Phil Gordon Phil Gordon plays poker with the best players in the world. He has won -- and lost -- in tournaments and cash games around the globe, all the...

Richaed OsborneWhy does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive & dangerous? Why do a lot of people...

Anthony Trollope 'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street'.After the...

George A Akerlof and Robert J Shiller Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much goodEver since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics...

Hans-Michael Koetzle Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs.From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up...

Werner HeisenbergNobel Prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is known for the development of quantum mechanics and the principle of indeterminacy. In Physics and Philosophy he explains how modern...

Werner HeisenbergThe seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern...

Michio KakuPhysics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Traveleleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science...

AT Schwartz Empower yourself, enjoy and enrich your life with ideas that fire you, inspire you. Learn to create and reach for your biggest, happiest, most exciting dreams. "PiCK-ME-UPs" is...

Simon Dawson From the jacket: Aged just 32, Simon Dawson took a risk. He sold his London flat and moved his wife and Great Dane to a cottage in Devon....

Taylor Branch From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental...

Vincent Douglas"You are the finest toy I have ever made. I will call you Pinocchio." Geppetto is delighted when his puppet comes to life. Yet no matter how hard Pinocchio...