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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy.Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring... |
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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California
Anthony Mancuso · NOLO
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
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Form a California nonprofit corporation Tens of thousands of arts groups, educators, social service agencies, environmental groups and others have used this bestselling book to form their California nonprofit. Your group can, too. Obtaining 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status has just become... |
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The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation
Jay Harman · White Cloud Press
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback
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Today, an interdisciplinary and international group of scientists, inventors, and engineers are turning to nature to find elegant solutions to human problems. The principle driving this transformation is called biomimicry, and Harman shares a wide range of examples of how we're borrowing... |
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Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court in California
CARA O'NEILL · NOLO
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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Everything you need to win your small claims case in CaliforniaSmart preparation for your day in small claims court can make the difference between receiving a check for thousands of dollars and writing one.If you're getting ready to appear before a judge, turn to Everybody's Guide... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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2: No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
WILLIAM T VOLLMANN · Viking
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production--the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate changeThe second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic... |
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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
Govert Schilling · Belknap Press
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover
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It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous... |
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Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up
Daphne Miller · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.By venturing... |
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Space Atlas, Second Edition: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
James Trefil · National Geographic
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Space Atlas combines updated maps, lavish photographs, and elegant illustrations to chart the solar system, the universe, and beyond. For space enthusiasts, science lovers, and star gazers, here is the newly revised edition of National Geographic's enduring guide to space, with a new introduction... |
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