A public health expert warns about the safety of our water supply and "recounts, with crystal clarity, some of history's epic drinking water disasters" ( Booklist, starred review).A Library Journal Best Consumer Health Book of the YearIn this book, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the s...

Robert Morris (Kansas City, 1931) es uno de los artistas clave para entender el desarrollo y la evolución del arte durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su obra ha transitado prácticamente por la mayoría de los movimientos y tendencias del arte desde finales de los años cincuenta hasta la actualidad. Ha pintado a la manera expresionista, ha realizado obras neodadaístas y conceptuales, estructuras primarias y formas escultóricas minimalistas, trabajos de arte procesual, intervenciones en e...

Dark magical forces are afoot in the eighth entry of the shared-world fantasy series.An ominous black storm from hell rages down on the city of Ranke. Its streets are full of lethal hail, and its walls are coated with ash. As the new Emperor and his mercenary Tempus wonder what can be done to stop it, a shade manifests before them on behalf of the gods with a decree: Travel to the city of Sanctuary and destroy the globes of the Nisibisi power . . .Meanwhile, ...

Discover the financial mastermind behind the American Revolution. This biography unveils the untold story of Robert Morris, a key Founding Father whose financial genius fueled the fight for independence. Delve into the life of this entrepreneur, smuggler, and senator as he navigates the treacherous waters of 18th-century politics and economics.Uncover Morris's pivotal role in securing funds, establishing the first American bank, and shaping the nation's financial p...

**Brought to you by Penguin.From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers**A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It doe...

Qui est le Saint-Esprit et que fait-il exactement ?Beaucoup trouvent le Saint-Esprit mystérieux et déroutant. Pourquoi le troisième membre de la Trinité - celui dont Jésus a dit qu’il serait la source ultime de vérité et de consolation pour le croyant - fait-il l’objet d’une telle confusion ?Dans Ce Dieu que je ne connaissais pas, Robert Morris montre de façon claire que le principal désir du Saint-Esprit est de développer une relation avec nous - de nous offrir l’encouragement et les cons...

In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town ho...

A travel writing classic ready to be rediscovered, Europe in the Looking Glass describes, with a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and perceptive commentary on art and architecture, how three rich young Englishmen cross pre-World-War-Two Europe in an old car. Best known as the author of The Road to Oxiana, published in 1937, Robert Byron developed his considerable writing skills on a travel book which has not been in print since 1926. Europe in the Looking Glass describes a journey Byron ma...

Features the techniques, methods, and applications of calculus using real-world examples from business and economics as well as the life and social sciencesAn introduction to differential and integral calculus, Fundamentals of Calculus presents key topics suited for a variety of readers in fields ranging from entrepreneurship and economics to environmental and social sciences.Practical examples from a variety of subject areas are featured throughou...

Yes, you seem to have been anything but an iconophile in your enterprise which is piled as high with words on one side as with images on the other.Robert Morris, “Professional Rules”By investigating the prolific oeuvre of Robert Morris via the prism of writing, this collection of essays provides an incisive lens into the work of a central figure in the visual arts since the 1960s, associated in turn with minimalism, postminimalism, conceptualism, and land art.Morris has often been labeled ...

LURKING IN THE GENE POOL is the fourth annual anthology published by Three Cousins publishing. Twenty-two stories of horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and humor explore the theme. You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. Sometimes family must be protected, but sometimes family is the threat.It's been said that all happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. Sometimes one of the family members is different, special if y...

In this shocking book leading anti-communist Robert Morris reveals the revelations that he uncovered in his quest to rid American of socialism."This book is not an autobiography. This book generally will be concerned with the response, as I saw it, of free men to the pressure of Communism, that twentieth century revolutionary movement which first captured power in Russia and has since extended that power to the Elbe River and the China Sea, that revolutionary movement whose ultimate...