From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events ...
James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television's Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge ru...
Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of ...
Connections is a brilliant examination of the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of today.How did ...
Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the ...
Following the 9/11 attacks, a war against al Qaeda by the U. S. and its liberal democratic allies was next to inevitable. But what kind of war would it be, ho...
This volume focuses on the research achievements of the earth sciences in developing the nation's energy resources and on the efforts that still must be made to...
Learn how to control your perceptions and emotions, minimise dysfunctional thinking and achieve greater success in life.We're all dealt certain 'cards' in life...
Learn how to control your perceptions and emotions, minimise dysfunctional thinking and achieve greater success in life.We're all dealt certain 'cards' in life...
In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefi...
Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling ...
byJames Burk,Robert Waldman,David Segal,Charles Moskos
What role will armed forces play in a world that is turbulent yet no longer organized by the bipolar conflict of East and West? In this volume, leading experts ...
The 10 Principles of Open Business is a practical guide to organizational design for the Twenty-First Century. Using case studies, the authors define the 10 pr...
From the bestselling author of "The Knowledge Web" come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential event...
In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when ex...