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Buzz
The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1996
Alcohol and caffeine are deeply woven into the fabric of life for most of the world's population, as close and as comfortable as a cup of coffee or a can of beer. Yet for most people they remain as mysterious and unpredictable as the spirits they were once thought to be. Now, in Buzz, Stephen Braun...
Bounce
Living the Resilient Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Stress is a fact of modern life. And as more and more people face greater financial insecurity, longer work hours, and the increasingly complex personal and social demands of our fast-paced, multi-tasking, high-tech lifestyle, finding healthy ways to handle stress is more important than ever. In Bounce:...
by Robert M. Stern;William J. Ray;Karen S. Quigley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
This is a thorough revision of a successful introductory text on psychophysiological recording. The authors include information on the most up-to-date equipment used today to do brain scanning and discuss other equipment not available in 1980. A new chapter on signal processing and analysis has been added and discussions cover nonlinear systems as well as cognitive psychophysiology.
Objection
Disgust, Morality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment? In a world where a gruesome photograph can decisively influence a jury and homosexual...
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome,...
Desperate Passage:The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for...
Executing the Rosenbergs
Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper...
World War II at Sea
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians...
A Genius for Deception:How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that...
The Missing Martyrs
Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on...
The War That Forged a Nation
Why the Civil War Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured...
Democracy
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In our time, the term "democracy" is frequently evoked to express aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that claim to benefit more than a select minority of the population. In this book, Temma Kaplan examines attempts from ancient Mesopotamia to the early...
Peaceable Kingdom Lost
The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with...
Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity
A History of Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit...