Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1984
ISBN 10: 0393301575 ISBN 13: 9780393301571
Librería: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2018
ISBN 10: 039329241X ISBN 13: 9780393292411
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Introducing a new, mix and match approach to seared entrées and fresh pan sauces.Sear, deglaze, enhance, and serve: flavorful dinners can be that simple. In her unique, approachable style, Susan Volland first explains how to skillfully wield a hot skillet to sear entrées, then shows how a sauce can be made quickly in that same hot pan.In more than 60 enticing recipes for seafood, poultry, meats, vegetables, tofu, and eggs, Volland invites home cooks to adapt her recipes for taste, diet, and ingredient availability. Searing Inspiration gives cooks the confidence to invent their own dishes, reintroducing a classic technique to modern tastes and kitchens. 50 photographs.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2017
ISBN 10: 0393354253 ISBN 13: 9780393354256
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: New. Movie Tie-in. The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis then carry off the prized specimens to Berlin for their program to create the purest breeds, much as they saw themselves as the purest human race. Opposed to all the Nazis represented, the Zabinskis risked their lives by hiding Jews in the now-empty animal cages, saving as many as three hundred people from extermination. Acclaimed, best-selling author Diane Ackerman, fascinated both by the Zabinskis courage and by Antoninas incredible sensitivity to all living beings, tells a moving and dramatic story of the power of empathy and the strength of love.A Focus Features release, it is directed by Niki Caro, written by Angela Workman. 8 pages of illustrations.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0393000400 ISBN 13: 9780393000405
Librería: The Book Cellar, LLC, Nashua, NH, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Very Good. Has moderate shelf and/or corner wear. Great used condition. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations.Over 1,000,000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping (if available) for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1978
ISBN 10: 0393956539 ISBN 13: 9780393956535
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Third Edition, Norton Critical Edition. An Alternate Cover edition for this ISBN can be found <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24546559-the- scarlet-letter">here</a>.<br /><br />Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth. With "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0393317552 ISBN 13: 9780393317558
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. "Fascinating. Lays a foundation for understanding human history."-Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
ISBN 10: 039333838X ISBN 13: 9780393338386
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Movie Tie-in. The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw-over one million copies sold.When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read and write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability, his blind side.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1977
ISBN 10: 0393008673 ISBN 13: 9780393008678
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Bilingual. "Andrew Porter's utterly natural, often poetic, faithfully rendered English text should be a revelation.The immediacy of instant comprehension gives the entire drama an added dimension."-The New York Times Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to produce the music in text.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2016
ISBN 10: 0393617467 ISBN 13: 9780393617467
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Second. THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE.A rhetoric that bridges the gap between the writing students already do in social media and other nonacademic contexts and the writing theyre expected to do in college-all within a strong rhetorical framework. Built on the keystones of rhetoric, Everyones an Author provides a strong foundation for authoring in the digital age: in college essays, but also on Twitter; in print, but also online; with words, but also with sound, video, and images. It shows students that the rhetorical skills they already use in social media, in their home and religious communities, at work and in other nonacademic contexts are the same ones theyll need to succeed in college. Examples and readings drawn from across multiple media and dealing with topics that matter to students today make this a book that everyone who takes first-year writing will relate to.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
ISBN 10: 039331331X ISBN 13: 9780393313314
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Expanded, Updated. This is the book that made publishing history and started a revolution in the way Americans think about what they eat. Now, for the first time, it is available in a trade edition, with larger, more readable type. The T-Factor Fat Gram Counter grew out of The T-Factor Diet, the first popular diet book to show that fat was (and is) the major culprit in the American diet. All calories, Dr. Martin Katahn told us, are not created equal: his metabolic studies showed that the fat we consume in our food, as opposed to the carbohydrate and protein, is converted most efficiently to body fat and may lead to such conditions as cancer, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes.The T-Factor Fat Gram Counter tells you everything you need to know to cut the hidden fat out of your food. It also provides a brief overview of vital diet and exercise principles, and target levels of fat consumption for men and women at varying body weights. Once you understand the role of dietary fat, you are liberated forever from the need to cut calories or even restrict your overall intake of food. Spend a few minutes a day checking the fat levels in various foods and making sensible choices, and you are well on your way to a longer, happier, and healthier life.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2006
ISBN 10: 0393328627 ISBN 13: 9780393328622
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE.A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know hes still alive. But it wasnt always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a bookSixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
ISBN 10: 0393323145 ISBN 13: 9780393323146
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women.In 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy for over 5000 years-the Ice Man. Sykes succeeded in extracting DNA from the Ice Man, but even more important, writes Science News, was his \"ability to directly link that DNA to Europeans living today.\" In this groundbreaking book, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times-to seven primeval women, the \"seven daughters of Eve.\" illustrated and includes a map.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 039392176X ISBN 13: 9780393921762
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. One of the most successful cognitive psychology texts ever published: up-to-date, authoritative, and clearly written. Cognition uses the best of current research to help students think like psychologists and understand how cognitive psychology is relevant to their lives. The Fifth Edition offers a streamlined presentation, introduces an attractive new full-color design and an expanded art program, and has been thoughtfully updated with the best of current research.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
ISBN 10: 039335184X ISBN 13: 9780393351842
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. "Brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs Ive ever encountered." -Tim OBrien, author of The Things They CarriedAn award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as Sergeant Turner with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family-and even those of the enemy-in a work of profound understanding and shocking beauty.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
ISBN 10: 0393323528 ISBN 13: 9780393323528
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."-BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2014
ISBN 10: 039334407X ISBN 13: 9780393344073
