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Abba: Knowing Me, Knowing You: The Stories Behind the Songs by Robert Scott
Category: Music | Series: Stories Behind the Songs Ser.
ABBA: The Stories Behind Every Song traces the complete story of the Swedish supergroup through their famous tracks, from their world-conquering 1970s disco beginnings, with modern classics such as 'Voulez-Vous', 'Angel Eyes', 'Chiquitita', 'Does Your Mother Know', 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' and 'I Have A Drea ...Show more
Art of Dejah Thoris and the Worlds of Mars by Alex Ross (Artist); Bob Greenberger; J. Scott Campbell (Artist); Joe Jusko (Cover Design by); Art Adams (Artist); Paul Renaud (Artist); Lucio Parrillo (Artist); Francesco Francavilla (Artist); Robert Greenberger; Arthur Adams (Artist)
Category: Art
Since the first serialized adventures in 1912 of the Martian Princess Dejah Thoris and her beloved hero, John Carter, science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts have dreamed of the faraway Red Planet, its wondrous sights and monstrous perils. Fans and fine art lovers need dream no longer In hundreds of fu ...Show more
Asbury Park by Robert Scott
Category: Paranormal
Ten weeks ago, Homicide Detective Sailor Doyle worked his first solo case, a gruesome double murder in a remote farmhouse in Virginia. And things turned very nasty for him ...Now Sailor is recuperating with his family at a beach house in Belmar, on the New Jersey shore. He's struggling with prescription ...Show more
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assís; Robert Scott-Buccleuch (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old ...Show more
Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels: Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales by Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
Category: Travel Guides
Many modern medical pracctices began as old wives' tales or folk remedies. "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels" investigates a multicultural variety of age-old remedies often dismissed by 20th-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity.
Kill The Ones You Love by Robert Scott
Category: True Crime
A handsome, married young father and former deputy sheriff, Gabriel Morris looked like the picture of respectability. When his mother and her boyfriend were found brutally murdered in their pleasant Oregon seaside home, authorities were shocked to find a trail leading to him. Soon, police in several sta ...Show more
Learning From Las Vegas by Robert Venturi (Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Inc)
Category: Architecture | Series: Learning From Las Vegas
Upon its publication by the MIT Press in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was immediately influential and controversial. The authors made an argument that was revolutionary for its time -- that the billboards and casinos of Las Vegas were worthy of architectural attention -- and offered a challenge for con ...Show more
Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
Category: Architecture
Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the o ...Show more
My Opposition-The Diary of Friedrich Kellner-A German Against the Third Reich by Friedrich Kellner; Robert Scott Kellner (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History
This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to dictatorship and genocide and to protest his countryme ...Show more
My Opposition - The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - a German Against the Third Reich by Friedrich Kellner; Robert Scott Kellner (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History
This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to dictatorship and genocide, and to protest his countrym ...Show more