Pieter Hoff is the inventor of the Groasis Waterboxx. It was elected the 'Best of What's New 2010' by Popular Science, one of the most influential science magazines with over 3 million readers around the world.The Groasis Waterboxx beat 116 great products mostly from Fortune 500 companies; amongst them, the fantastic Apple iPad and the incredible Philips ledlamp.His innovation allows trees to be planted in deserts, on mountains, eroded areas, rocks and even in the ashes of burned forests. The...

This book is about how to win as an organization.

A winning culture is one of the biggest assets a company can have. Trained in ‘winning’ at the Royal Military Academy in the Netherlands, Erik Hiep started his career as an infantry officer during the Cold War. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he pursued a business career and took an MBA from the University of Glasgow.

As a business consultant, Erik has worked ‘boots on the ground’ for clients in more than 30 countries on four conti...

This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? In a tour de force of analytic thinking, Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

Like a comforting sip of tea amidst life’s chaos, these delightful illustrations celebrate the small joys of existence.

An insider's guide to the world's greatest 'secret' gardens, green spaces, and pocket parks tucked away in cities around the globe Cities everywhere are graced with charming but little-known, off-the-beaten-track gardens and green spaces, offering urbanites in the know a chance to immerse themselves in nature. These often small, well-kept secrets are not as grand as those on the tourist trail but are equally delightful and rewarding to visit, if you know where to find them. Green Escapes is t...

The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair – cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work ...

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there.

The bible of Indian home cooking, with over 1,000 recipes

The Silver Spoon was the first English edition of the bestselling Italian cookbook of the last fifty years, Il cucchiaio d'argento. With over 2,000 recipes, its simple style and authenticity has made it the definitive, bestselling book on Italian cooking, for both gourmets and beginners. Following its phenomenal success, this new updated and revised edition is illustrated with newly commissioned photography and includes new menus by celebrated Italian chefs.

The definitive Peruvian cookbook, featuring 500 traditional home cooking recipes from the countrys most acclaimed and popular chef, Gastón Acurio. One of the worlds most innovative and flavorful cuisines, Peruvian food has been consistently heralded by chefs and media around the world as the "next big thing." Peruvian restaurants are opening across the United States, with 20 in San Francisco alone, including Limon and La Mar. Acurio guides cooks through the full range of Perus vibrant cuisin...