Author: Wendy Northcutt
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: selection, unnatural, awards, darwin
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0525946233
ISBN-13: 9780525946236

Welcome to the next evolution in humor. In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of magnificent misadventures, honoring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Heed the story of the honest bricklayer who loses a battle of wits with 300 pounds of tools. Witness the ma

Author: Joseph Mazur
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: mysteries, time, space, puzzle, old, paradox, year, motion
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-04-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0525949925
ISBN-13: 9780525949923

The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universe At the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno formulated his paradox of motion, and amazingly, it is still on the cutting edge of all investigations into the fabric of reality. Zeno used logic to argue that motion is impossible, and at the heart of his maddening puzzle is the nature of space and time. Is space-time continuous or broken up like a string of beads? Over the past two millennia, many of our greatest minds including Aristo

Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: purpose, life, awakening, earth, new
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2005-10-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0525948023
ISBN-13: 9780525948025

Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity. Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness

Author: Laurie Viera Rigler
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: addict, austen, jane, confessions
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-08-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0525950400
ISBN-13: 9780525950400

In this Jane Austen inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen s time. After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman s life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manag

Author: Hari Kunzru
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: revolutions
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-01-24
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0525949321
ISBN-13: 9780525949329

Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Granta dubbed him one of the twenty best fiction writers under forty. Now Hari Kunzru delivers his finest novel yet . . . bringing to the angry activism of the young in the late sixties all the suspense of a spy thriller. (Lisa Appignanesi, author of Unholy Loves) Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist protesting the Vietnam War by

Author: Nick Herbert
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: new, physics, consciousness, human, mind, elemental
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0525935061
ISBN-13: 9780525935063

Explores the place of consciousness in nature, drawing on new ideas in physics to argue that consciousness is a fundamental process of nature like light and electricity, rather than something that appears only in humans. 20,000 first printing.

Authors:Michael J. Gelb, Sarah Miller Caldicott,
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: greatest, inventor, america, system, edison, success, innovate
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-10-25
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0525950311
ISBN-13: 9780525950318

Michael Gelb, bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, and Sarah Miller Caldicott, translate the genius of Edison into a revolutionary new success system for innovation. Thomas Edison is the greatest innovator in American history. Edison?s focus on practical accomplishment set the stage for America?s global leadership in innovation. Now, for the first time ever, Innovate Like Edison translates the best practices of this supreme American inventor into contemporary terms to help today?s leaders harness their own innovative potential. With their unique insight and expertise, M