Filled with the juicy details of the lives of the powerful players who made the Metropolitan Museum of Art what it is today, Gross delivers the unauthorized history of America's wealthiest and arguably the world's greatest art museum.
At the corner of 71st Street and Park Avenue, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is the famed limestone apartment building that Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Chryslers, and Ron Perelman have called home. In 740 PARK, society reporter Michael Gross chronicles the fascinating history of the massive 1930 luxury building whose spacious duplexes and ...
Socrates has inspired and guided the brightest men and women for more than two thousand years. Now readers can meet Socrates face-to-face and learn how he changes people's lives. The book provides step-by-step guidance on how to harness his methods to vastly enhance own creativity and autonomy.
For Secondary Social Studies Methods courses. With its trademark seven-part organization, the new edition of this popular, comprehensive text is updated and reorganized to better address technology in the classroom and the growing standards movement. The text presents a complete system for planning instruction that encourages innovation and hands ...
Through interviews with modeling pioneers, including Anita Colby, Suzy Parker, Lisa Fonssagrives, Dorian Leigh, Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington, Gross investigates the ins and outs of the modeling business.
Ralph Lauren began in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, groomed by his mother to be a rabbi. Instead, he began selling ties--and the rest is history. This unauthorized biography tells the story of the public man, with assessments of Lauren's achievements from people in the industry and photographers he has worked with.
The perennial go-to guide for options sellers--updated and revised Trading volume and volatility are at all-time highs, creating an environment that has made options selling more popular than ever. Fully up to date and expanded to be useful in today's markets, this second edition of The Complete Guide to Option Selling covers new strategies and ...
A guide to more than 50 shirt-tie combinations which frees the reader to find his way among various types of collars, cuffs and fabrics; to choose a tie (design, width, length) and knot it. Other titles in this series include "Bath", "Scents" and "Scarves".
The story of the Baby Boom generation, the driving force of modern American culture--how it grew up, shaped the history of the 20th century, and set the course toward the 21st.
The behind-the-scenes story of the making of one of the most popular and influential science fiction films of all time. Including over 200 sketches, working photographs and interviews, the text provides an insight into the creative processes behind "Alien".
Light, like no other physical phenomenon, is linked in a wide variety of ways with the biological phenomenon of life. We can read this page because light is reflected from it, and carries the information to the retina; the oxygen we breathe was produced by photosynthesis; our sense of alertness relies on our biological clock, set using the cues of ...
In this guide to Apple's masterful new color grading and finishing application, award-winning colorist David Gross starts with the basics of color balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading. Topics include scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and "looks," ...
In "Starstruck," a journalist travels from Hollywood to Dollywood, from Neverland to Middle-earth; he crashes a Kid Rock concert with a 66-year-old fan, sprints after Mick Jagger with a professional autograph collector, and discovers what fans look like from the perspective of celebrities.
"The Cancer Dictionary, Third Edition" is a common-sense approach to one of the most wide-spread and dreaded diseases in the United States. "The Cancer Dictionary, Third Edition" is meant to provide the cancer patient and general public with easy access to areas of information that are often hard to locate, or when found, are hard for the ...
A new and revealing examination of life on Earth-from the perspective of its hardiest inhabitants.. Can life exist in the Antarctic ice, in the deep subsurface, in dilute sulfuric acid, in hot springs-even on Mars? What degree of high or low temperature, pressure, or salt concentration can living cells tolerate? In recent years, scientists have ...
}Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale that is smaller than can be seen by the most optical microscopes. Devices inspired by living cells and measured in nanometersbillionths of a meterare the basis of this nanotechnology revolution. In TRAVELS TO THE NANOWORLD, Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology ...
Macromedia Director is the best-selling multimedia authoring program and the leading tool for creating interactive media for the Web, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, corporate presentations, and more. Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, the latest upgrade, now includes Intel Internet 3D Graphics Software, which means that for the first time, developers have an easy ...
Once considered largely untreatable, neurologic disorders have become a frontier for breakthrough research in pharmacology. This text discusses the latest investigational strategies and theories and how they affect current clinical practice. The book details the mechanisms, delivery systems, and efficacy of the latest medication, as the editors ...
Women have been the objects of scientific and ethical discussions about reproductive freedom and its control for over a century. And they have increasingly endured experiments on their bodies involving ever more powerful technologies, technologies that until now have been largely generated and socially controlled by men. Here, in this study women ...
This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, oganization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. They also speculate ...
Discussing strategies to determine the structure and mechanisms of numerous compound classics, this book covers new chemical and elctrophoretic techniques for rapid sample preconcentration and separation. It summarizes breakthroughs in the theory and instrumentation of electrospray mass spectrometry in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, ...
Breathtaking scientific innovations and findings wrapped in a big portion of humour by an excellent science journalist. Written by a well-known author, Michael Gross who is a passionate writer in science, a scientist and an experienced book and magazine author, each story has an introductory paragraph explaining what makes it unique. Having been ...
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