In structure and history, Bell Labs was unique in the world. Its discoveries and inventions (advances on its earlier invention of the transistor, the laser, UNIX, the charge-coupled device) transforme
Now published by Oxford University Press--at a new, lower price--Men's Lives reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in contemporary U.S. society?" Edited by two of the field's most pr
The discovery of who was behind the Metatron's mind control and the death of DD Mau, Has Faustus hitting a breaking point. No longer capable of controlling his anger, he goes after the Advisors, and d
Players dedicate their lives to the goal of playing professional hockey and teams demand total commitment from their players, giving them complete control over almost all aspects of the players' lives
In his 2000 Rights in China, Santoro (business ethics, Rutgers U.) advocated admitting China into the World Trade Organization. Here he tests whether events and trends over the subsequent decade suppo
In this book, Michael A. Gordon examines the causes and consequences of the tragic and bloody "Orange Riots" that rocked New York City in 1870 and 1871. On July 12 of both years, groups of Irish Catho
Publishing into the teeth of the 2008 election, a selection of the best, most rousing presidential stump speeches, with essential critical context relating the speeches of the past to politics
Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a pl
The stories of the individuals who laid the foundation for the Internet are presented by Banks (The Modern Reference), who tracks the surprising origins of the World Wide Web back through several deca
At the start of the twenty-first century, unconditional war swept across the Earth. A war that engulfed the great and the small, the rich and the poor, giving no quarter. Each side strove for uncondi
