Product Description: Your first love disappears the day after your first glorious date, and maybe the violence that drove her away, that people are whispering about, was your fault. As years pass, you are fixated on your lost love, committing appalling, obsession-induced emotional blunders...read more

Product Description: Acting Obsessed: a novel of compulsion and romance, stalking and violence in the historic heart of Philadelphia.In Ginger Brossard’s life the line dividing obsession from passion is especially thin and easily crossed. As a young and talented actress with a burning ambition to be on the stage, she embarks on a career with a Shakespeare company in Philadelphia, and an actor in the troop soon displays unwanted interest...read more

Product Description: How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective storyIn late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a ""German, early 19th century"" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci—an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago...read more

Product Description: Leading experts in the field have come together to share their insights in a single volume, explaining the past, present, and future of all the DSL technologies. Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology covers the entire DSL family, from ISDN at 144 kb/s to VDSL at 52 Mb/s; details DSL at all layers of protocol, with special emphasis on the physical layer; discusses applications from both provider and end-user points of view; and gives an insider's view of the telecommunications standards process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)