Dead Man's Wharf (Detective Inspector Andy Horton)

 

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers (May 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847511325
• ISBN-13: 978-1847511324

The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims she’s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead woman’s belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Soon Horton is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications.

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Naturally Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Biology, Botany, Nature and Zoology, Second Edition

 

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750306815
• ISBN-13: 978-0750306812

Synopsis Naturally Speaking is the largest compilation of published quotations on the natural world available. It is designed to be entertaining and informative. The purpose of the book is to present quotations so that the reader can get a feel for the depth and breadth of natural history and the life sciences. Readership Scientists, administrators, and librarians working in the Life Sciences, Natural History, General readers with an interest.

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Contract Theory in Historical Context

 

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: BRILL (April 27, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004184252
• ISBN-13: 978-9004184251

These essays carefully show that classic social-contract theory was an ancien regime genre. Far more than is commonly realized, the local horizon was built into Hobbes's and Locke's theories and the genre drew on the absolutism of Bodin and Grotius.

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Kraken

 

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things.In the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre’s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux—better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy’s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens—human and otherwise—are adept in magic and murder.There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity—and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC—the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit—a branch of London’s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city’s entrails. There is Grisamentum, London’s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying—yet darkly charismatic—demonic duo.All of them—and others—are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be. 

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey; Book Club edition (June 29, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034549749X
• ISBN-13: 978-0345497499
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches 

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Gravitation, Electromagnetism and Cosmology: Toward a New Synthesis

 

 

• Paperback: 177 pages
• Publisher: Apeiron (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968368964
• ISBN-13: 978-0968368961

Collection of papers originally presented at an international conference on Redshifts and Gravitation in a Relativistic Universe, held Sept. 17-20, 1999, in Cesena, Italy. Topics covered include the nature of physical law, the mechanism of gravitation, alternatives to the Big Bang model based on the physics of the microcosm, flaws in the thermodynamics of the Big Bang, the enigma of redshift quantization, the conceptual and mathematical foundations of special relativity and electromagnetism, empirical tests that contradict standard relativity theory.

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The Story of Mankind

 

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Book Jungle (June 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1438519141
• ISBN-13: 978-1438519142
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.

Van Loon was a Dutch/American historian. His The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. Van Loon's writing style is full of antidotes and a casual delivery suited to young readers. The Amazon.com review is as follows. "Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable tone of Hendrik Willem van Loon's writing lends itself to true learning in a way that stern, dry textbooks never do. In the introduction, he describes climbing a tower in Rotterdam in his youth. Years later, the perspective at the top inspired the author to develop a metaphor of history as a "mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. This genuinely enjoyable charmer, for history buffs and the historically challenged alike, covers human history from prehistoric times, when our earliest ancestors were learning to communicate with grunts, right through to the issues of the latter 20th century: gay rights, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and health and fitness. Revised and updated several times since 1921, van Loon's inviting classic is filled with stories (and witty parenthetical asides) that bring history alive. His pen-and-ink illustrations, maps, and animated chronology contribute to the cozy, round the fireplace aspect of the book. (Ages 12 and older)"
Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable tone of Hendrik Willem van Loon's writing lends itself to true learning in a way that stern, dry textbooks never do. In the introduction, he describes climbing a tower in Rotterdam in his youth. Years later, the perspective at the top inspired the author to develop a metaphor of history as a "mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages." This genuinely enjoyable charmer, for history buffs and the historically challenged alike, covers human history from prehistoric times, when our earliest ancestors were learning to communicate with grunts, right through to the issues of the latter 20th century: gay rights, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and health and fitness. Revised and updated several times since 1921, van Loon's inviting classic is filled with stories (and witty parenthetical asides) that bring history alive. His pen-and-ink illustrations, maps, and animated chronology contribute to the cozy, round the fireplace aspect of the book. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition

 

• Hardcover: 246 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3 edition (December 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071359168
• ISBN-13: 978-0071359160

Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about branding, marketing, and product management. When I had the idea of creating a very large thematic community on the Web, I first thought of Positioning....--David Bohnett, Chairman and Founder of GeoCities A handsome edition of the original 1981 text, this 20th Anniversary Edition makes available to business and marketing professionals--including tens of thousands of Ries and Trout groupies, worldwide--the work that forever changed the way marketing strategy is done. This new edition features commentary from the authors that offers fresh insight into why positioning a product in a prospective customer's mind is still the most important strategy in business, and includes numerous examples of campaigns that followed, or didn't follow, Ries and Trout's thinking.

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