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Lamarck's Revenge
How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits.
In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory...
Ruled or Misruled
Story and Destiny of Bihar
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
"I have become a fan of this man. One should just meet him to know…†? This is what Nitish Kumar had sai about his now bitter foe Narendra Modi after NDA's 2004 defeat.
"I feel like tying my PWD minister on an empty tractor trolley and run the vehicle at a speed of 60km per hourto...
Brand Vandals
Reputation Wreckers and How to Build Better Defences
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Thanks to the rise of social media, what audiences think and say about organisations has never been more critical. Steve Earl and Stephen Waddington's Brand Anarchy examined the impact of media change and the new reputation landscape brought about by disaffected shareholders, customers and staff voicing...
The International Bank of Bob
Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make...
Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters
Travels through England’s Football Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football.
Watching teams from the Championship (or...
My First Coup d'Etat
And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
MY FIRST COUP D'ETAT is a literary nonfiction account that charts the coming of age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of that first coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father was suddenly missing....
The List
A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List".
In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The...
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2013 season.
Reinventing America's Schools
Creating a 21st Century Education System
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
**From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education.
In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform,...
by Sir Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms,...
by James Geary
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms-and the last few years to organizing, indexing, and even translating them. The result is Geary's Guide, featuring aphorists like Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Emily Dickinson, and Mae...
Witness to Phenomenon
Group ZERO and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris,...
by Dr. Alexis L. Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan...
by Angela Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
First published in 1989, this is an account of the oldest of traditions. It was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England's most aristocratic and eligible girls to society. Though by 1939 the stately gavottes...