A science reporter pens a riveting tale of the battle over genetically engineered foods and gives an inside look at a biotech food empire. 8-page photo insert.
The Particle Garden is the clearest survey of particle physics, including the theory, its experimental foundations, its relations to cosmology and astrophysics, and its future. Known as an excellent expositor of physics, Kane has marshaled his research and teaching experience to make this daunting subject understandable to all readers.
The definitive introduction to the field of human resource development-fully updated and revised for a new generation of teachers, students, and practitioners
The result of a 15 year exploration of how our lives are affected by digital media and technology, this is based on hundreds of interviews with children and adults. It shows how we fall prey to the illusion of companionship online, gaining thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and how this actually leads to a new solitude.
our modern world, even though it was appropriate to older, simpler times. Working with imagination and often hilarious computer simulations, Dietrich Dorner provides a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers and policy-makers everywhere.
Author Darryl Lyman has assembled 1500 Civil War quotations in a similar format to his much-acclaimed Civil War Wordbook. Extensively indexed by both keyword and subject, it includes biographical sket
In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and shapes the destiny of the universe. Time is among the universe's greatest mysteries. Why, when most laws of physics allow for it to flow forward and backward, does it only go forward? Physicists have long appealed to the second law of thermodynamics, held to predict the increase of disorder in the univ...
This new and expanded edition contains the 112 greatest chess games of all time--selected, analyzed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of experts and illustrated with more than 900 diagrams.
Relive the classic moments from the Peanuts holiday television specials and spend Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine's Day with the Peanuts gang.
In the new-age world Henrietta lives in, everything is ruled by computers. Henrietta finds a wounded Wild House Cat in the attic above her bedroom. This discovery sets off a chain of events that begin to poke holes in the secrets left behind by the well-hidden past. Illustrations.
This beautifully illustrated personal sketchbook, new to our Courage line of lavish gift books, will be catnip for any gardener. (Previous titles featuring Mary Woodin's vibrant watercolor images have
An update on Florida's seminal work of 2002, "The Rise Of The Creative Class". 5 new chapters cover the global effects of the Creative Class and delve into the roles played by technology, race and poverty in perpetuating income inequality, and the pervasive influence of class throughout every aspect of society.
The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family--the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, Bo's secret lovers, the secret maneuverings of Bo's supporters, the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, B...
Eminent historian Randall B. Woods chronicles the life of William Colby, the World War II commando turned CIA director who revealed the enormous promise and devastating failures of American intelligence.
