A Disappearance

Carroll, Robert

Ballantine Books

Explores the myths and legends of baseball that have shaped the history of the sport, discussing who really invented baseball, ten Hall of Fame "mistakes," and five great things that never happened in a major league game

Baseball Between Lies

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Perigee Trade

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
Honorable Mention, Biological and Life Sciences, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers
For nearly 100 million years, amphibians and their ancestors dominated the terrestrial and shallow water environments of the earth. Archaic animals with an amphibious way of life gave rise not only to modern frogs, salamanders, and caecilians but also to the ancestors of reptiles, birds, and mammals. In this landmark publication, one of the leading paleontologists of our time explores a pivotal moment in vertebrate evolution, the rise of amphibians. 
Synthesizing findings from the rich and highly diverse fossil record of amphibians, Robert Carroll traces their origin back 365 million years, when particular species of fish traveled down an evolutionary pathway of fin modification that gave rise to legs. This period of dramatic radiation was followed by a cataclysmic extinction 250 million years ago. After a long gap, modern amphibian groups gradually emerged. Now the number of amphibian species and individuals throughout the tropical and temperate regions of the earth exceeds that of mammals. 
The Rise of Amphibians is documented with more than two hundred illustrations of fossil amphibians and sixteen exquisite color plates depicting amphibians in their natural habitats throughout their long existence. The most comprehensive examination of amphibian evolution ever produced, The Rise of Amphibians is an essential resource for paleontologists, herpetologists, geologists, and evolutionary biologists.

The Rise of Amphibians: 365 Million Years of Evolution

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Johns Hopkins University Press

Alone among developed countries, the United States has no broad-based national consumption tax. Yet, economic analysis suggests that consumption taxation is superior to income taxation because it does not penalize saving and investment. The authors conclude that the U.S. income tax system should be completely replaced by a progressive consumption tax. The authors argue that the X tax, developed by the late David Bradford, offers the best form of progressive consumption taxation for the United States. To achieve progressively, the X tax modifies the value added tax by splitting its consumption tax base into two components, wages and business cash flow. The X tax applies graduated tax rates to households’ wages and applies a flat tax rate, equal to the highest wage tax rate, to business firms’ cash flows. The authors outline concrete proposals for the X tax’s treatment of pensions and fringe benefits, business firms, financial intermediaries, international transactions, owner-occupied housing, state and local governments, the transition, and other issues. By adopting the X tax, the United States can preserve tax progressively while promoting economic growth through the removal of tax penalties on saving and investment.

Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X Tax Revisited

Business & Money

Viard, Dr. Alan D.

Accounting

AEI Press

Cheesemaking Made Easy

This updated edition includes equipment lists, step-by-step instructions, and a troubleshooting chart.

Carroll, Ricki

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Garden Way Pub. Co

Unnatural Acts is for people who want to improve their thinking, become more accurate in their beliefs and more reasonable in their actions, and who are tired of being fooled by others.The book is about natural and unnatural thinking, and how the way we think affects everything we do. Natural thinking is instinctive, intuitive, quick and dirty. It works pretty well most of the time, but it can get us into trouble. We can deceive ourselves into believing what's not true or even what goes against our own self-interest, if we're not careful. And manipulators who understand natural thinking can use that understanding to hoodwink us into believing what isn't true or doing what they want us to do. You can reduce the chances of being duped by learning how to think in unnatural ways.

Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed!

lulu.com

'Know Thyself' advised the ancient Greek sages at a time when philosophers defined us as rational animals. Rationality was thought of as an ideal largely achievable by controlling the emotions and avoiding logical fallacies. Today, we know better. Biology and neuroscience have exposed the brain as a great deceiver. Unconscious biases drive us to believe and do things that the conscious mind explains in self-serving stories, making us appear more rational to ourselves than we really are. Modern science has taught us that rationality involves much more than just controlling the emotions and avoiding fallacies. Today's rational animal-what we call the critical thinker-must understand the unconscious biases that are directing many of our most important judgments and decisions. The Critical Thinker's Dictionary explores the insights of ancient and modern philosophers along with the latest findings in such fields as neuroscience and behavioral economics to lay out the many obstacles and snares that await anyone committed to a rational life. The Critical Thinker's Dictionary isn't a collection of dry definitions, but a colorful, three-dimensional portrait of the major obstacles to critical thinking and what we can do to overcome them.

The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and what you can do about them

Reference

"Paddy O'Possum at Peekachoo's Party" is the charming story that illustrates the "Golden Rule". Paddy is ignored at the party by the other animals because he is in a wheelchair. Finally he reminds them how it feels to be left out-something everyone can relate to. This is an important lesson every child should learn: to treat others as you would like to be treated.

Paddy O'Possum at Peekachoo's Party

Children's Books

Egolf, Debbie

Growing Up & Facts of Life

BookSurge Publishing

Why would anyone drive around on a street sweeper? Peeky J. Flabbycat loves her street sweeper and when you read this rhyming picture book you will understand why she travels this way.

Peeky J. Flabbycat And Her Street Sweeper

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions

A wealth of evidence for doubters and disbelievers""Whether it's the latest shark cartilage scam, or some new 'repressed memory' idiocy that besets you, I suggest you carry a copy of this dictionary at all times, or at least have it within reach as first aid for psychic attacks. We need all the help we can get.""-James Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation, randi.org""From alternative medicine, aliens, and psychics to the farthest shores of science and beyond, Robert Carroll presents a fascinating look at some of humanity's most strange and wonderful ideas. Refreshing and witty, both believers and unbelievers will find this compendium complete and captivating. Buy this book and feed your head!""-Clifford Pickover, author of The Stars of Heaven and Dreaming the Future""A refreshing compendium of clear thinking, a welcome and potent antidote to the reams of books on the supernatural and pseudoscientific.""-John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper""This book covers an amazing range of topics and can protect many people from being scammed.""-Stephen Barrett, M.D., quackwatch.orgFeaturing close to 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, The Skeptic's Dictionary is a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on all things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. It covers such categories as alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic and perception; New Age energy; and the psychic. For the open-minded seeker, the soft or hardened skeptic, and the believing doubter, this book offers a remarkable range of information that puts to the test the best arguments of true believers.

Trade Paper Press

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