Michael Chorost became a cyborg on October 1, 2001, the day his new ear was booted up. Born hard of hearing in 1964, he went completely deaf in his thirties. Rather than live in silence, …

Noted classicist Robin Waterfield gives readers a sweeping history of the city that invented democracy in Athens: A History – From Ancient Ideal to Modern City. Athens still resonates today as a beacon of civilization. …

Visionary entrepreneur Daniel Nissanoff breaks the news that the eBay auction phenomenon is about to explode, revolutionizing how all consumers — not just eBay mavens — do their shopping, not only online but offline too. …

From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for granted. Everything was symbolized according to its meaning and value: a fallen branch from a …

Preoccupied with the war on terrorism, we have lost sight of a more dangerous enemy of social peace and progress — the inability of the world’s people to access the ecological goods and services they …

In this fascinating and far-reaching book, Roger Bootle shows how the perils of slump, deflation and protectionism can be negotiated to enable us to transform our lives in the economy of the future. The world …

In their bestselling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production — principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish …

Condensing centuries of history into one volume, Cities of the World traces the historic form and special character of the world’s greatest cities through a breathtaking collection of maps and panoramic views. Peter Whitfield focuses …

China is the world’s fastest-growing economy, and the second largest trading nation. With its entrepreneurial outlook and population of 1.3 billion, it offers unique opportunities for domestic and overseas investors. Vividly presented through maps and …

Wifi, Bluetooth, Radio frequency ID chips (RFIDs), Global and local positioning systems, digital inventory systems. To Bruce Sterling, Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist, these are pieces of a puzzle that need to be …

Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past — from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early …

This is no ordinary atlas. It maps and analyzes a living planet at a critical point in its history — as one species, our own, threatens to disrupt and exhaust its life-support systems. It charts …

In his insightful, award-winning work Fire and Ice, Environics president Michael Adams explored the growing divergence between American and Canadian values. Using the same mixture of polling and analysis in American Backlash, Adams fixes his …