Robert K. Wysocki

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme

Effective Project Management

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Julian Brown

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Quest for the Quantum Computer

"Julian Brown's record of the quest for the Holy Grail of computing - a computer that could, in theory, take seconds to perform calculations that would take today's fastest supercomputers longer than the age of the universe - is a tale, populated by a remarkable cast of characters, including David Deutsch of Oxford University, who first announced the possibilty of computation in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of quantum mechanics; Ed Fredkin, who developed a new kind of logic gate as a true step toward universal computation; and Richard Feynman, who reasoned from the inability to model quantum mechanics on a classical computer the logical inevitability of quantum computing." "Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse details the uses for quantum computing in code breaking, for quantum computers will be able to crack many of the leading methods of protecting secret information, while offering new unbreakable codes. Quantum computers will also be able to model nuclear and subatomic reactions; offer insights into nanotechnology, teleportation, and time travel; and perhaps change the way chemists and biotechnologists design drugs and study the molecules of life. Farthest along the trail blazed by these pioneers is the ability to visualize the multiple realities of the quantum world not as a mathematical abstraction, but as a real map to a world of multiple universes." "Incorporating explanations of ion trap gates, nuclear magnetic resonance computers, quantum dots, quantum algorithms, Fourier transforms, and puzzles of quantum physics, and illustrated with dozens of diagrams, Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse offers a look at the still-unbuilt machines that, in the words of physicist Stanley Williams, "will reshape the face of science" and offer a new window into the secrets of an infinite number of potential universes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Minds, Machines and the Multiverse

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Lester R. Brown

Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts

Janet Larsen

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Foreseeing a time when recycling industries will replace mining, award-winning environmental analyst Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.

Earth Policy Reader

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Randy Cerveny

From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: the World's Strangest True Weather Stories

A treasury of unusual weather tales reports such oddities as tornadoes that have plucked chickens of their feathers, lightning that has stripped victims of their clothing, and hailstorms that have ended or prevented wars. Original.

Freaks of the Storm

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Michael Barzelay

Babak J. Amajani

Alan Altshuler

A New Vision for Managing in Government

Breaking Through Bureaucracy

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David Kupelian

Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America

The great paradox of the human race--that we are intelligent enough to understand just about everything, except ourselves--has never been more striking, or more troubling, than right now. Specifically, we don't understand evil--what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives.

In How Evil Works , veteran newsman and bestselling author David Kupelian takes a fresh and insightful look at this ancient subject. Diving into the most electrifying news stories of the day--from terrorism and school violence to high-profile sex scandals and dysfunctional Hollywood celebrities--Kupelian explores the secret world of seduction, corruption, and daily temptations in everyday life, demonstrating his uncanny knack for breaking down complex, elusive, and intimidating topics.

Kupelian shows that once we really understand "how evil works"--not just in the headline-making disasters and crimes that dominate the news, but also in our own lives--evil loses much of its power, and the way out becomes more clear. And that's precisely why this book bears a powerful message of genuine hope.

How Evil Works

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Jennifer Speake

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A dictionary of words and phrases regularly encountered in 20th-century British and American English, with words and phrases from more than 40 languages.

The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

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Richard L. Florida

Martin Kenney

Corporate America's Failure to Move from Innovation to Mass Production

Examines the failure of corporate America to move from scientific breakthroughs and start-up technologies into mass production. The authors identify the root of the problem as the hierarchical and compartmentalized organization of research, development and manufacturing, and propose the reconnection of RandD to production. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Breakthrough Illusion

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David R. Montgomery

Anne Biklé

The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves--and could revolutionize agriculture and medicine.


Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health--for people and for plants--depends on Earth's smallest creatures. The Hidden Half of Nature tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.

When David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé decide to restore life into their barren yard by creating a garden, dead dirt threatens their dream. As a cure, they feed their soil a steady diet of organic matter. The results impress them. In short order, the much-maligned microbes transform their bleak yard into a flourishing Eden. Beneath their feet, beneficial microbes and plant roots continuously exchange a vast array of essential compounds. The authors soon learn that this miniaturized commerce is central to botanical life's master strategy for defense and health.

They are abruptly plunged further into investigating microbes when Biklé is diagnosed with cancer. Here, they discover an unsettling truth. An armada of bacteria (our microbiome) sails the seas of our gut, enabling our immune system to sort microbial friends from foes. But when our gut microbiome goes awry, our health can go with it. The authors also discover startling insights into the similarities between plant roots and the human gut. We are not what we eat. We are all--for better or worse--the product of what our microbes eat.

This leads to a radical reconceptualization of our relationship to the natural world: by cultivating beneficial microbes, we can rebuild soil fertility and help turn back the modern plague of chronic diseases. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals how to transform agriculture and medicine--by merging the mind of an ecologist with the care of a gardener and the skill of a doctor.

The Hidden Half of Nature

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Francois Cardarelli

A Practical Guide to Metrication

Scientific Unit Conversion

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Bernard Siskin

David M. Rorvik

Jerome Staller

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Risks, Odds, and Likelihood in Everyday Life

What are the chances of being struck by lightning? One in 600,000. How likely is it that your 16-year-old will be a virgin? 50 percent. These are just two of the endlessly fascinating statistics revealed in this amusing yet sobering pursuit of probability.

What Are the Chances?

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W. Craig Reed

Inside the Secret U. S. -Soviet Submarine War

Red November

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Richard McGregor

The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. As an organization alone, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on every aspect of government, from the largest, richest cities to the smallest far-flung villages in Tibet and Xinjiang, it also has a hold on all official religions, the media, and the military. The Party presides over large, wealthy state-owned businesses, and it exercises control over the selection of senior executives of all government companies, many of which are in the top tier of the Fortune 500 list. In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China's inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military, and how it keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party's decisions have a global impact, yet the CPC remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law, unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world's only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is steadfastly poised to think the worst of the West. In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China's Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future.

