Melody's Stone

Love & Death

Törékeny Horizont

"Explosive."&#8212;People" [Bitter Pills] could save your life."&#8212;San Diego Union-Tribune"The best popular book I've read on the subject."&#8212;The New York Times Book Review"Chilling...fascinating...poignant."&#8212;Newsday"If you have concerns about drugs your family members have been prescribed or are taking over the counter, Bitter Pills will help make you a more informed consumer."&#8212;Rocky Mountain News"One of the year's best books...startling...sobering."&#8212;Philadelphia Inquirer"Absorbing...insightful...fascinating and often frightening." &#8212;Kirkus Reviews

Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs

Bitter Pills

"Twentieth-century modernism is personalized in Partners in Design, a spin-off from an exhibition concentrating on the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art and the architect Philip Johnson, who designed the AT&T (now Sony) Building and the Kennedy Memorial in Dallas. The essays cover architecture, the furniture commissioned to fill these iconic buildings, the graphic material that advertised them, and the museum shows and books that publicized them. A fascinating subject."&mdash;The Wall Street Journal"This sleek and accessible catalogue focuses on the historic relationship between Alfred Barr Jr., founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Philip Johnson, the well-to-do Harvard grad he selected in 1929 to lead the museum's department of architecture and design. Barr and Johnson helped make the nondecorative functionalist aesthetics of Germany's Bauhaus palatable to mainstream Americans. They developed novel, ambitious, yet popular exhibitions that advanced the art of the everyday object and encouraged the public to seek it out. The book is full of crisp, cool examples of relevant objects, some from the exhibitions or the personal collections of Barr or Johnson. . . . cake pans, lamps, tables, Josef Hartwig's chess set of abstract geometric shapes, and wickedly handsome chairs designed by Mies van der Rohe. The slick design and layout of the book clearly take a cue from its subjects."&mdash;Publishers Weekly&#160;

Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson

Partners in Design

"&#8230; there are still original superhero stories left to be told." - Comic Book Resources (on Insufferable Vol.1) "Five stars!" - Major Spoilers (on Insufferable Vol.1)

Insufferable, Vol. 4: Home Field Advantage

A Testimony of Words and Unity

Silence of the Tongue

...des Kaisers neue Kleider - steht auf dem Buchumschlag. Der renommierte englische Physiker Penrose will damit sichtbar machen, daß die Vertreter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) nackt dastehen. Mit einem 400 Seiten langen Exkurs versucht er, ihre Behauptung zu widerlegen, daß Maschinen ebenso intelligent sein können wie Menschen.
bild der wissenschaft

Roger Penrose (...) gelang das Kinstück, mit dem formelgespckten Wälzer "The Emperor's New Mind" (auf deutsch jetzt unter dem geistlosen Titel "Computerdenken"  erschienen) auf den US-Bestsellerlisten zu landen, ungeachtet aller Quanten-Ket-Vektoren und Einsteinscher Krümmungstensoren, mit denen der Autor seine Leser plagt.
DER SPIEGEL

Das erklärte Ziel dieses Buches ist, den Standpunkt einiger KI-Enthusiasten zu widerlegen, daß Computer irgendwann all das können, was menschliche Gehirne können - und sogar mehr. Aber der Leser merkt bald, daß Penrose vor allem das Ziel verfolgt, einen Wegzur großen Synthese von klassischer Physik, Quantenphysik und Neurowissenschaften aufzuzeigen.
Scientific American

Wer "Computerdenken" liest (oder durcharbeitet), sollte nicht auf Antwort hoffen, darf aber neue Sichtweisen und überraschende Interpretationen erwarten. Ein nahrhaftes Geschenk für naturwissenschaftlich Interessierte. 
Die Zeit

Lassen Sie sich von diesem Buch in eine faszinierende Welt des winzig Kleinen und des unendlich Großen entführen und von den Gedankenkonstruktionen eines großen Wissenschaftlers unserer Zeit begeistern. Ein Buch für Fachleute und "gebildete Laien", das trotz der anspruchsvollen Materie nie langatmig oder gar langweilig wird. So präsentiert werden Mathematik und theoretische Physik zum Abenteuer.

