A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist. “One of today’s best popularizers of science.”—Kirkus Reviews. Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized N...

With vivid illustrations, wide-ranging coverage and detailed listening guides, this fascinating book explores the origin and development of jazz music from its seventeenth-century roots to the present day. Profiles of significant jazz musicians and c...

Composing Electronic Music outlines a new theory of composition based on the toolkit of electronic music techniques. The theory consists of a framework of concepts and a vocabulary of terms describing musical materials, their transformation, and thei...

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about th...

A completely new addition to the Gray s Anatomy family specifically tailored to meet the needs of today s anatomy students. A user-friendly format, a regional organization, and outstanding artwork make mastering anatomy remarkably easy. Unique covera...

Functional programming languages are good at expressing complex ideas in a succinct, declarative way. Functional concepts such as "immutability" and "function values" make it easier to reason about code—as well as helping with concurrency. The new F#...