Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on a losing war against it, yet it's still the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy become so massive? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? In Cocaine...
Demystify the core concepts of cognitive psychology
Written specifically for psychology students – and not other academics - Cognitive Psychology For Dummies is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the field. Unlike the dense and...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
"A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled...
The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world′s largest and most powerful particle–smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often...
Collins Cobuild, "Collins Cobuild English Grammar, 3rd Edition"
ISBN: 0007393644
This major new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learner-focussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and...
Based on the evidence of the 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus, this book is an invaluable guide to the English language as it is written and spoken today, in all areas of the world. It has been thoroughly updated, to take into account recent changes...
This is the most accessible resource for finding the perfect rhyme. Other rhyming dictionaries often use obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order. This resource avoids such...
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so...