turner publishing company apr 2012 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These real-life examples and refreshing stories of everyday spiritual practices people use to free themselves from the work and worry mindset of our culture will empower you to see how even your busiest workweek can include spiritual habits and routines.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From one of Golf Digest's Top 5 teachersa simple, scientific program to build a great swing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many women use food to numb feelings and become binge eaters or overeaters. Food too often can become the primary means for coping with everyday stress, anxiety, and other difficult feelings.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Life After Baby' brings a welcome measure of honesty and sanity to the discussion of how women can rediscover and reclaim their health, their verve, and their joie de vivre after a newborn joins their family.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn the secrets and steps to living a more meaningful lifeSuccess is what happens to you; significance is what happens through you. Do busy schedules at home and at work sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed and uninspired Maybe you feel stuck in a rut, going through a treadmill of the same routines or bored at a job you don't love. If you want to get more out of life, this book will show you how. The authors' approach has been used successfully by many thousands of people-now you can put it to work for yourself. You'll learn to focus on your passions, set and achieve goals, and harness your full potential in order to live a life filled with meaning-your best life.Shows you how to nurture your passions, re-energize your life, and achieve your full potentialIncludes dramatic stories of people who have discovered how to live a more meaningful lifeWritten by Peter Hirsch, social entrepreneur and a in-demand public speaker, and Robert Shemin, successful business book author.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Surprisingly, our gut is the source of many seemingly unrelated physical and mental disorders that afflict millions of Americans. This book shows how important it is to understand the role the gut plays in health which goes far beyond digestion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide to the American legal system, told through the story of two actual court casesThe Steps to the Supreme Court takes a lively, narrative approach to the subject by following two real cases--one civil, one criminal--as they work their way through the system all the way up to the Supreme Court. Written by a member of the Supreme Court bar, this book brings the legal system to life in a practical, accessible, and compelling way.Covers the key legal terms, principles, and processes you need to have a basic grasp of the American legal systemTracks the criminal case involving the murder trial of Paul House and follows the defendant from the night of the murder through his conviction, appeals, and final chance for exoneration at the hands of the Supreme CourtFollows a civil case concerning the Ten Commandments being displayed on public property, following the parties from the time the plaintiffs filed their complaints through the Supreme Court decisions and back to the aftermath in the lower courts as they wrestle with a divided complex rulingWritten by the author of A People's History of the Supreme Court, and other classic works on the American justice system.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today's Republicans reject realityit's just part of who they are.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligenceSatoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as 'a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day.' That book answered such burning questions as why women tend to lust after males who already have mates and why newborns look more like Dad than Mom. Now Kanazawa tackles the nature of intelligence: what it is, what it does, what it is good for (if anything). Highly entertaining, smart (dare we say intelligent ), and daringly contrarian, The Intelligence Paradox will provide a deeper understanding of what intelligence is, and what it means for us in our lives.Challenging common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence, this book offers surprising insights into the cutting-edge of science at the intersection of evolutionary psychology and intelligence research.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How does a group of young underdogs with big dreams but little experience transform a culture and industry In the case of the $75 billion video game business, it helps if the outfit is run by a brash iconoclast with the vision of an outlaw and the work ethic of a Puritan--and grew up madly in love with gangster movies, video games, and rap music. It also helps if the company makes the most revolutionary, controversial, and successful video game franchise ever--Grand Theft Auto.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From one of Golf Digest s Top 5 teachers-a simple, scientific program to build a great swing Most golf instruction is based on helping students emulate the best players, but for top golf teacher Mike Bender, physics provides a better model for developing a swing that is as efficient, consistent, and timeless as that of Iron Byron, the PGA robot that tests clubs and balls. Now Mike Bender shows you how to put the secrets of science into your own swing with a simple, proven program that will take your play to a different level and transform your approach to the game. Explains Mike Bender s unique biomechanical approach to building a simple, repeatable, and effective swing Shares the same approach Bender teaches his students, who include two-time U.S. Open winner Lee Janzen, PGA Tour winner Jonathan Byrd, and 2006 LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year Seon Hwa Lee Shows you how to build your scientific swing step by step Includes 150 photographs to help you put principles into practice on the golf course Includes a Foreword by Zach Johnson, 2007 Masters champion and one of Mike Bender s star students As Mike Bender puts it: would you rather fly in an airplane that was built by engineers who understood the principles of lift and acceleration, or would you rather fly in one built by people who simply went out to the airport and watched them taking off and landing Once you develop a scientific swing, it s your own game that will really soar.