Ian Johnston's Bad Seed offers a superb overview of Nick Cave's career to date. Through Cave's fronting of the incendiary bands The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, producing music of unfettered expression and explosive intensity, to his creative collaborations outside of the rock industry in film and literature, Bad Seed illustrates a life lived in barely controlled chaos: and unravels the motivation and unique appeal of a reluctant icon whose songs, according to Rolling Stone, possess 'the authority of the most primal kind of myth'.

Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnston, Ian

Arts & Literature

Little,Brown & Co

The New Higher History series offers a full-colour, topic-based approach to the revised Higher History syllabus. Covering all of the main issues within each topic area, this series includes investigative techniques, use of evidence and a variety of activities to enable students to develop the necessary skills to tackle both essay-based and source-based questions successfully.  This book investigates the political and economic changes in Scotland during this period, looking at: the constitutional, social and religious situation in 1689; causes of the worsening relationship with England, including the Navigation Acts, Darien scheme, foreign wars and famine; the arguments for and against Union with England, including religious and economic considerations and the accessibility of colonies; the issue of Scottish identity and the varied attitudes within Scotland toward Union; reasons why the Treaty of Union was passed; the impact of Union in Scotland and the role that the Union played in the development of Scottish identity.

Treaty of Union: 1689-1740 (New Higher History)

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Hodder Education

The condition known most widely as pseudotumor cerebri syndrome is of diagnostic interest and clinical importance not just to neurosurgeons, but also to neurologists, ophthalmologists and headache specialists. Variously called idiopathic intracranial hypertension, benign intracranial hypertension, and other names over the century or so since it was first recognised, the authors argue for the grouping of all these conditions under the name of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome on the basis of a common underlying mechanism - an impairment of CSF absorption due to abnormalities at the CSF/venous interface. The book reviews the development of ideas around some of the more contentious issues and deals in depth with aetiology, investigative findings and strategies, treatment and outcome, and in the concluding chapter, considers the possibility of establishing an experimental model to facilitate analysis of the unresolved issues, and pointing the way to a more complete understanding of this controversial condition.

The Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome: Pseudotumor Cerebri, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Benign Intracranial Hypertension and Related Conditions

Medical Books

Pickard, John

Owler, Brian

Medicine

Cambridge University Press

Wild Wild World of the Cramps

Arts & Photography

Music

Omnibus Press

There has always been a close connection between physics and music. From the great days of ancient Greek science, ideas and speculations have passed backward and forward between natural philosophers (physicists) and musical theorists. Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, Second Edition explores the story of that relationship in an entertaining and user-friendly way. The book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the physics involved in every stage of the music making process: from the very earliest experiments on vibrating strings and primitive sound makers to the latest concerns of digital sound recording, MP3 files, and information theory. At the same time, it examines the story of our developing concept of the universe we live in: from the ancient visions of a cosmos regulated by the music of the spheres to our current understanding of an expanding universe controlled by the laws of quantum mechanics and string theory. Running through all this is one recurring question - the so-called puzzle of consonance. Why do humans respond to music and musical sounds the way they do? It is the attempts by musicians and scientists through the ages to apply new knowledge to answer this question that gives this story its fascination. Measured Tones should provide rewarding reading for any physics teacher or student who would like to know more about music and where it impinges on their subject as well as for anyone who is musically inclined.

Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music,2nd Edition

CRC-Press

Before the nuclear bomb, no weapon evoked as much fear as the battleship, and its destructive power. This accompaniment to a four-part Channel 4 series, relates the story of battleships from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War, and their role in global history.

The Battleships

Science & Math

McAuley, Rob.

Technology

Channel 4 Books

This book presents the first English translation of four of Galen's treatises on the pulses: De differentiis pulsibus (On the varieties of the pulses), De dignoscendis pulsibus (On diagnosis of the pulses), De causis pulsuum (On etiology of the pulses), and De praesagitione ex pulsibus (On prognosis of the pulses). The translations are based on the work of Professor Robert Montraville Green, now revised and provided with full annotation, introduction, and a facing-page Greek text. These four treatises constitute a major contribution to the science of cardiology, the first complete such work in the history of medical literature. Galen was in advance of his time, referring, though not by name, to circulatory diseases, familiar to us as arteriosclerosis, embolism, and infarction. In the literary field, the language he is using is distinctive and eloquent. For the history of medicine, these treatises set the foundations for the later broadly used Byzantine medical practice of sphygmology. According to Galen himself, the four treatises on the pulses "pertain equally both to physicians and to philosophers".

Galen: Four Treatises on the Pulses (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean)

History

Papavramidou, Niki

Europe

Routledge

Before the nuclear bomb, no weapon evoked as much fear as the battleship. Spanning almost two centuries, from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War, this illustrated history explores the rapid evolution of battleship deployment, effectiveness, and design from canvas to steam, timber to steel armor, muzzle-loading cannons to missiles. Special attention is given to the postWorld War I arms race that witnessed the United States, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan vying for the brawniest maritime muscle. Also examined are the effects of advanced submarine and aviation technologies on the battleship, and the results of specific instances like the sinking of the Hood by the Bismarck and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Motorbooks Intl

Ships for a Nation

Business & Money

Economics

West Dunbartonshire Libraries & Museums

Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design, this represents every step in the evolution of these charismatic, and controversial, ships. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and detail; but unlike most shipyard photography, Clydebank's collection has survived, although very few of the images have ever been published. For this book some two hundred of the most telling of these were carefully selected, and scanned to the highest standards, depicting in unprecedented detail every aspect of the building and fitting out of Inflexible, Australia, Tiger, Repulse and Hood. Probably more has been written about battlecruisers than any other warship type, and as modelmaking subjects they have a devoted following, so any new book has to make a real contribution. This pictorial collection, with its lengthy and informative captions, and an authoritative introduction by Ian Johnston, offers ship modelers and enthusiasts a wealth of visual information simply unobtainable elsewhere.

Clydebank Battlecruisers: Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard

Naval_Institute_Press

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