Product Description: "Must I die?" asked Gilgamesh.  Forty five centuries later, we're still asking the same question. Science writer Paul Bracken embarks on a lighthearted assessment of the human condition, to explore what it means to be mortal, and what our fate may be...read more

Product Description: The U.S. defense sector is not experiencing economic gains from the use of IT like those of other IT-rich sectors. In the economy at large, remarkable improvements in IT price-performance over the last quarter-century have yielded greater productivity and better IT-based products and services at lower costs...read more

Product Description: The scope and applicability of risk management have expanded greatly over the past decade. Banks, corporations, and public agencies employ its new technologies both in their daily operations and long-term investments. It would be unimaginable today for a global bank to operate without such systems in place...read more

Product Description: Análisis realista de los preparativos que realizaron Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética en el manejo y uso de sus fuerzas nucleares para el caso de crisis, es decir, en los momentos inmediatamente anteriores al estallido de una guerra nuclear...read more