Dr. Maharam's program gives athletes and nonathletes alike guidance on how to stretch and strengthen the specific muscles used in whatever activity they do. It gives exercises to prepare the back for
In Elements of Garden Design, Joe Eck has created a rhetoric of designing gardens - a series of succinctly expressed and easily grasped definitions of key concepts, useful both to the complete novice
While blithely trespassing in a Massachusetts wetland, a plant thief stumbles across a corpse: Sandra Nichols, who had been missing for months, was found bludgeoned to death. Time had provided the sus
A vintage car rally in Northern Ireland - a three day race over rough country roads through hostile territory where armed patrols shoot to kill. An American woman of a certain age, clever and independ
"You scuttering little bastard! What d'you think you're doing?"Norma Snape knew damn well what her youngest was doing. Caught with her purse in his hand, the last of her money clutched between his fin
Padgett Powell's fourth work of fiction picks up several years after his first left off, on a strip of coast in the low country of South Carolina, sometime home to Simons Manigault. Simons is now out
In Kink, her mesmerizing new novel, Koja explores the many dazzling facets of obsession - intellectual, emotional, and sexual - created and refracted by the ever-changing dynamics of a three-way relat
In his new book, Gould, Dixon draws a portrait of a man through his romantic and sexual involvements, as well as one of modern American life over the last forty years. The novel is itself a series of
Written by a clinical psychiatrist with over twenty-five years' experience in drug counseling, this newly expanded and revised handbook will answer your questions about the consequences of mind-alteri
This lyrical new novel by acclaimed young Trinidadian author Robert Antoni is told in the haunting voices of two West Indian women, both thirty-three years of age: Lilla, the white mistress of a once
A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne,
This book is a reference book for the teachers who are engaged in foreign language teaching and culture instructing and for the scholars who study foreign language teaching and culture instructing.The
An assessment of the achievements and lessons learnt from the 'Healthy Cities' World Health Organization initiative launched in Europe fifteen years ago, now regarded as one of the cornerstones of the
This book focuses on the relationship between geographic information systems and society. Since the early 1970s, Nicholas Chrisman has been one of the pioneers in the field of GIS. Over the years, the
Both corpus linguistics and multimodality are rapidly growing fields. Written by respected authorities in the field, Multimodal Corpus Linguistics is the first book to combine these two fascinating ar
What is strategic foresight and why does it matter? What role does hindsight play in it? Why are individuals, organizations and societies continually surprised by un-foreseen events? The purpose of th
As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the ninet
The last major intervention on development in Latin America was arguably Arturo Escobar's "Encountering Development. "Nearly a decade on his scathing indictment still casts its shadow of critical deve
In this book, Michael Fielding develops a searching critique of key elements of education policy and practice, including personalization, target-setting, impact, competition, empowerment, inspection a
A comprehensive yet concise analysis of political and economic developments in Iran during the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on developments since 1979. Ansari situates modern developmen
This book attempts to complete the groundbreaking and seminal study of the Vietnam War from an international perspective began by the late-Ralph B. Smith in the 1980s, of which only three volumes of a
In the early years of the Soviet Union, the nature of the communist party was not yet fixed. The key features of the communist regime all emerged during the key period of the First Five Year plan, 192
A companion volume to Herbert’s Strategic Corporate Entrepreneurship textbook, Advances in Strategic Corporate Entrepreneurship presents readings from the current literature which offer cutting-edge i
Jesse Owens secured his place as one of the most celebrated athletes of the twentieth-century after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. This book examines the press coverage of th
Going Native is the first sustained postcolonial critique of cyberculture and its role in globalization. The co-authors provide an incisive analysis of the emerging global system of "informational cap
Going Native is the first sustained postcolonial critique of cyberculture and its role in globalization. The co-authors provide an incisive analysis of the emerging global system of "informational cap
This book is a timely contribution to an important debate on the increased, changed or new scope of Intellectual Property Rights in the light of Contemporary Capitalism. How the expanded or pushed Int
This book examines the phenomenon of political assassinations in the contemporary world.It makes a clear distinction between a murder, an assassination and a political assassination although there may
The vast desert region dividing China from Central Asia, now known officially as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), has gained considerable international profile in recent years as an area
This book re-connects the history of medicine with the social and political history of India. It analyzes the popular and subaltern healing practices in the region, and moves away from the view that a
Since the 1980s, growth theory has re-emerged at the forefront of economic analysis and has prompted a rekindling of the debates on why growth rates differ. Drawing on recent developments in the philo
Earthquakes are among the most destructive of natural hazards. In the last decade alone, they have killed tens of thousands of people and imposed tremendous costs, as buildings, lifelines, facilities
Endowed with a large wealth of oil and situated in a strategic position at the crossroads of diverse influences, Azerbaijan occupies a special place among the independent republics that emerged from t
The History of Norwegian Economic Thought is best known for its contribution to econometrics, with authors such as Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo in particular standing out. This significant new vo
This is a much-needed account of the key theoretical and practical issues in post-Cold War European security.Graham Timmins and James Sperling clearly explain the main dimensions of the debates on the
This new book presents a radical and fascinating critique of the theory and practice of mediation. Using social constructionism and particularly discourse analysis, peacemaking processes in the Israel
At the end of World War I the British Empire reached its largest extent in terms of territory and population. The government was reluctant to devote large resources to defense and to contemplate sendi
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the baby boom generation, and looks at the changing attitudes to and policies in education, work and pensions/retirement.With the baby boom generation born
