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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2006-04-18
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0374292795
ISBN-13: 9780374292799
The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place. This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred pages of fresh reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman’s travels around the world and across the American heartland—from anyplace where the flattening of the world is be...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:43pm CET
Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner & Outer Planets (Llewellyn’s Modern Astrology Library)
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 087542094X
ISBN-13: 9780875420943
Discover the inner secrets of Chiron, the most recently discovered planet, and see how it is interpreted in astrological charts with Chiron by Barbara Hand Clow. Chiron is a peculiar planetoid that orbits the Sun from between Saturn and Uranus. Its discovery in 1977 was concurrent with the explosion of divination, alternative healing techniques, and a new hope for a spiritual regeneration. Chiron explores this planet’s mythological background and history as well as its effect on astrology. This comprehensive book includes: • The meaning of Chiron when it appears in each ho...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:37pm CET
Your Business Brickyard: Getting back to the basics to make your business more fun to run.
Publisher: Jackson Business Press
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0980154308
ISBN-13: 9780980154306
The basics. That is what you lost when you went from feeling like, I am going to make my mark, to It is too hard to keep up so let us just try to survive. It is time to admit you re not having fun anymore. Only then can you find your way back to the beginning when your business was all promise and no misery. Only then can you build (and keep building on) the basics that will never let you down. This small book contains the secret basics to unlock the true power and potential of your business. Strategist, speaker and consultant Howard Mann has collected twelve bricks essential to any business f...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:32pm CET
Digital Business Ecosystems
Publisher: European Commission
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-09
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 9279018175
ISBN-13: 9789279018176
It goes on to elaborate that….A natural life ecosystem is defined as a biological community of interacting organisms plus their physical environment. In the same way, a business ecosystem is "the network of buyers, suppliers and makers of related products or services” plus the socio-economic environment, including the institutional and regulatory framework.A digital ecosystem is a self-organising digital infrastructure aimed at creating a digital environment for networked organisations that supports the cooperation, the knowledge sharing, the development of open and adaptive technologies a...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:25pm CET
Marketing Out Of Control
Publisher: Marketing1by1, LLC
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2007-09-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0615163165
ISBN-13: 9780615163161
The consumer has taken control of the marketing process. With over 2 billion searches per day and countless retail visits and telephone calls, customers are taking the initiative. They have access to more information than ever before and the ability to communicate instantly with friends, marketers and trusted sources. The combination of unlimited choice and the ability to find anything and everything quickly has shifted the power from manufacturers and retailers to their customers. Google, Yahoo, shopping comparison sites and peer reviews have all contributed to empowering consumers in the...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:24pm CET
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192853864
ISBN-13: 9780192853868
This accessible volume covers both the teachings of the Buddha and the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? What or who is the Buddha, and what are his teachings? How has Buddhist thought developed over the centuries, and how can contemporary dilemmas be faced from a Buddhist perspective? Words such as "karma" and "nirvana" have entered our vocabulary, but what do they really mean? Keown has taught Buddhism at an introductory level for many years, and in this book he provides a lively, challenging response to these frequently asked questions....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:22pm CET
Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development
Publisher: Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-10-10
List price: $29.98
ISBN-10: 0615250386
ISBN-13: 9780615250380
This volume features four chapters on current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil. Each chapter is authored by legal scholars affiliated to the Fundacao Getulio Vargas law schools in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro. The volume is edited by Lea Shaver of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Each chapter examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in Brazil. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:21pm CET
Chiron: Healing Body & Soul (Special Topics in Astrology)
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0738707171
ISBN-13: 9780738707174
Since Chiron’s discovery forty years ago, astrologers have posed countless theories on the irrefutable impact of the “dark horse” planet. Going a step further, Martin Lass presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of the Chiron paradigm, demonstrating the comet’s healing influence on present and past-life wounds. From its mythology, birth, and discovery to its astrological impact, Lass offers a comprehensive understanding of Chiron and its place in the New Age movement. Highlighting its essential role in the horoscope, the author details Chiron’s planetary c...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:17pm CET
Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Currents)
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1576753611
ISBN-13: 9781576753613
From the cofounder of Working Assets comes a visionary plan to upgrade capitalism....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:11pm CET
Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1598632205
