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  • CROSSROADS
    BOB BLUNDELL
    Imagine living in a time and place where lawlessness and violence flood the streets like a raging river. It's a time of rebellion, uncertainty, and chaos. This story is about a man raised in that world, in 1960s China. As a child living in an atheist country immersed in turmoil, he witnesses atrocities and suffering most of us could never imagine.Hoping to get away from the hor...

    $320.00

  • HISTORY'S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure. It would be wrong to condone their antics, of cours...

    $166.19

  • PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
    JOHN BLUNDELL
    Physiological psychology deals with the interaction between ‘under the skin’ physiological variables and the personal and social context in which organisms live. Originally published in 1975, much of this book has relevance for the understanding of human action: knowledge of physiological mechanisms underlying psychological functions can throw light on conditions such as obesit...

    $1,160.00

  • SEEING AND KNOWING
    GEOFFREY BLUNDELL
    The purpose of Seeing and Knowing is to demonstrate the depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams’ contribution to rock art research by emphasizing theory and methodology drawn from ethnography. Contributors explore what it means to understand and learn from rock art, and a contrast is drawn between those sites where it is possible to provide a modern, ethnogr...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION IN GREEK AND ROMAN THOUGHT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    SUE BLUNDELL
    It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did they anticipate Darwinian and Lamarckian hypotheses? The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought, first published in 1986, comprehensively examines this issue. Beginning wit...

    $1,380.00

  • ARCHITECTURE AND MOVEMENT
    PETER BLUNDELL JONES AND MARK MEAGHER
    The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles this complex subject for the first time, providing the wide range of perspectives ...

    $1,420.00

  • RELOCATING CULTURAL STUDIES
    VALDA BLUNDELL
    Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The result is a landmark book which provides students with an unrivalled guide to the international phenomenon of cultural stud...

    $400.00

  • MODERN ARCHITECTURE THROUGH CASE STUDIES 1945 TO 1990
    PETER BLUNDELL JONES / EAMONN CANNIFFE
    Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed. The case study structure allows each example to be discussed and used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches. Filled with ...

    $4,000.00

  • CRAFTY CROOKS & CONMEN
    NIGEL BLUNDELL / SUE BLACKHALL
    From Clifford Irving and his Howard Hughes hoax to the great imposter Frank "Catch Me if You Can" Abagnale—a fascinating history of the art of the con.   They're shrewd, cunning, devious—and charmingly trustworthy. While the criminal exploits of these tricksters, frauds, and swindlers can't be condoned, it's near-impossible not to be awed by their audacity and ingenuity.   Take...

    $251.00

  • HISTORY'S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure. It would be wrong to condone their antics, of cours...

    $166.19

  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history's ...

    $127.81

  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history's ...

    $119.00

  • FALLEN IDOLS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Its a scandal! How often we use that phrase and what a catalogue of sins it covers. Thats what this book is all about. It is literally a catalogue of sins committed by some of the most celebrated names on the planet.Within these covers are startling stories of scandals during a century when screen idols seemed to vie with each other in outraging public decency. It was an age wh...

    $149.00

  • ADOLF HITLER
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A rare, revealing, and chilling photographic history of Adolf Hitler—from mollycoddled child to vile propagandist to despotic madman.   One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history's most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child, a mama's boy, an idle student, a failed artist, self-pitying outcast, and just another face in ...

    $229.00

  • WINSTON CHURCHILL
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered. In a study of his life, certain bizarre character traits become discernible. He had excessive energy and required little sleep. His mind would either flit from one idea to anoth...

    $119.00

  • SERIAL KILLERS: MURDER WITHOUT MERCY
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, Burke & Hare, the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and other remorseless serial murderers whose crimes made history.   From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected in this true crime anthology span the century and the continents. The motivations are...

    $229.00

  • SERIAL KILLERS: BUTCHERS & CANNIBALS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning.   From Gilles de Rais' castle in fifteenth-century France to "the Bloody Benders'" eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer's quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers ...

    $229.00

  • SERIAL KILLERS: THE WORLD'S MOST EVIL
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    One hundred years of the most depraved criminal minds—from H. H. Holmes and Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, Ian Brady, and Myra Hindley.   Their monikers have become part of the true crime lexicon: among them, the Moors Murders; the Hillside Strangler; Killer Clown; Son of Sam; the Love Slave Killers; the Scorecard Killer; and the BTK Strangler. On a scale of evil, they are the w...

    $229.00

  • GEODYNAMICS AND ORE DEPOSIT EVOLUTION IN EUROPE
    BLUNDELL, D. / ARNDT, N. / COBBOLD, P.R. / HEINRICH, C.
    This book presents a new synthesis of the major metallogenic provinces of Europe and the geodynamic processes involved that can lead to the formation of world-class ore deposits. It represents the culmination of a 5-year research programme, GEODE, set up by the European Science Foundation, that brought together researchers across Europe from a wide range of disciplines into col...

    $2,289.00

  • SATIATION, SATIETY AND THE CONTROL OF FOOD INTAKE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
    BLUNDELL, J / BELLISLE, F
    With growing concerns about the rising incidence of obesity, there is interest in understanding how the human appetite contributes to energy balance and how it might be affected by the foods we consume, as well as other cultural and environmental factors. Satiation, satiety and the control of food intake provides a concise and authoritative overview of these areas. Part one int...

    $3,179.00

  • THE MULTIBODY SYSTEMS APPROACH TO VEHICLE DYNAMICS
    BLUNDELL, MICHAEL / HARTY, DAMIAN
    Filling the gaps between subjective vehicle assessment, classical vehicle dynamics and computer-based multibody approaches, The Multibody Systems Approach to Vehicle Dynamics offers unique coverage of both the virtual and practical aspects of vehicle dynamics from concept design to system analysis and handling development. The book provides valuable foundation knowledge of vehi...

    $1,271.00

  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s ...

    $119.00

  • CRIME IN THE VICTORIAN BLACK COUNTRY
    TRACEY BLUNDELL
    Whilst the Black Country had been the cradle of the industrial revolution, towards the end of nineteenth century, the prosperity of the region was at an end, and crime was on the increase. A mainly working-class population was having laws imposed upon it remotely, influenced by middle class morality and ethics. Crime in the Victorian Black Country looks at the crimes actually b...

    $191.99

  • GRANDES CRIMENES SIN RESOLVER
    BLUNDELL
    Agotado

    $69.00

  • MISTERIO DE LOS GRANDES ENCUENTROS
    BLUNDELL
    Agotado

    $45.00

  • GRANDES ERRORES
    BLUNDELL
    Agotado

    $69.00

  • LOS GRANDEC ESCANDALOS MUNDIALES DEL SIGLO XXI
    BLUNDELL
    Agotado

    $69.00