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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.

Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things the feminist critic and nivelist Rose Macaulay enjoyed most in life. The complete list consists of: Abroad Album Arm-Chair Astronomy Bakery in the Night Bathing 1 Off the Florida Keys 2 Off the Ligurian Coast 3 In the Cam Bed 1 Getting into it 2 Not getting out of it Believing Bird in the Box Book Auctions Booksellers' Catalogues Bulls Candlemas Ca...

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

Pencil and Ink is a new collection of Frank Cho's personal works that focuses primarily on his exceptional pencil and ink drawings. Filled with over 120 pieces from the last two decades, it contains works not published in Frank's previous book, The Art of Frank Cho. This companion title features his most recent ballpoint-pen women, nudes, sketches and studies of the figure. This reveal Frank's passion for the human form, crosshatching and the ...

A collection of HBR's newest, best, smartest, and most urgent articles on cutting-edge technologies, business models, and innovations of the past year to help you compete today and prepare your company for the future.Curates HBR's latest thinking on the most important advances in technology and new innovations of the past year.Gets leaders and managers up to speed quickly on what they need to know on these topics, and keeps them in the know.He...

BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (foil cover elements + guilded foil page edges).Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do you thrill to the unforgettable stabs of the Psycho score, or the pounding synth of Goblin's soundtrack to Suspiria? Do you find yourself being pulled into the hair-raising modern scores for ...

A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present" (The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice), Yishai Sarid's The Memory Monster is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust.

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.

In this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama. Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femés. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of his life. He has a job, a wife, two children-yet hardly recognizes himself anymore. Pa...

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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.

A cookbook of time-perfected recipes and stories from wise and witty grandmothers across the globe.

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans

Tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Learn why some people work less but earn more. Pay less in taxes, and learn to make their money work for them. It's simply knowing which quadrant to work from - and when. The wealthy know that the keys to wealth and financial freedom are found on the right side of the quadrant, through business and investing.

Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.Melissa Edmundson has curated this selection of the best of Mordaunt's supernatural short fiction, which blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, pos...

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Many people have million-dollar ideas. They're confident that their new product or service or innovation will make them rich and that all their dreams will come true. The problem is: Most people don't know how to turn their million-dollar idea into millions of dollars.According to many social scientists, the most important thing in life is a person's social and professional network. In other words, the people around us--our associates, our tea...