#180 - Lin Lougheed - Barron's How to Prepare for the Computer-Based Toefl Essay

Author or Editor: Lin Lougheed
Publisher: Barron's
Published: 2004
Pages: 288
Size: 9.87MB

This book is a gold mine. Each chapter has examples and structured activities showing how a particular part of an essay is developed. In addition, the model essays in the Appendix provide further examples of essay development. Use these essays to expand the activities in the book.

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#179 - Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

Author or Editor: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1997
Pages: 480
Size: 3.51MB

THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE A SHORT HISTORY OF everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't; as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all. The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible.

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#178 - Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Louis N. Irwin - Life in the Universe

Author or Editor: Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Louis N. Irwin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Pages: 172
Size: 3.77MB

Astrobiology studies the origin, evolution, distribution, and fate of life throughout the universe, with no direct evidence that life exists anywhere in the universe other than on Earth. But there are compelling reasons to assume that life exists pervasively throughout the cosmos. That assumption is derived from empirical observations on the nature of the universe and the natural laws that govern it, from analysis of the history and properties of the one case of life that we do know, and on a logical integration of fact and theory.

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#177 - Yannis Tzioumakis - American Independent Cinema

Author or Editor: Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006
Pages: 302
Size: 1.78MB

American independent cinema has always been a notoriously difficult concept to define. This is primarily because the label ‘independent’ has been widely used since the early years of American cinema by filmmakers, film critics, industry practitioners, trade publications, academics and cinema fans, to the extent that any attempt towards a definition is almost certainly destined to raise objections.

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#176 - Stephen Hawking - Universe in a Nutshell

Author or Editor: Stephen Hawking
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Published: 2001
Pages: 210
Size: 26.5MB

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, scientists believed they were close to a complete description of the universe. They imagined that space was filled by a continuous medium called the "ether." Light rays and radio signals were waves in this ether, just as sound is pressure waves in air. All that was needed for a complete theory were careful measurements of the elastic properties of the ether.

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#175 - Ayn Rand - For the New Intellectual

Author or Editor: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1968
Pages: 110
Size: 1.83MB

This book is intended for those who wish to assume the responsibility of becoming the new intellectuals. It contains the main philosophical passages from my novels and presents the outline of a new philosophical system.

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#174 - Richard Walton - English Focus on Advanced English Grammar Practice

Author or Editor: Richard Walton
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 1999
Pages: 110
Size: 1.83MB

The best feature of this book is the way grammatical rules are sorted, ie. by situation (such as "severe weather", "mind and body", etc), which helps in the understanding on when using a given construct is mandatory, appropriate or unheard of.

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#173 - Mitchell Beazley - PHILIP’S ASTRONOMY ENCYCLOPEDIA

Author or Editor: Mitchell Beazley
Publisher: Philip’s
Published: 2002
Pages: 455
Size: 31.5MB

Astronomy has involved extensive international collaborations for well over a century. The cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary research makes such collaborations even more compelling in the future. Furthermore, efforts to build the next generation of instruments on the ground and especially in space are so expensive that their funding will demand international participation.

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#172 - Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao - Encyclopedia of Chinese Film

Author or Editor: Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Pages: 475
Size: 4.58MB

This reference work is designed to provide, first of all, a comprehensive coverage of Chinese film in its historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic and textual aspects; and, secondly, a critical guide to assist the reader to navigate through these multiple aspects and to locate the exact information needed.

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#171 - David Raub Snyder - Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht

Author or Editor: David Raub Snyder
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Published: 2007
Pages: 288
Size: 0.95MB

With few exceptions, scholars have portrayed National Socialist Germany’s military judiciary (Wehrmachtjustiz) as a monolithic entity, an organization that must be wholly condemned or wholly praised. The apologists, led by former Wehrmacht jurist Erich Schwinge, depict Nazi Germany’s military judiciary as a haven for non-Nazi jurists and even as a center of resistance to Adolf Hitler

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#170 - Brian Clegg - Light Years and Time Travel

Author or Editor: Brian Clegg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2001
Pages: 310
Size: 2.45MB

LIGHT I S SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED. It is a fact of everyday life, available at the press of a switch. It is the absence of darkness, the gift of the sun. It is a small part of the physics we are taught at school, a thing of ray diagrams and geometry, without substance. But light is not so easily compartmentalized. Its beguiling combination of fragility and endurance, of delicacy and power, captures the imagination just as it has fascinated scientists through the ages.

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#169 - Andrew Glyn - Capitalism Unleashed

Author or Editor: Andrew Glyn
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 2006
Pages: 234
Size: 1.40MB

Low inflation, quiescent industrial relations, freedom for capital to chase profitable opportunities without restraint and the domination of market-based solutions have become familiar features of the economic landscape of the rich economies. When such a pattern becomes firmly established it soon acquires the status of business as usual. Yet 30 years ago inflation was rising, profits were squeezed, trades unions were bargaining aggressively and parties of the left were actively discussing ideas for deeper state intervention in industry. A huge shift in economic policies and behaviour was needed to launch our economies on their new trajectory. This book provides a short history of how this transformation was achieved and examines the impact on growth, stability and equality of letting free enterprise off the leash.

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#168 - Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth - Longman's English Grammar Practice for Upper Intermediate Students

Author or Editor: Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 2000
Pages: 204
Size: 1.21MB

This Grammar book has just about everything.The book is divided up into its relevant sections. One for verbs,one for Sentence structure, reported speech etc... The explanations are concise, detailed and clear to understand. Explanations are followed by their relavant test excercises. The book is also a pleasure to read with lots of pictures and interesting conversations and facts. As a foreign learner of English this is really very good to use but some of it is pretty advanced stuff hence the 'upper intermediate title'. It's ideal for Learners of English or those native speakers who want to inprove their language. 200 pages of value.

