Author: Stephen S. Ilardi PhD
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Book
Keywords: depression, drugs, beat, program, cure
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0738213136
ISBN-13: 9780738213132

Most Americans work long hours, eat on the fly, and lead increasingly sedentary, isolated lives. Alongside this lifestyle, depression rates have skyrocketed: approximately 1 in 4 Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Where have we gone wrong? Dr. Stephen Ilardi sheds light on our current predicament and reminds us: our bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of twenty-first century life. In fact, our genes have changed very little since the days of our hunter-gatherer ancestors and are still building, in effect, St

Author: Vincent Ilardi
Publisher: Amer Philosophical Society
Keywords: american, philosophical, society, memoirs, telescopes, vision, spectacles, renaissance
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0871692597
ISBN-13: 9780871692597

This book deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three centuries later. By the end of the 16th century eyeglasses were as common in western & central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today. Eyeglasses served an important technological function at both the intellectual & practical level, not only easing the textual studies of scholars but also easing the work of craftsmen/small businessmen. An important synthesis of this book is that Florence, rather than Venice, seems to have dominated

Authors:Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: present, worlds, second, mongol, empire, vol, beginnings, together, apart, history, world, humankind
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-03-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393925498
ISBN-13: 9780393925494

True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart. In this second edition, the book’s non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. From the history of the world’s first cities built on the great rivers of Afro-Eurasia, to the formation of the Silk Road, to the rise of nat

Authors:Stephen Graham Jones, Forrest Ackerman, Stephen Jone
Publisher: Billboard Books
Keywords: features, film, video, creature, century, monster, movie, guide, essential
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0823079368
ISBN-13: 9780823079360

More than 3,500 reviews of the best and the worst creature features of all time fill this largest, most comprehensive volume ever published on the subject-a record of dark fantasy on film to thrill horror and science-fiction fans of all ages. Classics range from Frankenstein, Dracula, and Wolfman films of the 1930s and 1940s to later cheesy horror movies exported from Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines, plus selected episodes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, and The X-Files. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, each review includes cast and background information and remake

Authors:Milton Babbitt, Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andre
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: babbitt, milton, essays, collected
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691089663
ISBN-13: 9780691089669

Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt’s writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years, Babbitt has grappled profoundly with central questions in the composition and apprehension of music. These writings range from personal memoirs and critical reviews to closely reasoned metatheoretical speculations and technical exegesis. In the history of music theory, there has been only a small handful of figures who have produced work of comparable stature. Taken as a whole, Babbitt’s

Authors:Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coats
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studie
Keywords: american, center, rockefeller, series, david, latin, studies, revised, story, fruit, coup, guatemala, bitter, expanded
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 067401930X
ISBN-13: 9780674019300

Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Authors:Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: contents, structure, mind, innate
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-07-14
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195179994
ISBN-13: 9780195179996

This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The extent to which the mind is innate is one of the central questions in the human sciences, with important implications for many surrounding debates. By bringing together the top nativist scholars in philosophy, psychology, and allied disciplines these volumes provide a comprehensive assessment of nativist thought and a definitive reference point for future nativist inquiry. The Innate Mind: Structure and Content, concerns the fundamental architecture of the mind, addressing such question as: What capaciti