In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints rosters of soldiers catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants & hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch & cabinets of curiosities until we get to Andy Warhol & Damien Hirst in the 20th century. This illustrated essay is accompanied by a literary anthology & a wide selection of works of art illustrating the texts presented. ...

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago three brilliant yet little-known scientists
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A revolutionary diet to help you lose weight & control disease-causing inflammation The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan will help you achieve your ideal weight--without fad dieting--while also reducing pain & allergies slowing the aging process & dramatically reducing your risk for dozens of medical problems. This flexible easy-to-follow program is the ideal nutritional solution for every member of the family. At the heart of the program is the revolutionary IF Rating system that for the first time tells you the inflammatory or anti-inflammatory effects of all of the foods you eat. The IF Rating integrates more than twenty different nutritional factors including essential fatty acids glycemic index vitamins minerals antioxidants & anti-inflammatory compounds into a single rating which guides your food choices for the day. You no longer have to worry about choosing the right types of carbs or fats or even counting calories--the IF Rating combines all those factors into a simple holistic system for healthy eating! & unlike other programs that focus only on carbohydrates or fats the IF Rating system also shows you which proteins are healthy & which provoke inflammation. It all adds up to a uniquely healthful easy to follow diet plan that fights illness & promotes weight loss! The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan gives you: IF Ratings for more than 1 500 common foods listed both alphabetically & by categories such as Breakfast Cereals" & " Meats" Self-assessments for measuring your level of systemic inflammation A choice of three customizable eating plans: Preventative/ Maintenance Therapeutic & Accelerated Weight-Loss Three weeks worth of daily meal plans & dozens of delicious anti-inflammatory recipes With The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan youll learn how to stop the silent enemy in its tracks & get started on the road to a longer healthier more vibrant life--today." ...

This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet until recently particle physicists & cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldnt answer primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guths Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASAs Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992 the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theorys predictions. ...

The perfect companion to any flight
- a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is
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An INFLUENCER motivates others to change. An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills. An INFLUENCER makes things happen. This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER. Whether youre a CEO a parent or merely a person who wants to make a difference you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools & techniques of the worlds most influential people. But this is about to change. From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists & business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. Youll be taught each & every step of the influence process-including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life your business & your world. Youll learn how to: Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid & profound change. Apply strategies for changing both thoughts & actions. Marshall six sources of influence to make change inevitable. Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where youll see how seemingly insignificant" people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. Youll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable & sustainable but inevitable. Youll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly & significantly-while others have failed miserably. No matter who you are or what you do youll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles & skills. Once you tap into the power of influence you can reach out & help others work smarter grow faster live look & feel better even save lives. The sky is the limit!for an Influencer. Are you an Influencer ? Find out at www.influencerbook.com " You dont have to be a manager to realize that no one likes being told what to do. Yet lectures are still the main way we try to get people to change their behavior. Fortunately social learning academics have been studying alternatives for decades. Patterson & his fellow consultants have now collected their findings in this engaging example-rich book. The key message is hardly new but it has gotten more sophisticated: Managers need to get out of the way & facilitate not manage the process of change for employees. They can do this by offering vicarious experiences restructured environments peer pressure & frequent tests-all geared so that people embrace the change as authentic to them not imposed by an outsider. Missing are only success stories of organizations that persuaded managers to drop their controlling habits & choose to be mere facilitators."-John T. Landry Harvard Business Review" ...

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing the composition of dictionaries the creation of the charts that made navigation possible the discovery of the electronic signal the cracking of the genetic code. In ' The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use transmit & keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia from Morse code to the 'bit' it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea & a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. ...

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Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world wont solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. & if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant youll never use it even if its filled with cute gauges meters & traffic lights. Dont let your investment in dashboard technology go to waste. This book will teach you the visual design skills you need to create dashboards that communicate clearly rapidly & compellingly. Information Dashboard Design" will explain how to: avoid the thirteen mistakes common to dashboard design; provide viewers with the information they need quickly & clearly; apply what we now know about visual perception to the visual presentation of information; minimize distractions cliches & unnecessary embellishments that create confusion; organize business information to support meaning & usability; create an aesthetically pleasing viewing experience; maintain consistency of design to provide accurate interpretation; & optimize the power of dashboard technology by pairing it with visual effectiveness." ...

Seeing is understanding. How complex ideas can be communicated via graphics. Einstein once said: If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough." The amount of data we deal with today is overwhelming for everyone from newspaper readers to laboratory scientists. The good news is that there are professionals that dedicate their time & lives to helping people understand complex situations data sets or even simple schemes that can be communicated much easier via a drawing than with words. The book presents a historical perspective to the subject highlighting the work of the masters of the profession who have created a number of breakthroughs that were eventually adopted as new visual ways to communicate. Advice from leading professionals such as Nigel Holmes Paolo Ciuccarelli Richard Saul Wurman & Simon Rodgers is also included. Following an in-depth introduction are over 400 examples of works each with a fact sheet & an explanation of methods & objectives." ...