George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. Gallup had devised an extremely e[...]

The acclaimed authors of The Three Roosevelts redefine the special qualifications and contributions of America's first president, tracing his accomplishments as a Revolutionary War hero and first citizen of a young republic and explaining how his decisions as president established precedents for the[...]

"Det är lika sällsynt som underbart när en bok av ett av våra mest förtroendeingivande intellekt utkommer i precis det historiska ögonblick när den behövs som mest. Allt vi behöver göra är att plocka upp den och kämpa för att förändra historiens riktning." Naomi Klein

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Make simple sense of complex financial information! "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers" helps you understand what the numbers "really" mean--even if you have no experience in finance at all. In addition to a thorough overview of the subject, case studies, and detail[...]

This book focuses on the dynamics of clouds and of precipitating mesoscale meteorological systems. Clouds and precipitating mesoscale systems represent some of the most important and scientifically exciting weather systems in the world. These are the systems that produce torrential rains, severe win[...]

An advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory, The Encyclopedia of the Novel offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre and theory of the novel.[...]

An advanced reference resource, The Encyclopedia of the Novel offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre and theory of the novel, in over 150 articles written by leading scholars in the field * Part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature * Arranged in A-Z format ac[...]