The groundbreaking "New York Times" bestseller, now available for the first time in trade paperback, features a new Introduction by Dr. Hilda Hutcherson, who brings the research in the book up-to-date and explains its continued relevance.[...]
Matters of perceived fairness and justice run deep in the workplace. Workers are concerned about being treated fairly by their supervisors; managers generally are interested in treating their direct reports fairly; and everyone is concerned about what happens when these expectations are violated. Th[...]
Systems modelling is an essential enabling technique for any systems engineering enterprise. This book provides an introduction to the systems engineering modelling language, the SysML, aimed at systems engineering practitioners at various levels of abilities, ranging from students to experts.[...]
A definitive series of talks by two acknowledged masters of consciousness exploration on uses of the flotation tank.[...]
George Berkeley's philosophy of immaterialism is still influential three hundred years after the publication of his most widely read book, "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous". Berkeley published the "Dialogues" because of the unenthusiastic reception of his "Principles of Human Knowledge" [...]
Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they'd covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house [...]
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augusta Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, [...]
Karim Khan Zand was an exceptional Persian ruler of the eighteenth century. Formerly an obscure Tribal chieftain, he came to power in the chaotic interregnum following the death of Nader Shah Afshar, a man celebrated for expelling the Afghan invaders from Iran but notorious for his subsequent tyran[...]