“mat edelson”

Chef Katz shares delicious, nourishing recipes for cancer patients, who often experience culinary ups and downs. This second edition provides caretakers with a tangible way to nurture loved ones through easy-to-digest meals that offer maximum flavor while boosting the immune system.... More

Ruby Meets Java This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the JRuby, the Java implementation of the Ruby language. Targeted recipes help you deploy Rails web applications on Java servers, integrate JRuby code with Java technologies, develop JRuby des... More

When Gregor Mendel passed away in 1884, not a single scholar recognized his epochal contributions to biology. The unassuming abbot of the Augustinian monastery in Brno (in today's Czech Republic) was rediscovered at the turn of the century when scientists were stunned to learn that their findings ab... More

The names of James Watson and Francis Crick are bound together forever because the scientific discovery they made was truly a joint enterprise. As Edward Edelson reveals in this intriguing biography, Watson and Crick were the first to describe the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, the mole... More

The first comprehensive study to investigate the history of kabuki actresses and the complex hierarchy of male kabuki.... More

Richly plotted, animated by beautifully realized characters, and steeped in magnificent old-world detail, Malkeh and Her Children is the captivating epic of the remarkable Mandelkern family as they weather the storm of the Russian Revolution. At the family's center stands the indomitable Malkeh, an ... More

This book is about liars telling lies with compound interest to other liars. A -struggle is being waged on the Internet between criminals and comedians. On one side are fraudsters who con their victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The basic tool of the trade is e-mail, and the c... More