Bumblebee Economics. With a New Preface, Revised Edition, Paperback - Bernd Heinrich

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

Reducere. From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, an...

Reducere. Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ...

Reducere. Winner of the New England Book Award Best Nonfiction Award and the Franklin Fairbanks Award of the Fairbanks Museum In a book destined to become a ...

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expressi...

Al-Fārābī who was conferred the distinguished title of al-Mu'allim al-thānī (The Second Teacher), is here sympathetically portrayed as a deeply rel...

Reducere. Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place--a few green acres along...

Reducere. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutiona...

Reducere. In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of th...

Celebrating the 125th anniversary of MacKintosh's birth, this updated edition of the definitive biography includes a new preface.Publisher: Sandsto...

Reducere. "Bernd Heinrich is one of the finest naturalists of our time. Life Everlasting shines with the authenticity and originality that are unique to a li...

Reducere. DescriptionAre you the boss you need to be?You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations fr...

Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Ann...

Reducere. Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, becom...

Reducere. "A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history."...

DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE--AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREER A nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fasci...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, ...

DescriptionAre you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would...

"Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King's dream and the reality of present-day America."--Anthony Walton, Harper's "Inte...

Reducere. DescriptionIn honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking b...

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. DescriptionFive years ago after its original publication on Medium: The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post-Scarcity Society is finally availabl...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public ...

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward O. WilsonView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities""In...

Reducere. Description"A page turner . . . heart-stopping and enraging . . . focused, justified, and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy...

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

Reducere. Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and explor...

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

Reducere. American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title (1999) One of the Globe and Mail's 100 Notable Books of 1998. This classic book on...

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations w...

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

DescriptionA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekUnder certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterf...

With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.