We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been sufficien[...]

Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be accomp[...]

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory.[...]

Twenty-five years ago, Michael Green, John Schwarz, and Edward Witten wrote two volumes on string theory. Published during a period of rapid progress in this subject, these volumes were highly influential for a generation of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made [...]

Written by PETER STRAUB & MICHAEL EASTON Art and cover by JOHN BOLTON New York Times best-selling author Peter Straub resurrects his most sinister creation, Fielding "Fee" Bandolier, the unstoppable serial killer last seen in Straub's bestseller, The Throat. Aging and tired of a life devoted to deat[...]

Written by John Broome Art by Gil Kane, Joe Giella & Murphy Anderson Cover by Gil Kane & Joe Giella DC adds a new title to the CHRONICLES series: GREEN LANTERN CHRONICLES, collecting the adventures of Hal Jordan in the exact order of their original publication. In this first volume featuring SHOWC[...]

Total support for Standard and Higher IB Psychology, the IB approach to learning, and all aspects of your assessment.[...]

Gardeners and homeowners will relish the scaled-down technical specifications, design ideas and implementation advice presented in this book. Until now, books on green roofs have been aimed at architects, public planners and other professionals but this book uses domestic case studies to inspire, in[...]

Miles Halter är nöjd med att lämna sitt trista liv bakom sig: föräldrar, high school och ytliga bekanta. Han ska börja på internatskolan Culver Creek i Alabama och ser fram emot allt nytt som detta för med sig. Han vill börja om på nytt med sitt liv. Och visst förändras hans liv. Han få[...]