Science is a highly competitive and ruthless discipline, and only its most determined and passionate practitioners make headlines - and history. This title explores some of the greatest breakthroughs in science, revealing the extreme lengths some scientists go to in order to make their theories publ[...]

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This third edition provides a general but comprehensive introduction to the most important methods and techniques of geophysical exploration. These methods represent a primary tool for investigation of the subsurface and are applicable to a very wide range of problems. The book incorporates many sug[...]

SUCCESS CAN BE YOURS WITH MICHAEL BROOKS' "INSTANT RAPPORT" POSSESS THE POWER OF RAPPORT"Instant Rapport" allows you to forge an immediate bond with anyone, anywhere. It will literally reform the way the world sees you. Author Michael Brooks -- nationally acclaimed communications expert -- shares th[...]

This major new book with essays by prominent scholars presents the austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in context of their faith and community at Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., the spiritual centre of the Shaker world. Outstanding examples of furniture, textiles, tools, machinery, books, drawings, [...]

The thrilling exploration of the secret side of scientific discovery --proving that some rules were meant to be broken scientists have colluded in the most successful cover-up of modern times. They present themselves as cool, logical, and level-headed, when the truth is that they will do anything --[...]

Easy, enlightening and mind-stretching, here are answers to the 20 biggest questions of quantum physics, relativity and our attempts to grasp the true nature of reality.[...]

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. In this new book, Michael Brooks bridges the gap between theory and practice. He describes an original approach Feedback Strategy that builds on the strengths of previous planning theories with one big difference: it not [...]