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Media tie-in. Winner of the PEN/Ackerley PrizeThe Railway Man is a remarkable memoir of forgiveness-a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past.Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and put to punishing work on the notorious Burma-Siam railway. After the radio he illicitly helped to build in order to follow war news was discovered, he was subjected to two years of starvation and torture. He would never forget the interpreter at these brutal sessions. Fifty years after returning home from the war, marrying, and gaining the strength from his wife Patti to fight his demons, he learned the interpreter was alive. Through letters and meeting with his former torturer, Lomax bravely moved beyond bitterness drawing on an extraordinary will to extend forgiveness.Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
ISBN 10: 0393974944 ISBN 13: 9780393974942
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The text of Equiano?s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition. It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. Illustrations, maps.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2018
ISBN 10: 0393602850 ISBN 13: 9780393602852
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Fourth. An unmatched value and an incomparable resource The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works. As always, the Norton provides hundreds of literary selections, helpful apparatus, beautiful illustrations, and a robust suite of digital resources, all at an affordable price.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0393320030 ISBN 13: 9780393320039
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. "One of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had." -Frederick Busch On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, in general, he or she cannot. "For a certain kind of person," Gardner writes, "nothing is more joyful or satisfying than the life of a novelist." But no other vocation, he is quick to add, is so fraught with professional and spiritual difficulties. Whether discussing the supposed value of writer's workshops, explaining the role of the novelist's agent and editor, or railing against the seductive fruits of literary elitism, On Becoming a Novelist is an indispensable, life-affirming handbook for anyone authentically called to the profession. "A miraculously detailed account of the creative process."-Anne Tyler, Baltimore Sun.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1990
ISBN 10: 0393307069 ISBN 13: 9780393307061
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. \"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.a brilliant book.\" -Mary Renault\"We\'ve beat them before and we\'ll beat them again.\" In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtors\' prison, and from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1991
ISBN 10: 039330762X ISBN 13: 9780393307627
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. "Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still." -Elizabeth Peer, NewsweekCaptain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command-until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains-Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 039333306X ISBN 13: 9780393333060
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antoninas diary and other historical sources, best-selling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antoninas life as the zookeepers wife, responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their Guests-Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose names they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself.Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinskis young son risked his life carrying food to the Guests, while also tending an eccentric array of creatures in the house. With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, its small wonder the zoos codename became The House Under a Crazy Star.Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet. 8 pages of illustrations.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1990
ISBN 10: 0393307050 ISBN 13: 9780393307054
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."-Sir Francis ChichesterThis, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
ISBN 10: 0393324818 ISBN 13: 9780393324815
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. "This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." -ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge-insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
ISBN 10: 0393308804 ISBN 13: 9780393308808
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reissue. "A considerable tour de force by any standard."-?New York Times Book ReviewJean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre. Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
ISBN 10: 0393324869 ISBN 13: 9780393324860
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Finally! A book about economics that won't put you to sleep. In fact, you won't be able to put this one down. Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of Alan Greenspan in the media, does anyone know what the Fed actually does? And what about those blackouts in California? Were they a conspiracy on the part of the power companies? Economics is life. There's no way to understand the important issues without it. Now, with Charles Wheelan's breezy tour, there's no reason to fear this highly relevant subject. With the commonsensical examples and brilliantly acerbic commentary we've come to associate with The Economist, Wheelan brings economics to life. Amazingly, he does so with nary a chart, graph, or mathematical equation in sight-certainly a feat to be witnessed firsthand.Economics is a crucial subject. There's no way to understand the important issues without it. Now, with Charles Wheelan's breezy tour, there's also no reason to fear it.
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Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
ISBN 10: 0393320928 ISBN 13: 9780393320923
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman!" One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynmans last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales-some funny, others intensely moving-we meet Feynmans first wife, Arlene, who taught him of loves irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challengers explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disasters cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 0393082105 ISBN 13: 9780393082104
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Illustrated. A thought-provoking and humorous collection on NASA and the future of space travel. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold-with a five- or possibly ten-year delay until the next launch of astronauts from U.S. soil-Tysons views on the future of space travel and Americas role in that future are especially timely and urgent. This book represents the best of Tysons commentary, including a candid new introductory essay on NASA and partisan politics, giving us an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for Americas economy, security, and morale. Thanks to Tysons fresh voice and trademark humor, his insights are as delightful as they are provocative, on topics that range from the missteps that shaped our recent history of space travel to how aliens, if they existed, might go about finding us.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1994
ISBN 10: 039331149X ISBN 13: 9780393311495
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. Do you love good food? Love to eat? Want the taste of great cooking without the fat or the worry of eating the wrong kinds of foods? Based on the principles of The T-Factor Diet, the book that has created a revolution in the way we eat and think about food, this cookbook opens up an exciting new range of international cooking that will delight your family and friends. You do not have to be on a diet to enjoy the benefits of this book, but each recipe lists total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, calories, sodium, and fiber content, so that the meals you prepare may be keyed into any stage of a diet or maintenance program. In addition to main dishes and ideas for entertaining, there are many tips on cooking for one person, eating out, and meals to take to work. And the dishes are easy to prepare.The Katahns love good food, and they love to cook. They will show you how to prepare fabulous meals-like Sesame-Ginger Lamb Chops or Triple Cheese Manicotti-that combine low fat and low salt with lots of fruits, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates. The recipes in this book meet all the guidelines set forth by the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society for reducing the dietary risk of disease.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1994
ISBN 10: 0393311392 ISBN 13: 9780393311396
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. "There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."-Martin Gardner Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays-his sixth since Ever Since Darwin-Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.