Did you know that cacao beans are actually seeds (not beans) from the cacao tree? Technically speaking, this makes chocolate a fruit! Did you know that a single ounce of gold can be stretched into a w
Ditch those cushiony running shoes—they’re holding you back and hurting your feet! You’ve heard about barefoot running and how it can reduce injury and allow for better form. Maybe you’ve even tried
Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos - of shanties and factories, woodpiles and
Based on a hugely popular Internet documentary, this exploration of historic signs and symbolism determines what the future holds for humanity come 2012. "If you believe there is no special significa
Anthony Robbins lo llama la nueva ciencia del desarrollo personal. Tu lo llamaras la mejor cosa que te ha pasado.?Si suenas con una vida mejor, Poder sin limites te mostrara como lograr la extraordina
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarat
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarat
The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss---a personal or national one---we hear them recited: denial, anger, barg
"The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations outlines a constructive and convincing path for getting beyond unproductive debates about the relative merits of the various methodologies that infor
Help children learn key concepts about the human body and build reading fluency with these engaging plays. Topics include the brain, heart, lungs, muscles, bones, the five senses, teeth and dental hea
The odds of being hit by lightning each year are only about 1 in 750,000 in the U.S. And yet this rare phenomenon has inspired both fear and fascination for thousands of years.Herman Melville called i
We’re used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self e
A thought-provoking introduction to the art of parenting furnishes practical parenting techniques, strategies, advice, and suggestions for every stage in a child's development, bringing together full-
The Latest News in Cereal Technology Assembling the combined input from the Proceedings of the 12th International Cereal and Bread Congress, this volume provides a wide-ranging, comprehensive and u
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to di
Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather—along with language and the ability to understand other minds—one of a trio of relat
From one of the world’s leading experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help us understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plag
Recapture the Enchantment of the Original Tarot Since its birth during the Renaissance, the tarot has become a popular tool for divination as well as a source of pleasure and mystery. In The Secret Ta
A high-quality complement to the handbooks on particular sports, the handbookon Strength Training for Sport presents both the basic concepts and theoretical background for sports-specific strength tra
Are spiders insects? * Why do crickets chirp? * How do caterpillars become butterflies? Janice VanCleave's Insects and Spiders includes 20 fun and simple experiments that help you discover t
In the early 1990s, sympathetic juries awarded huge damages to women claiming injury from silicone breast implants, leading to a $4.25 billion class-action settlement that still wasn't large enough to
MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connec
When Fluffy goes home with Emma for spring vacation, he encounters her two cats who let him know that they rule the family home, thus when Fluffy doesn't return from vacation, Emma's classmates wonder
This fact- and fun-filled book includes hundreds of simple, kid-tested science experiments. All of which can be done with items from around the house, and require little to no supervision! Whether you
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award, Louise Erdrich’s masterful novel is now available in a limited Olive Edition.One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Da
This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond.Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment,
The results of the excavation of two Paleolithic sites on the Nile in the Republic of the Sudan, undertaken from the autumn of 1965 into the spring of 1966, are presented in this report.
Papers from a spring 2005 conference describe the latest research in recognition, medical imaging, shape analysis and segmentation, early vision and stereo vision, scene analysis and tracking, intelli
In this popular textbook for learners of classical Chinese, Chiang offers a systematic and clear analysis of classical Chinese (wenyan) grammar, using 20 readings from texts of the Spring and Autumn,
From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same aerodynamic principles. "The Simple Science of Flight" offers an introduction to the mechanics of flight and, beyond t
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we s
Theoretical computer science provides the foundations for understanding and exploiting the concepts and mechanisms in computing and information processing. This handbook will provide professionals and
Since the publication of first edition of this book, social research in general and social work research in particular, have grown very rapidly. Today, social science research methodology has evolved
Limited signed leatherbound edition of Book 6 in the internationally best-selling Honor Harrington science fiction series.Limited Signed Leatherbound Edition KNOW THY ENEMY For Captain Honor Harringto
Ella and her friends love playing together! They have fun baking, treasure hunting, and getting ready for the science fair. Join them in these coloring and activity pages that reinforce concepts such
