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Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.

The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in.

Andrew's Meier riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by indescribable carnage, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work.

A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.

"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)-a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.

From across strange aeons comes the annotated edition of "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" (Stephen King).

The best-selling author of Naked Economics defies the odds with a book about statistics that you'll welcome and enjoy.

This is the sourcebook for one of the most significant movements in twentieth-century psychology.

"The cover of What Do You Want from Me? should be stamped read before proceeding down the aisle."-O, The Oprah Magazine

"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."-Classical Music

A guide for racing covers the principles of sail trim, crew movement techniques, maneuvers, and control systems, and gives advice on adjusting to special conditions.

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."-Randall Jarrell

From respected philosopher and writer Jonathan Wolff, this brief introduction to ethics stimulates independent thought, emphasises real-world examples, and provides clear and engaging introductions to key moral theories and the thinkers behind them. The new Second Edition offers expanded coverage of moral reasoning, as well as two thoughtful and contemporary new chapters on applying moral philosophy and the ethics of race. A companion primary source collection, Readings in Moral Philosophy, amplifies issues discussed in the text, connecting them to problems in applied ethics.

A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions

A fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history-and why they were all abandoned.

"Nine months up, nine months down" gives new mothers the space to find themselves again-physically, emotionally and sexually

James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it-and why were they the ones who succeeded?In truth, the discovery of DNA's structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Each was fascinating and brilliant, with strong personalities that often clashed. Howard Markel skillfully re-creates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin-fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s, as the lone Jewish woman among young male scientists-who becomes a focal point for Markel.The Secret of Life is a story of genius and perseverance, but also a saga of cronyism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and misconduct. Drawing on voluminous archival research, including interviews with James Watson and with Franklin's sister, Jenifer Glynn, Markel provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how reputations are undone, and how history is written, and revised.A vibrant evocation of Cambridge in the 1950s, Markel also provides colorful depictions of Watson and Crick-their competitiveness, idiosyncrasies, and youthful immaturity-and compelling portraits of Wilkins, Pauling, and most cogently, Rosalind Franklin. The Secret of Life is a lively and sweeping narrative of this landmark discovery, one that finally gives the woman at the center of this drama her due.

A thoroughly updated introduction to immunology, now with powerful online assessment and robust instructor resources.

In addition to the texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this title reprints the important works, "Slavery in Massachusetts", "Walking" and "Wild Apples". It includes the best critical writing on the texts by nineteen contributors.

The natural follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

A best-selling author and renowned security expert reveals the rise and risks of a new goliath: our massively networked, world-sized web.

"Consistently rated the best guides to the regions covered...Readable, tasteful, appealingly designed. Strong on dining, lodging, and history."-National Geographic Traveler

America's most celebrated astrophysicist invites young readers to explore the mysteries of the universe.

"Clear, concise, informative, witty and, believe it or not, entertaining." -Chicago Tribune

"A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride of catastrophes...Gutsy, terse and cunning, Invisible Monsters may emerge as Palahniuk's strongest book." -Greg Berkman, Seattle Times

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."