Author: Christopher Heathcote
Publisher: Macmillan Education/Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: years, abstract, painting, fifty, view, johnson, world, george
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-12-31
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1876832819
ISBN-13: 9781876832810

George Johnson arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1952 and in 1956 held his first exhibition of abstract painting in Melbourne. This book marks the artist’s 80th birthday and fifty years of singular dedication to philosophy-based abstract imagery. Johnson’s work is uniquely consistent - rarely straying from compositions based on primary shapes and a limited range of colour preferences, but demonstrating how these minimal means can, in combination, serve as surrogates for complex ideas. Additional contributors to the next include the artist’s brother, renowned New Zealan

Author: Jim Scrivener
Publisher: Macmillan ELT
Keywords: teaching, learning, tds, new
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2005
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1405013990
ISBN-13: 9781405013994

Author: Michael Hanlon
Publisher: Macmillan
Keywords: science, mysteries, greatest, guide, questions
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0230517587
ISBN-13: 9780230517585

From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain. Michael Hanlon identifies ten scientific questions that we simply can’t seem to answer and explains why these compelling mysteries will remain unsolved for years to comeHow did life begin? Why are there two sexes? Where did language originate? In Hanlon’s characteristically witty style, he ponders the ways these questions have persisted in frustrating the best minds and asks what might be needed to get to the bottom of it all

Author: Charles S. Cockell
Publisher: Macmillan
Keywords: seeking, others, world, saving, earth, space
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-11-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 023000752X
ISBN-13: 9780230007529

Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems here on Earth. Many astrophysicists feel environmentalism hampers their exploration and settlement of space. Actually environmentalism and space exploration have one and the same objective, argues leading astro-biologist Professor Charles Cockell: to ensure humanity has a home. Cockell calls for a fusion of the two movements as the only way forward. The technologies we develop to live sustainably on Earth, such as wind and solar power, will also establish humanity in space. The exploration of space will provide new re

Author: Toby Murcott
Publisher: Macmillan
Keywords: trial, medicine, alternative, story, whole
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $39.05
ISBN-10: 1403945004
ISBN-13: 9781403945006

Americans spend $48 billion a year on alternative therapies and medicine. This pattern is repeated across the world. Even in places such as the UK and much of Western Europe where basic health care is free, individuals are choosing to spend their own money on alternative therapies. Clearly there is a need that conventional medicine is failing to meet. The author, himself a man of science and a self-proclaimed "member of the skeptical brigade" leads readers through studies of alternative medical methods and looks at the flaws and advantages in the techniques available. In the end, he reaches a

Author: BRIAN SHER
Publisher: MACMILLAN
Keywords: secret, desperately, people, rich
Published: 1999
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0732909937
ISBN-13: 9780732909932

Over the past ten years I have had the luck co be exposed to almost all the great business writers and self-development specialists. Through my years as managing director of Vision Publishing, a major Australian business publisher, I've discovered timeless ideas that have added enomlollsly to my business and personal life. As part of my work I have studied and read thousands of books on business success, and met many of the writers. I've created international seminars with some of the leading business and management thinkers in the world. And I've had the chance to learn from them first-hand-a

Author: Joel N. Shurkin
Publisher: Macmillan
Keywords: creator, electronic, shockley, william, genius, rise, broken
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2006-06-13
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1403988153
ISBN-13: 9781403988157

When William Shockley invented the transistor, the world was changed forever and he was awarded the Nobel Prize. But today Shockley is often remembered only for his incendiary campaigning about race, intelligence, and genetics. His dubious research led him to donate to the Nobel Prize sperm bank and preach his inflammatory ideas widely, making shocking pronouncements on the uselessness of remedial education and the sterilization of individuals with IQs below 100. Ultimately his crusade destroyed his reputation and saw him vilified on national television, yet he died proclaiming his work on rac