ISBN-13: 9781598632200
Boudoir photography does not require its subject to be a beautiful, physically flawless woman. It does not require the use of extravagantly expensive equipments, props, and studio space. In fact, the very essence of boudoir photography is the idea that its subject is not a professional model and is not even necessarily in the boudoir. No longer confined to the idea of heavy makeup, lingerie, and the bedroom, the new age of boudoir photography is casual, sensual, and sexy. That is the premise behind Digital Boudoir Photography. Firmly grasping the freedom that digital photography affords, this ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:42pm CET
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0465087868
ISBN-13: 9780465087860
In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition --the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:39pm CET
Territory: A Short Introduction (Short Introductions to Geography)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-10-14
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1405118318
ISBN-13: 9781405118316
This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine.A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territor...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:34pm CET
Using Technical Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Applying Stock Market Charting Techniques, Revised Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1557385270
ISBN-13: 9781557385277
In Using Technical Analysis author Clifford Pistolese shows average investors how they too can reap the benefits of technical analysis. Well-organized and easy-to-understand, this book explains a variety of approaches to analyzing and interpreting stock market charts. This edition includes chapters on moving averages and accumulation/distribution analysis. Topics include: Basic and complex chart patterns Analyzing trading volume Identifying long-term trends Market timing tactics Self-teaching exercises Glossary of terms...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:31pm CET
Modeling Risk: Applying Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting, and Optimization Techniques (Wiley Finance)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2006-05-19
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0471789003
ISBN-13: 9780471789000
This completely revised and updated edition of Applied Risk Analysis includes new case studies in modeling risk and uncertainty as well as a new risk analysis CD-ROM prepared by Dr. Mun. On the CD-ROM you’ll find his Risk Simulator and Real Options Super Lattice Solver software as well as many useful spreadsheet models. "Johnathan Mun’s book is a sparkling jewel in my finance library. Mun demonstrates a deep understanding of the underlying mathematical theory in his ability to reduce complex concepts to lucid explanations and applications. For this reason, he’s my favo...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:27pm CET
Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803220
ISBN-13: 9780192803221
At a time when Christianity is flourishing in the Southern Hempisphere but declining in much of the West, Linda Woodhead offers a bold new overview of the world’s largest religion. In a fascinating and engaging fashion, she explores the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and traces its course over two millennia. Christianity addresses topics that other books neglect, for example the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches’ uses of power, and their struggles with modernity. Also considered is the recent charismatic explosion ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:25pm CET
Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0691010390
ISBN-13: 9780691010397
Corporate finance and corporate strategy have long been seen as different sides of the same coin. Though both focus on the same broad problem, investment decision-making, the gap between the two sides--and between theory and practice--remains embarrassingly large. This book synthesizes cutting-edge developments in corporate finance and related fields--in particular, real options and game theory--to help bridge this gap. In clear, straightforward exposition and through numerous examples and applications from various industries, Han Smit and Lenos Trigeorgis set forth an extended valuation frame...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:21pm CET
English Law 2/e
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Number of Pages: 1009
Published: 2006-04-07
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 1859418988
ISBN-13: 9781859418987
Substantially updated, this new edition includes the changes made to the English legal system and to substantive parts of English law. Colourfully illustrated with case examples and supported by a free companion website, giving all readers access to regular legal updates on the areas covered in the book, it offers a clear, reliable and excellent encyclopaedic exposition of English law. Presented in an easy-to-read style, it provides readers with an accurate explanation of how the English legal system currently works and the content of English law in all it’s key areas of operation. With ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:21pm CET
An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
Publisher: Dover Publications
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0486442284
ISBN-13: 9780486442280
In a relatively simple presentation that remains close to familiar concepts, this text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students introduces modern developments of quantum field theory. "Combines thorough knowledge with a high degree of didactic ability and a delightful style." — Mathematical Reviews. 1961 edition....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:19pm CET
Charting Made Easy
Publisher: Marketplace Books
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1883272599
ISBN-13: 9781883272593
John Murphy presents a treasure trove of easy-to-use tools for mapping your course through today’market. Whether you’re using online charts or a professional charting software program, these techniques from master technician John Murphy can increase your trading success. He presents basic principles of technical analysis in easy-to-understand terms. In addition, he covers: All types of chart analysis, "need-to-know" concepts, including trendlines, moving averages, price gaps, reversal patterns, volume & open interest spreads, and more!...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:18pm CET
