The "New York Times" bestseller?and the candid voice of an American president
In 1974, "Newsweek" correspondent Thomas M. DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet. He then extracted a promise not to publish it. ?Write it when I?m[...]

Alcohol is not only big business. It is an essential part of social relations in so many cultures that its global importance may be outdistancing its critics. What does sake tell us about Japan or burgundy about France? How does consuming or indeed abstaining from alcohol tie in with self-presentati[...]

&>Elements of Ecology, Ninth Edition continues to explain ecological processes clearly and concisely, with a greater emphasis on the relevance of ecology to everyday life and the human impact on ecosystems. This dramatically revised edition discusses issues of human ecology throughout the text and p[...]

Author Thomas McCann invites readers to rethink their approach to teaching writing by capitalizing on students' instinctive desire to talk. Drawing on extensive classroom research, he shows teachers how to craft class discussions that build students' skills of analysis, problem-solving, and argument[...]

When people hear "the Cloud", they think of cloud computing and Salesforce.com, just a sliver of what the Cloud is today. The Cloud has grown: it represents the consummate disrupter to structure; a pervasive social and economic network that will soon connect and define more of the world than any oth[...]

This book is a winner of the British Medical Association award (Dermatology Book Category) and the The Society of Authors & the Royal Society of Medicine 2005 book awards (New Edition of an Edited Book). The most complete, in-depth coverage of the field available today in one source! It focuses part[...]

The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains the book's tradition of clear, thought-provoking instruction. Readers are provided once again with an instructive mix of mathematics, physics, statistics, and in[...]

In the age of regionalisation and globalisation, the law and policy of international trade regulation moves center stage. The field, though, has lacked comprehensive coverage, and access to materials and cases in WTO, EC and Swiss law has been difficult. The WTO, recognised as one of the most import[...]

Regelverket om åtgärder mot penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism har under de senaste åren kommit allt mer i fokus både för en bredare allmänhet och för många olika verksamhetsutövare. Frågorna är av internationellt intresse och den 15 mars 2009 infördes nya svenska EU-anpassade [...]

Transactional Analysis delineates three observable ego-states (Parent, Adult, and Child) as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. "Happy childhood" notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the Not ok feelings of a defenseless child, dependent on ok othe[...]

This title now updated: the definitive neuroscience resource-from Eric R. Kandel, MD (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000); James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Jessell, PhD; Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD; and A. J. Hudspeth, PhD 900 full-color illustrations. Deciphering the link between the human brain [...]