Within each sport (more than 200 make the cut), individual entries vary in length and depth depending on popularity and/or importance, and for the major sports they are quite extensive. Yet most entries provide some information about history, rules, and cultural influences. Some even offer rudiments of how the games are played, though the "Encyclopedia" is certainly no how-to manual. Most importantly, the volume seeks to grasp the larger picture and import of games and competitions around the world; with entries on aggression, drug testing, law, ethics, media, environment, commercialization, spectators, literature, and even movies, it's a volume assembled to appeal as much to those interested in thinking about sports as to those who play them. Most of the contributors are academics, and at times the text reflects that--and illustrations, especially of the more obscure activities, would have only helped the effort--but that's a fair price to pay for a one-volume compendium that can place the wide world of sports quite literally in your hands.

The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense

Learn to identify modes of verbal assault, such as laying blame, and to recognize when someone is about to launch a linguistic strike and the motivation behind it.

Probabilities
The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives
This book is about those little numbers that we just cannot escape. Try to remember the last day you didn’t hear at least something about probabilities, chance, odds, randomness, risk, or uncertainty. I bet it’s been a while.
In this book, I will tell you about the mathematics of such things and how it can be used to better understand the world around you.
It is not a textbook though. It does not have little colored boxes with definition or theorems, nor does it contain sections with exercises for you to solve. My main purpose is to entertain you, but it is inevitable that you will also learn a thing or two. There are even a few exercises for you, but they are so subtly presented that you might not even notice until you have actually solved them.

Mirror added

ReGenesis

О СЕРИАЛЕ: Организация НорБак, созданная для исследования спорных вопросов биотехнологии. Ящик Пандоры открыт. Это современная золотая лихорадка, где миллиарды … будут сделаны и будут установлены сферы влияния. Вовлечены все: правительство, многонациональные фармацевтические компании, страны-изгои и террористы. О новых идеях нельзя умолчать — раз они уже вырвались на волю.

Think, A Compelling Introduction To Philosophy
This book is for people who want to think about the big themes: knowledge, reason, truth, mind, freedom, destiny, identity, God, goodness, justice. These are not the hidden preserve of specialists. They are things that men and women wonder about naturally, for they structure the ways we think about the world and our place in it. They are also themes about which thinkers have had things to say.

If readers have absorbed this book, then they should be on better terms with the big themes. And they should be able to read many otherwise baffling major thinkers with pleasure and reasonable understanding.