Crime and Punishment: Level 6 (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2006-03-16
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 1405833483
ISBN-13: 9781405833486
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:28pm CET
Essential Management Accounting: How to Maximise Profit and Boost Financial Performance. Belinda Steffan (Sunday Times)
Publisher: Kogan Page
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2008-07
List price: $19.38
ISBN-10: 0749450673
ISBN-13: 9780749450670
"Essential Management Accounting" demystifies management accounting techniques and helps you to apply these techniques across all areas of your business. Unlike other books in this area, "Essential Management Accounting" is not only a crucial primer on basic accountancy but also an important exploration of how management accounting techniques can be built into other management areas to maximize business performance. Backed up with empirical data and real-world case studies drawn from the author’s twelve years of experience in the field, "Essential Management Accounting" will enable you t...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:19pm CET
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s (Wiley Investment Classics)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-09-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471189529
ISBN-13: 9780471189527
Only Yesterday Hailed as a classic even when it was first published in 1931, Only Yesterday remains one of the most vivid and precise accounts of the volatile stock market and the heady boom years of the 1920’s. A vibrant social history that is unparalleled in scope and accuracy, it artfully depicts the rise of post - World War I prosperity, the catalytic incidents that led to the Crash of 1929, and the devastating economic decline that ensued?all set before a colorful backdrop of flappers, Al Capone, the first radio, and the "scandalous" rise of skirt hemlines. Now, this mesmeriz...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:12pm CET
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0071432175
ISBN-13: 9780071432177
Agile, strategic supply chain management is a key competitive necessity in today’s no-room-for-error business arena. And few organizations have acquired more knowledge--and demonstrated better results--than the team at global management consultancy Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, and McGrath (PRTM). In the breakthrough reference Strategic Supply Chain Management, two of PRTM’s leading consultants in this practice explain everything that corporate decision-makers need to know to create value and competitive advantage from their supply chains....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:09pm CET
Backfire: Carly Fiorina’s High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-02-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0471267651
ISBN-13: 9780471267652
An insider’s look at the internal turmoil at one of the world’s premier high-tech companies This is the inside story of Hewlett-Packard Company’s struggle to regain its former glory, and of the high-stakes battle between CEO Carly Fiorina and family scion Walter Hewlett over how best to achieve that goal. For decades, HP was admired not only for its innovative products and soaring stock price, but for its egalitarian corporate culture and father-knows-best integrity. Backfire explains how the company fell on hard times, recounts the historic decision that made Fiorina the ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:05pm CET
Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires
Publisher: AMACOM
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814473563
ISBN-13: 9780814473566
Now anyone can be an online millionaire! These days it’s easier, cheaper, and safer than ever to start an Internet business using readily available technology and turnkey opportunities. In this strategy-packed guide, Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple methods he and thousands of others have used to strike it rich on the Net. Exclusive interviews with "mom and pop" entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a million-dollar enterprise. Readers get: * a guide to e-business opportunities, including "instant e-businesses" that require no start-up capital * strate...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 7:59pm CET
Sourcing Strategy: Principles, Policy and Designs
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387251820
ISBN-13: 9780387251820
Sourcing Strategy is about sourcing as a long term strategic activity. Myopic purchasing management stops short with describing functional procedures and procedural innovations such as online order processing. The goal of this book is not merely to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the tools to determine it. Therefore, rather than merely describe common sourcing processes, the book takes a normative approach to sourcing strategy. It argues for a rational, complete and integrated process view. It supports its recommendations with logical arguments from an interdisciplinary and analyti...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 7:57pm CET
The Incredible Payback: Innovative Sourcing Solutions That Deliver Extraordinary Results (Korean Edition)
Publisher: AMACOM
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-11-19
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0814472079
ISBN-13: 9780814472071
The authors of the widely acclaimed The Purchasing Machine deliver an eye-opening look at the power of supply management with The Incredible Payback.This timely book presents amazing success stories from best-of-the-best procurement organizations like Honda, Delphi, John Deere, and others.Using the same cost-management strategies implemented at these leading organizations, The Incredible Payback shows how any company can reap benefits including:* saving up to 30 percent on material and service expenses* leveraging technology to accelerate savings* high-yield supplier development programs* exte...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 7:55pm CET
Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1995-03-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226300862
ISBN-13: 9780226300863
Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E. Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. She demonstrates that the syntactic patterns associated with simple sentences are imbued with meaning--that the constructions themselves carry meaning independently of the words in a sentence. Goldberg provides a comprehensive account of the relation between verbs and constructions, offering ways to relate verb and constructional meaning, and to capture relations among cons...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:54pm CET
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226072835
ISBN-13: 9780226072838
In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key in...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:52pm CET
Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393330729
ISBN-13: 9780393330724
"Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time."—The EconomistThis acclaimed study from the authors of "One Hell of a Gamble" brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing on their unrivaled access to Politburo and KGB materials, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali combine new insights into the Cuban missile crisis as well as startling narratives of the contests for Suez, Iraq, Berlin, and Southeast Asia, with vivid portraits of leaders who challenged ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:49pm CET
Microstructure of Steels and Cast Irons (Engineering Materials and Processes)
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540209638
ISBN-13: 9783540209638
The book comprises three parts. Part 1 gives a historical description of the development of ironworking techniques since the earliest times. Part 2 is the core of the book and deals with the metallurgical basis of microstructures, with four main themes: phase diagrams, solidification processes, diffusion, and solid state phase transformations. Part 3 begins by an introduction to steel design principles. It then goes on to consider the different categories of steels, placing emphasis on their specific microstructural features. Finally, a comprehensive reference list includes several hundred pe...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:44pm CET
Chinese Cuisine: Taiwanese Style
Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1991-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0941676250
ISBN-13: 9780941676250
Bilingual: English and Chinese....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:37pm CET
Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (Critical Issue Book)
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-01-31
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0809015846
ISBN-13: 9780809015849
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Stephanson explores the origins of Manifest Destiny--the American idea of providential and historical chosenness--and shows how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years. He traces the roots of Manifest Destiny from the British settlement of North America and the rise of Puritanism through Woodrow Wilson’s efforts to "make the world safe for democracy" and Ronald Reagan’s struggle against the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. The re...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:33pm CET
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-11-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312420277
ISBN-13: 9780312420277
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, 49-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillos gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillos grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution a...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:31pm CET
Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Publisher: For Dummies
Number of Pages: 792
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0471749419
ISBN-13: 9780471749417
With Vista, Windows has had an extreme makeover. Many of the features that were old friends in Windows XP now look and act differently. And if you’re thinking of upgrading to Vista but haven’t done it yet, wow — there are eight different versions! How do you know which one to choose? That’s easy — look in Book One of Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Windows expert Woody Leonhard starts off this everything-you-want-to-know-about -Vista guide by helping you choose the version that fits your needs. He follows that with minibooks Two through...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:28pm CET
Stock Trader’s Almanac 2008 (Almanac Investor Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0470109858
ISBN-13: 9780470109854
The Stock Trader’s Almanac is a practical investment tool that has helped traders and investors forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence for over 40 years. Organized in an easy-to-access calendar format, the 2008 Edition contains historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and alerts users to seasonal opportunities and dangers. For its wealth of information and authority of its sources, the Stock Trader’s Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing. "Jeff Hirsch is following in the great tradition of his f...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:27pm CET
Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521539749
ISBN-13: 9780521539746
This book examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid gener...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:25pm CET
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-03-05
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0811861686
ISBN-13: 9780811861687
Seattle-based design studio Modern Dog’s heady mix of cheeky humor and punk rock aesthetics makes them unique among design firms and a hell of a lot of fun. Gathered here for the first time is their groundbreaking work in poster design over the past two decades. Posters for theater, events, music, social issues, and self-promotion run the gamut of approaches and attitudes, but always reflects founders Mike Strassbuger and Robynne Raye’s distinctive eye. What’s more and unusual in a design monograph their text is laugh-out-loud funny on nearly every page. Interviews with Mike ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:11pm CET
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-05
List price: $64.20
ISBN-10: 0131534483
ISBN-13: 9780131534483
Presents the eleven basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this text explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism, provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school’s beliefs and tenets, and features accessible student-generated sample essays....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:08pm CET
