In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths : that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mo…
"Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomblets spewing anthrax spores over battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square - these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a simple laboratory." "In this work of in…
Features an inside look at how germ warfare has been waged throughout history and what form its future might take.
A comprehensive reference spanning some three thousand years of design provides more than 3,500 full-color photographs and descriptions of furniture representing every style and form, decorative motifs from key periods, profiles of important designers and craftsmen, a study of i…
"Reporter for the New York Times; ... foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous fields; Pulitzer winner; [and] longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller ... turns her reporting skills on herself with the intensity of her professional vocati…