Why is stitch-and-glue boatbuilding so popular? Any number of construction methods will produce a beautiful boat. But for the backyard builder with limited experience and a tight budget, the choice is not so complicated. Traditional plank-on-frame and cold-molded construction require complicated lof[...]
Why do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public mood? If so, how can we accurately take its pulse?Only one tool of the human mind has the power and versa[...]
This collection of nearly three hundred letters gives us the life of Elia Kazan unfiltered, with all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such an important and formidable stage director ("A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman"), film director ("On the Waterfront, East of Eden[...]
Learn how to make boutique-style jewelry at home with this fully illustrated guide. The art of wire wrapping, beading, coiling, riveting, and using precious metal clay is described in detail for the beginning to advanced crafter. Illustrated instructions on using wire, beads, crystals, precious meta[...]
Seven erotic tales of paranormal suspense explore the sensual potentials of their main character's alter egos and include contributions by such writers as Sasha White, Lisa Renee Jones, and Cathryn Fox. Original. 40,000 first printing.[...]
Awaken the Fantasy present an anthology of erotic, holiday-themed works tinged by paranormal, humorous, and fantasy elements.[...]
From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Girl Lost comes a compelling new series ...Inspector Devlin is called to investigate a case of arson: a burning barn and, inside, the charred remains of a local drug dealer.Suspicions quickly fall on a local vigilante group that calls itself "the [...]
One of the most exciting and talked about aspects of the HTML5 specification is the introduction of in-browser multimedia. Websites no longer have to rely on a third-party tool such as Flash or Silverlight to play video and audio. This book is an easy, approachable guide to building native HTML5 mu[...]
This book provides an account of those parts of contemporary set theory that are relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the text is written in an easy-going style, with a minimum of formalism. The book begins with a review o[...]
From the parking lot to the exam room, doctors can improve the physical surroundings for their patients, yet often they do not. Given the numerous and varied duties doctors must perform, it may fall to the design profession to implement changes, many based on research, to improve healthcare experien[...]
"There's hot, and then there's Delilah Devlin. She's in a class by herself." -National bestselling author Sylvia Day. Eirik, heir to the Ulfhednars kingdom, was seduced and kidnapped by a bounty-hunting vixen. Now a pleasure slave, he is forced to feed the lustful whims of the elite. He bides his ti[...]
A guide to roots and derivations prefaces the uncategorized entries, listed alphabetically for quick reference[...]
A companion volume to the hit CBS television series Numb3rs explains the real-life mathematical techniques used by law enforcement agencies to help catch and convict criminals and presenting compelling real-life cases to demonstrate how advanced mathematics is used in state-of-the-art criminal inves[...]
Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If there's some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking--which there must be, otherwise no one could do it --why can't we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving t[...]
An account of the Clay Foundation's 2000 competition to solve seven high-level math problems references the Hilbert Problems of 1900 and cites the Millennium Problems' significance in the fields of math and science. 30,000 first printing.[...]
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat explaining tha[...]
This book presents a clear and precise discussion of the biochemistry of eukaryotic cells, particularly those of mammalian tissues, relates biochemical events at a cellular level to the subsequent physiological processes in the whole animal, and cites examples of abnormal biochemical processes in hu[...]
Examines five areas of Americans' built environment and looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives.[...]
Designed for the research methods/experimental psychology course found in psychology departments, this text is a required course for all psychology majors and is usually taken at the sophomore/junior level. This course frequently has a lab component to the course with an emphasis on students actuall[...]