The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (Cornell Paperbacks)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Number of Pages: 457
Published: 1998-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0801485959
ISBN-13: 9780801485954
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:05pm CET
Windows Vista For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-12-13
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0471754218
ISBN-13: 9780471754213
Create music CDs and photo DVDs or even watch TV Move your files to a new computer, or get your old PC ready for Vista The thing that’s made Windows For Dummies so successful is that it’s packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, and much more. Discover how to Find files when they’re hiding Hook up with another computer Make V...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:58pm CET
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1568986262
ISBN-13: 9781568986265
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it’s refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer’s sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication—from magazine, book, and album covers to movie credits and football advertisements. As the practice and appreciation of hand-drawn type grows, it’s time to celebrate the work of those typographers whose every letterform is a work of art. Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty a...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:47pm CET
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))
Publisher: Visual
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-11-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0470045736
ISBN-13: 9780470045732
This book puts visual learners at ease by showing them how to maximize the new Windows features and interface Concise explanations walk readers through more than 150 Windows Vista tasks, covering everything from customizing their desktop to maintaining Windows Vista and networking with another computer or printer Explores the new interface and folder organization system of Vista, both of which enable users to find documents and files more easily than ever Covers the latest release of MovieMaker, Media Player, Internet Explorer, and the new Media Center feature added to Vis...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:46pm CET
The Next Big Investment Boom: Learn the Secrets of Investing from a Master and How to Profit from Commodities
Publisher: Kogan Page
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0749451041
ISBN-13: 9780749451042
Mark Shipman, who has made a fortune since leaving school at the age of 16, is now an investment advisor to a range of prestigious UK clients. Shipman argues that successful investing is not an intellectual challenge but an emotional one. Starting with the how and why of taking responsibility for your money, he describes specific investment strategies he has used with great success. In the second half of the book, he describes commodity markets in detail, an area he himself predicts as a major investment opportunity that could last well over a decade. Both those new to investing and those l...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:45pm CET
Singaporean, Malaysian & Indonesian Cuisine
Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 094167682X
ISBN-13: 9780941676823
Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are located in Southeast Asia. Because of the rich mix of cultures, ethnic groups, and religions, the cuisine of those three countries are greatly influenced by each other as well as such neighboring cultures as China and India. these distinctly diverse blends of culinary characteristics from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia represent the cultural interchange of the region V a true crossroads of Asia. The dishes of SINGAPORE combine spices and cuisine from all over Asia. Hainan Chicken and Rice (Nasi Ayam), Noodles in Spicy Coconut Milk Soup (Laksa Lemak), ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:43pm CET
Handwriting Analysis
Publisher: Newcastle Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1980-10
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 087877050X
ISBN-13: 9780878770502
Here is a fresh new approach to Handwriting Analysis to help you develop a view of the whole person, not just a piecemeal understanding. It offers exciting features not found in conventional books on Graphology: ( An unusually large number of actual size handwriting samples, many of famous people. ( Explanatory material with the samples not in another part of the book. ( New material about determining emotional disturbance and mental illness. ( New ideas on analyzing strokes and shapes. ( New material on understanding the meaning of the writing rhythm. ( Handwriting of children and adolescent...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:27pm CET
Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195331966
ISBN-13: 9780195331967
This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and explicit structural description. Starting with the fundamentals, essential aspects of the theory are systematically laid ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:27pm CET
Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-02-23
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521667704
ISBN-13: 9780521667708
Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in a fast-growing field of linguistics. The much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers th...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 4:08pm CET
Excel as Your Database
Publisher: Apress
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1590597516
ISBN-13: 9781590597514
Excel As Your Database guides those of you who need to manage facts and figuresyet have little experience, budget, or need for a full-scale relational database management system. Youll learn how to use Excel to enter, store, and analyze your data. This book is written and organized in a way that assumes you have some familiarity with Excel, but not with databases. The book features quick-start solutions, practice exercises, troubleshooting tips, and best practices. This book covers Excel 2007 and 2003. The author clarifies not just how to use a technique, but under what realistic scen...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:42pm CET
