This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener s life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence.

In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895.

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn brings his epic two-volume series The Hand of Thrawn to an explosive conclusion with a discovery that rocks the New Republic to its foundations--and threatens to resurrect the Empire.

He has published extensively on-Italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World. --

The first book in the definitive graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert.

The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

Developed over a ten year period at the Stanford Business School, this textbook underscores the connections between microeconomics and business.