Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends & lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life. This novel follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying mother in Florida, & finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. ...

Explores a wide range of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) projects, focusing on the firm's trend toward sites requiring complex technological solutions. This title also explores the process through which the firm researches such issues & how solutions are embedded in the final aesthetics & spatial structure of the sites. ...

Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, & his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. This is a study of the prolific & critically acclaimed director working in British cinema. It uses a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema & the world at large. ...

Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank ace on any side in World War II. This work of armoured warfare is both combat biography & unit history, focusing on the life & career of Wittmann & including his fellow Tiger commanders in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. ...

Box set containing all five of the documentary series presented by the dashing historian Michael Wood. ' In Search of the Trojan War' sees Michael travelling to modern Greece & Turkey to discover the truth behind the epic account in Homer's Iliad of the Trojan War. ' In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great' sees Michael following the arduous path of the greatest conqueror in the classical period, through Iran, Afghanistan & India, recreating his journey & using classical sources to determine if Alexander was the benign ruler of legend, or something much darker. ' In Search of Shakespeare' sees the historian coming to grips with the scanty historical evidence for the greatest writer in English literature, & painting a vivid portrait of Elizabethan Engl&. ' In Search of Myths & Heroes' sees Michael exploring some of the most enduring myths of western culture, from Shangri-La to the Holy Grail, & trying to sort the truth from the legend. Finally, in ' Conquistadors', he recreates the journeys of the Spanish explorers & soldiers who opened up the New World, & reveals the horrifying history behind the Spanish war against the Aztec & Inca Empires. ...