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You cannot hide from radioactivity. Even the book you are holding is slightly        radioactive, but there are more serious risks. Radioactivity - the breakdown of        unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature. It        is a process that has been harnessed to provide wide and important applications...

Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker MovementWhy David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm        Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale.          Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates        how...

Carl F. Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what's going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are....

Winnie is not afraid of taking the plunge. In 'Winnie's Mouse Organ' Winnie discovers that the little rodents who share her house have undiscovered musical talents; in 'Winnie's Snowball' Winnie unwittingly magics a snowman into the rather dangerous 'abominable' variety; in 'Winnie's Giant...

The Statecraft of Thomas JeffersonEmpire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American experience. This work examines Jefferson's legacy for American foreign policy in the light of several critical...

The book looks at historical sovereign debt crises in developing and transition economies, and concludes that these occurrences have been economic and social catastrophes and are likely to happen again in the future due to the boom and bust nature of economic cycles, which can wreak havoc in liberalized financial environments....