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Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet
McGraw-Hill 2004; US$ 19.99Simon Johnson (Victoria, Australia) has 10 years experience as an IT security professional with a number of organizations and government departments. He co-founded and managed Shake Communications in 1997, an IT security business. In 1998 he co-founded SecuritySearch.Net, which at the time, was the largest IT security portal on the Internet. SecuritySearch.Net... more...
13 Bankers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks?Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley?which together control assets amounting, astonishingly,... more...
Emotion and Social Theory
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 59.00Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this book treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and reflects, and critically comments upon, the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory. more...
Medicine and the Body
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 58.00'Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge more...
White House Burning
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95America is mired in debt?more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the... more...
Fort Eben Emael
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95At the outbreak of World War II, Fort Eben Emael in Belgium was the strongest fortress in the world, and it lay exactly across the German invasion route of Belgium and France. The fort?s elimination was essential for the success of Hitler?s invasion of the West. Deemed impregnable to conventional attack, Hitler himself suggested the means for its capture... more...
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 95.00While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. This book, centered largely on the European... more...
Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 60.00A valuable introduction to the processes of mountain belt formation and summary of orogenic research, for advanced students and researchers. more...
Alan Turing and his Contemporaries
British Informatics Society Limited 2012; US$ 23.99Secret wartime projects in areas such as code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. Their influence is still discernable deep down within today?s hardware and software. more...
Methods in enzymology
Elsevier Science 2000; US$ 193.00Volume 323 of Methods in Enzymology is dedicated to the energetics of biological macromolecules. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying a biological process requires detailed knowledge of the structural relationships within the system and an equally detailed understanding of the energetic driving forces that control the structural interactions.... more...









