The Simpsons is the world's most popular entertainment phenomenon, regularly voted on both sides of the Atlantic as the best TV show ever made.Simpsons Confidential is the uncensored, unauthorised oral history of the show from the people who made it happen.
Exploring the often misunderstood work of Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, the author positions Machiavelli's writings as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State.
This book is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree, why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small one, what is the similarity between a human rib cage and an airplane, or a bison and a cantilevered bridge? How might we plan for things to improve as they are ...
