This large, lavishly illustrated, single-volume history of the United States has been a standard for years. From the Native American experience before Columbus to the Clinton Administration, Tindall and Shi provide a narrative that includes major events and personalities while paying attention to the culture of everyday life. With over a hundred ...
This large, lavishly illustrated, single-volume history of the United States has been a standard for years. From the Native American experience before Columbus to the Clinton Administration, Tindall and Shi provide a narrative that includes major events and personalities while paying attention to the culture of everyday life. With over a hundred ...
This large, lavishly illustrated, single-volume history of the United States has been a standard for years. From the Native American experience before Columbus to the Clinton Administration, Tindall and Shi provide a narrative that includes major events and personalities while paying attention to the culture of everyday life. With over a hundred ...
The most comprehensive -- and easiest to use -- guide to California residential property management available. Every California landlord and residential property manager needs "The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities." The definitive guide for over 20 years, it clearly and comprehensively covers everything you need to know ...
Unusual shapes and colors make many mushrooms alluring to the eye, while the exotic flavors and textures of edible mushrooms are a gourmet delicacy for the palate. Yet many people never venture beyond the supermarket offerings, fearing that all other mushrooms are poisonous. With amateur mushroom hunters especially in mind, David Fischer and ...
T.E.Lawrence is best known for his role in the 1916-18 Arab Revolt, recalled in David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia", starring Peter O'Toole and Alec Guinness, and for his bestselling books "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and "The Mint". However, he was also one of the greatest letter writers of his time. Malcolm Brown's selection draws on collections ...
Biotic Communities catalogs and defines by biome, or biotic community, the region centered on Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte, plus portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California Sur. This ambitious guide is an essential companion for anyone working in natural ...
The updated and expanded edition of this successful student and practitioner book is divided into 10 sections that cover each orthopaedic anatomic area in detail. Section headings include congenital and developmental disorders, the spine, the hip and the pelvis, the knee, the shoulder and the foot and ankle. Chapters describing paediatric ...
This book is the new gold-standard in anesthesiology. Written and edited by an internationally known team of experts, "Anesthesiology" gives you a 360-degree view of the field, covering all of the anesthetic considerations, preparations, and procedures for the surgical patient, the pain patient or the critical care patient. You'll find a unique ...
No bat so fires our imagination or is more renowned than the common vampire bat of tropical America. The vampire bat's singular diet of warm blood, its stealthy nighttime attacks, and its capability of transmitting deadly diseases, all strike us with fear mixed with fascination. It comes as no surprise that the vampire bat has assumed not only the ...
This widely used text provides a clear and critical summary of research approaches to the epidemiological study of workplace hazards. It describes the historical development of occupational epidemiology, methods for characterizing occupational exposures, and techniques for designing and implementing epidemiologic studies in this area. The relative ...
First published in 1990 and now available only from University of New Mexico Press, this volume collects twenty-six of Aldo Leopold's little-known essays and articles published between 1915 and 1948. Leopold worked for the United States Forest Service in New Mexico and Arizona from 1909 to 1924. While employed as a forester in the Southwest, he ...
Thousands of children in California need legal guardians because their parents have died, abandoned them or are otherwise unable to care for them. The Guardianship Book helps readers obtain a legal guardianship without a lawyer. The book provides readers with everything they need to: decide whether to obtain a legal guardianship-use alternate ...
It provides 25 tear-out forms and agreements, including rental applications, 3-day and 30-day notices, sample letters and more. It also includes lease and rental agreement forms, as well as a lead disclosure form, in Spanish. And it offers an Updated Rent Control Chart and coverage of the state laws requiring locks on doors and windows.
This reference book examines all facets of orthopaedics, covering a range of topics with sections on congenital and developmental disorders, the shoulder, the elbow, the hand, the hip, the knee, the lower leg and the foot and ankle. It provides questions/concise answers to key questions that teachers/house staff are likley to ask on rounds and ...
Computer Aided Software Engineering tools typically support individual users in the automation of some task within a software development process. Used this way, CASE tools have undoubtedly helped many organisations in their efforts to develop better quality software to budget, within precedented time scales. This book will address the increasing ...
With the possible exception of the vampire bat, no North American animal has been the source of more superstitions, legends, and exaggerated claims than the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum). Not only is the Gila monster America's only poisonous lizard, it is the only reptile having an armored hide, and the only lizard with a forked tongue like a ...
In this lively, historically accurate account, David E. Brown chronicles the demise of the grizzly bear in the Southwest. He presents the personal narratives of those who knew grizzlies, accounts of hunters and administrators in wildlife management agencies, and the popular legends and lore of the grizzly that one would hear around the campfire. ...
The Old West Speaks for Itself in this collection of fifteen gripping first-hand accounts dating from 1835 to the turn of the century. Tough Times in Rough Places introduces us to mountainmen, soldiers of fortune, cavalry officers, immigrants, frontier women, prospectors, Mormon pioneers, and lawmen -- real people whose voices are too often muted ...
"The Essential T.E. Lawrence" is both an anthology and an autobiography; not only does it contain a wide-ranging selection of Lawrence's writings, it also offers us the story of his life. It begins with the eloquent letters of the young adventurer from Oxford, eagerly expanding his horizons beyond Britain to France and subsequently to the Middle ...
In 1920, Ima Hogg began an extensive collection of art and antiques that would chronicle America's tastes, styles and customs from colonial times to the Victorian era. Miss Hogg continued to acquire works for her Houston home, Bayou Bend, until her death in 1975. This book documents the collection, which is now owned and operated by the Museum of ...
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