How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors surrounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we’ll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brains.How does love begin? How can two strangers come to the conclusion that it would not only be pleasant to share their lives, but that they must share them? How can a man say he loves...

USA Today's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS**"Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world of American health care into a real-life narrative with people you come to care about." —New York Times"Takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before."** —Fortune**"With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America...

The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation’s future?Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary reputation. After more than a century of mismanagement, people have lost all faith in government.Stefan Roots, a wastewater plant operator, wants to do someth...

Welcome to the America we don’t usually talk about, a place where that nice couple down the street could be saddling up for “pony play,” making and selling their own porn DVDs, or hosting other couples for a little flogging. As award-winning journalist Brian Alexander uncovers, fringe experimentation has gone suburban. Soccer moms, your accountant, even your own parents could be turning kinky.Stunned by the uninhibited questions from ordinary people on his msnbc.com column, “Sexplo...

How are congressional norms changing, and what does their evolution mean for how Congress serves American democracy today?Political scientists have long looked to the role of traditional norms to signal a general attitude among lawmakers that cooperation is part of their identities as members of Congress. But in this age of heightened political and partisan conflict, many “folkways” such as courtesy and reciprocity seem to be eroding, while other new norms are emer...

Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes looks at why museum finance is inherently challenging and how difficult it is to balance the need to generate adequate funding while providing accessible, meaningful mission-based services. The book’s purpose is to help museum leaders at all levels recognize and avoid certain financial minefields and realize that while there are financial hurdles in the museum world, they are solvable.The book is filled with numerous example...

Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language foreign to you or translation from ...

What is the role that norms play in the U.S. Congress? At a time of unprecedented partisanship and high-profile breaches of legislative norms in the modern Congress, the relationship between norms and the functioning of the institution is a growing and pressing concern. Despite the importance of the topic, recent scholarship has not focused on congressional norms. Meanwhile, previous research leaves open many relevant questions about the role of norms in the Congress of the twenty-first ce...

Fun in the Fifties KitchenThat was the marketing strategy of the companies producing the wide range of gadgets and products designed to make life in the kitchen much easier and a whole lot more colorful. Take this period tour full of '50s flair from teleservers for snacking to barbeque equipment for family gatherings to appetizer sets for entertaining.Coverage Includes:• Clocks, salt and pepper shakers, Lustro-Ware, cookie cutters and cake molds

A field study of corporate greed and a private equity firm's disastrous effect on a once thriving industrial American town—"Does a remarkable job" ( The New Yorker ).Named a Best/Most Anticipated Book of the Year by New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle"Should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a n...

The God Matrix is a spiritual thriller that blends mystery, suspense, military intrigue and maybe even Alien abductions, with spiritual principles and quantum physics. It will captivate you and keep you on the edge of your seat as you are swept up in an adventure that leaves you wondering at the truth of you own existence, and even more so, wondering whether the story is indeed fact or fiction.

Moments later, a line of warriors appeared—four of them. Markings on their clothing, hair design, and style of weapons pointed to strangers from an unknown tribe. Ahote and Tocho figured they were probably passing through from the lowlands, hundreds of feet below where they currently traveled. But there was something about their demeanor Ahote didn’t like—they weren’t as alert as one would expect on the trail, especially in a strange area. No—the warriors appeared secretive in their moveme...