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A History of Australia by Mark Peel
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago via the transportations o ...Show more
A History of Denmark by Knud J.V. Jespersen
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
The history of modern Denmark is essentially the story of how a once extensive and diverse empire slowly disintegrated under the changing circumstances of the times. Eventually, the dissolution of the component parts resulted in one small core area remaining which is today called Denmark. In this intr ...Show more
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven R. Fischer
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholars ...Show more
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Roger Fischer
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia - the ...Show more
Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia
Category: Business | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particu ...Show more
Essential Buyers Guide Porsche 911 SC : Coupe, Targa, Cabriolet & RS Model Years 1978-1983 by Adrian Streather
Category: Technology and Transport | Series: Essential Buyer's Guide Series
Don't buy a Porsche 911sc without buying this book first! Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from Adrian Streather's years of Porsche ownership. Learn how to spot a bad car quickly and how to assess a promising one like a professional. Get the ...Show more
Essential Guitar: From Bach to Rock - Everything You Need to Master Your Favourite Instrument by Jack Wilkins
Category: Music | Series: Essential Series
From classical and folk to jazz and blues, this title contains the basics for getting started. It is filled with step-by-step instructions, finger positioning diagrams and much more.
Improve & Modify Your Caravan by Lindsay Porter
Category: Travel | Series: Essential Manual Series
This step-by-step, heavily illustrated guide shows the caravan owner and user how he or she can turn their caravan into a perfect and unique holiday retreat. Based on a magazine article format, this manual is easy to use and will help you create the caravan of your dreams.
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone cal ...Show more
Norman Rockwell by Collier Schorr
Category: Art and Design | Series: Essential Series
Focusing on Norman Rockwell, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes, and concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped their work.
Sustainability by Kent E. Portney
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
The word "sustainability" has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainability has come to mean a number of specific things. In this accessible guide ...Show more