Belinda
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0425176657
ISBN-13: 9780425176658
"Who was she?" That was the first thought that came into my mind when I saw her in the bookstore.Who was she really?She’s Belinda. She’s sixteen years old. She’s the object of one man’s ultimate fantasy. And she’s one of the most "uniquely sensual and provocative" heroines to emerge from the "fearless" imagination of New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice."Call her the It Girl of contemporary fiction. Whatever the venue, she’s never too squeamish to reach out and touch it."-Rolling Stone"Her voluptuous prose draws readers into an erotic landsca...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:42pm CET
Exit to Eden
Publisher: Avon Red
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0061233498
ISBN-13: 9780061233494
They call her the Perfectionist. A stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer, Lisa is founder and supreme mistress of The Club—an exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing flesh. Here eager participants who can afford life’s most exquisite luxuries can experience the breathtaking pleasures of surrender and submission. Here nothing is taboo. A thrill-seeking photojournalist, Elliott risks his life daily in the most dangerous, war-torn regions on Earth. Now he has come to Paradise to explore his darkest sexual self, committed to the ultimate plunge i...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:37pm CET
Beauty’s Punishment (Sleeping Beauty)
Publisher: Plume
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0452281431
ISBN-13: 9780452281431
An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice’s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and t...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:32pm CET
Language, Mind, and Culture: A Practical Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-12
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195187202
ISBN-13: 9780195187205
How do we make sense of our experience? In order to understand how we construct meaning, the varied and complex relationships among language, mind, and culture need to be understood. While cognitive linguists typically study the cognitive aspects of language, and linguistic anthropologists typically study language and culture, Language, Mind, and Culture is the first book to combine all three and provide an account of meaning-making in language and culture by examining the many cognitive operations in this process. In addition to providing a comprehensive theory of how we can account for mean...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:28pm CET
Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) (GOAL Series)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2001-03-03
List price: $118.00
ISBN-10: 0130313580
ISBN-13: 9780130313584
(Pearson Education) A reference offering practical and example-based information on constructing and understanding modern operating systems. Includes chapters on computer security, multimedia operating systems, multiple processor systems, single processor computer systems, and a score of other topics. Also features a companion Web site. DLC: Operating systems....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:25pm CET
Improving Your Study Skills
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0764578030
ISBN-13: 9780764578038
Study Smart. Study Less. Sports, extracurricular activities, your job, hangin’ with friends—you have a life! You simply don’t have time to spend hours studying every day! Improving Your Study Skills helps you really get cracking when you do crack the books. It helps you cram a lot of learning into a little time with tips on: Using technology to study and work more efficiently Organizing your time and space Note-taking and organization Strengthening your reading skills Choosing classes strategically Getting the typical "10% of your gr...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:22pm CET
Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation
Publisher: Sybex
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2007-04-02
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0470097620
ISBN-13: 9780470097625
This comprehensive guide provides you with the training you need to arm yourself against phishing, bank fraud, unlawful hacking, and other computer crimes. Two seasoned law enforcement professionals discuss everything from recognizing high-tech criminal activity and collecting evidence to presenting it in a way that judges and juries can understand. They cover the range of skills, standards, and step-by-step procedures you’ll need to conduct a criminal investigation in a Windows environment and make your evidence stand up in court....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:19pm CET
Language, Culture, and Mind (Stanfords monographs in linguistics)
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Number of Pages: 622
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 1575864649
ISBN-13: 9781575864648
Language, Culture, and Mind is a stimulating collection exploring the ways that cognitive, social, and cultural categories are revealed through language. Contributors use methods such as psycholinguistic experiments and observations of natural discourse to probe how such categories are organized, with grammatical and semantic analyses—in modern cognitive frameworks—augmenting these approaches. Some of the phenomena studied include the linguistic expression of space and causality; aspect, classifiers, negation, and complement constructions; and metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual ble...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:16pm CET
Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit (Jay Beale’s Open Source Security)
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1597490997
ISBN-13: 9781597490993
This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything from packet inspection to optimizing Snort for speed to using the most advanced features of Snort to defend even the largest and most congested enterprise networks. Leading Snort experts Brian Caswell, Andrew Baker, and Jay Beale analyze traffic from real attacks to demonstrate the best practices for implementing the most powerful Snort features. The accompanying CD contains examples from real attacks allowing readers test their new skills. The book begins with a discussion of packet inspection and the progression from intru...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:26pm CET
