In 1980, an eccentric American millionaire launched a 'Nobel Prize sperm bank', intended to create a generation of superkids. Stocked with the seed of gifted scientists, inventors, and thinkers, the 'genius factory' produced more than 200 children before it closed its doors in 1999. This title sheds light on the battle between nature and nurture.

This is a history of the rise of the anti-globalization movement, from Seattle to September 11th, 2001. The text charts the group's most notable successes and its failures and is international in scope. It covers all aspects of the topic, social, legal, and political.

A resource for those who use LaTeX to create high-quality printed documents. This book also shows you how to customize layout features to your own needs - from phrases and paragraphs to headings, lists, and pages. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a complete plug-and-play LaTeX installation, including the packages and examples featured in the book.

'METAFONT' is a system for the design of symbols and alphabetic characters suited to raster-based devices that print or display text. This METAFONT book enables readers, with only minimal computer science or word processing experience, to master the basic as well as the more advanced features of METAFONT programming.

The major difference between achieving people and average people is their perception of and response to failure. This work covers the top reasons people fail and shows how to master fear instead of being mastered by it. It shows that positive benefits can accompany negative experiences - if you have the right attitude.

The most important writing of Francis Davis, whose essays on American music and American culture have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Village Voice for more than twenty years, are collected in a definitive anthology. Original.