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America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones

Trine Day, 2004

The book began with an anonymous donation to the author of an 8-inch package of documents in the early 1980s. Nothing less than the membership list and supporting documents for a truly secret society the Yale Skull and Bones.

The late Johnny Johnson, of Phoenix Arizona was the spark that moved me to write first a...

Color Atlas of Human Poisoning and Envenoming

CRC Press, 2006

The field of medical toxicology can be simply divided into animal and human poisonings from animal, plant, or man-made sources. Even more precisely, toxinology is the study of poisoning and envenoming by biological organisms, and toxicology is the study of human poisoning from manmade sources. Living organisms, such as animals,...

Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

The First book that teaches what SQL programmers need in order to successfully make the transition from transactional systems (OLTP) into the world of OLAP.

Before SQL programmers could begin working with OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) systems, they had to unlearn procedural, record-oriented programming before moving...

Bion in New York and Sao Paulo: And Three Tavistock Seminars

The Harris Meltzer Trust, 2018

These two talks given in 1977 and 1978 in New York and Sao Paulo respectively are an edited version of discussions and spontaneous contributions made by Bion, in the main without notes. This is a new 2019 edition, edited and introduced by Meg Harris Williams.

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897–1979) was born in India in the days...

Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

Penguin Press, 2021

“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review

From one of the world's...

Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America (MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2011

All day, every day, Americans seek information. We research major purchases. We check news and sports. We visit government Web sites for public information and turn to friends for advice about our everyday lives. Although the Internet influences our information-seeking behavior, we gather information from many sources: family and friends,...

House of Spies: A Novel (Gabriel Allon)

Harper Perennial, 2017

#1 NYT Bestseller

#1 USA Bestseller

#1 WSJ Bestseller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling...

The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

Pearson Education, 1999

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This...

The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010

Get ready to kick some software project butt. By learning the ways of the agile samurai you will discover:

* how to create plans and schedules your customer and your team can believe in

what characteristics make a good agile team and how to form your own

The Evolution Deceit

Ta-Ha Publisher, 1999

For some people the theory of evolution or Darwinism has only scientific connotations, with seemingly no direct implication in their daily lives. This is, of course, a common misunderstanding. Far beyond just being an issue within the framework of the biological sciences, the theory of evolution constitutes the underpinning of a deceptive...

Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

For both the manufacturer and the purchaser, reliability is one of the most important characteristics defining the quality of a product or system. High reliability is achieved through design efforts, choice of materials and other inputs, production, quality assurance efforts, proper maintenance, and many related decisions and...

Dilemmas Of International Trade: Second Edition (Dilemmas in World Politics)

Westview Press, 2000

In the post-Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition-between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. In this revised and updated second edition of Dilemmas of International Trade political economist Bruce Moon puts contemporary trade events--NAFTA, United States-Japan controversies, the Uruguay...

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