Miss Suzy is a little gray squirrel who lives happily in her oak-tree home until she is chased away by some mean red squirrels. Poor Miss Suzy is very sad. But soon she finds a beautiful dollhouse and meets a band of brave toy soldiers. How Miss Suzy and the soldiers help each other makes a gentle, old-fashioned tale that will capture the ...
This text, intended for introductory courses in Meteorology, employs an emphasis on physical principles to help students develop an understanding of the atmosphere. Each text comes with eight tutorial software modules on CD-ROM to help students grasp the more difficult concepts generally taught in the course. Reviewers praise the text's clear, ...
This text focuses on a problem-solving model designed to help students integrate and practice social work processes. The sixth edition is thoroughly revised and offers new readings and a streamlined organizational structure designed to make it easier for readers to navigate through the content.
Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and burrows round out the wealth of information given in "the ...
You can feel great again! "Syndrome X proactively lays out a nutritious, tasty, and simple diet plan to get us back to the basics of healthy nutrition." Lendon H. Smith, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Feed Your Body Right "Syndrome X is the best new book to help you understand the facts about nutrition, health, and aging...It is full ...
"A rousing good story, a rich tapestry of charming rogues, hustlers, and gritty ballparks that brings to sparkling life the game of baseball as it was played a century ago."--Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The best-selling textbook in purchasing and supply management through several editions, this book presents a practical framework for students to apply how firms actually manage the enterprise-wide functions of purchasing and supply in today's business environment. This edition represents a complete and thorough revision of the book, now explaining ...
Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. Only now, however, is Davis' talent as a photographer finally being recognized. In this previously unpublished collection of black and white photography, readers will be fascinated by Davis' portrayals of A-list performers, iconic world leaders, and scenes from ...
Drawing on organizational studies, interviews, and other research, two authorities on leadership discuss the special qualities of successful business executives and offer advice for managers on how to develop leadership skills. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.
Nanus suggests that the defining element of success is "vision" - being able to create and sustain it throughout an organization, group or even a nation. With cases and examples from corporations, nonprofits and public agencies, Nanus shows leaders how to develop vision in their lives.
From acclaimed dramas like Deliverance and The Longest Yard to outrageous comedies such as Smokey and the Bandit, Burt Reynolds' popularity has lasted for years. In 1990, he became producer and star of a TV smash, the top 20-rated Evening Shade. Now, with the latest success of a sold-out one-man stage show, he takes time to look back on his life ...
Millner teams up with Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller in a "Bling"-meets-"Bergdorf Blondes" novel of three best friends who make a pact to land the role of a lifetime--Hollywood wife--within a year. Set against the backdrop of money, power and sex, these women will find the desire to find a husband isn't as important as finding themselves.
This primer for small boat sailors offers practical, usable tips with diagrams and illustrations. It emphasizes safety, with awareness of winds and weather.
This guide presents quizzes, advice, and plucky Top 10 lists intended to help readers identify whether or not they are "Angry Black Women" (or "ABWs") and, if so, which type they are. Its aim is to assist empowered ABWs in achieving fuller self-realization. The book includes such additional features as historical references--from sports, TV, and ...
When Sammy Davis, Jr. published his autobiography in 1965, it was an immediate long-running bestseller as well as a revelation. "Yes I Can" describes Sammy Davis's personal conviction, the view of success that both propelled him to stardom from ghetto obscurity and served as his armor against racism.
This novel, which takes place in the early 1950s, is the story of Buddy Palumbo: recent high school graduate, gas-station mechanic, sports car racer, and lover of Miss Julie Finzio.
This undergraduate, upper-division text focuses on the biology of human parasites, and bridges the gap between classic clinical parasitology texts and more traditional encyclopedic treatises. Human Parasitology, Second Edition introduces various parasites and how they interact with their hosts and respond to new treatments. It presents symptomatic ...
"Supply Management" is a major revision of the classic text in the field of procurement. The Eighth Edition builds on the strengths of prior editions, while including state-of-the-art coverage and enhancements to help prepare students for the globalized world of business they will enter.
In this supportive, encouraging book filled with humor, honesty, and real-life stories, Fields shows women how to mourn the loss of a relationship and move on with their lives.
Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place and a distinctive place within America. Yet these images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is New England in the twenty-first century. Today traditional scenes of white ...
Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seeking to capture on film the elusive birds, the wildflowers and grasses, and the unique wild beauty of ...
In 1855, at the urging of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, the U.S. Congress funded an unusual experiment: the importation of camels in order to test their fitness for military purposes in the Southwest. Camels, it was presumed, would fare much better than horses and mules in the desert's punishing climate and terrain, and therefore could be used ...
This great resource presents dentistry and dental practice against the ever-changing backdrop of economic, technological, and demographic trends, as well as the distribution of the oral diseases that dental professionals treat and prevent. The text is logically divided into five parts. "Dentistry and the Community" deals with the development of ...
Actor James Arness gives a full account of his early years, his family, his military career during the Second World War and his toil in Hollywood including his long run on "Gunsmoke".
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