Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world?Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed?Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much canCEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does higherpay incentivize people to work hard? If you think the answers t...
In Makeup for Ageless Beauty, internationally renowned makeupartist Linda Mason shares her creative techniques for using makeupto look and feel your best, at every age, every day, to suit everymood and occasion. Linda begins with how to take care of and prepare skin formakeup, create a fresh and beautiful canvas for...
This series of photo books profiling the most famous personalities in the history of cinema contain approximately 150 high quality, enigmatic, and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters, rare film stills, candid shots, as well as essays and career highlights. 本叢書記述了電影史上的傑出人物，每本書含有150幅高品質人像、海報圖片、劇照和生活照，以及精彩小傳。 This s...
This international history uncovers an American securityprogram in which Washington reached into fifteen Latin Americancountries to seize more than 4,000 German expatriates and internthem in the Texas desert. The crowd of Nazi Party members,antifascist exiles, and even Jewish refugees were lumped togetherin camps riv...
For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked incontroversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program.Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with thecreation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalistPete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters...
“Not a day goes by when I don’t wake up and think, just for asecond, usually between taking a leak and brushing my teeth, whatthe hell happened?”Eight years ago, Tom Green lived in his parents’ basement inCanada. He spent his time skateboarding, making funny videos withhis friends, and dreaming of hosting his own talk ...
Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet, these hallmarks of competitive strategy are not the way to create profitable ...
The Cambridge Music Guide is for all those who love music andwish to know more about its colourful history, development andtheory. Superbly illustrated, the Guide is a comprehensive tour ofevery aspect of the new musical world, expertly edited by StanleySadie, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music.
In The Four Cultures of the Academy, William H. Bergquist identified four different, yet interrelated, cultures found in North American higher education: collegial, managerial, developmental, and advocacy. In this new and expanded edition of that classic work, Bergquist and coauthor Kenneth Pawlak propose that there ar...
An encyclopedia of yoga practices, practical yoga, and thephilosophy and background of yoga. Included are three thoroughsections on health and energy levels, postures, and a survey ofyoga’s history.
Authoritatively written by a geographer who has worked on every continent, Human Geography is sensitive to people of other cultures and from all walks of life. * Focuses on key geographic concepts and puts them in practical and current perspective. * Key issues that readers often have strong opinions about are id...
Theory of Association Schemes is the first concept-oriented treatment of the structure theory of association schemes. It contains several recent results which appear for the first time in book form. The generalization of Sylow’s group theoretic theorems to scheme theory arises as a consequence of arithmetical considera...
"This little guide has a pretty great sense of humor, and itmanages to cover a wide variety of topics and answer reallycompelling questions with an easy, light-reading style that willkeep even sleep-deprived new mommies turning itspages."--"Sacramento Parent Magazine"
This critical addition to the growing literature on innovation contains extensive analyses of the institutional and spatial aspects of innovation. Written by leading scholars in the fields of economic geography, innovation studies, planning, and technology policy, the fourteen chapters cover conceptual and measurement ...
WINNER, 2009 Living Now Book Award, Gold MetalIn thisbreakthrough book, Dr. James Forleo proposes a return to the bodyas the site of self-healing. The problem, he says, is that we don’tunderstand the language of signs and symptoms it uses tocommunicate its healing messages. Health Is Simple helps readersdecipher that l...
Synopsis Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life inAlgiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack ofemotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase hisguilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental valuesof society a set of rules so binding that any person break...
Hub Culture takes an in-depth look at one of the most influential marketing target groups to emerge from the 90s - the global urban modernist, a network of modern individualists who now live in a post-national frame of mind and orient themselves around hub living, using urban centers as bases for their particular lifes...
In this book polymath William Ian Miller probes one of the dirtylittle secrets of humanity: that we are all faking it much morethan anyone would care to admit. He writes with wit and wisdomabout the vain anxiety of being exposed as frauds in ourprofessions, cads in our loves, and hypocrites to our creeds. Hefinds, howe...
This book contains the problems and solutions of a famousHungarian mathematics competition for high school students, from1929 to 1943. The competition is the oldest in the world, andstarted in 1894. Two earlier volumes in this series contain thepapers up to 1928, and further volumes are planned. The currentedition ad...
Every 225 million years the Earth, and all the life on it,completes one revolution around our Milky Way Galaxy. During thisremarkable journey, life is influenced by calamitous changes.Comets and asteroids strike the surface of the Earth, stars explodenear by, enormous volcanoes erupt, and more recently, humans litterth...
This bold and illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of the modern Japanese nation and explores the processes by which archaeological practice is shaped by national social and intellectual discourse. Leading Japanese archaeologist Koji Mizoguchi argues that an understanding of the past has...
The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations. "Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller’s recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb...
Designing & Conducting Survey Research, third edition Since it was first published in 1992, Designing and Conducting Survey Research has become the standard reference in the field for public and nonprofit managers who are responsible for conducting effective and meaningful survey research. This updated and expanded th...
Over the past fifty years, local government in Europe has been confronted with escalating scales of production, population migration and market pressures. These developments have complicated its performance, challenged its domain and even threatened its existence. A popular coping strategy is inter-municipal cooperatio...
If you once dreamed of a broadcasting career, or if you’re passionate about a cause you want to share with the world, podcasting may be just what you’re looking for. But it’s not as simple as picking up a microphone—at least, not if you want great results. So pick up Expert Podcasting Practices For Dummies instead, a...
Applied kinesiology uses diagnostic muscle tests inconjunction with standard examination procedures to determine thecauses of health problems. Written for professionals andnonprofessionals alike, Applied Kinesiology includes 32muscle tests and a step-by-step guide for applying specificcorrection techniques.
