Gadget fans, a home theater setup is the stuff your dreams are made of. This book keeps the dream from becoming a nightmare! Here's how to select, set up, and optimize a system, translate the salesperson's geek-speak, connect all the parts throughout your home, and even do cool stuff like accessing your system from your laptop computer.
The Age of Turbulence - Adventures in a New World
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly.
Nicolaus Copernicus - Making the Earth a Planet
Oxford Portraits in Science Series
Born in Poland in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the sun.
The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management
Smith is CEO of
Franklin Quest, a company that conducts time-management seminars for
corporations, organizations, and government agencies, reaching as many
as 20,000 persons per month. It also sells day-planner scheduling books
as an integral part of the time-management system it touts. This highly
successful company was founded by Smith a little more than 10 years ago
and was modeled on the self-improvement system outlined in Benjamin
Franklin’s autobiography. Smith argues that there is much more to
managing time than getting things done. He preaches that only by
understanding one’s own value system can one decide what matters most,
set priorities, and accomplish one’s goals. The result is not only a
better-organized life but a more fulfilling one. By focusing on time,
Smith has provided a self-improvement book that almost everyone can
use–and benefit from.
Long before Galileo published his discoveries about Jupiter, lunar
craters, and the Milky Way in the Starry Messenger in 1610, people were
fascinated with the planets and stars around them. That interest
continues today, and scientists are making new discoveries at an
astounding rate. Ancient lake beds on Mars, robotic spacecraft
missions, and new definitions of planets now dominate the news. How can
you take it all in? Start with the new Encyclopedia of the Solar
System, Second Edition.
