This illustrated book describes how geniuses--from obvious choices such as Albert Einstein to less obvious figures like author Isabel Allende--have used specific mental skills that all individuals possess to create breakthrough ideas in the arts and sciences. The authors insist that all geniuses experience a slow process of intellectual evolution, ...
Straight Parents, Gay Children is Robert Bernstein's moving account of how he came to terms with his daughter's homosexuality and how the experience has enriched his life. Bernstein -- winner of the 1996 Award for Best Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance, awarded by the Gustaves Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America -- ...
Financial Statement Analysis, 10e, emphasizes effective business analysis and decision making by analysts, investors, managers, and other stakeholders of the company. It continues to set the standard in showing students the keys to effective financial statement analysis. The textbook is set up in a three part framework which makes this textbook ...
A personal account of a breast cancer patient who took part in Genentech's clinical trials for a powerful treatment drug, Herceptin, and the positive results she experienced without any disabling side effects.
As the British trade deficit continues to grow, this trenchant, original and timely book on the US deficit and national debt offers much to readers on this side of the Atlantic. The authors explain what national debts and deficits are, and what they are not. One thing they are not nearly as big as we think. Another thing they are not is a burden ...
Many modern medical practices began as old wives' tales or folk remedies. "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels" investigates a multicultural variety of age-old remedies often dismissed by 20th-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity. This book calls upon the medical establishment to ...
"Discovering" is an experimental work. It attempts not merely to look at what scientists do but to get inside their minds to find out how, to see science as the imaginative endeavour of the people who do it. Using a fictional format, the author unveils the discovery process in action through the discussions of six characters who attend a ...
Lifespan Development in Context corresponds to the organization of most lifespan development and developmental psychology textbooks, beginning with issues involving birth and infancy, continuing with childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and concluding with issues concerning dying and death. Each chapter contains 4-6 personal narratives, and each ...
The long, colorful career of producer Walter Wanger (1894-1968) represents one of Hollywood's greatest untold stories. Married to actress Joan Bennett, he is perhaps best remembered for shooting his wife's lover in a Beverly Hills parking lot and for his involvement with the catastrophic Cleopatra. But Wanger was also an intellectual sophisticate ...
Introduces research methods in political science, adopting a "learning by doing" approach. The book develops and tests hypotheses about cause and effect and assumes no prior knowledge of statistics. Chapters on measurement and data analysis include details on computer usage for real world practice.
When Leder's parents, Jewish, socialist Russian immigrants, decided to bring their young family to Russia to join the Birobidzhan community, the proposed Jewish homeland, they were unaware of how fast they would become disillusioned. They returned to the United States after only two years. However, Mary Leder, their teenage daughter, was unable to ...
The public has long been painfully aware of the economy's stagnation. The contemporary recession has brought to the foreground problems which have been germinating for decades. Falling real wages, slow productivity growth, and the loss of international competitiveness in major industries all are outgrowths of long-term developments that predate ...
Five leaders of the book industry--Robert Bernstein, Erwin Glikes, Arthur Rosenthal, Peter Mayer, and Michael Kruger--engage in lively discussions about the book trade.
Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his contributions to aesthetics and social theory. Critics have always complained about the lack of a practical, political or ethical dimension to Adorno's philosophy. In this highly original contribution to the literature on Adorno, J. M. Bernstein offers the first attempt in any language to provide an account ...
When basketball hero Magic Johnson recently announced that he had tested positive for HIV, the public naturally assumed it was only a matter of time before he developed full-blown AIDS. But is the link between HIV and AIDS really established? Most physicians now believe that HIV is tantamount to a death sentence. They also believe that AIDS is a ...
Bernstein tells the moving story of how his daughter's coming out not only liberated her but enriched his own life. He also issues a call to action to all parents to speak out on behalf of their gay children.
Practical KDE suits your needs if you need to learn how to run KDE on your Linux system efficiently, effectively, and with an understandable guide that you can refer to over and over. Topics covered in Practical KDE include installation, configuration, adding applications to the desktop, navigating the desktop, manipulating file archives, ...
This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, ...
Inventor, business-man, playboy...super hero! Gravely injured in combat, billionaire genius Tony Stark saved his own life by designing a life-sustaining shell - the hi-tech protective covering that transformed him into the invincible Iron Man! Now, the world believes him to be Tony Stark's personal bodyguard. In this dual role, he faces boardroom ...
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