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Biomimicry
Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas -- spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells -- and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus takes us into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are applying nature's ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival: stirring vats of proteins to unleash their signaling power in computers; analyzing how spiders manufacture a waterproof fiber five times stronger than steel; studying how electrons in a leaf cell convert sunlight to fuel in trillionths of a second; discovering miracle drugs by observing what animals eat -- and much more. The products of biomimicry are things we can all use -- medicines, 'smart' computers, super-strong materials, profitable and earth-friendly business. 'Biomimicry eloquently shows that the answers are all around us. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715960
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Mistress Of The Elgin Marbles
An exploration of the British aristocracy during the Romantic era as reflected by the life of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, discusses her history-making work as the Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire, from her efforts to bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East to her safe removal of classical marbles from the Parthenon. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715975
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Among The Bohemians Experiments In Living 1900-1939
They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive, eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth century in this 'wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by no rules, are difficult to characterize' (San Francisco Chronicle). - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715980
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The Silent Takeover Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are now corporations, only 49 are nation-states. The sales of General Motors and Ford are greater than the gross domestic product of the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, and Wal-Mart now has a turnover higher than the revenues of most of the states of Eastern Europe. Yet few of us understand fully the growing dominance of big business. Widely acclaimed economist Noreena Hertz brilliantly reveals how corporations across the world manipulate and pressure governments by means both legal and illegal; how protest is becoming a more effective political weapon than the ballot-box; and how corporations are taking over from the state responsibility for everything from providing technology for schools to healthcare for the community. 'The Silent Takeover asks us to recognize the growing contradictions of a world divided between haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable wealth. In the face of these unacceptable extremes, Noreena Hertz outlines a new agenda to revitalize politics - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715991
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The Transparent Leader How To Build A Great Company Through Straight Talk Openness And Accountability
A guide to running an ethical and successful company, written by an executive leader from such corporations as Dial, Quaker State, and Campbell Soup, outlines the management techniques he applied to revitalize failing businesses, citing the effectiveness of fostering trust and accountability at all employee levels. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715999
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Anabasis
This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as 'a series of images of migration' in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it as 'a piece of writing of the same importance as the later work of James Joyce.' This is the definitive edition, published with the French and English texts on facing pages. In addition to the Preface by Eliot it includes translations of prefaces to three European editions of the work, by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Valery Larbaud, and Giuseppe Ungaretti. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507780
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Seduce Me
An intimate collection of erotic short works includes the tales of a manager and assistant who share a role reversal, a woman whose surprise gift reveals unexplored aspects of her personality, and a couple that experiments with abstinence. Original. 20,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 460836163
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The Blue Jay's Dance A Birth Year
Bestselling novelist and poet Louise Erdrich presents the exciting debut of a new form--the linked-essay--offering intimate, honest, and exquisitely lyrical meditations on the delicate balance of mothering a baby and maintaining an artistic life. 'What Erdrich does so masterfully is tie together all the strings of her life'.--Detroit Free Press. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 460836192
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Opportunities In Beauty And Modeling Careers
Outlines various careers in beauty and modeling, day-to-day duties, education and training, and advice for determining career suitability. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 460836791
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The Lucky Ones
A young pregnant woman wrestles with changes in her life, while a new father tries to reconnect with his younger self, a daughter searches for a lost childhood, and a mother reveryes out to the offspring she cannot understand. By the Whitbread Award-winning author of Saving Agnes. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461107176
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Collins Public Speaking Conquer Your Nerves and Make a Great Impression
A useful guide for readers who want to make a speech a success. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461107193
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