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  • Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation

    by Robert Weisberg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses why just about everything that we experience on Earth depends upon the ocean circulation, the movement of the ocean water. Intended for a general lay-person audience, or as a non-science major undergraduate text, the book explains (in a non-mathematical manner) how the ocean circulation and the ocean’s interactions with the atmosphere provides the basic underpinnings for global ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • In an Uncertain World

    Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

    by Jacob Weisberg, Robert E. Rubin ...
    Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Cognition

    From Memory to Creativity

    by Robert W. Weisberg, Lauretta M. Reeves ...
    From memory to creativity—a complete and current presentation of the field of cognitionThe process of cognition allows us to function in life; it translates inputs from the world so we can recognize the sound of the alarm clock, remember the day of the week, and decide which clothes to wear.Cognition: From Memory to Creativity provides readers with a clear, research-based, and well-illustrated ... Read more

    $128.00 USD

  • Rethinking Creativity

    Inside-the-Box Thinking as the Basis for Innovation

    by Robert W. Weisberg ...
    This book presents a new perspective on creativity: that creative innovation depends on inside-of-the-box thinking. It shows that creativity builds on what we know and how we use old ideas to produce new ones. In a highly readable format, Robert W. Weisberg uses case studies of seminal creative advances, such as Leonardo's 'Aerial Screw' and Frank Lloyd Wright's award-winning house, 'Fallingwater. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Literary Criticisms of Law

    by Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg ...
    In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • Narrative and Metaphor in the Law

    Edited by Michael Hanne, Robert Weisberg ...
    It has long been recognized that court trials in the common law system, both criminal and civil, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

    Edited by Yonggang Liu, Heather Kerkering, Robert H. Weisberg ...
    Coastal Ocean Observing Systems provides state-of-the-art scientific and technological knowledge in coastal ocean observing systems, along with guidance on establishing, restructuring, and improving similar systems. The book is intended to help oceanographers understand, identify, and recognize how oceanographic research feeds into the various designs of ocean observing systems. In addition, ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    A Record Breaking Enterprise

    Edited by Yonggang Liu, Amy MacFadyen, Zhen-Gang Ji, Robert H. Weisberg ...
    Series Book 195 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 195.Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise presents an overview of some of the significant work that was conducted in immediate response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. It includes studies of in situ and remotely sensed observations and ... Read more

    $80.00 USD

  • Spy Sites of New York City

    A Guide to the Region's Secret History

    by H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace ...
    Through every era of American history, New York City has been a battleground for international espionage, where secrets are created, stolen, and passed through clandestine meetings and covert communications. Some spies do their work and escape, while others are compromised, imprisoned, and—a few—executed. Spy Sites of New York City takes you inside this shadowy world and reveals the places where ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    An Introduction to Global Geophysics

    by C. M. R. Fowler ...
    The Solid Earth is a general introduction to the study of the physics of the solid Earth, including the workings of both the Earth's surface and its deep interior. The emphasis throughout is on basic physical principles rather than instrumentation or data handling. The second edition of this acclaimed textbook has been revised to bring the content fully up-to-date and to reflect the most recent ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Physics of Climate Change

    by Lawrence M. Krauss ...
    “Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency. Here you’ll find the facts, the processes, the physics of our complex and changing climate, but delivered with eloquence and urgency. Lawrence Krauss writes with a clarity that transcends mere politics. Prose and poetry were never better bedfellows.” —Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Solar and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Psychology of Reading

    2nd Edition

    by Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, Jane Ashby, Charles Clifton Jr. ...
    Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it into a coherent framework.The book’s central theme is how readers go about extracting ... Read more

    $85.99 USD