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The Successful Chinese Herbalist
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The Successful Chinese HerbalistThe Successful Chinese Herbalist

This book is a distillation of over 20 years of knowledge from two well known American practitioners' of Chinese medicine. It is not a materia medica or a formula book. Rather it is a conversation in which the authors share both clinical and business knowledge and tips that can only be learned through years of running a practice.
 
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Securing Intellectual Property: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Information Assets (Information Security)
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Securing Intellectual Property: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Information Assets (Information Security)Securing Intellectual Property: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Information Assets (Information Security)

Most employeers are astounded at how easily and quickly their proprietary information can get out of their control. In a large number of cases, theft of trade secrets often involves employees leaving a company to start their own business or work for a direct competitor.
Nearly all books that address the topic of trade secrets have the "spy vs. spy" perspective. The author approaches the topic from a practical business perspective and not simply creating "paranoia" for paranoia's sake.
 
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Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants
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Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil PollutantsOrganic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion.
 
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Language Learnability and Language Development
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Language Learnability and Language DevelopmentLanguage Learnability and Language Development

This classic study is still the only comprehensive theory of child language acquisition—one that begins with the infant, proceeds step by step according to explicit learning algorithms, mirrors children's development, and ends up with adult grammatical competence. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author that updates of every section, Language Learnability and Language Developmentcontinues to be an indispensible resource in developmental psycholinguistics.
 
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Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy
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Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading PhilosophyDead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy

Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzsche’s texts is an enactment of the kind of identity formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. 
 
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