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The Outsiders
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99Ponyboy can count on his brothers and his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids who get away with everything, including beating up greasers like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect--until the night someone takes things too far. Written forty-five years ago, S. E. Hinton's classic story of a... more...
The Commercialisation of Sport
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 63.95What does commercialisation mean for the future of sport? Modern sports links to commerce are highly visible. Stadiums and arenas bear the names of businesses, while sponsors' logos appear on athletes' clothing and equipment, on the facilities in which they play, and in the titles of the events in which they compete. Media companies pay vast sums for... more...
The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything
Wiley 2007; US$ 24.95A compelling eyewitness account of the recent courtroom drama in Dover, Pennsylvania that put evolution on trial. Journalist Gordy Slack offers a riveting, personal, and often amusing first-hand account that details six weeks of some of the most widely ranging, fascinating, and just plain surreal testimony in U.S. legal history—a battle between... more...
CNET Do-it-yourself Digital Home Office Projects
McGraw-Hill 2007; US$ 24.95Run a world-class business from home. Today's home office is much more than a desk and a computer. In this easy-to-follow guide, you'll find out how to set up a connected, collaborative, portable, and secure digital workspace in your home. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics,... more...
PowerPoint 2007 Graphics & Animation Made Easy
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 21.99Get beyond the basics with PowerPoint 2007 This easy-to-follow guide takes you to the next level in PowerPoint by showing how to build amazing professional presentations using high-quality graphics and animations that will capture the attention of any audience. You will learn how to create one-of-a-kind graphics, such as custom SmartArt using the... more...
Hetty
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 11.99When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about... more...
Voluntary disclosure narrative
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 199.00This e-book aims to investigate users, use and usefulness of voluntary disclosure narrative. There has been a substantial increase in voluntary disclosure narrative provided by companies over the last decade. This increase has been seen within company annual reports, stand alone social and environmental reports and specific web site disclosure. more...
Blue Fairways
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 7.99A duffer's odyssey on the public links from Maine to Key West. A golfing everyman takes us on a pilgrimage, playing public golf courses along Route 1 down the east coast of the United States. From his first round with French-Canadian partners amidst the potato fields of northern Maine to his final round against a setting tropical sun in Key West,... more...
Plague
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 9.99Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague of London in 1665, and for devastating epidemics much earlier and much later, in the Mediterranean in the sixth century, and in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. Today, it has become a metaphor for... more...
Stem Cells
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 9.99The topic of stem cells has been very high profile in the media in recent years. There is much public interest in stem cells but also much confusion and misinformation, with some companies already offering 'stem cell products' and bogus 'stem cell therapies'. In this Very Short Other, Jonathan Slack introduces stem cells; what they... more...









