Presents an explanation of Einstein's equation that explores the principles of physics through everyday life. This book describes the theory behind origin of mass.

In December 1962, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon travelled like a head of state, with armed guards and military surveillance, in a temperature-controlled vault. This work presents the story of an 88-day visit that forever changed America.

A narrative of the 24 hours after Kennedy was shot, in which Vice President Lyndon B Johnson became president, destroyed his relationship with Robert Kennedy, and set the stage for the great schism in liberal politics.

A compendium that draws on a wide variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the 2009 year's insightful and entertaining articles on the political scene.

A provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages selected by bestselling author Christopher Hitchens

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, this title explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. It places the crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that dominate global economic activity.

A guide to vegetarian home cooking, focusing on fresh ingredients, great flavour and no-fuss preparation. It presents 200 recipes that emphasize healthy, delicious and easy-to-prepare food using familiar and readily available ingredients - whether you're cooking for vegans, vegetarians or carnivores.

Takes you on a guided tour of the gap between the outer edge of innovation and our ability to keep up with it. This work reveals how the rapid expansion of our virtual lives is dismantling the rusty infrastructure that governs them, even as a new version better suited to the unique features of the information economy is forming.

A collection of essays on comic books, music, and other aspects of pop culture, focusing on a 10,000-word essay on the transformation of American film through the rise of the comic book movie.

Let 'Creative Cursing' be your new creative outlet for letting out all that bottled-up frustration and rage. Stop unleashing commonplace and worn-out profanity, and start generating innovative, effective and offensive insults by flipping two side-by-side pages in a fresh and fun format.

Offers an account of the author's brush with breast cancer and its intersection with midlife, motherhood and marriage.

Tells the inside story of the break up of the United Arab Republic in the early 1960s, as well as his secret attempts to patch it back together as late as 1983. This work explains why the 1967 Arab-Israeli War was the result of a miscalculation by Nasser, but the 1973 war was a miscalculation by Henry Kissinger.

Deals with the lofty ambitions of the controversial World Trade Organization - and thereby, of globalization itself - and explains why free trade is not the answer to poverty and inequity.

A world-renowned child psychiatrist takes us inside his pioneering work with trauma victims to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on how stress and violence affect childrens brains-and how they can be helped to heal