This early interview with Christie Hefner, before she became CeO of Playboy enterprises, Inc., was perhaps the first insight into her considerable abilities as a ...more

TABLe OF CONTeNTS 1. GPS: A COMPUTeR GRAPHICS NICHe THAT BeCAMe AN INDUSTRY 2. MILITARY SIMULATIONS NOW INTeGRATe GPS, GIS, ReAL WORLD IMAGING 3. MILITARY SIMULATIONS GeT ...more

Future applications include environmental monitoring and police surveillance in remote areas. Originally appeared as an article in the January 1998 issue of "Advanced Imaging...more

A low--level retail investigator and his new partner find themselves rescuing a woman in distress. No sex, no violence, but lots of adult language. A version of this story ...more

1. Virtual Museums: A Reality At Last? 2. Curators View the Museum of the Future 3. The Smithsonian Museum's Virtual Displays 4. The Getty's Virtual Display of Trajan's Forum...more

An examination of legal and illegal competitive intelligence techniques used by private firms. Originally appeared as an article in "Security Management" magazine in October ...more

An account of what occurred at the Agent Orange Settlement Fairness Hearings in Chicago, by someone who was there and participated. Of great interest to Viet Nam veterans and...more

This first appeared in "Security Technology & Design" magazine in 1996 as a 'Security Counterpoint' column. It is an extended commentary on the hazards faced by ordinary ...more

This originally appeared in "Security Technology & Design" magazine as a 'Security Counterpoint' column. While referring specifically to the Security industry, this essay has...more

For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the ...more

This in-depth biography on the innovative Latin blues-rock guitarist, Carlos Santana will follow his illustrious career from the late 1960's to the present...more

Provides insights into the history of country music which will fascinate not only fans and scholrs of country music, byt anyone interested in the roots of American popular ...more

How do we 'know' music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. eventually we think and write about it. This book represents ...more

A comprehensive and lively history of opera that traces each milestone in opera history: from Monteverdi to Gluck to Mozart to Weber - to contemporary composers such as Glass ...more

David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. The ...more

Culture on the Margins...more

AC/DC have been swaggering their way through the rock 'n' roll scene for more than 30 years. Starting with their roots in the Australian pub circuit, this book takes a ...more

The first in a series of books written by fans for fans. FanFare is designed for fans who want to find out about their favorite band from other fans who have stories to tell. ...more