Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to...

"This is the first English-language biography of the relentlessley ambitious and incomparably talented printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). Born to a printing family in the small foothill town of Saluzzo, he left his comfortable life to travel to Rome in 1758 where he served as an apprentice of Cardinal Spinelli at the Propaganda Fide press. There, under the sponsorship of Abbé Ruggieri, his close friend, mentor, and protector, he learned all...

Stories can provide a highly motivating, engaging and realistic source of genuine language interaction in the classroom. They are 'living language' in which the teacher (or student storyteller) becomes the source of language, and the listeners are actively involved in understanding. The authors argue from experience that almost everyone can tell stories convincingly, especially given an outline to work from. A very wide range of these outlines, from...

"In a small Missouri town in 1992, the body of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found in her car, stalled on the side of a road. 18-year-old Josh Kezer was arrested and charged for her murder -- even though he was in a different state at the time, as proven by witnesses -- and spent the next 16 years of his life in prison. How was Josh imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit? The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless by Stephen R. Snodgrass with Joshua...

This book is primarily a study of the psychological threat posed by attractive female characters to the male protagonists of American detective and crime films over a fifty-year period. In the films of the 1940s (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder, My Sweet, Out of the Past, and White Heat), an attractive female character is literally a murderess, who poses a threat of varying degrees of intensity to the life of the male protagonist. Alfred...

"I wrote this book for one simple reason: to help my cancer patients. This book has been a multi-year process that began with educating myself first and foremost on what exactly comprises "healthy" human nutrition. Trying to answer this question resulted in years of research and self-education, applying what I had learned to my own diet and lifestyle, somewhere around applying what I had learned to my own diet and lifestyle, womewhere around 2011....

The Notorious B.I.G. exploded onto the hip-hop scene with his platinum-selling album Ready to Die in 1995. The life of B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie Smalls--born Christopher Wallace--had come a long way from the years spent in his Bed-Sty neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where he dropped out of school at age seventeen to pursue the culture of the street and master his rapping style. It was on the street that Smalls began emceeing his original raps and was...

From the Publisher: No child should have to be identified as "gifted" in order to benefit from a rich, challenging learning experience. This book tells the story of the Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) at UC Berkeley, an example of a long-standing, self-supporting summer program that shifted from "mining" to "growing" talent. The authors provide an insider's view of the teachers, students, curriculum, and school culture as a model for creating...