If you think algebra has to be boring, confusing and unrelated to anything in the real world, think again Written in a humorous, conversational style, this book gently nudges students toward success in pre-algebra and Algebra I. With its engaging question/answer format and helpful practice problems[...]

"Rappaport appears genuinely concerned about the excess focus of financial community on short-term results at the expense of long term value and has produced a well-researched and coherently argued work." ("Decision", Jan 2012).[...]

This is a vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives. On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were [...]

Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address, the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen', a shop full of exotic, expensive creams and potions. Her clientele were aristocratic, rich - and gullible. This is the true story of Madame Rachel who began life as a poor fish fryer in a disease-ridde[...]

At the heart of Capturing the Light, there lies a small scrap of purple-tinged paper, over 170 years old and about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny, ghostly image -- an image so small and perfect that 'it might be supposed to be the work of some Lilliputian artist'; th[...]

Ezra Stoller's iconic photographs of 20th-century architectural masterpieces, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" and Mies van der Rohe's "Seagram Building", are often cited in aiding the rise of modernism in America. Stoller elevated architectural photography to an art form, capturing the m[...]

In this title, a psychiatrist illuminates the untimely loss of her mother, revealing what it can teach us about trauma, memory, and family secrets. In 1963, Nancy Rappaport's mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and public custody battle. Nancy was four years old and her five siblings wer[...]

Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists[...]

The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders. Now, in this substantially revised and updated edition of his 1986 business classic, "Creating Shareholder Value", Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the prac[...]