Books about Immense from Amazon.com

Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man..
Price: $2.33 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of the life of Senator Joe McCarthy has been called both "nuanced" and "masterful." In this new paperback edition Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account available of Joe McCarthy's colorful career. With a storyteller's eye for the dramatic and presentation of fact, and insightful interpretation of human complexity, Oshinsky uncovers the layers of myth to show the true McCarthy. His book reveals the senator from his humble beginnings as a hardworking Irish farmer's son in Wisconsin to his glory days as the architect of America's Cold War crusade against domestic subversion; a man whose advice if heeded, some believe, might have halted the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and beyond.
A Conspiracy So Immense reveals the internal and external forces that launched McCarthy on this political career, carried him to national prominence, and finally triggered his decline and fall. More than the life of an intensly- even pathologically- ambitious man however, this book is a fascinating portrait of America in the grip of Cold War fear, anger, suspician, and betrayal.
Complete with a new Foreword, A Conspiracy So Immense will continue to keep in the spotlight this historical figure-a man who worked so hard to prosecute "criminals" whose ideals work against that of his- for America..
Price: $7.13 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The remarkable story of the land purchase that doubled the size of our young nation, set the stage for its expansion across the continent, and confronted Americans with new challenges of ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches from Paris and Madrid to Haiti, Virginia, New York, and New Orleans, Jon Kukla shows how rivalries over the Mississippi River and its vast watershed brought France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States to the brink of war and shaped the destiny of the new American republic. We encounter American leaders--Jefferson and Jay, Monroe and Pickering among them--clashing over the opening of the West and its implications for sectional balance of power. We see these disagreements nearly derailing the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and spawning a series of separatist conspiracies long before the dispute over slavery in the territory set the stage for the Missouri Compromise and the Civil War.

Kukla makes it clear that as the French Revolution and Napoleon’s empire-building rocked the Atlantic community, Spain’s New World empire grew increasingly vulnerable to American and European rivals. Jefferson hoped to take Spain’s territories--piece by piece,--while Napoleon schemed to reestablish a French colonial empire in the Caribbean and North America.

Interweaving the stories of ordinary settlers and imperial decision-makers, Kukla depicts a world of revolutionary intrigue that transformed a small and precarious union into a world power--all without bloodshed and for about four cents an acre..
Price: $4.45 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) was a star. A portrait painter, history painter, printmaker and designer known in her lifetime as one of the wealthiest bourgeois women of her era, she was called "perhaps the most cultivated woman in Europe," by the German philosopher J. G. Herder. History painting might have been the way to prestige, but it was Kauffmann's portraits that opened avenues to an international aristocratic and intellectual social world. This volume gathers approximately 150 works, and is the first publication to rigorously connect them to her personal history and to London and Rome, where she lived. Kauffmann settled permanently in Rome in 1782, and made her home a welcome meeting place for artists and writers. Goethe, a regular, called her a "woman of immense talent," and his assessment is borne out, more than 200 years later, by this study of her work..
Price: $39.25 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Walt Whitman and His new bible!

"No one will get at my verses," Walt Whitman wrote, "who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance." He may well be the premier literary figure in American history, and "Leaves of Grass" may be the single most important work in American poetry, but Whitman did not see himself primarily as a literary figure. First and foremost the poet saw himself as a prophet articulating an appropriate religion for his time. He was, he said, "inaugurating a new religion." He was attempting to write a new bible! Whitman had profound respect for the founders of the great world religions, but felt they spoke to a world long past and not to the modern world. There are many books on Walt Whitman as a poet, but "Of Life Immense" may very well represent the most comprehensive attempt ever to take Whitman seriously and to describe in outline form the major themes of his "new bible," to deal systematically with the major doctrines of his "new religion.".
Price: $14.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Preparing for a future of unseen opportunity in healthcare requires a profound shift in thinking from all the stakeholders: A new era of personalized medicine, ushered in by advances in biotechnology and genetic engineering (among other technologies), will radically transform the nature of the healthcare systems world-wide.. From the economies of healthcare to biotechnology, and the ethics of genetic testing to ethnicity and individualized medicine, this book explores the new relationships that are being forged across the social, political, medical-industrial sectors of the healthcare environment. Packed with scientific information, details on research, drug development, therapeutic progress and medical industry strategies, "Targeting a Future of Immense Opportunity" is a sourcebook of data and profound analysis for all those who wish to master the intricacies of this vast and complex terrain. This is an in-depth, wide-ranging, fact rich and thought provoking analysis of the issues and dynamics driving Healthcare stakeholders towards a future of unseen therapeutic, preventive and predictive opportunities in healthcare. It masterly synthesizes future scenarios in a promising, fast changing health & wellness-care environment, and the credibility aspect of targeted medicines' claim of efficacy, created by advances in medical care. It is highly valuable and very timely. Over the past two years, the author has talked to nearly 100 key healthcare professionals, scientists, politicians, medical industry executives, regulators and opinion leaders. The result is a title that lays bare the progress in medicine and reveals the opportunities there for the seizing. "Targeting a Future of Immense Opportunity" offers you an inside view into the workings and the various survival approaches of today's primary care "blockbuster" model focused pharmaceutical companies. For many years, companies have mass-produced medicines for the population at large. Tomorrow's individualized healthcare asks for a novel approach in the form of "marketing to the individual". This book explains how an industry in turmoil can take a different perspective and identify enhanced opportunities by looking at new niche markets for "tailor-made" drug therapies, preventive treatments and new disease areas. By 2012, and largely due to the billion dollar cost of basic drug research, only five of today's major Western pharmaceutical companies, joined by a few newly arrived industry giants from India and China, are expected to be responsible for 80% of global innovative drug research. Society will have to decide if this is in the world community's interest? Will the world leave the choice of therapeutic research areas to a handful of company CEO's? To justify its existence, what future role can the industry play in the healthcare value chain? The medicines currently marketed reach only about 10% to 20% of the body's possible drug targets, or 400 to 500 protein receptors and enzymes out of an estimated 5.000. In the next twenty years, all 5.000 targets will be accessible. Nanotechnological advances will allow the effective introduction of personalized therapy, such as administration of a small dose of a drug to obtain maximum effect; the reduction of secondary effects by means of drugs that act only on the therapeutic target; or the development of new more effective administration routes. With the first generation of individualized cancer therapies about to become reality, are you prepared to better understand tomorrow's medicines markets? Are you prepared for exciting new technologies that will increasingly, and rapidly play a role in revolutionizing the fields of oncology, immunology, degenerative diseases and other targeted therapy segments? If not, then you need this book now..
Price: $37.82 [Notify me when price goes down.]