 | A Hologram for the King
Release Date: June 19, 2012 In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment — and a moving story of how we got...
 |  | Epidemiology, 4th Edition
Publication Date: May 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 1416040021 | ISBN-13: 978-1416040026| Edition: 4th This popular book is written by the award-winning teacher, Dr. Leon Gordis of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.He introduces the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology in clear, concise writing and his inimitable style.This book provides an understanding of the key concepts in the following 3 fully updated sections:Section I: The Epidemiologic Approach to Disease and Intervention; Section II: Using Epidemiology to Identify the Causes of Disease; Section III:...
|  | MKTG (with Marketing CourseMate Printed Access Card)
Publication Date: March 2, 2012| ISBN-10: 1133190111 | ISBN-13: 978-1133190110| Edition: 6 Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with direct input from students and faculty, *MKTG6* is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. *MKTG6* employs up-to-date, relevant examples from a wide range of independent upstarts and larger companies students love. *MKTG6* also offers a dynamic range of web-based review and testing products to facilitate today's on-the-go lifestyle. ...
|  | Atlas Shrugged
Release Date: August 1, 1999At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers.Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundarie...
|  | Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0840068077 | ISBN-13: 978-0840068071| Edition: 6 This best selling author team explains concepts simply and clearly, without glossing over difficult points. Problem solving and mathematical modeling are introduced early and reinforced throughout, providing students with a solid foundation in the principles of mathematical thinking. Comprehensive and evenly paced, the book provides complete coverage of the function concept, and integrates a significant amount of graphing calculator material to help students develop insight into mathematical idea...
|  | How Music Works
Publication Date: September 12, 2012How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for patterns—and shows how those patterns have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his man...
|  | Living with Art
Publication Date: October 13, 2009| ISBN-10: 0073379204 | ISBN-13: 978-0073379203| Edition: 9 Analyze, Understand, AppreciateLiving with Art provides the tools to help students think critically about the visual arts. Using a wealth of examples, the first half of the text examines the nature, vocabulary, and elements of art, offering a foundation for students to learn to analyze art effectively. The latter half sets out a brief but comprehensive history of art, leading students to understand art within the context of its time and place of origin. High quality images from a wide range of p...
|  | Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started
Release Date: September 13, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Exploring Psychology
Publication Date: December 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 1429238267 | ISBN-13: 978-1429238267| Edition: Eighth Far and away the bestselling brief introduction to psychology, David Myers' Exploring Psychology doesn't just present the story of the psychology. It involves students deeply in that story, as they learning to think critically about psychology’s core ideas, breakthrough research findings, and wide-ranging applications to their lives and the world around them. The new Eighth Edition is both classic Myers and cutting-edge psychological science, a rich presentati...
|  | Investments (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate)
Publication Date: September 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 0073530700 | ISBN-13: 978-0073530703| Edition: 9 Bodie, Kane, and Marcus’ Investments sets the standard for graduate/MBA investments textbooks.It blends practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate rigor and a clear writing style.Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes.The text places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader and deeper treatment of futures, options, and ot...
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