Editor Graeme B. Dinwoodie presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a collection of scholarly essays and academic papers focused on the a
##A fake children's book in the guise of an illustrated dictionary, with large colorful illustrations, oversize typefaces and simple definitions,featuring a wandering gremlin as comic relief.An A-B-C
In 1934, the German Air Ministry issued a requirement for a single-seat, interceptor fighter monoplane. Professor Willy Messerschmitt headed a design team that strove to achieve optimum performance b
Shelby Larson, a beautiful and brilliant National Security Council Director, is enjoying a rare evening away from the White House at a Florida charity ball when a timed bomb mistriggers, sending the b
Woodsman Felix Immler reveals how we can build a comfortable camp in the wilderness using nothing more than a pocket knife. Simple natural materials are used for making a waterproof roof, a chair, a b
Papke, an organizational psychologist, leadership consultant, executive coach, and speaker and facilitator, outlines a framework for aligning customer needs with a company's leadership, culture, and b
A groundbreaking management approach that gives executives the power and flexibility to deploy new strategies'without upsetting business objectivesProvides a more effective alternative to the common b
Little Princess visits a friend who has a rabbit, and comes home obsessed with getting one herself. She’s given a stick-insect, a goldfish and a few other low-maintenance pets, but she still wants a b
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Summaries of lectures at a 2013 summer school in Shanghai cover a short course on matrix functions, a short course on exponential integrators, matrix equations and model reduction, Rayleigh quotient b
Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this b
"[A]n impressive and original work of synthetic scholarship that one hopes will be emulated by others." —Phillip B. Wagoner, Wesleyan University"[A]n excellent and important work... [with] a wonderful
A radical approach to sexual education re-evaluates the relationship between parents and their children on a wide variety of subjects surrounding sex and emphasizes a common-sense, positive, ethics-b
Two mainstreams intermingle in this treatment of practical statistics: (a) a sequence of philosophical attitudes the student needs for effective data analysis, and (b) a flow of useful and adaptable t
Tim Junkin's fast-paced insider novel tracks a moral journey. Jack Stanton began his career as a public defender in the Washington, D.C., "Agency." A quick study and a charismatic trial lawyer, Jack b
Beavers Away! tells the true story of a game warden named Elmo Heter, who solved a complicated problem in a very novel way. He devised a method to safely reintroduce beavers into a remote wilderness—b
A strange thing was happening to Warren Ritter. He certainly didn't believe in the tarot. He was a businessman, setting up a folding table on a San Francisco street where a stream of passersby could b
Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of animal movement through a b
A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases delivers a concise compendium to the diagnosis and management of occupational and environmental lung diseases, incorporating evidence-b
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Discover how an ocean is made - and how life developed on Earth - in this stunning picture book by Waterstones award-winning Sally Nicholls and illustrated by rising star Carolina Rabei. Who made the oceans? An ancient god? A magic spell? A billion firefighters and all their hoses? Come on a trip to the Sea Museum with Dad, and find out how the oceans came to be, and why they’re so important to our planet. Also in the Who Makes...series:Who Makes a Forest?
In her “compact gem of a collection” (Globe & Mail), Carrianne Leung enlivens a singular group of characters sharing a shiny new subdivision in 1970s Toronto. Marilyn greets new neighbors with fresh-b
This book addresses synergy management, which poses an important challenge for firms, advisors and practitioners involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Synergy plays a key role in M&A contexts, b
A central bank needs authority and a sphere of independent action. But a central bank cannot become an unelected czar with sweeping, unaccountable discretionary power. How can we balance the central b
In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies t
This is a 300-page practical manual reviewing salient topics in Adolescent Medicine. The volume is practitioner-centered, focusing on the symptoms that bring a teenager to a clinician. Every chapter b
The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. B
Eye on a Century celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a verit
This book shall assist the microscopist in a practical way, with the help of three mainstays, a. clinical information, b. the resources a standard histopathology laboratory may offer and c. the light
Chester E. Finn, Jr. is a former assistant US secretary of education, currently president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at Stanford (Hoover Institution). Jessica A. Hockett is
A wonderful mini hardback edition of a classic Christmas story about everyone’s favourite family cat, complete with a beautiful foiled cover for extra Christmas sparkle! The house is full of strange b
One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offe
The field of Systemic Functional Linguistics is a social semiotic approach to language pioneered by M. A. K. Halliday, which has assumed a central importance in linguistics in recent years, anchored b
A burial environment is a complex and dynamic system. It plays host to an abundance of interdependent chemical, physical, and biological processes, which are greatly influenced by the inclusion of a b
Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive.? It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a b
Profitable, sustainable pastures have a major role to play in most agricultural systems in Australia. Starting with a historical perspective and concluding with a view of what the future holds, this b