Die Debatte um Künstliche Intelligenz, Bewusstsein und die Gesetze der Physik

Computerdenken

How a One-legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War: the Story of the Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as Told by a High Private in the "foo

Ezra Cornell, His Nature, Work and Character. Address of Gen'l Daniel Butterfield, Delivered on Founder's Day ... January 11th, 1898

Second Edition

International Arbitration of Renewable Energy Disputes

Die gesammelten Comic-Strips von Tove Jansson

Mumins 2

Politics and Development

Youth Participation in the Caribbean

Ein Fall für Katzendetektiv Ra - Die Suche nach Pharaos Sohn

Budgeting and Performance Management in the Public Sector

"A gripping Arctic adventure. . . . The intensity, the dark poetry, of Jones's writing is stunning." &#8211;The Washington Post"A thrilling story. . . . It is the fine detail of this navigational and spiritual trek, the vicissitudes, confrontations and relationships along the way, that make The Rope Eater a fascinating journey." &#8211;The Miami Herald"Jones describes battlefields as vividly as he does Arctic storms." &#8211;The Boston Globe"A heady mix of Melville's Moby-Dick and Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, The Rope Eater melds breathtaking lyricism with gripping realism, producing a page-turning adventure that navigates that heart of darkness hidden within men's souls." &#8211;The Baltimore Sun"What sets this novel apart from its many adventuring cousins is the stark insight with which debut author Ben Jones charts the emotional journey of his narrator. . . . A fantastic tale. . . . Each detail is expertly selected with an eye to completing a stunning whole. Under this guise of an adventure story, Jones leads his readers on an exploration of the dark corners of men's souls." &#8211;The Denver Post"With the skill of an old master and the gusto of a newcomer to the trade, in The Rope Eater [Jones] conjures up the feel and spirit of a mid-19th century voyage of exploration. . . . Riveting." &#8211;San Francisco Chronicle"Jones delivers an out-of-this world novel." &#8211;The Boston Herald"A ripping-good adventure yarn marked by heroism and sacrifice." &#8211;Time Out New York"[Jones] has talent to burn." &#8211;Outside&#8220;With The Rope Eater, Ben Jones has produced not simply a novel but an entire world both fabulous and mythic, a world rendered in prose both stark and lovely as the landscape and characters within. Although set in the not-so-distant past, this account of the dreams and harsh realities of humanity serves as a clearly distinct fable for our times. I cannot recommend The Rope Eater more strongly&#8211;Ben Jones enters the ranks as a storyteller of first note.&#8221; &#8211;Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall

The Rope Eater

&ldquo;While I was initially drawn to this manga because of the food&mdash;the recipes are actually really good, mostly simple, practical Japanese home cooking&mdash;I also fell in love with the story itself. It&rsquo;s one of the nicest depictions of an ordinary middle-aged couple who happen to be gay that I&rsquo;ve seen anywhere.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash; Makiko Itoh, Just Hungry blogger&#160;and author of The Just Bento Cookbook

What Did You Eat Yesterday? 3

&#8220;The best yet in a superb series of mysteries.&#8221;&#8211;Minneapolis Tribune.&#8220;One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished.&#8221;&#8211;Michael Connelly &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to think of any other thriller writers (apart from Simenon perhaps) who can capture so much of a society in a couple of hundred pages and yet still hold true to the  thriller form.&#8221;&#8211;Sean and Nicci French&#8220;Lively, stylistically taut . . . Sj&#246;wall and Wahl&#246;&#246; changed the genre.&#8221;&#8211;Henning Mankell

A Martin Beck Police Mystery (8)

The Locked Room

"From the front seat  of a police cruiser, racial profiling is not racism. It's a tool--and cops have no intention of giving it up."--The New York Times Magazine

Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling

Driving While Black

"The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany must be regarded as one of the most important works ever produced on the origins of the Second World War."Paul M. Kennedy, Times Literary Supplement"It is rare that the adjective 'brilliant' describes a volume i

The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany

&#8220;Inspiring . . . fascinating . . . Similar in style to Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s Eat, Pray, Love, The Wishing Year offers a thoughtful approach to the notion that we can create change simply by signifying our intent.&#8221;&#8212;Sunday Oregonian&#8220;Readers will enjoy watching Oxenhandler realize her dreams through diligence, hard work and a &#8216;willing suspension of disbelief&#8217; in the captivating magic of wishing.&#8221;&#8212;Publishers Weekly&#8220;[Oxenhandler] mines her quotidian ups and downs during a twelve-month period with the exacting honesty and hopefulness of a Buddhist Anne Lamott. . . . [An] endearing combination of meticulous research and winsome enthusiasm.&#8221;&#8212;Kirkus Reviews&#8220;Recommended . . .  joyful and humorous reading.&#8221;&#8212;Library Journal

A House, a Man, My Soul

The Wishing Year

"Joan Didion has great instincts for metaphor. She can take an ordinary object . . . and make it as ominous as Hitchcock. . . . She's writing truths about American culture in the sand at our feet. . . . With Didion leading, you could well follow one of her paragraphs into hell." &#8212;Boston Globe"[Didion's] reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature. . . . She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture." &#8212;The New York Times Book Review

