By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigor-combined with the resources to launch and support new initiatives-have literally changed the world. In 2009 Allen discovered that he had lymphoma, lending urgency to his desire to share his story for the first time. In this long-awaited memoir, Allen explains how he has solved problems, what he's learned from his many endeavors-both the triumphs and the failures-and his compelling vision for the future. He reflects candidly on an extraordinary life. The book also features previously untold stories about everything from the true origins of Microsoft to Allen's role in the dawn of private space travel (with SpaceShipOne) and in discoveries at the frontiers of brain science. With honesty, humor, and insight, Allen tells the story of a life of ideas made real.

Product Description: Artist Management for the Music Business provides clear, in-depth information on what to do as an artist manager and how to do it, preparing the reader for the realities of directing the careers of performers in the risky but rewarding music business...read more

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Product Description: The irresistible truthtelling at the heart of Paul Allen's work brings a joy of fellow feeling seldom available in contemporary poetry""-Michael Heffernan. Paul Allen teaches courses in poetry, form and meter, and writing song lyrics at The College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC, where he is Professor of English...read more

From Casanova to Paris Hilton, sex is always present - and condoms have been around a long time too, in many different form and designs. The flaccid latex tube belies its importance, its high-tech, its responsibility for preventing HIV and role in porn, culture and design. This book covers the related everyday objects in a fresh light.

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Product Description: The capability and use of IT and web based energy information and control systems has expanded from single facilities to multiple facilities and organizations with buildings located throughout the world. This book answers the question of how to take the mass of available data and extract from it simple and useful information which can determine what actions to take to improve efficiency and productivity of commercial, institutional and industrial facilities...read more

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Product Description: "For the ordinary person, having such a prestigious series as Morse filmed in their street, and meeting and talking to the actors, is very exciting, adding more than a little colour to everyday life". First aired on 6th January 1987, Inspector Morse became a television phenomenon that reshaped fictional history...read more

Product Description: Scientists, philosophers and theologians have wrestled repeatedly with the question of whether knowledge is similar or different in their various understandings of the world and God. Although agreement is still elusive, the epistemology of critical realism, associated with Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne and Arthur Peacocke, remains widely credible...read more

Product Description: A account of the government expedition in the early 19th century, taking in the source of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains and the Columbia river.

Product Description: Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays - including Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests, Just Between Ourselves, A Chorus of Disapproval and Communicating Doors - and has worked with some of theatre's most celebrated names - Jane Asher, Richard Briers, Michael Gambon, Julia McKenzie, Penelope Keith, and Peter Hall...read more

Product Description: This is a reprint edition of Paul Allens 1814 edition. This is volume 1 of a 2 volume set. Volume 2 ISBN is 1582187037. Introduction and Index by James Hosmer. Published in 1903 for the centenial celebration.

Amazon.com Review: I telephoned a poet-friend long distance just to read him some poems from this first book by Paul Allen, the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Here is a voice so matter-of-fact in its strength and grittiness that the stark subjects in many of the poems are all the more stunning for their dauntless presentation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)