Overview :The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010's horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that lar... Read More
Overview :An intimate account of Albert Einstein's visit to Oxford in the 1930's, casting new light on why he continues to be the world's most famous ... Read More
Overview :New from the author of the highly successful The Story of Writing, here is the first fully illustrated guide to the human passion for measur... Read More
Overview :The ideas, experiments, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionized our understanding of the world around us. Theories, discoveri... Read More
Overview :Throughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha. To Ale... Read More
Overview :A problem-oriented textbook and clinical reference for students and clinicians in physical therapy, which aims to simplfy and facilitate the... Read More
Overview :The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling repl... Read More
Overview :Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain wi... Read More
Overview :"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle."--Albert Einstein, 1936Alber... Read More
Overview :The fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson remains among the most progressive bodies of literary work in its critique of neoliberal capitalism. His... Read More