
ISBN: 0195383869
Author: Norval White
Hailed as “extraordinarily learned” (New York Times), “blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,” (New York Magazine), and the “definitive record of New York’s architectural heritage” (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky’s book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city’s architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview of New York’s significant places, past and present. The Fifth Edition continues to include places of historical importance–including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site–while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs–particularly Brooklyn–has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Click Here to Continue Reading 'AIA Guide to New York City'...
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ISBN: 0312590970
Author: Alyson Noel
In Alyson Noel’s most darkly seductive Immortals novel yet, Ever fights for control of her body, her soul?and the timeless true love she’s been chasing for centuries.Ever is trying to help Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and acting recklessly, she poses the ultimate threat?exposing their secret world to the outside. As Ever struggles to keep the Immortals hidden, it only propels Haven closer to the enemy?Roman and his evil companionsAt the same time, Ever delves deeper into dark magick to free Damen from Roman’s power. Click Here to Continue Reading 'Dark Flame (Immortals)'...
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ISBN: 0425234339
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children… Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita’s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It’s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. Click Here to Continue Reading 'Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire H...'...
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Posted by Super Book Depot | Posted in New Releases, Science-New | Posted on 12-07-2010-05-2008
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ISBN: 1596916109
Author: Naomi Oreskes
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly?some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is “not settled” denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. “Doubt is our product,” wrote one tobacco executive. These “experts” supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era. Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her essay “Beyond the Ivory Tower” was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial.Erik Conway is the resident historian at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Click Here to Continue Reading 'Merchants of Doubt: How a Hand...'...
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ISBN: 1935251740
Author: Bob Berman
Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world ? a US News & World Report cover story called him a ?genius” and a ?renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe.Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe’s genesis and structure. Click Here to Continue Reading 'Biocentrism: How Life and Cons...'...
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Posted by Super Book Depot | Posted in New Releases, Reference-New | Posted on 11-07-2010-05-2008
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ISBN: 0761158553
Author: Nicholas Boothman
Now in paperback, revised throughout, with a timely new chapter and title—The original How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less received praise such as: “Nick Boothman’s brilliant stroke is to guarantee that within the first 90 seconds of meeting someone you’ll be communicating like old trusted friends. But he doesn’t stop there. This book shows how to turn those instant connections into long-lasting, productive business relationships.”—Marty Edelston, publisher, BottomLine/Personal. And: “Success in business depends on effectively communicating ideas, at least as much as thinking them up, and Boothman tells us how to do that.”—Matthew Bishop, The Economist. Click Here to Continue Reading 'Convince Them in 90 Seconds or...'...
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