The Party

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Kevin J. Fernlund

The first comprehensive survey of the Cold War's enormous impact on the environment, society, politics, culture, and economy of the American West.

The Cold War American West

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Elinor Burkett

How to Get Satisfaction When You're Being Ripped Off

"Never be ripped-off again!" That's the rallying cry sounded by authors Elinor Burkett and Frank Bruni in their war against shoddy products and bad service. Unlike other books that offer only buying advice, Consumer Terrorism is for those consumers who've already been burned. So when a vacation is ruined by a hotel's negligence, or that expensive suit comes apart at the seams, or the new car spends more time in the repair shop than on the road, it's time to take the offensive and get results. Intelligent, aggressive and realistic, yet humorously written, Consumer Terrorism leads readers through the most effective ways to present their cases. It explains who to contact, the right, and wrong way to complain and what to expect in return. The no-holds-barred approach is unique, cleverly blending the use of formal avenues of consumer complaint resolution with guerrilla tactics sure to get results. So get mad -- then get action!

Consumer Terrorism

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Martin Walker

Dispatches from the "Guardian'S" Correspondent in Moscow

Russia

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Robin McMacken

Lisa Meyers McClintick

A comprehensive travel guide to unusual and out-of-the way places in North and South Dakota, with maps and information on museums, parks, lodging, and Native American sites.

The Dakotas

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Ian Baxter

Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War. It reveals in detail how the battle of Kursk was the beginning of the end and how this massive operation led to the Red Army recapturing huge areas of the Soviet Union and bleeding white the German armies it struck. Despite the adverse situation in which both the German Army and its Waffen-SS counterparts were placed, soldiers continued to fight to the bitter end and attempted to build new defense-lines. But as the Red Army launched its long awaited summer offensive on June 1944, German forces were forced to withdraw under the constant hammer blows of ground and aerial bombardments. Those German forces that survived the artillery barrages, the onslaught of the tank armadas, and mass infantry assaults, streamed back from the battlefield and fought vicious battles through the Baltic States, Byelorussia, and built up new defense along the Vistula in Poland. As the final months of the War were played out on the Eastern Front, the Army and Waffen-SS, with diminishing resources, withdrew across a devastated Reich and fought out their last battle with party militia forces around a devastated Berlin.

Hitler's Defeat on the Eastern Front

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Joseph Sugarman

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters

Great copy is the heart and soul of the advertising business. In this practical guide, legendary copywriter Joe Sugarman provides proven guidelines and expert advice on what it takes to write copy that will entice, motivate, and move customers to buy. For anyone who wants to break into the business, this is the ultimate companion resource for unlimited success.

The Adweek Copywriting Handbook

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David Givens

Joe Navarro

A Guide to Sight-Reading the Body Language of Business, Bosses, and Boardrooms

Your Body at Work

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Barbara Ann Kipfer

4,000 ways to achieve instant intimacy

What, more than anything, makes you angry?
Who were your childhood idols?
What kind of leader are you most inclined to follow?

What has happened to the art of conversation? In the age of Internet chat rooms, speed dating, and frantic text messaging, have we forgotten how to meaningfully connect? This book of 4,000 provocative questions will help you get to know anyone and everyone in every social situation. Use it to go beyond small talk at parties, networking events, dates, dinner tables, and road trips. It's for getting to know someone you just met and learning a lot more about someone you thought you already knew (who may be yourself).

·A perfect social tool for the Internet generation
·Features thematic sections on lifestyle choices, pastimes, politics, family, and more
·A resource for self-discovery and for journalists and writers doing interviews and developing characters, plots, and story lines

4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone

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John McWhorter

And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammar An eye-opening tour for all language lovers, What Language Is offers a fascinating new perspective on the way humans communicate. from vanishing languages spoken by a few hundred people to major tongues like Chinese, and with copious revelations about the hodgepodge nature of English, John McWhorter shows readers how to see and hear languages as a linguist does. Packed with big ideas about language alongside wonderful trivia, What Language Is explains how languages across the globe (the Queen's English and Suriname creoles alike) originate, evolve, multiply, and divide. Raising provocative questions about what qualifies as a language (so-called slang does have structured grammar), McWhorter takes readers on a marvelous journey through time and place—from Persia to the languages of Sri Lanka—to deliver a feast of facts about the wonders of human linguistic expression.

What Language Is

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Theodore A. Parish

The "VOLGA" conferences, hosted in odd-numbered years by the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Reactor Physics of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), are some of the most prestigious technical meetings held in Russia. Traditionally, these conferences present the opportunity for reactor physicists from around the world to gather at MEPhI's holiday camp on the banks of the Volga river (near Tver) to exchange ideas and explore innovative concepts related to nuclear power development. In 1997, NATO became involved in the "VOLGA" meetings for the first time by co-sponsoring "VOLGA97" as an advanced research workshop. This workshop broke with tradition a bit in that the venue was moved from MEPhI's holiday camp to a location nearer Moscow. The workshop program was effectively organized in order to cover a broad range of topics relating to the theme of the meeting. Generally, the papers concerned safety related questions associated with utilizing both weapons-grade and reactor-grade plutonium in the nuclear fuel cycle, including facility requirements, licensing issues, proliferation risks, and a variety of advanced concepts for alternative fuel cycles. The program contained a total of ninety-nine papers presented in five days of sessions.

Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

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Michael Stuermer

An expert contemporary history of Vladimir Putin and Russia's resurgent role in world affairs.

Putin and the Rise of Russia

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Wes Overton

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