"[Vermont an Illustrated History] demonstrates that although the faces of Vermont's inhabitants have changed, the qualities of self-determination and endurance so necessary in establishing Vermont's modern communities remain active features in today's Green Mountain state. The text is illuminated with more than 400 vintage photographs, including thirty-two pages of brilliant color. Biographies of many Vermont businesses and organizations are highlighted...

Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm....

Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He's retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world at peace and safe. Katie James, a journalist who will...

"Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight co-workers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the co-founder of Snoop, a trendy London-based...

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted....

A succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them.

Information on public buildings, industries, and manufacturers in the towns of Barre, Bellows Falls, Bennington, Brandon, Brattleboro, Burlington, Castleton, Danby and Mt. Tabor, Fair Haven, Manchester, Middlebury, Montpelier, Newport, North Bennington, Proctor, Randolph, Rutland, South Wallingford, St. Albans, St. Johnsbury, Swanton, Vergennes, Waterbury, West Randolph, and West Rutland.

Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium-a metal half as dense as water, found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth-has the potential to set us on a path toward a low-carbon energy economy. In Bottled...