Utterly captivating in its madness (Baltimore Sun), this debut work follows a young man's attempt to get a life. With each passing night, Malcolm Cicchio is losing one minute of sleep. At this rate, he figures, his heart will explode in about 16 months.

Includes preprints of: Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, ISSN 0096-3860.

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Readers take a nerve-jangling ride into risky operations where a single mistake is paid for in blood, loss of limbs, or death. From savagely simplistic Vietnamese explosives to modern HEAT munitions in Kuwait, this book chronicles a history of heroic and horrific incidents. This is a fascinating salute to a special breed of men who handle death with an iron grip.

One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. Naturalists argue that, although health can be valued or disvalued, the concept of health is itself objective and value-free. In contrast, normativists argue that health is a contextual and value-laden concept, and that there is no possibility of a value-free understanding of health. This debate has fueled many of the, often very acrimonious, disputations arising from the claims of health, disease and disability activists and charities and the public policy responses to them. In responding to this debate, Ananth both surveys the existing literature, with special focus on the work of Christopher Boorse, and argues that a naturalistic concept of health, drawing on evolutionary considerations associated with biological function, homeostasis, and species-design, is defensible without jettisoning norms in their entirety.

In his most important book since Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., explains how our understanding of time, space, and matter have changed in just the last few years, and how with these new ideas we have a glimpse into the "mind of God." Making comparisons to Hindu Vedic and Judeo-Christian cosmology, Dr. Wolf explains how the universal command of the Deity "Let there be light" now takes on a new scientific meaning: Everything is literally made of light and the reader will learn how quantum physics proves this is so. Contains 70 b&w illustrations.