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First the bad news: over the next twenty years, the United States must cut 20 quadrillion BTUs from its annual consumption of fossil fuels, more than 25 percent of the energy currently being used. This is a matter of both economic and environmental necessity. The good news is that we have the technology to pull it off. But where should we start What exactly needs to be done How much will it cost And won't such a drastic reduction in energy use destroy the American way of life In Before the Lights Go Out, science blogger and journalist Maggie Koerth-Baker presents a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which America produces, distributes, and consumes energy. She explains how our current systems developed, points out their strengths and weaknesses, and offers candid assessments of the time, the difficulty, and the expense involved in making radical changes to the energy systems that have shaped our lives for a hundred years. And the new world that results will be neither business-as-usual nor a hippie utopia.Drawing on more than two years of research and interviews with experts on everything from our electrical grid and electric cars to fracking and passive buildings, Koerth-Baker explains what we can do, what we can't do, and why 'the solution' is really a lot of solutions working together.This isn't about planting a tree, buying a Prius, and proving that you're a good person. Economic and social incentives got us a country full of gas-guzzling cars, long commutes, inefficient houses, and coal-fired power plants in the middle of nowhere, and economics and incentives will build our new world. Ultimately, change is inevitable. If we don't control it, it will control us.Koerth-Baker argues that we're not going to solve the energy problem by convincing everyone to live like it's 1900-nobody wants to do that. Rather than reverting to the past, we will be building a future where we get energy from new places and use it in new ways and do more with less. But for all the new technology, we'll still need coal-fired, nuclear, and natural gas-burning power plants-and we'll still be pumping gasoline into our (far more fuel-efficient) cars for many decades to come.She also looks at new battery technology, smart grids, decentralized generation, clean coal, and carbon sequestration-buzzwords now, but they'll be a part of our everyday life soon.Yes, solving the energy problem is more urgent than ever before. Yes, we have the technology to do that-and the results may surprise you. Before the Lights Go Out reveals what that will look like. What you need to know now about America's energy future'Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic.' We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety-if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker-science editor at the award-winning blog BoingBoing.net-finally makes some sense out of the madness. Over the next 20 years, we'll be forced to cut 20 quadrillion BTU worth of fossil fuels from our energy budget, by wasting less and investing in alternatives. To make it work, we'll need to radically change the energy systems that have shaped our lives for 100 years. And the result will be neither business-as-usual, nor a hippie utopia. Koerth-Baker explains what we can do, what we can't do, and why 'The Solution' is really a lot of solutions working together. This isn't about planting a tree, buying a Prius, and proving that you're a good person. Economics and social incentives got us a country full of gas-guzzling cars, long commutes, inefficient houses, and coal-fired power plants out in the middle of nowhere, and economics and incentives will be the things that build our new world. Ultimately, change is inevitable.Argues we're not going to solve the energy problem by convincing everyone to live like it's 1900 because that's not a good thing. Instead of reverting to the past, we have to build a future where we get energy from new places, use it in new ways, and do more with less.Clean coal Natural gas Nuclear Electric cars We'll need them all. When you look at the numbers, you'll find that we'll still be using fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables for decades to come.Looks at new battery technology, smart grids, passive buildings, decentralized generation, clean coal, and carbon sequestration. These are buzzwords now, but they'll be a part of your world soon. For many people, they already are.Written by the cutting edge Science Editor for Boing Boing, one of the ten most popular blogs in America What you need to know now about America's energy futureWe all know America has an energy problem--even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peak oil, foreign oil, public safety--the issues are complicated, the solutions even more so. In Before the Lights Go Out, Maggie Koerth-Baker finally makes some sense out of the competing agendas and reveals the practical, multifaceted plan that will save America's future.'With spark and brilliance, Maggie Koerth-Baker reveals the thrumming, secretive inner workings of the U.S. energy grid. The wizard behind the curtain turns out to be a bunch of guys in light blue dress shirts, drinking RC Cola and sweating out a surplus that's threatening to crash the western seaboard. Using the raw resources of carefully gathered facts and years of experience, Koerth-Baker builds a narrative that flows and illuminates like the river of electrons that I now understand to be electricity. In her capable and stylish telling, energy isn't just policy and data; it's people and history, happenstance and compromise. It's a fine, cracking read.'--Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Packing for Mars'Maggie Koerth-Baker is one of the most innovative science writers at work today. Rather than settling fo.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for the 'Republican War on Science'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise For 'Making Rumours'.