Science is a highly competitive and ruthless discipline, and only its most determined and passionate practitioners make headlines - and history. This title explores some of the greatest breakthroughs in science, revealing the extreme lengths some scientists go to in order to make their theories publ[...]

This third edition provides a general but comprehensive introduction to the most important methods and techniques of geophysical exploration. These methods represent a primary tool for investigation of the subsurface and are applicable to a very wide range of problems. The book incorporates many sug[...]

SUCCESS CAN BE YOURS WITH MICHAEL BROOKS' "INSTANT RAPPORT" POSSESS THE POWER OF RAPPORT"Instant Rapport" allows you to forge an immediate bond with anyone, anywhere. It will literally reform the way the world sees you. Author Michael Brooks -- nationally acclaimed communications expert -- shares th[...]

The thrilling exploration of the secret side of scientific discovery --proving that some rules were meant to be broken scientists have colluded in the most successful cover-up of modern times. They present themselves as cool, logical, and level-headed, when the truth is that they will do anything --[...]

Is 96 percent of the universe missing? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? This book presents thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, it captures the excite[...]

This best-selling textbook provides an in-depth look at management of the front office and how this department interacts with other hotel departments to create a memorable guest experience. The eighth edition been revised with new material on the potential impact of automated information technologie[...]

This major new book with essays by prominent scholars presents the austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in context of their faith and community at Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., the spiritual centre of the Shaker world. Outstanding examples of furniture, textiles, tools, machinery, books, drawings, [...]

The Ku Klux Klan emerged in Wood County, Ohio, in late 1922, and at its peak, the white supremacist group numbered nearly 1,400 members in the county. Klan members occupied many municipal and county-elected positions, and nearly 40 percent of the Protestant ministers of Wood County joined the group [...]