This book is my true-life experience on taking IT Certification exams and documents my successes and a costly failure. You can learn much from someone who has been there. Microsoft, Comp TIA and other information Technology certifications are achieved by successfully passing your exam using a simple ... more »

Albert Einstein's bold mark on our understanding of the world, which has persisted now for more than a century, shows no sign of fading. On the contrary, Einstein and his work promise to inspire, enlighten, and confound us for decades--indeed, for centuries--to come. In this fascinating volume, today ... more »

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written ... more »

Over 6 million undergraduate and A.P. high school students need help writing essays. Helps students conquer writers block and ace the academic essay. Includes dozens of sample essays on various topics. Features checklists and questions keep students on track. more »

Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of empowered woman who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces raunch culture wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat ... more »

Merriam-Webster, move over! Until now, no English dictionary ever found the fun or the fascination in revealing the meanings of letters. One-Letter Words, a Dictionary illuminates the more than 1,000 surprising definitions associated with each letter in the English alphabet. For instance, Conley uncovers ... more »

This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind.   The quest to find where and when the ... more »

What do George W. Bush, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, gangsta rap, and SUVs have in common? They're all among the hundred ways in which America is screwing up the world. The country that was responsible for many, if not most, of the twentieth century's most important scientific and technological advancements ... more »

Michael Dummett, philosopher and social critic, is also one of the sharpest and most prominent commentators and campaigners for the fair treatment of immigrants and refugees in Britain and Europe. This book insightfully draws together his thoughts on this major issue for the first time. Exploring the ... more »

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction event that could not have been predicted. Out of the devastation, new life developed and the world regained its natural equilibrium. Until now. Scientists, employing radically new perspectives on the science of life, are beginning ... more »

nanotechnology \na-no--tek-'na-l -je-\ n (1987): the science of manipulating material at the atomic level Although nanotechnology deals with the very small--a nanometer is 1/80,000th the diameter of a human hair--it is going to be huge. From the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the products we manufacture ... more »

For anyone who has ever wondered where our popular culture is taking us, Hating Women is at once an electrifying social commentary and a clarion call for change. In Hating Women , Shmuley Boteach, the passionate social critic and relationship guru, examines an alarming trend of misogyny in our popular ... more »