The best soccer players in the world.Celebrate the greatest footballers from the world game's current era.The Stars of Football profiles over 90 players, telling the stories of their rise and successes.This fully illustrated book showcases the biggest names to grace the World Cup and other elite competitions. Learn about masters such as Messi and Ronaldo, as well as other heroes who continue to enhance their reputations, including Mbappe, Rodrygo, Rap...

Fueling Mechanics gathers six classic technical studies of gas, oil, and petrol engines into a compact history of combustion-driven power. Across explanatory prose, engineering instruction, design analysis, and practical troubleshooting, the volume charts the transition from abstract mechanical principles to the applied problems of ignition, fuel delivery, lubrication, efficiency, and operation. Its standout achievement is the cumulative portrait it offers of the internal-combustion engine...

"Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants" by Rodolphe Edgard Mathot is a comprehensive exploration of the principles and applications of gas engines and the production of gas from various fuels. The book delves into the mechanics of gas engines, detailing their design, operation, and efficiency. Mathot provides insights into the technology behind producer gas plants, emphasizing their role in energy production and the conversion of solid fuels into usable gas. This work serves as a valuable re...

Is the idea of Europe outdated? The concept of European unity, the animating spirit of the European Union, seems increasingly fragile in the face of far-right populist movements. In Locating Europe , Rodolphe Gasché attempts to answer the question of how to think about Europe. Is it a figure, a concept, or an idea? Is there anything still compelling and urgent about the idea of Europe?By looking at phenomenologist and postphenomenological thinkers in the second half of the...

By the bestselling author of Stars of Football, this richly illustrated book showcases the best basketball players in the world.Kevin Durant, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, Luc Longley, Luol Deng, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Stephen Curry, Richard Dacoury, Joel Embiid, LeBron James, Earvin ""Magic"" Johnson, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Tony Parker, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Bill Russell, Russell Westbrook, and Kobe Bryant are just a few of the leg...

In "Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants," Rodolphe Edgard Mathot offers a comprehensive examination of the technical principles and applications of gas engines, intricately detailing their operational dynamics and efficiency aspects. The work melds theoretical insights with practical methodologies, reflecting a meticulous literary style that caters to both engineers and scholars. Mathot contextualizes the evolution of producer gas technology within the broader framework of early 20th-centu...

Hailed by Milan Kundera as "an heir of Joyce and Kafka," Prix Goncourt winner Patrick Chamoiseau is among the leading Francophone writers today. With most of his novels having appeared in English, this book opens a new window on his oeuvre. A moving poetic essay that bears witness to the forgotten history of the French penal colony in French Guiana, French Guiana—Memory Traces of the Penal Colony accompanied by more than sixty evocative color photographs by Rodolphe Hammadi and translated,...

A short history of piracy and capitalismWhen capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies…when radio opened an era of mass communication . . . when the Internet became part of the global economy…pirates were there. And although most people see pirates as solitary anarchists out to destroy capitalism, it turns out the opposite is true. They are the ones who forge the path.In The Pirate Organization, Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Ve...

Gasché expounds on Aristotle, Heidegger, and Arendt in "a major interpretative achievement that underscores what is at stake in political thought" ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).As one of the most respected voices of Continental philosophy today, Rodolphe Gasché pulls together Aristotle's conception of rhetoric, Martin Heidegger's debate with theory, and Hannah Arendt's conception of judgment in a single work on the centrality of these themes as fundam...

A beautifully illustrated look at how weaving has influenced art, industry, and society worldwideWeaving is one of humanity’s oldest technologies and remains central to our global economies. Yet because of the fragility of textiles and their association with women’s labor and craft, they have often been marginalized in art history. From the early-modern Andes to the contemporary artist’s studio, weaving has shaped artistic practice and raised important questions fo...

Kathy Austin works for British Intelligence just after World War Two and travels the world to investigate unexplained phenomena – for aliens walk amongst us! After Kenya, Namibia, and Amazonia, the first volume of the fourth season. After her exhausting mission in Amazonia, Kathy Austin is off to Scotland on holiday. She intends to take possession of a house her great-aunt bequeathed her. Unfortunately, she finds the house ruined, burned down a few weeks earlier – and it also appears that ...

An aristocrat thirsting for adventure meets a legendary pirate woman who appears to be involved in a rash of hauntings. Volume 1 of 2. The peace of Mordwick, a small coastal village, is shattered by the news that mysterious individuals have come ashore to dig up the recently departed. They looked like pirates, and rumours swell that the infamous captain Black Mary, a legendary, freedom-loving marauder desperately wanted by the Royal Navy, is involved. Could she be the cause of a wave of sp...