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Here's Looking at Euclid
A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a remarkable...
Euclid's Window
The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions...
The Lie Detectors
The History of an American Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The story of the lie detector takes us straight into the dark recesses of the American soul. It also leads us on a noir journey through some of the most storied episodes in American history. That is because the device we take for granted as an indicator of guilt or innocence actually tells us more...
Superbug
The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it. That pathogen is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus—and Superbug is the first book to...
Gifts of the Crow
How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
CROWS ARE MISCHIEVOUS, playful, social, and passionate. They have brains that are huge for their body size and exhibit an avian kind of eloquence. They mate for life and associate with relatives and neighbors for years. And because they often live near people—in our gardens, parks, and cities—they...
Same Soul, Many Bodies
Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
The bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters breaks new ground to reveal how progression therapy into future lives can help transform us in the present.
How often have you wished you could peer into the future? In Same Soul, Many Bodies, Brian L. Weiss, MD, shows us how. Through envisioning...
The Edge of Evolution
The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
When Michael J. Behe's first book, Darwin's Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe's claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery...
by Elliot Liebow
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1993
He observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant struggles, their humor, compassion and strength.
Ship of Fools
How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new American ruling class, the elites of both parties, who have taken over the ship of state, leaving the rest of us, the citizen-passengers, to wonder: How do we put the country back on course?
Excellent Sheep
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).
As a professor at Yale,...
Learning From Strangers
The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1995
Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between...
by Sumiko Iwao
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.
When the Tea Party Came to Town
Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
When the Tea Party Came to Towndemonstrates Robert Draper’s uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congress—sure to be a classic work.
In When the Tea Party Came to Town, Robert Draper delivers the definitive account of...
Tell Your Children
The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis.
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