Authors:Aki Nurosi, Mark Shulman,
Publisher: Main Street
Keywords: tricks, fool, eyes, designs, over, optical, illusions, colorful
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-08-18
List price: $7.98
ISBN-10: 1402716826
ISBN-13: 9781402716829
Each of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just don’t trust anything you see at first glance, because it’s impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hats—two fancy stovepipe hats, that is: are they taller than they are wide, wider than they are tall, or the same dimensions? Or try climbing the wild set of
Author: Scott A. Shane
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: policy, makers, live, investors, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, costly, myths, illusions
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-01-26
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0300158564
ISBN-13: 9780300158564
There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new businesses is disappointingly high, and the economic impact of most of them disappointingly low, suggesting that enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs and their investors all too often operate under a false set of assumptions. This book shows that the reality of entrepreneurship is decidedly different from the myths that have come to surround it. Scott Shane, a leading expert in entrepreneurial activity in the United States and other countries, draws on the data from extensive research to provide accurate,
Author: Scott A. Shane
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: policy, makers, live, investors, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, costly, myths, illusions
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0300113315
ISBN-13: 9780300113310
There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new businesses is disappointingly high, and the economic impact of most of them disappointingly low, suggesting that enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs and their investors all too often operate under a false set of assumptions. This book shows that the reality of entrepreneurship is decidedly different from the myths that have come to surround it. Scott Shane, a leading expert in entrepreneurial activity in the United States and other countries, draws on the data from extensive research to provide accurate,
Author: Pavel Simeonev Kamenov
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: copenhagen, illusions, gravity, conditions, mechanical, initial, quantum
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1594547122
ISBN-13: 9781594547126
Since the late 1920s, the theory formulated by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at Copenhagen has been the dominant interpretation of quantum mechanics. Yet an alternative interpretation, rooted in the work of Luis de Broglie and reformulated and extended by David Bohm and his colleagues in the 1950s, explains the experimental data equally well. Through a detailed historical and sociological study of debates within and between opposing camps, and the reception given each theory, Cushing showed that despite the pre-eminence of the Copenhagen view, the Bohms interpretation cannot be ignored. Copenh
Author: Jack F. Jr. Matlock
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: astray, return, reality, america, ideologies, illusions, myths, false, superpower
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300137613
ISBN-13: 9780300137613
Former U.S. ambassador to the USSR Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union and that the Cold War ended in a negotiated settlement that benefited both sides. He posits that the end of the Cold War diminished rather than enhanced American power; with the removal of the Soviet threat, allies were less willing to accept American protection
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: expectations, give, order, impossible, dependencies, losses, loves, illusions, necessary
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-01-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0684844958
ISBN-13: 9780684844954
The Bestselling Classic on Love, Loss, and Letting Go In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers’ protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is bot
Author: Gabe Fajuri
Publisher: Quirk Books
Keywords: compendium, astonishing, illusions, complete, conjuring, encyclopedia, magic, mysterio
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-11-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1594742634
ISBN-13: 9781594742637
Quirk’s Amazing Magical Wonder Deck charmed amateur and professional magicians with its gorgeous aesthetic and fiendishly clever card tricks. Now these same readers can experience a complete course in magic with Mysterio’s Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring a giant compilation of more than 300 tricks and variations. Here are illustrated step-by-step instructions for rope tricks, money magic, mind-reading effects, stage illusions, everyday magic, and plenty of all-new card tricks. Readers will learn how to bend spoons, stretch handkerchiefs, levitate glassware, make small children