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 1364
Published: 2007-11-16
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195143787
ISBN-13: 9780195143782
In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:22pm CET
Hidden Agendas (Tempting SEALs)
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-06-26
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312939930
ISBN-13: 9780312939939
SAVING LIVES IS HIS MISSION.Tough-as-nails Navy SEAL Kell Kreiger is the best there is at searching, rescuing, and taking no prisoners…yet even the rush of ever-more dangerous missions isn’t enough to satisfy him. Haunted by a tortured past, Kell seeks distraction in a secret world of dark intimacies. But when Emily Stanton, the one ray of light in Kell’s shadowy existence, is pursued by a ruthless drug lord, the rules of the game suddenly change—and Kell will have to go deeper undercover than he ever imagined... SAVING HER IS HIS PASSION.Emily has loved Kell ever since...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:19pm CET
Power, State and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2004-11-29
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0072853808
ISBN-13: 9780072853803
This comprehensive theoretically-grounded text provides advanced undergraduates with a highly accessible introduction to political sociology. Students are introduced to major theories of political sociology early in the book, and see them applied to various topic areas in subsequent chapters. Numerous specific examples, from current issues in the United States as well as various historical and comparative settings, illustrate the major political sociological theories. In addition to covering the traditional core of political sociology, the text consciously links major ideas in political soc...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:18pm CET
When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People
Publisher: Career Press
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1564147223
ISBN-13: 9781564147226
Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you’re making frequent conversational errors, but just aren’t sure what’s correct? Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"? If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is or...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:17pm CET
Introduction to Airborne Radar, Second Edition (Aerospace & Radar Systems)
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 1891121014
ISBN-13: 9781891121012
The completely rewritten and revised Second Edition updates a famous work originally published by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Much more than a simple introduction, the book is actually a history, reference, tech manual, and textbook rolled into one beautiful illustrated volume, packed with full color photos, drawings, tables and charts, plus knowledgeable, informative text. Twelve new chapters cover all the sophisticated stealth radar techniques. Over 90% of the illustrations are in color as the book describes over a dozen airborne radar systems currently in service, from long-range survei...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:15pm CET
The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life
Publisher: Atria
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-05-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1416561994
ISBN-13: 9781416561996
A key team member behind The Secret and his business partner offer the specific tools and mental strategies to help readers leap ahead in any career or business venture and achieve major financial success. In this visionary work, New York Times bestselling author John Assaraf and business guru Murray Smith reinvent the business book for the twenty-first century. Two of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, they combine forces to bring their special insights and techniques together in a revolutionary guide for success in the modern business environment. Assaraf and Smith know how to m...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:11pm CET
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Publisher: North Point Press
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-04-22
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0865475873
ISBN-13: 9780865475878
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:09pm CET
Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-10-28
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0742546934
ISBN-13: 9780742546936
Double Standard presents a historical and comparative examination of comprehensive Western European versus minimalist American welfare states. In this book, Russell analyzes how and why social policy and welfare states evolved differently in the two areas. He explores a series of common social problems-from poverty to family support to ethnic and racial conflict-to show how they are handled differently with different consequences. He argues that the European and American social models are in contention for the future of western societies....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:09pm CET
Power: A Critical Reader
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-10-03
List price: $63.60
ISBN-10: 013183438X
ISBN-13: 9780131834385
For courses in political sociology. Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to political sociologists. Readings address both classic issues in political sociology, as well as more recent developments such as globalization. The reader offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism and power structure theory....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:01pm CET
Psychology
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2006-04-14
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0716706172
ISBN-13: 9780716706175
Peter Gray’s Psychology has become a favorite of instructors with its exploration of psychology’s major theories, and the evidence that supports and refutes these theories. Each edition incorporates an exceptional amount of contemporary research, encouraging students to probe for the purposes and biological origins of behavior—the "whys" and "hows" of human psychology. Peter Gray’s engaging, readable writing style makes the science of psychology, and its interactions with biology, accessible and meaningful. With the new edition, Gray has taken care to ensure that his...
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