For technical professionals in all fields, a practical guide to enhancing communication, interpersonal, and managerial skills.
Blending leading scientific research with real life experiences, Creativity and the Mind helps readers unlock their creative potential and embrace alternate ways of thinking about everyday problems.
An authoritative history of technological terrorism that provides new insights into current events
How to compete on the basis of your invisible assets--your priceless relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, and shareholders
A practical guide to successful management of the family business--today and tomorrow--from one of its most innovative and outspoken proponents.
"As corporations become increasingly more powerful, their decisions have a larger impact on the social and ecological landscape both domestically and internationally. In Ethics and HRD, Tim Hatcher sho"
An amazing journey throughout the universe in a search for other planets and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
The definitive resource for building a global strategy in Asia--from Japan to New Zealand.
"Increasingly, managers at all levels of the organization are being called upon to serve as "change agents," responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining HRD initiatives, regardless of whet"
An eloquent, utterly charming guide to discovering the interconnectedness of mathematics.
A soup-to-nuts guide to developing superior project-manager skills and competencies--from two of the most respected authorities in the field.
"A hard-headed liberal economist, Alan Blinder clearly shows how economic policy is made in America and how good policies often make bad politics. He discusses liberal-conservative divisiveness and sho"
"Organizational Diagnosis suggest ways of looking at an organization to determine "gaps" between "what is" and "what ought to be."In workbook format, the author presents a vocabulary and concepts which"
The country's leading libertarian scholar sets forth the essential principles for a legal system that best balances individual liberty versus the common good.
The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Levy shows how
The first book for a general audience to reveal the breathtaking scientific results of the Magellan mission to Venus.
Scientists believe that we would not be here it were not for three great cataclysms in the early history of Earth and of the universe. This is the first book to explore the deep connection between the
Nobel Prize winners and other scientific greats reveal the secrets of the universe, human nature, and the mind.
"Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odys"
A sweeping account of humanity's evolving vision of the universe, as viewed through the writings of the most exceptional thinkers in history
How quantum physics will explain the nature of reality and the human mind.
This guide offers a systematic approach to understanding customers' motivations and tailoring sales strategy to fit the customers' buying path. By teaching salespeople how to recognize different buying profiles, this book offers strategies and tactics to break out of non-productive patterns.
"At last, direct from the trenches, here's the book technical editors have been waiting for. Unlike other guides which review grammar and spelling--but don't address the special challenges of technical"
A lively introduction to the basic principles of geology and other earth sciences.
"This breakthrough book presents, for the first time, the scientific underpinnings of the unconscious. Whereas clinical psychologists embrace the world of the mind and neuroscientists examine the physi"
Kuru, like Mad Cow disease, is caused by a rare, infectious crystal protein that invades and colonizes human cells, destroying the nervous system of its victims. There is no known cure. It flourished in one of the remotest places on earth, Papua New Guinea, among the Fore, a people living in the Stone Age, who until recently practiced ritual cannibalism, consuming the brains of their forebears during funerary feasts. Robert Klitzman helped establish the links between these rituals and kuru. What he discovered has provided keys to understanding the mysterious Mad Cow Disease, which may become the world''s next major epidemic. Robert Klitzman was 21 years old when he was invited by the Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, then at the National Institutes of Health, to conduct original research on kuru. Seizing the chance to travel to the other end of the world, Klitzman embarked on an adventure that would change his life.
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