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The mob offers the young mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a $500,000 bribe to rezone land adjacent to the George Washington Bridge. Risking his life, the mayor pretends to go along with the plan but wears a wire. His efforts lead to the convictions of seven people.... More

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.   One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a... More

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.   One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a... More

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.   One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a... More

Philip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Although Newmarch's work and influence are often acknowledged - most particularly by scholars of English poetry, a... More

This book provides a framework for understanding the economics that drive markets, enabling investment professionals to understand the reality of markets and models, and to 'be where the profits are'.   Economics is about the allocation of resources, so it is at the heart of markets. And yet to man... More

Integrative and translational methodologies and frameworks have transformed modern biomedical research and the delivery of clinical care. This shift has been manifested in a number of ways, including the rapid growth and increasing availability of high-throughput bio-molecular instrumentation and a... More

This book covers several aspects related the evolution of Information Systems into Pervasive Information Systems. New IT trends have an important impact on IT infrastructures, which become increasingly heterogeneous, flexible, and dynamic. These new trends are transforming Information Systems into w... More

Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of... More

Like most folks, you probably know all about Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. But have you heard about his little sister, Paula? Well, maybe "little" isn't the right word. She was as tall as a pine tree, as strong as a dozen moose, and could run so fast that she once ran all the way back to yesterda... More

A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O’... More

IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Everyone is cozy and tucked up in bed when out of the darkness, SQUEAK, says the door. Mama's eyes fly open. Who's out of bed? Is it Evie? Ivy? Little Mo? On this stormy night in their little house, only Papa keeps snoring away -- Snurfle, Snark -- unaware of the wil... More

The rattletrap car doesn't go fast and it doesn't go far. But add a beach-ball, a surf-board, a thermos of fizz and chocolate marshmallow fudge delight, and see that car go!... More

Everything in Mrs Potter's house is spotlessly clean - except for baby Ermajean. She's always in a mess. "You'll turn into a little pig someday," Mrs Potter warns her. And, one day, she does!... More

Down by the sleepy, slimy marsh a duck gets stuck in the muck. How many creatures does it take to get one duck unstuck? A counting book.... More

If you really want to see a woodland caribou, you might try going to a place forgotten by time. It should be a hushed place, with perhaps rocky green hills and blue water, home to loons and beaver, lichen and yellow buttercups. With every step, this gentle journey brings us to a deeper and more un... More

Grandmother Winter lives all alone with her snow-white flock of geese. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Grandmother Winter tends her geese and gathers their feathers. Why? To bring snowfall as soft as feathers and bright as a winter moon. To the woodland and all of its creatures, the arr... More

"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . . "* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women whose life stories are collected here includ... More

Author Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take young readers on a trip to another of Minnesota&’s important ecosystems: the prairie.  Once covering... More

In these stories designed to help children learn to read on their own, Mouse has fun-with a few bumps along the way.... More

A sighting of the rare frangipani fruit fly sends Lilly's scientist parents off in search of the fabled Shipwreck Islands. In this Smithsonian's Notable Book for Children, Lilly awaits their return at the home of her great-uncle Ernest, the chief librarian of Mundelaine, a town that seems to have mo... More

This book explores food provisioning in Colombia by examining the role and impact of the agrarian negotiations which took place in the aftermath of the 2013–2014 national strikes. Most of the research in the field of agrarian studies in Colombia has focused on inequalities in land distribution, t... More

First published in 1999, this volume recognised how widespread attention has been given to charting how the global rise in investment flows has caused numerous changes in the operation of economies – such as the globalisation of production and increasing international economic interdependency. Less ... More

Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship between well-being and travel. The recent surg... More

For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. ... More