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    • The quantum universe: (and why anything that can happen, does) 

      Cox, Brian; Forshaw, Jeff (Da Capo Press, 2012)
      In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible and fascinating to everyone. The ...
    • Quantum weirdness 

      Mullin, William J. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Quantum mechanics allows a remarkably accurate description of nature and powerful predictive capabilities. The analyses of quantum systems and their interpretation lead to many surprises, for example, the ability to detect ...
    • Quantum-Touch 2.0 - The New Human Discovering and Becoming 

      Gordon, Richard (North Atlantic Books, 2013)
      Readers can learn to do healing on multiple people at once to reduce their pain in minutes, work on multiple conditions at once, help people shift their own beliefs with the use of energy, and work across time and space. ...
    • Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay 

      Erdman, Andrew L. (Cornell University Press, 2012)
      In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879–1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"—named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona—Tanguay established herself ...
    • Question 

      Dayal, Veneeta (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition. A wide range of topics are covered, ...
    • Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition 

      Gould, Stephen Jay (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
      Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical erudition, warmth, and whimsy: What is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted over time? How did the projection of Christ’s 1,000-year ...
    • Questions of character 

      Fileva, Iskra (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law. The essays are elegantly written and combine forceful argumentation with original ideas on a wide ...
    • Quick and Easy Mexican Cooking: More Than 80 Everyday Recipes 

      Lee, Cecilia Hae-Jin; Beisch, Leigh (Chronicle Books, 2011)
      Es verdad.You can cook Mexican food on a weeknight in under one hour. Using readily available ingredients and familiar techniques, this easy-to-use cookbook makes Mexican cuisine doable for cooks at any skill level. Tacos, ...
    • QuickBooks 2016 : the best guide for small business 

      Capachietti, Leslie; Sandberg, Bobbi (McGraw-Hill Education, 2016)
      From processing invoices to managing payroll, you will learn how QuickBooks Desktop versions help you control your business’s financial operations. Sprinkled throughout the book are tips for tracking inventory, monitoring ...
    • Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement and Money 

      Biggs, Norman (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      Mathematics didn't spring spontaneously to life, rules and definitions set in stone for all time. Its progress story has rich connections with measurement and money that have often shaped its development and driven its ...
    • Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century 

      Martinez HoSang, Daniel; LaBennett, Oneka; Pulido, Laura (University of California Press, 2012)
      Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the ...
    • Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism 

      Crockett, Clayton (Columbia University Press, 2011)
      In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern ...
    • Radiology Case Review Series: MSK Imaging 

      Ali, Sayed; Patel, Sanjay; Shah, Dhiren (McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)
      Access interactive cases on musculoskeletal imaging for the best board review possible! Part of McGraw-Hill's Radiology Case Review Series, this unique resource challenges you to look at a group of images, determine the ...
    • The RAF's French Foreign Legion, 1940-45: De Gaulle, the British and the Re-Emergence of French Airpower 

      Bennett, G. H. (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)
      This book is respectfully dedicated to the French airmen who served alongside the RAF between 1940 and 1945. They showed fortitude in refusing to be defeated, contempt for their countrymen who wished to collaborate with ...
    • The Rage Against God 

      Hitchens, Peter (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
      This book, like all such books, is aimed mainly at myself. All polemical authors seek to persuade themselves above all. I hope it may also be of some value to others, perhaps to believers whose friends or family members ...
    • Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism 

      Bernstein, Seth (Cornell University Press, 2017)
      In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist ...
    • Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance: Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness 

      Erkkilä, Tero; Piironen, Ossi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge ...
    • The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan 

      Bano, Masooda (Cornell University Press, 2012)
      Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of ...
    • The rationality of perception 

      Siegel, Susanna (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality. Susanna Siegel argues ...
    • The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking 

      Stanovich, Keith E.; West, Richard F.; Toplak, Maggie E. (MIT Press, 2016)
      Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis ...