“nick brownlee”

In this powerful and illuminating new series, a team of journalists was commissioned to analyze and comment on the major substances that are seen by society as addictive and ultimately bad for our health.... More

Millions of spectators line the route every year with some having camped a week in advance to get the best views of one of the greatest annual sporting events and the world's best-known cycling race--the Tour de France. In this absorbing collection of facts and anecdotes, Nick Brownlee covers the hi... More

This cross-disciplinary work offers an exceptionally relevant examination of those aspects of earth science dealing with seismic behavior of fractured media. It delivers a lucid exploration of rock mechanics, examining the strengths and weakness of structures beneath the earth's immediate surface. D... More

* Authored by an international team of researchers* Marshals a wealth of evidence to expose the little-examined links between urban governance and poverty * Provides policy guidance for cities, governments, practitioners, and the poor for alleviating the growing problem of urban poverty In this book... More

Winners Win And Losers Lose......................................You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Do more than just get by. Winners manipulate people but they do so without malice... its just habit. Real winners know they have no superiors- only people positioned above ... More

Acclaimed political commentator Nick Cohen investigates the confusing current status of his own political affiliates, the Left, in this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred survey. He searches for the seemingly impossible answers to such questions as: "Why are apologies for a militant Islam--which stands f... More