Product Description: Since the current recession began in December 2007, the American economy has lost a staggering total of 6.5 million jobs. The unemployment rate is hovering near 10% for the first time in over a quarter-century. And still, each month, several hundred-thousand more people are losing their jobs...read more

Product Description: Have you ever seen or observed a sloth? If you have you too will wonder how such a species could have survived all this time. Now imagine a long time ago they practiced their own brand of survival by means of magic. A magic so ancient that we have forgotten all about it...read more

Product Description: Peter, a burned out ad executive, is tired of selling chemically ridden slabs of beef to the public. In desperation, he lets Sally, his yoga teaching girlfriend, take him on a spiritual retreat to gain a new perspective on life. However, staying at a retreat that operates on another dimension, meeting Ascended Masters who reside deep in the hollow grounds of the earth, and flying around with beings from outer space are probably not the easiest ways for a guy to discover that he has a purpose on this planet...read more

Product Description: From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Grumpy’s Guide features global marketing techniques, motivational instruction, and awesome international contacts for publishers, authors, and publicists who want to sell more books. You can: 1. Write successful PR for the global media! 2...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An introduction to the basic structure and operation of computer networks explains and illustrates the underlying technology of networks and covers such topics as e-mail, the Internet, and security. (view table of contents)

An updated introduction to the workings of the computer explores the basics of microchips, hardware, software, and computer memory, providing an entertaining and informative tour of every part of the computer, from hard drive and processor to mouse, monitor, and keyboard. Original. (Beginner)

Explains how computers connect to the Internet and covers protocols, online services, ISDN, e-mail, newsgroups, chat groups, the World Wide Web, gophers, and audio, video, and virtual reality on the Internet (view table of contents)

Product Description: There are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the study of poetic meter is old fashioned—or even that form 'doesn't matter' in poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Pictures and text describe some of Earth's most interesting animals, including the frilled lizard, aardvark, and moloch.