Author: Mario Livio
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: astonishing, number, world, phi, ratio, story, golden
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0767908155
ISBN-13: 9780767908153

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of pl

Author: Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: story, true, informant
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2001-07-03
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0767903277
ISBN-13: 9780767903271

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . .It was one of the FBI’s biggest secrets: a senior executive with America’s most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: america, years, returning, notes, myself, stranger
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-06-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 076790382X
ISBN-13: 9780767903820

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I’m a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcer

Author: Cherie Carter-Scott
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: rules, game, life
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-12-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0767902386
ISBN-13: 9780767902380

When Cherie Carter-Scott’s 10 Rules for Being Human first surfaced, they became an office phenomenon, passed from cubicle to cubicle around the country. When the rules were later featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, they instantly became a favorite section of that wildly successful book.Now Carter-Scott, an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, brings the rules to life by applying them to anecdotes drawn from her own encounters, as well as stories from her family, close friends, and workshop participants. Presented in a personal format, these steps to becoming a satisfied and

Author: David Bach
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: rich, future, partner, creating, steps, finish, smart, couples
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-01-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0767904842
ISBN-13: 9780767904841

Like many savvy business people of the 21st century, David Bach offered his first pearls of financial wisdom to women, in his bestselling book Smart Women Finish Rich. Recognizing that these women are often accompanied by significant others and that money arguments are the number one cause of divorce in America, Bach has now broadened his scope. Presumably intended to help change this depressing statistic, Smart Couples Finish Rich is a well-written financial planning tool, packed with useful charts and information, inspiring examples, and practical advice. For people who’ve been disappo

Author: Nick Cook
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: world, antigravity, technology, classified, inside, zero, point, hunt
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-08-13
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0767906276
ISBN-13: 9780767906272

This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists in the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one that still may be in effect today. Now for the first time, a reporter with an unprecedented access to key sources in the intelligence and military communities reveals suppressed evidence that tells the story of a quest f

Author: Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: story, true, fools, conspiracy
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0767911792
ISBN-13: 9780767911795

Enron was a $100-billion-a-year company in October 2001--America’s seventh-largest. The Houston-based energy firm enjoyed warm ties with newly installed President George W. Bush. Earnings were up 26 percent from the previous quarter, while Fortune magazine had named Enron the country’s most innovative company six years in a row. Less than two months later, Enron filed for bankruptcy in the biggest corporate failure in history. Enron became synonymous with the greed and fraud of the go-go high-tech stock bubble of the late 1990s--the worst of a series of spectacular corporate collap