Donald Trump did something remarkable. He tried to change America’s future. That was why he became America’s most controversial and divisive president since Abraham Lincoln. No crystal balls are needed to see where America is heading – far away from where and what it is now. The America of the year 2100 will bear no resemblance to the America of today. Completely different people will be in charge, with completely different values, and a completely different outlook on life. America will b...

"Vital reading for anyone who wants to create communications that cause people to act."Matt Barlow, CEO, CAPWhen you face a red light, what can you say to turn it green?On stage needing to hook the audience?Convincing a friend over coffee?Sweating it in a job interview?The results of what you say aren't coincidence. Whether you persuade, or not, is down to whether you use the right prompts.

Have you heard of Dead Humanity theory? It says that humanity died on 21 December, 2012, exactly as predicted by the Mayans. This might come as a big surprise to you given that you no doubt believe you are very much alive. But are you? Haven’t you noticed that things have been getting seriously weird in the last few years? Things don’t seem to be, er, as real as they used to be. We seem to be in some fantasy world, getting more bizarre by the second. People are behaving extremely oddly. Ha...

The murder of God-fearing, bible-quoting, partially deaf Thomas Thomas at the branch of Star Stores he managed in Garnant, South Wales has remained an unsolved mystery since it happened in 1921. His body was found on the morning of Sunday February 13th, his head smashed, his throat cut and with a stab wound to the stomach, any of which could have killed him. Over £126 was missing from the store safe, yet there were oddities about the attack which suggested this was more than a robbery that...

We live in challenging times and this book is a prescription for what ails us today and a roadmap to elite performance tomorrow. Entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders suffer from stress, burnout and sleepless nights. Just when we need to be at our best, due to exponentially changing technology and societal change, our bodies are failing us, our devices are distracting us, and we are trying to work harder, longer and faster to keep up. Futurists predict massive job and business model dislo...

Provides the essential principles and results of special relativity as required by undergraduates. The text uses a geometric interpretation of space-time so that a general theory is seen as a natural extension of the special theory. Although most results are derived from first principles, complex and distracting mathematics is avoided and all mathe

The revolution in twentieth-century physics has offered answers to many of the big questions of existence, such as the ultimate nature of things and how the universe came into being. It has undermined our belief in a Newtonian mechanistic universe and a deterministic future, posing questions about parallel universes, time-travel, and the origin and end of everything. At the same time we have witnessed amazing attempts at unification so that physicists are able to contemplate the discovery ...

Celebrate fall or Halloween—or give yourself a treat any time of year—with these delicious pumpkin spice cookies from the author of Cookie Swap.Embellished with orange glaze, cinnamon stick "stems," and green sugar "vines," these pumpkins appear to be freshly plucked from the patch! With expert advice and step-by-step instructions from celebrated cookie queen Julia M. Usher, you'll be able to add these gourmet ghouls to your next Halloween party or use the...

They soar and they glide, they flap and they flutter, they swoop and they plummet. Solo or en masse, in formation or pas de deux, birds in flight are in their element, their airborne behavior as varied and distinctive as their plumage. In this book, wildlife biologist Carrol Henderson, a twenty-year veteran of bird-watching around the globe, offers his insights into spotting and identifying birds in flight. With 150 of Henderson's exquisite close-up photographs of airborne birds, as well a...

Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought – questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place in the universe, the distribution of justice, and what it means to live a good life, among many...

In INSIDE APPLE, Adam Lashinsky provides readers with an insight on leadership and innovation. He introduces Apple business concepts like the 'DRI' (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual event where that year's top 100 up-and-coming executives were surreptitiously transported to a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple...

'Plotting that takes the breath away' Ian Rankin'Steve is a fantastic thriller writer' Mark BillinghamHollywood actor Robert Soloman stands accused of the brutal stabbings of his wife and her lover but he is desperately pleading that he had nothing to do with it. This is the trial of the century and the defence want Eddie Flynn on their team.The biggest case Eddie has ever tried before, he decides to take it on des...