The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying p[...]

The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historical[...]

Takes notes anywhere with a stylish Idea pocket journal from Galison. Brainstorm, list and project pages help your ideas come to life Subtitled "from your mind to the world," this journal will encourage you to create. Inspiring quotations are interspersed among pages with illustrations by Debbie Po[...]

In their groundbreaking books on the benefits of a low-GI diet, world-renowned researcher Jennie Brand-Miller and her team have changed the way the world thinks about food and nutrition. Eating according to the glycemic index has never been more popular than it is now--and it just got easier.
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San Francisco s cable cars are an internationally recognized symbol of the city, but they also have a long and fractious history. There are actually three cable lines in operation today: the California Street line and the two Powell Street lines the Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde. The Powell Street li[...]

"You May" Not "Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant" is a collection of the 101 dumbest real federal, city, and state laws in America, compiled by Jeff Koon and Andy Powell, a couple of high school seniors with a Web site visited by hundreds of thousands of browsers every month. These laws will astoni[...]

This book offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, trance, vision and ecstasy in their cinematic expression.[...]

It's Bring Your Pet to School Day - what could possibly go wrong? Leapfrog Rhyme Time features fun, rhyming stories of no more than 180 words for children who are starting to read on their own.[...]

When Jet the dog goes for a walk, he always manages to bring back the wrong thing! Will he ever find his toy? The Tiddlers series features fun stories with a word count of fewer than 50 words for children who are just starting to read. A word list at the start of the book allows you to check the chi[...]

What's it like to live in India? Looking at Countries takes you on a tour so you can find out about the landscape, the weather, the people and the places. With maps and large photos, this colourful series provides lots of information about countries around the world.[...]

Tilly has broken her arm. At the holiday there isn't much she can do, until they see the river!

Explores the role of information and information systems (IS) concepts in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This book considers the applicability of IS theory and practice to SMEs and develops theories that are relevant to these firms. It covers, the nature of SMEs, the background to IS, an[...]