Contains the words to 800 of Cole Porter's songs -- more than 400 of them never before published.

An irresistible gathering of shorts by some of the world's most imaginative word artists. Short spans genres, languages, and centuries, to offer the tradition - and glorious present - of this popular form.

"A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers. The slogan "Yes we can"--In the form "¡Sí Se Puede!"--doesn't originate with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. It goes back more than four decades to the heyday of the United Farm Workers, an organization that at its height won many labor victories, secured collective bargaining rights for California farm workers and became a major voice for the Latino...

"Alan Rich's first published music criticism appeared in Boston in 1944. Sixty years later, this Grammy nominee's still at it, not for a moment regretting the medical studies he abandoned to argue the cause of music - the very old chants of the medieval masters, the latest electronic outbursts from the sound studios, and anything in between that happens to capture his fancy. Gleaned from his four decades of concert-going, opera-going, and record-listening...

Describes the story of transportation and travel from prehistoric times until 1972.$bContains over 400 illustrations. "This narrative history relates the whole exciting story of transportation and travel from prehistoric times to the present and describes how man, through his ingenuity and inventiveness, has found faster and easier ways of getting from place to place -- on land, on water, and in the air ..." "Feet came first. At the outset, two feet....

"We may never see a playoff series like it again. Before Gary Bettman, the lockouts, and the explosion of salaries. Before all the NHL's old barns were torn down to make way for bigger, glitzier rinks. Before expansion and parity across the league, just about anything could happen on the ice, and often did. It was an era when huge personalities dominated the sport, and willpower was often enough to win games. And in the spring of 1993, some of the...

In this exciting work on the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, Henry Gee, Chief Science Writer at Nature, tells the story of a recent revolution in palaeontology. For the first time, all of us can share in the wonder of a deceptively simple idea known as cladistics, the science of comparison. The cladistics revolution is transforming almost everything we know about the science of life in Deep Time -- the billions of years in which life has evolved...

"As an engineer, you may need to test how a design interacts with fluids. For example, you may need to simulate how air flows over an aircraft wing, how water flows through a filter, or how water seeps under a dam. Carrying out simulations is often a critical step in verifying that a design will be successful. In this hands-on book, you'll learn in detail how to run Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using ANSYS Fluent. ANSYS Fluent is...

1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. During the three-year-and -eight-month occupation, the Japanese military pillages homes and arrests cultural figures living in Hong Kong. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing these cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city. Primary school teacher Fang Lan (Zhou Xun) and her mother (Deanie Ip) are trying to live out this difficult period in a small run-down...