For untold thousands of years, human beings have thrived on the nutritional and medicinal wealth of the plant life in the natural world. In these fascinating, wide-ranging, wonderfully informative sto
Understanding the issues that have been encountered at other sites, and the steps that have led to successful resolution of these issues, can provide great help to those considering, planning, or impl
Following the approach of R. M. Hartwell, the influential historian of the British Industrial Revolution, these essays explore the cultural contexts and institutional constraints that have shaped grow
Organic Syntheses, describes checked and edited experimental procedures, spanning a broad range of synthetic methodologies, and provides chemists with a compendium of new or little known experimental
Provides maps of major roads and city streets, describes walking tours, locates houses and inns of literary significance, and sprinkles it all with anecdotes about the likes of Boswell, Lord Byron, th
PVM is a software package that enables the computer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer. Written by the tea
The classic best-seller is now available in a condensed, more affordable, compact edition. With graphic illustrations and explicit advice about sexual techniques and positions, combined with a tender
Huston Smith's The World's Religions has sold over two million copies in its current edition and its original version, The Religions of Man, which was based on one of the first successful public tele
In 1983, the author--herself an adoptee--began her search for her birth mother. In this inspiring new handbook, she shares her experiences and helps searchers map out their own step-by-step journeys t
Demonstrates the techniques involved in the production of bioart with an emphasis on the final form in which it will be used, whether for print, projection, or display
This practical business book shows how effective management can change the way people work. It demonstrates specific managerial behaviors that solve problems of profitability, productivity, quality, s
Offers advice to those involved in the design of open and distance learning courses on creating an organized system of programme evaluation. The text addresses the need for such a programme, the organ
Provides students in choral ensembles with a representative sampling of Renaissance choral music, as well as information about its style and structure. Also designed to give choral conductors instruct
People, politics, and variable funding all contribute to the complexity of the program planning process for continuing education. In this book, Cervero and Wilson articulate a theory of program planni
A quick reference for doctors and medical students to the tumors in the human body, their cause when known, their incidence, and their histology and clinical features. Well cross-referenced. No biblio
This insightful work explains Mandelbrot's fractal geometry and describes some of its most interesting applications. Fractal geometry exploits a characteristic property of the real world--self-similar
Quality is the major topic in international industry today, and its importance will increase in the 1990s. Making Quality Happen presents a common sense, step-by-step approach for implementing a Quali
The Creative Classroom provides teachers in grades PreK-6 with a number of creative drama strategies for use in the classroom, on a daily basis and across the curriculum.
A book used for the "Home and Family Studies" course at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. LDS friendly, it offers checklists, analyses, inventories, ledgers, tips, charts, steps, techniques, Q&As, and m
This detailed reference work describes the vocational training systems available in EC member states. It deals with the vocational qualification systems within each country and outlines EC programmes
