists of the Sensation generation, Richard Billingham (b. 1970) came to prominence in the late 1990s with his visceral photobook Ray's a Laugh, a slice of everyday life in a high-rise sink estate in the British West Midlands. This book is the first comprehensive discussion of Billingham's art practice. Articulating the socio-historical, aesthetic, geographical as well as anthropological aspects of ...

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Learn all about your favourite animals as well as making fun and beautiful crafts!

Learn all about your favourite animals as well as making fun and beautiful crafts!

Take to the (virtual) skies with help from Microsoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator has offered a great way to fly aircraft of all sizes without ever leaving the ground for nearly 40 years. With help from Microsoft Flight Simulator For Dummies, you'll take to the skies in everything from tiny two-seaters to huge commercial airliners. Plot your course and deal with realistic wind and weather as you fly pond hoppers, 747s, and ever...

An up-to-date discussion of the latest advanced neurosurgical techniques for dogs and cats In Advanced Techniques in Canine and Feline Neurosurgery, a team of distinguished veterinary practitioners delivers an authoritative and accessible compilation of current best practices for surgery of the spine, neck, and head in dogs and cats. The book focuses on advanced and cutting-edge techniques in the field, offering detailed and step-by-step desc...

A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy's winners and losers-from a leading Wall Street Journal reporter.Crash Landing takes readers behind the scenes of an unprecedented period of global economic turmoil, letting readers into the inner lives of the men and women trying to save big business from the brink.The world's most powerful CEOs never saw it coming, e...

An expose of the billionaires who built the US economy on sand, and the virus that saw it crumble

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As anti-British sentiment grows, and patriotism comes under fire, journalist, comedian and Russian immigrant Konstantin Kisin decides to embark on a peculiar activity: to write a love letter to the West.

Fit für den Alltag: Diese proteinreichen Powersnacks sorgen für einen wahren Energieschub, ob beim Sport, im Büro oder für die Kids in der Schule. Sie sind rasch zubereitet und schmecken Groß und Klein. Sie sind die gesunde Alternative zu Snacks aus dem Supermarkt! Ob Müsliriegel, Energiekugeln, Häppchen oder Cracker: Einfach in der Zubereitung, liefern sie rasch viel Energie und schmecken ausgezeichnet. Dabei kann man die Zutaten selbst nach ...

A humorous, story-based look at catching chickenpox

A humorous, story-based look at catching a tummy bug

Get inside the mind of Birmingham's industrial, creative and international legacies through the places, spaces, people and buildings that many miss. Over the years, the city's shifting identity, bold planning experiments and Forward! motto have left aspects of the city's past -and present- overlooked and unknown. Collected here by researcher and tour guide Ben Waddington are the intriguing lost treasures that help you navigate and understand t...

Einst war die Pechsalbe die wichtigste Wundheilsalbe im Alpenraum. Karin Buchart zeigt, wie Harze auch heute gesammelt werden können, ohne die Bäume zu verletzen, und wie sie zu Salben und Auszügen mit erstaunlicher Heilwirkung verwandelt werden.

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A comprehensive analysis of the political, economic and social dynamics that have made New York a megacity today.