This vitally important expose shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book t[...]

Offers an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. In this title, the author uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care.[...]

A popular account of why scientists think life might be plentiful on other worlds.

Written in verse, this was Vikram Seth's first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of California's silicon valley, it is the story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.[...]

"Blood Magick" is a synthesis of ancient tradition and contemporary innovations designed for both the discerning adept seeking to incorporate blood into existing disciplines and beginning practitioners taking their first steps into the occult world.[...]

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
So begins "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a myster[...]

In "The Icarus Deception", Seth Godin's most inspiring book, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus' father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning and plunged to his doom.

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The founder of Yoyodyne explains how marketing specialists can shape messages to promote a willing acceptance by consumers and offers advice on how to enhance marketing effectiveness by building long-term relationships with customers, creating trust, building brand awareness, and more. 40,000 first [...]

Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes - we are quick to call them 'natural disasters.' But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did they just ravage our image of the park as a fixed, unchanging national treasure? This lucid, lively [...]