Product Description: The contentious history of the idea of the black hole—the most fascinating and bizarre celestial object in the heavens For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe...read more

Product Description: The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science―and all were dismissed out of hand when they first ap­peared...read more

Transported back to seventeenth-century Ireland while on a daring mission, British agent Faith Worthington becomes the hostage of rebel leader Miles O'Bruaidar and is torn between accepting his love and returning to her own time. Original.

It's no secret: The best way to ace the Regents exams is by practicing on real tests.  This guide includes 7 actual full-length Earth Science Regents exams with answers and complete explanations.Let the Regents experts at The Princeton Review teach you the simple test-taking techniques you'll need to know.  We'll help you focus on the material that is most likely to show up on the sets.  We'll teach you how to find the correct answers by eliminating the wrong ones.  We'll even teach you how to guess when you're not sure of an answer.  This guide leads you step-by-step through each part of the test and helps you master the skills you'll need to crack the Regents exam.Learn the techniques in this book, practice them on the actual Earth Science Regents exams inside, and give yourself The Princeton Review advantage.

This volume considers the implications for the dynamics of the exchange rate and private rate and private financial wealth, in a model in which fiscal imbalances are allowed to change the level of domestic public indebtedness. The analysis raises the possibility of an initial appreciation followed by a depreciation and a final exchange rate appreciation. It also highlights the importance that adjustments in the stock of privately-held financial assets have for the determination and speed of medium-run effects of shocks to the economy.

Product Description: Flight from Wonder reports the findings from an empirical study of 45 Nobel laureates in science from the United States and Europe concerning the creative processes that produce scientific discoveries. To this end, Albert Rothenberg designed an interview procedure to delineate the content and sequences of processes that lead scientists to specific creative achievements...read more

Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the discoveries for which Galileo, Newton, and others are often credited. In Before Galileo, John Freely examines the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the monasteries where they studied and wrote. One of the earliest of them, Saint Bede, writing a thousand years before Galileo, was so renowned that two centuries after his death a Swiss monk wrote that "in the sixth day of the world [God] has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth."Before Galileo trenchently fills a notable gap in the history of science, and places the great discoveries of the age in their rightful context.

This text introduces students to international finacial reporting practices and their contextual factors, with the aim of understanding the reasons for diversity in national practices. There are four chapters on financial analysis, and international cases help students place the material in a business problem-solving context. The text is accompanied by corporate annual reports from the seven countries examined - Britain, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Brazil, South Korea and Italy. In addition, comparative accounting and reporting practices for 11 additional countries are summarized in an Appendix.

Product Description: Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery...read more

Product Description: What motivates those few scientists who rise above their peers to achieve breakthrough discoveries? This book examines the careers of fifteen eminent scientists who achieved some of the most notable discoveries of the past century, providing an insider’s perspective on the history of twentieth century science based on these engaging personality profiles...read more

Product Description: In 1868, The Times reported that poisons contained in dyes were affecting the public's health. A doctor informed a London magistrate that brilliantly coloured socks had caused severe "constitutional and local complaint" to several of his patients...read more