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An ideal resource for students and professionals, this comprehensive reader offers a diverse collection of the foremost writings on leadership and management in the public and nonprofit sectors. The b
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"Wikiworld" explores a revolution in the world of education. The way we learn is changing: institutionalised learning is transforming into new forms of critical learning and open collaboration. This b
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"Climate Change" is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text introduces the basic science underlying b
The striking poems presented here represent the widening breadth of contemporary Australian literature. Holland-Batt’s unique and shadowy voice evokes a fresh, alternative view not only of the world b
Bridgeport: 1900-1960 presents a fascinating look into the history of Bridgeport through vintage postcards from the city's formative years. These vintage postcards depict the change and expansion in B
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This book incorporates the comprehensive final 403(b) regulations posted July 26, 2007; provides both explanation of the significant changes, and a review of specimen forms and other resources prepare
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This book provides comprehensive information on the science and practice of critical care medicine in a repackaging of the relavent chapters from the popular Pediatric Critical Care Medicine edited b
This volume reviews our current understanding for how sex determination is initiated and how it results in sexual dimorphic development. Chapters discussing work on different model systems provide a b
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite - the third in a series of publications on Birmingham's unique collection of nineteenth-century drawings - throws new light on this important artist. B
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While dinosaurs dominated Earth during the Mesozoic era, an astonishing collection of reptiles filled the oceans. Award-winning science writer Sneed B. Collard, III delivers a dramatic account of thes
A decidedly divine, sophisticated treatment jazzes up the cover of this Word Roundup puzzle book-making it completely irresistible to female puzzlers.*The Puzzle Society introduces this Word Roundup b
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A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can b
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Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the B
Scientists in a wide range of medical and biological disciplines, from universities and companies around the world review the understanding of bacterial viruses, or bacteriophages, as it is informed b
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