Product Description: Nick, an astronomy graduate student, dies in a laboratory fire in what is later shown to be murder. He had stumbled on alien signal coming from Europa as a series of on-off methane pulses that formed a digital signal. Because of his stormy relationship with his arrogant professor, Nick had not acknowledged that there were previous signals he’d recorded, but the geology professor Candrew Nor is able to get a copy of this early part of the message, although he can’t at first decode the pages of arcane numbers...read more

Product Description: Markham seemed to have everything—except perhaps a loving wife. His elegant home in Santa Fe housed contemporary art, and he’d just inherited his father’s European collection. But that’s when the trouble started. While working with the paintings, Helen, an art historian from the university, was shot and killed; later a painting was stolen; and then an Italian concert pianist staying at the house died in a bizarre piano explosion...read more

Product Description: The two-volume reference Wiley Critical Content: Petroleum Technology  presents a collection of over 40 articles that were reprinted from the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry...read more

Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases. The essays illuminate the complex dynamics and competing forms taken by social movement leadership as well as its impact on movement successes and failures. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Petroleum exploration has always been limited by the lack of adequate subsurface control. Exploration problems are usually problems of extrapolation i.e. to greater depth, to laterally equivalent rocks, or back through time.Models are widely used as a way of describing complex geological systems so that they can be treated quantitatively and used as the basis for extrapolations and predictions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a significant contribution to the expanding study of social movements. The essays consider some of the manifold ways in which people join together in popular movements to pursue visions of a different and more just society...read more