Synchrony is a science in its infancy, and Strogatz is a pioneer in this new frontier in which mathematicians and physicists attempt to pinpoint just how spontaneous order emerges from chaos. Engagingly written for readers of books such as "Chaos" and "The Elegant Universe, Sync" is a tour-de-force of nonfiction writing.
Kalyan Kumar De was born in India in 1937. He came to the United States as a student in 1962 and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from New York State University in 1966. By education he is a chemist, writing poetry is his hobby. This publication is the expression of that hobby.
My Discovery of Brazil: 500 Years After Cabral is a first-hand account of a farmland owner-settler in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil. With her background in anthropology, Anna Russell has explored the national character of Brazil, borne out of her personal experiences, in a narrative that deals with the Brazilian People and their attitude towards work and land in the backdrop of land-grabbing movements of the MST. Her long stay as...
This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Ranciere approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines.
This collection takes an unflinching look at the horrors of coming out and the stigma attached to gay people living in the deep South, ruled by Baptist Churches and preachers. It is a call to arms for anyone who has the audaciousness to be themselves without any apprehensions or apologies.
I was on a lonely stretch of road. There were no lights other than the moon and stars, and I had not encountered any traffic in at least 10 minutes. Far ahead of me a figure stepped out of the brush and stood on the shoulder of the road. The figure was still far out of my headlight range, but was visible as a stunning and marvelous silhouette in the bright moonlight.
This book is about the incredible similarities between many professing Christians in America and our neighbors in other parts of the world who claim Allah is God and Mohammed his prophet. There is a growing war between the two, while both are basically saying the same thing.Who was this mystic and very gifted man named Mohammed? Millions of people consider him to be the greatest mind among all the sons of Arabia. When he appeared, Arabia was a...
Everyday a child is found missing. Where are they now? Shyla Shade thought the nightmare was over when the war minister from the egalitarian Alzian Empire brought home the children from Earth. But her elation was cut short by an unspeakable crime. Her brothers were found viciously killed and a series of disappearances rip her family apart. As death knocks on her doorstep, Shade embarks on a perilous journey through time and space in order to e...
A retrospective collection of the poet's work, this anthology introduces poetry which appeared previously in small press publications throughout the United States. It also includes the entire manuscript of an earlier work titled: Searching the Shadows. The poet has pulled this work together uniquely by culminating in an essay on the creative process, followed by an analytical interpretation of a specific woman poet's work.
Satire and irony rip through this book. It discussed doctors who kill and cover up mentally ill people who are mistreated or killed by mental health personnel. Hypocrisy in education, politics, religion, and government policy is revealed.
Aimed both at broadening the range of theoretically-informed empirical research on business ethics and at addressing the underlying questions regarding the nature of business ethics research, this is a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of the role of ethics in organizations.
Drez ("Voices of D-Day"), a research associate at the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, compiles interviews with 10 World War II veterans' 25 yards--the length and breadth of the war for him at any given moment.
The Wooden Nickel" is a boat. Its owner, Lucky Lunt, is an endangered species: a lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father. But the world is changing fast--and soon he is embroiled in a turf war that forces him to abandon all the rules: family, health, finance, and even the rules of the sea.
