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Simply complexity: a clear guide to complexity theory
Neil F. Johnson.
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1 v ; 20 cm.
What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting ¿ and ultimately solving¿everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush-hour traffic congestion.
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Sonata mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play : poems
by Rita Dove.
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231 p. ; 24 cm.
The son of a white woman and an âAfrican Prince,â George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780â1860) travels to Vienna to meet âbad-boyâ genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composerâs subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George, exuberant with acclaim, offends Beethoven over a woman. From this crucial encounter evolves a grandiose yet melancholy poetic tale.
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Song of two worlds
Alan Lightman.
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99 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
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xv, 330, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
This eye-opening UK bestseller shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. "This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking--"Sunday Times." 352.
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Steve McQueen, King of Cool : tales of a lurid life : another hot, startling, and unauthorized celebrity biography
by Darwin Porter.
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466 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
The truth about Steve McQueen is spectacularly different from the legend projected by his screen persona and Hollywood's media machine. Lurid aspects of McQueen's early life include a gothic horror of a childhood and stints as both a porno performer and pay for play hustler to both men and women. Also revealed are sinister implications associated with his mysterious death. Years of research on the film industry's coolest player bring McQueen and his legacy brusquely back to Earth.
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Stop acting rich : --and start living like a real millionaire
Thomas J. Stanley.
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xiv, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
"A leading expert on the affluent reveals the real way to build wealth With well over two million of his books sold, and huge praise from many media outlets, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on the wealthy, their behavior, and their thinking. Now, in Stop Acting Rich, he details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from truly acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite. A defensive strategy for tough times, Stop Acting Rich will show you how to live like Warren Buffett-a rich, happy life-through accumulating more wealth and using it to achieve the type of financial freedom that will create true happiness and fulfillment. Puts wealth in perspective and shows you how to live rich without spending more Details why we spend lavishly and how to stop this destructive cycle Discusses how being "rich" means more than just big houses and luxury cars Other titles by Stanley: The Millionaire Mind and The Millionaire Next Door It's time to understand why we buy what we buy, so that we can start accumulating, rather than depleting, wealth. Stop Acting Rich shows you exactly what it takes to achieve this elusive goal"--Provided by publisher.
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Storms of my grandchildren : the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity
James Hansen ; illustrations by Makiko Sato.
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xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
An urgent and provocative call to action from the world’s leading climate scientist—speaking out here for the first time with the full story of what we need to know about humanity’s last chance to get off the path to a catastrophic global meltdown, and why we don’t know the half of it.InStorms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen—the nation’s leading scientist on climate issues—speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Although the threat of human-caused climate change is now widely recognized, politicians have failed to connect policy with the science, responding instead with ineffectual remedies dictated by special interests. Hansen shows why President Obama’s solution, cap-and-trade, which Al Gore has signed on to, won’t work; why we must phase out all coal, and why 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is a goal we must achieve if our children and grandchildren are to avoid global meltdown and the storms of the book’s title. This urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansen—whose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress about global warming—is the single most credible voice on the subject worldwide.Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen in the near future, mere years and decades from now, if we follow the course we’re on. But he is also an optimist, showing that there is still time to do what we need to save the planet. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book, released to coincide with the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009, will be key in setting the agenda going forward to create a groundswell, a tipping point, to save humanity—and our grandchildren—from a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.Learn more at www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com
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Swing swagger drape : knit the colours of Australia
Jane Slicer-Smith.
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183 p. : col. ill ; 28 cm.
The central pieces in this collection--the swing coats, swagger jackets, and drapes--show that makes Jane Slicer-Smith designs unique: a masterful use of color, fabrics that move, shapes that flatter, and customized fit. With clear instructions highlighting options in design, construction, and color, this resource empowers knitters.
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Tadao Ando at Naoshima : art, architecture, nature
Philip Jodidio ; [foreword by Tadao Andō]
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200 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Talking about detective fiction
P.D. James.
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viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. She examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and bringing us into the present with such writers as Colin Dexter and Sara Paretsky. She compares British and American Golden Age mystery writing. She discusses detective fiction as social history, the stylistic components of the genre, her own process of writing, how critics have reacted over the years, and what she sees as a renewal of detective fiction--and of the detective hero--in recent years.--From publisher description.
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Three deep breaths : finding power and purpose in a stressed-out world
Thomas Crum.
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98 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Three Deep Breaths uses the popular parable format toillustrate an effective antidote to anger, stress, andoverwhelming busyness. Through the story of a harriedworker struggling to balance work, life, and familypressures, readers learn three different ways to usebreathing to live in the present, think positivethoughts, and release negativity and judgment. Byactively practicing the prescribed breathing exercises,readers maintain clarity and purpose even when confrontedwith the most chaotic and stressful environments.Straightforward and easy to learn, these simple centeringtechniques can be done in as little time as it takes towalk to the next meeting.
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Time out France.
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v. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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