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  • Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

    by Michael Heller ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Gridlock Economy

    How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

    by Michael Heller ...
    25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why can't we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why won't they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service lags far behind Japan's and Korea's. Why are we wasting our airwaves? 98% of African American -- owned farms have been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

    by Michael Buckley ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...
    Series series Nerds

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Michael Buckley is a New York Times best-selling author, having scored fans far and wide for his Sisters Grimm series and popular TV shows. There's no doubt about it: These kids are nerds. Awkward, unpopular, uncool as uncool can be-and yet, there's something about these "nerds" that nobody else knows. These dweebs are actually superspies who use their dorky skills to battle the evil Hyena and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mine!

    How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

    by Michael A. Heller, James Salzman ...
    “Mine” is one of the first words babies learn, and by the time we grow up, the idea of ownership seems natural, whether we are buying a cup of coffee or a house. But who controls the space behind your airplane seat: you, reclining, or the squished laptop user behind you? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock off a recipe or a dress design? And after a snowstorm, why does a chair in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Miami Experience

    by Michael Heller ...
    A work of fiction based on actual events that occurred in Miami in the spring of 1980. The story begins however, a year and a half earlier in Ames, Iowa when the narrator visits his brother, by himself at 15, at Iowa State University. This trip ensures his allowance by his mother to later, with three friends visit his sister in Miami. There he first encounters a Hall of Fame baseball player who, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Growing Tomato/The Rising Dough

    by Michael Heller ...
    The trials and tribulations of losses and gains, that the main character Herbie experiences and learns from early teens to young adulthood, growing up in a world with all the complexities of "coming of age". ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telescope

    Selected Poems

    by Michael Heller ...
    An original selection of work by one of America's greatest living poets.For more than fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. His poems, shaped by Jewish and Buddhist thought and simultaneously lyrical and philosophical, engage the political and the natural world in an ongoing consideration of the responsibility and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Philosophy in Science

    An Historical Introduction

    by Michael Heller ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" — space, time, causality, the structure of the universe — are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Looking Closer 5

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller ...
    The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines, as well as on blogs and Internet journals. Prominent contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    A Treasury of Deception

    by Michael Farquhar ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    We may say that honesty is the best policy, but history suggests otherwise. In this infinitely citable book, the author recounts some of the greatest deceptions of all time.With what forged document did the Vatican lay claim to much of Europe?Why do millions still believe the vague doggerel Nostradamus passed off as prophecy?Who actually wrote Hitler's diaries?All these questions and many more are ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Beyond Listening

    Essays of Sonic Encounter

    by Michael C. Heller ...
    Series Book 5 - California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media
    Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Education of a Comics Artist

    Visual Narrative in Cartoons, Graphic Novels, and Beyond

    Edited by Michael Dooley, Steven Heller ...
    Featuring essays by, and interviews with, more than sixty professionals, educators, and critics, the book provides an in-depth view of the art, business, and history of comics art. Readers will learn about a wide variety of genres, from editorial cartoons, political comics, and comic strips to graphic novels, superhero sagas, and alternative comics. Other featured topics include the role of comic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD