Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when personal revelations are posted on the Internet or sensationalized on afternoon talk shows, we risk losing touch with how important secrets[...]
The How to!series offers practical teaching ideas within a clear, theoretical framework. Each title includes a photocopiable 'Task File' of training and reflection activities to reinforce the theories and practical ideas presented.[...]
In Microsoft's Office 2003, users experience the merger of the power of the classic Office suite of applications with the fluidity of data exchange inherent in XML. With XML at its heart, the new version of Microsoft's desktop suite liberates the information stored in millions of documents created w[...]
XSLT is an essential tool for converting XML into other kinds of documents: HTML, PDF file, and many others. It's a critical technology for XML-based platforms such as Microsoft .NET, Sun Microsystems' Sun One, as well as for most web browsers and authoring tools. As useful as XSLT is, however, most[...]
How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in "Mind in Life". Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary t[...]
Draws on philosophical, literary, political, and musical sources as well as contemporary accounts to trace the shift in the status of instrumental music and the attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.[...]
This book proves an analogue of William Thurston's celebrated hyperbolic Dehn surgery theorem in the context of complex hyperbolic discrete groups, and then derives two main geometric consequences from it. The first is the construction of large numbers of closed real hyperbolic 3-manifolds which bou[...]
Why have governments responded to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in such different ways? During the past quarter century, international agencies and donors have disseminated vast resources and a set of best practice recommendations to policymakers around the globe. Yet the governments of developing countries[...]
Outer billiards is a basic dynamical system defined relative to a convex shape in the plane. B.H. Neumann introduced this system in the 1950s, and J. Moser popularized it as a toy model for celestial mechanics. All along, the so-called Moser-Neumann question has been one of the central problems in t[...]
The collapse of the USSR, the end of the Cold War and the opening of the Soviet archives have transformed both what is known about the events of the Stalin period and the historian's perspective. Published 50 years after his death, this revised and expanded second edition looks at the entire period [...]
For decades, neuroscientists, psychologists, and an army of brain researchers have been struggling, in vain, to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Now there is a clear trail to the answer, and it leads through the dense jungle of quantum physics, Zen, and subjective experience, and arrives at[...]
Isa Moskowitz's "Vegan With a Vengeance" and Sarah Kramer's "How It All Vegan!" showed the world that plant-based cookbooks don't have to be full of sanctimonious text and wilted sprouts recipes. But why should vegans have all the fun? Food-blogging duo Alex Brown and Evan George--better known as Ho[...]
A wide-ranging, well-researched biography of Robert Kennedy delves deeply into the life of this shy, crusading, and sometimes ruthless politician, uncovering his use of "back channels" in politics, his involvement with Marilyn Monroe, and the campaign that ended with his assassination. Reprint. 50,[...]
"Sea of Thunder" is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought. Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of commanders and sailors of both navies, Thomas's history adds an imp[...]
Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect ' and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on business, he spends the empty hours of the night in a compulsive search for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to an early morning confrontation in a mid-town brothe[...]
The communications revolution and increased democratisation and globalisation have made every country more aware of its image and reputation - its 'national brand'. Whether a country needs to build international coalitions against terrorism, encourage cooperation to protect the environment, or attra[...]
After there was Deadpool...and before there was Deadpool again...there was Agent X He's a merc, check. With a mouth, check. And an uncanny healing factor...hey, what gives here? Prepare to find out as the adventures of Alex "Agent X" Hayden race to a dramatic conclusion - and one way or another, th[...]
"There are millions of idiots running around calling themselves Gurus. Evan is different. He goes in and simply gets it done the right way-legally, quick, and smart. Every company I start goes through Evan. I'd be crazy not to use him." -Peter Shankman Outsmarting Google Breakthrough Google site o[...]
Picture this: it's Saturday afternoon and you're putting the finishing touches on tomorrow's sermon. You've been thinking, researching, and praying about this message all week, and, thankfully, feel pretty prepared. That is, except for one small detail--you aren't sure how to begin.For over thirty y[...]
What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait of an anxious introvert who strug[...]