Product Description: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal was too difficult or that you lacked the discipline to succeed...read more

Product Description: Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal was too difficult or that you lacked the discipline to succeed...read more

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bringing together the best poems from Ayres's early verse (much of it written in houses of ill fame) to his erotic and darkly imaginative later pieces, this stunning collection also features his previously unpublished experiences with luminary legends such as Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, Edmund White and Quentin Crisp. More than a book, PRIVATE PARTS is an experience of teen angst, hangovers for breakfast and raw enlightenment tripping over that cliff's edge in the rye. It would not exist if Ayres were not a survivor. Ayres's crusty accounts of a boy's life on the wild side explores the extreme boundaries of human behavior and amorality, offering a journey through his life from his early years in houses of ill repute to his life in Paris today.

Beginning with examples of the mathematician who out-predicted wine buffs in determining the best vintages, and the sports scouts who use statistics rather than intuition to pick winners, this work exposes the world of data-miners, introducing the people and the techniques.

Touting the benefits of detailed statistical analysis, an economist explains how by sorting through mass quantities of easily stored and sorted information, businesses, governments, and consumers can achieve greater insight into human behavior and use it to predict future trends. 75,000 first printing.

Offers guidelines for brainstorming and problem solving in order to solve new problems with existing solutions and to generate new solutions for existing problems.

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Two noted legal experts introduce a series of practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community, covering such issues as marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays in the military, exclusion from the Boy Scouts, and religious controversies over homosexuality.

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Product Description: The first volume of the "Van Gogh's Ear" anthology series primarily focuses on poetry characterized by experimentation with form, a revitalized interest in the lyric, and journeys into daring realms of imagination. Among the book's many highlights are Joyce Carol Oates's intense prose poem of sex and murder "Erotic Fantasy in Fast Forward"; Victor Bockris's haunting, prophetic poem "New York City Footsteps" - written just five days before 9/11; Susan Howe's "The Chair", which achieves a rare synthesis of linguistic rigor and humor; "Labor: A company job", the last poem John Wieners ever wrote (included is a letter by him - in his writing - about the poem); plus Rod Smith's "Junkspace Canto", a canto as tremblingly accurate as the jab of a needle, with perceptions wound into a jagged sweet music like a gypsy violin...read more