After Henry

&#8220;No better study of a nation&#8217;s institutions and culture than Tocqueville&#8217;s Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer.&#8221; &#8211;The New York Times&#8220;The Bradley edition of Tocqueville&#8217;s classic is the best now available in English.&#8221; &#8211;Charles A. Beard&#8220;Professor Bradley&#8217;s edition should remain the standard one for our time.&#8221; &#8211;F. O. MatthiessenWith an Introduction by Alan Ryan

Introduction by Alan Ryan

Democracy in America

The European And Japanese Chestnuts In The Eastern United States

A Slaves Song

"Largely to amuse herself, [ Gertrude Stein ] wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932...using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. It has been said that the writing takes on very much Miss Toklas' conversational style, and while this is true the style is still a variant of Miss Stein's conversation style. ...She usually insisted that writing is an entirely different thing from talking, and it is part of the miracle of this little scheme of objectification that she could by way of imitating Miss Toklas put in writing something of her own beautiful conversation. So that, aside from making a real present of her past, she created a figure of herself, established an identity a twin, a Doppelganger.... The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose... than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded .... "-- Donald Sutherland"... The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and else where -- a life passed in the most stimulating and important society."-- Louis Bromfield"... One of the richest, wittiest, and most irreverent [biographies] ever written."-- William Troy

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

A 24/7 Guide to Coping With Life on Your Own

What To Do When Your Therapist Isn't There

Curso De Derecho Constitucional: El Gobierno Civil En Los Estados Unidos Considerado Con Relacion A Sus Origenes

Praise for Rebecca Schiff&rsquo;s The Bed MovedKirkus Reviews, Best Fiction of 2016The Huffington Post, 18 Best Fiction Books of 2016Electric Literature, 25 Best Short Story Collections of 2016&ldquo;[A] stellar collection. . . . Schiff writes slim, ice-pick stories about sex and death and nighttime cab rides, sharpened by humor and extreme candor.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to watch the faces of people reading [The Bed Moved] as they shift between awe and admiration and shock. This writer is freaking good.&rdquo; &mdash;Ben Marcus, The New Yorker&ldquo;Acerbic. . . . Darkly comic. . . . [Schiff] is funny and wise beyond her years.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Review of Books&#160;&ldquo;Wry and ambitious. . . . [Schiff&rsquo;s] sparse, poetic paragraphs are packed with forceful wit.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlantic &#160;&ldquo;Riveting. . . . Magic. . . . In [Schiff&rsquo;s] work, you see the grace in human frailty.&rdquo; &mdash;The Nation&ldquo;[Schiff&rsquo;s] dark wit gives her stories genuine tensile strength. . . . She dips into her own braininess as if it were a bottomless trust fund.&rdquo; &mdash;Dwight Garner, The New York Times&#160;&ldquo;Riveting. . . . Magic. . . . In [Schiff&rsquo;s] work, you see the grace in human frailty.&rdquo; &mdash;The Nation&#160;&ldquo;Schiff&rsquo;s stories are simultaneously universal and totally original. . . . You&rsquo;ll laugh, you&rsquo;ll cry, you&rsquo;ll cringe from red-faced embarrassment. Schiff gets at the relentlessness of being a young woman dealing with (or, hell, even being ambivalent about) love, dating, and grief, all while finding deep, sometimes dark, laughter in it.&rdquo; &mdash;Marie Claire&#160;&ldquo;A wildly assured debut short-story collection featuring tales of bat mitzvahs, high school ennui, nudist hot springs, and women much smarter than the men they&rsquo;re sleeping with.&rdquo; &mdash;O Magazine&#160;&ldquo;Reads like watching a mashup of Mark Morris and Twyla Tharp choreography. . . . Painfully funny. . . . A mournful vapour trails Schiff&rsquo;s acrobatic wit.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle

Stories

The Bed Moved

If you expect to be hit by a bus, this book isn't for you. But you're much, much more likely to die of a disease with a long downhill course, such as heart disease, cancer, or a neurological condition, and so this book really is for you. Gregory Eastwood shows us how we can hope to create our final chapters, not merely slide into them through ignorance or a sense of loss of control, but with the resources of modern medicine. Being able to do this is a gift.

Preparing for the End of Life

Finishing Our Story

"An Exciting, Important And Humane Book....Once again Herbert Gutman has shown that he is one of the most original and creative minds in the historical profession."-- David Herbert Donald"Gutman's, Magnificent Study...promises to force still another rethinking of the meaning of the Afro-American slave experience."-- George M. Fredrickson, New York Review of Books"Important And Timely....It upsets many historical notions and many sociological theories."-- C. Vann Woodward"Gutman Has Successfully Challenged the traditional view that slavery virtually destroyed the Afro-American family."-- John Hope Franklin"The Importance of Professor Gutman's Book extends far beyond its immediate subject. In its implications it is a devastating critique of the recklessness with which 'social scientists' reach the conclusions on which policy recommendations are based."-- Thomas Sowell, Fortune

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