Robert Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music were evident in all his writing. He was an authority on rock & roll, blues, jazz, punk, avant-garde, and world music--often discovering new artists and trends years (even decades) before they hit the mainstream. Noted music writer A[...]

The secret behind "The Secret"- the originator of the belief in the power of positive thinking delivers a completely revised guidebook to success.
Before Rhonda Byrnes delivered the blockbuster bestseller "The Secret," Dr. Robert Anthony was delivering the principles of Total Self-Confidence. H[...]

This commonsense approach to achieving success in one's life offers workable, step-by-step methods and positive visualization techniques to help readers personalize goals, trust creativity, transcend old beliefs and limitations, and transform positive thinking into positive action.[...]

House of Horrors exposes the perverse world of Anthony Sowell, a sexual sadist who murdered 11 women on Cleveland's East Side.
To his neighbors, Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who played chess and hosted summer barbeques in his front yard. But there was a dark side to Sowell - and [...]

New discoveries in the field of stem cells increasingly dominate the news and scientific literature revealing an avalanche of new knowledge and research tools that are producing therapies for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and a wide variety of other diseases that afflict humanity. "The Handbook o[...]

Suitable for the American Board of Internal Medicine's Subspecialty Examination in Gastroenterology, this book offers over 1,000 review questions challenging your mastery of the topics covered on the exam.[...]

This stimulating and accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of political science. Its central theme is the enduring political significance of the modern state despite severe challenges to its sovereignty. There are three main sections to the bo[...]

"Management Control Systems" helps students to develop the insight and analytical skills required of today's managers. Students uncover how real-world managers design, implement, and use planning and control systems to implement business strategies. The 12th edition builds on the strengths of prior [...]

Almost all branches of chemistry and material science now interface with organometallic chemistry-the study of compounds containing carbon-metal bonds. Organometallic compounds range from species which are so reactive that they only have a transient existence at ambient temperatures to species whic[...]