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In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not re...

Reducere. In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle--the pages of t...

Reducere. In this delightfully quick, witty, readable, and authoritative guide, Seth Lipsky, legendary newspaperman, places the United States Constitution an...

Embodying the entire system of Robert Henri's teaching, The Art Spirit contains much valuable advice, critical comment, and inspiration to every st...

Reducere. What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symboli...

Reducere. Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X, " has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her wri...

A New York Times Science Bestseller What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never...

Reducere. These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and ...

"Bold and provocative... Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the r...

Reducere. Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who tr...

Reducere. Praised by Entertainment Weekly as the man who put the fizz into physics, Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his l...

Reducere. Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious-or at least edible. ...

Reducere. North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any n...

Reducere. From the Armenian Genocide to the ethnic cleansings of Kosovo and Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence. Yet American leader...

Reducere. In Her Wake is a rare thing: the story of a psychiatrist analyzing her own psychological drama. Nancy Rappaport was just four years old when her mo...

Reducere. In this fully updated edition of Portfolio Management for New Products, the authors present a rigorous and practical approach to managing a company...

Reducere. Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psy...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas S. KiddAt the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths--the First Great Awakeni...

Reducere. In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple, " as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing sieg...

Reducere. Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar...

Reducere. We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the ...

Reducere. From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply im...

Reducere. Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on ...

Reducere. Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolutio...

Why do we want--and why do we do--so many things that are bad for us? And how can we stop? In Mean Genes economist Terry Burnham and biologist Jay ...

Now with a new postscript covering the unfolding health care revolution Mobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revol...

We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzing...

Reducere. In 1587, John White led 117 English men, women, and children to Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. They hoped to establish a British ...

Reducere. In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of 2012Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute...

Reducere. Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the ro...

Reducere. Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Minds has served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with...

Reducere. As a mother, Lisa Guernsey wondered about the influence of television on her two young daughters. As a reporter, she resolved to find out. What she...

Reducere. The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hud...

Reducere. Mark Zuckerberg's inaugural pick for his "Year of Books" challenge, The End of Power updates the very notion of power for the 21st century. Power, ...