Copernicus imprint: 75 books
Confessions of the Pricing Man
How Price Affects Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The world’s foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer.
In all walks of life, we constantly make decisions about whether something is worth our money or our time, or try to convince others to...
Bubbles, Booms, and Busts
The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth, inflation, rationality of bankers,...
Drilling Down
The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the...
Earths of Distant Suns
How We Find Them, Communicate with Them, and Maybe Even Travel There
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Based on the latest missions results and supported by commissioned artwork, this book explores the possible lessons we may learn from exoplanets. As the number of known Earth-like objects grows significantly, the author explores what is known about the growing roster of "pale blue dots"...
Network Geeks
How They Built the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned “why anyone would want such a thing” when the idea was first introduced.
Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the...
The New Gold Rush
The Riches of Space Beckon!
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book captures the most exciting advances in the harnessing of space as a global resource. The authors track the growing number of space businesses and opportunities for investors, and the many possible benefits of spaceplanes, space stations and even space colonies. The authors also discuss...
Smart Cities of Today and Tomorrow
Better Technology, Infrastructure and Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Hackers, cyber-criminals, Dark Web users, and techno-terrorists beware! This book should make you think twice about attempting to do your dirty work in the smart cities of tomorrow.
Scores of cities around the world have begun planning what are known as “smart cities.” These new or revamped...
by James B. Kaler
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Little Book of Stars answers, in the clearest language, the questions anyone might have about our heavenly canopy. How are stars born? How do they die? Why do they shine? How long do they shine? Is our star, the Sun, dying? How can you tell time from the stars? Or navigate? What are the measures...
by Klaus Mainzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Time is fundamental to our experience, but remains mysterious. This book shows how philosophers and scientists have tried to grapple with this most extraordinary of ordinary phenomena. From the attempts of early astronomers to reconcile solar and lunar and terrestrial reckonings, to the huge expansions...
When Doctors Kill
Who, Why, and How
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors. Killing is clearly an- thetical to the Art and Science of Medicine, which is...
by Constance Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
"...a story of great mathematicians and their achievements, of practical successes and failures, and of human perfidy and generosity...this is one of the still too rare occasions in which mathematicians are shown as frail, flesh-and-blood creatures...a very worthwhile book." -CHOICE
The Doomsday Lobby
Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Art” by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was not considered appropriate...
Distant Wanderers
The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Recent discoveries of planet-like objects circling other sun-like stars have stirred enormous interest in what other planets may exist in the universe, and whether they could support intelligent life. This book takes us into the midst of this search for extrasolar planets. Unlike other books, it focuses...
Not Invited to the Party
How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the...