Author: Andrew Buchana
Publisher: Triumph Book
Keywords: things, fans, buckeyes
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1600780970
ISBN-13: 9781600780974

Every good fan of Ohio State Buckeyes football is familiar with the significance of Script Ohio and the indelible mark Woody Hayes left behind, but how many know all the stories behind the names, games, and traditions that have made Buckeyes football one of the greatest programs in college football history? From Chic Harley, Rex Kern, and Vic Janowicz to Archie Griffin, Eddie George, and Troy Smith; from the storied rivalry with that school up north to the most memorable bowl games in OSU history; to the lists of must-sees and can’t-miss experiences that are the cornerstones of OSU tradi

Author: Tom Buchana
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: easy, fun, made, skydiving, jump
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-01-24
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0071410686
ISBN-13: 9780071410687

To jump or not to jump--this book answers the question! Here’s just the thing for anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of skydiving and wants to know more before deciding if the sport is right for them. Writing for those with no real skydiving knowledge, the author provides a complete overview of the sport, discussing the thrill, the risk, the basics, jump training, safety training, the cost, the time, where to go, what to do, questions to ask, and much more. THE book to read before enrolling in a skydiving class. * Explains the types of skydiving: Tandem, Accelerated Freefall, and S

Author: Ian Buchana
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: reader, guide, guides, oedipus, guattari, anti, deleuze
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-04-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826491499
ISBN-13: 9780826491497

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s "Anti-Oedipus" is the first part of a two volume project entitled "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". Challenging the twin orthodoxies of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Althusserian Marxism, "Anti-Oedipus" is an important and exciting, yet challenging piece of philosophical writing.Ian Buchanan’s "Reader’s Guide to Anti-Oedipus" is the ideal companion to one of the twentieth-century’s most influential philosophical works. It provides informed and accessible guidance on: Philosophical and historical context; Key themes; Reading the text; Rece

Author: Oni Buchana
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: series, poetry, national, spring
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-08-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0252075641
ISBN-13: 9780252075643

2009 Massachusetts Book Awards Winner Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanan’s Spring encompasses radically contrasting work. Ecstatic, visually intricate rhapsodies are juxtaposed with tight, sonnet-like poems, and wispy columns of verse brush up against large-scale epics and kinetic text. This collection’s point of departure is the paradox of existence as an individual in a political and violent world. All of the formal innovations in this book have in common an urgent need for texture and polyphony, and the poems

Author: Mark Buchana
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: catastrophes, ubiquity
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-11-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0609809989
ISBN-13: 9780609809983

Why do catastrophes happen? What sets off earthquakes, for example? What about mass extinctions of species? The outbreak of major wars? Massive traffic jams that seem to appear out of nowhere? Why does the stock market periodically suffer dramatic crashes? Why do some forest fires become superheated infernos that rage totally out of control? Experts have never been able to explain the causes of any of these disasters. Now scientists have discovered that these seemingly unrelated cataclysms, both natural and human, almost certainly all happen for one fundamental reason. More than that, there is

Author: Mark Buchana
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: neighbor, usually, looks, caught, cheaters, atom, rich, richer, social
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1596910135
ISBN-13: 9781596910133

The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people’s choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The truth is, none of them really are. Mark Buchanan makes the fascinating argument that the science of physics is beginning to provide a new picture of the human or “social atom,” and help us understand the surprising, and often predictable, patterns that emerge when they get together. Look at pat

Author: Mark Buchana
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: theory, networks, groundbreaking, worlds, small, nexus
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393324427
ISBN-13: 9780393324426

As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation. "If you ever wanted to know how many links connect you and the Pope, or why when the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank sneezes the global economy catches cold, read this book," writes John L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute). This "cogent and engaging" (Nature) work presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of "small-worlds" theory—the idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the i