Product Description: The collapse of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme led to the instant evaporation of $65 billion of wealth. The effects of Madoff's brazen fraud were felt most closely in New York and Palm Beach but the story was, and continues to be, front page news across the country...read more

Explains in simple terms how television works, the history of its invention, and how television programs are made.

Product Description: Peering through the cracked windshield of his totaled Porsche, Marshall Holden scans the broken horizon, down to the surf crashing on the rocks, two thousand seven hundred and forty feet below. Marshall etherically travels across the world and through the eyes of the many people whose lives were a part of making his Porsche and the clothes he is wearing...read more

Product Description: When young Vigfus the Viking and his parents, Thorveld and Helga, accidentally sail their longboat into New York Harbor during Operation Sail, a classic immigrant story begins, and hilarity ensues. Nothing seems quite right when this family of fierce, ill-mannered, and very poorly behaved Vikings finds New York City a little too tame for their liking, and not at all like their old Viking Lands! When Vigfus finds out that pillaging the school bus and capturing the cafeteria monitor is something the natives of this strange island don’t do, he soon discovers that he must learn a new culture in order to gain something he’s never seen before and the very thing he wants most: a friend...read more

Product Description: Go behind the scenes of the New Economy in this compelling firsthand account written by a Fortune 500 company's e-commerce manager.Often funny, occasionally shocking, but always on target, When the Caffeine Wears Off recounts the efforts of a century-old firm to gain a foothold in the online world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Demonstrates how MRS offers a useful tool for the noninvasive biochemical analysis of the brain. The book covers over 70 clinical cases and more than 100 spectra that enhance skills at interpreting MRS, including minimizing errors, highlighting artifacts, and expanding the clinical usefulness of this diagnostic modality...read more