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#167 - Kathi Jackson - Steven Spielberg: A Biography

Author or Editor: Kathi Jackson
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2007
Pages: 143
Size: 1.21MB

Unlike actors and singers, there are just a handful of movie directors who are known worldwide and whose very name means success. Add the word “magic” and you have narrowed the list down to two: Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg.

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#166 - Stacy Palen - Theory and Problems of Astronomy

Author or Editor: Stacy Palen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2002
Pages: 234
Size: 4.19MB

The purpose of this Outline is to serve as a supplement to a basic astronomy text. Much of the material here is abbreviated, and students should use this book as a guide to the key concepts in modern astronomy, but not as an all-inclusive resource.

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#165 - Jacob E. Safra - Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2009

Author or Editor: Jacob E. Safra
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
Published: 2008
Pages: 980
Size: 26.2MB

The biggest surprise from the Supreme Court term that just ended: Barack Obama hearts the Roberts court. At the end of June, the Democratic candidate praised Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5–4 decision striking down the Washington ban on handgun possession, a ruling that recognizes the right to bear arms as an individual right. Two weeks earlier, from the other side of the ideological spectrum, Obama praised Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 5–4 decision allowing enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a rebuke to the Bush administration’s policies toward Guantánamo detainees.

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#164 - Michael White and John Gribbin - Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Author or Editor: Michael White and John Gribbin
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 348
Size: 1.11MB

When Stephen Hawking was involved in a minor road accident in Cambridge city center early in 1991, within twelve hours American TV networks were on the phone to his publisher, Bantam, for a low- down on the story. The fact that he suffered only minor injuries and was back at his desk within days was irrelevant. But then anything about Stephen Hawking is newsworthy. This would never have happened to any other scientist in the world. Apart from the fact that physicists are seen as somehow different from other human beings, existing outside the normal patterns of human life, there is no other scientist alive as famous as Stephen Hawking.

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#163 - Mark T. Conard - The Philosophy of Film Noir

Author or Editor: Mark T. Conard
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Pages: 248
Size: 2.89MB

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946) was adapted from a novel by the writer of hard-boiled fiction James M. Cain. Interspersed throughout the movie is voice-over narration by the protagonist, Frank Chambers (John Garfield), indicating that he is recalling events in the past. Frank is a drifter who takes a job at a remote diner owned by an older man, Nick (Cecil Kellaway), after getting a look at Nick’s stunning young wife, Cora (Lana Turner).

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#162 - Piyel Haldar - Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism

Author or Editor: Piyel Haldar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Pages: 184
Size: 1.20MB

What happens when legal civilization happens upon a very different way of thinking about subjectivity? What happens to the notion of subjectivity when a culture, emerging towards secular modernity and already sent neurotic by its own capacity for wealth and pleasure, meets a culture that far exceeds the norms of mercantile greed? The impact of colonialism and Empire has had its obvious impact on the status of those directly subjected to its laws.

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#161 - Nolan McCarty and Adam Meirowitz - Political Game Theory

Author or Editor: Nolan McCarty and Adam Meirowitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Pages: 431
Size: 2.30MB

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory, mechanism design, and a mathematical appendix covering logic, real analysis, calculus, and probability theory. The methods employed have many applications in various subdisciplines including comparative politics, international relations, and American politics. Political Game Theory is tailored to students without extensive backgrounds in mathematics and
traditional economics; however, many special sections present technical material appropriate for more advanced students. A large number of exercises are also provided for practice with the skills and techniques discussed.

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#160 - P.H. Collin - Dictionary of Law

Author or Editor: P.H. Collin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2004
Pages: 320
Size: 6.69MB

This dictionary provides the user with the main vocabulary currently being used in British and American law. The areas covered include criminal, civil, commercial and international law, as well as interactions with the police and legal advisers, and the procedures of the courts and prisons. Common words used in reading or writing reports, articles or guidelines are also included.

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#159 - Kevin MacDonald - THE CULTURE OF CRITIQUE

Author or Editor: Kevin MacDonald
Publisher: Praeger Publishing
Published: 2002
Pages: 531
Size: 1.89MB

The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC) was originally published in 1998 by Praeger Publishers, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. The thesis of the book is a difficult one indeed—difficult not only because it is difficult to establish, but also because it challenges many fundamental assumptions about our contemporary intellectual and political existence.

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#158 - Tim McNeese - Salvador Dali

Author or Editor: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Pages: 122
Size: 1.2MB

The year was 1931, and calamitous change was blowing in on a strong wind across the political landscape of Spain. Seven years of harsh, autocratic rule at the hands of a Spanish general, Miguel Primo de Rivera, had finally come to an end in January 1930, and the fallout from the collapse of Rivera’s dictatorial leadership was still taking place. After Rivera went into exile in Paris, a series of short-lived, “caretaker” governments had tried to restore order and direction to the lives of the Spanish people, but they all failed miserably.

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#157 - Anton Chekhov - How to Write Like Chekhov

Author or Editor: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2008
Pages: 210
Size: 0.73MB

This volume presents Anton Chekhov’s advice on how to write. Its purpose is to transmit Chekhov’s guidelines on becoming a good writer, and it is presented with the hope that these guidelines will be useful, in various ways, to novices and to experienced professional writers alike. Chekhov’s detailed suggestions draw heavily on his own experience, both as a writer of short stories, plays, novellas, and nonfiction and as a discerning reader of literary texts. He knew the burden of solitude that comes with writing, the compulsive need to write, and the dispiriting sting of an indifferent reception.

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