Spanning from ancient Greece to the end of the Marcos regime in the Philippines, this collection of eyewitness accounts of significant historical events is culled from hundreds of memoirs, letters, travel books, and newspapers.
This is one of the few medical genetics texts on a 2-year revision cycle. It provides up-to-date information that can be read, retained, and applied with ease! The 3rd Edition covers pharmacogenomics: the societal implications of technologies: the Human Genome Project; cloning, genetic enhancement, and embryonic stem cell research: new tumor ...
John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as ...
This is a resource-based view of the firm, incorporating 17 case studies which reflect this emphasis. Case studies new to this edition cover high profile companies, globally competitive industries, entrepreneurial businesses and public companies, and there is a guide to case analysis showing students how to approach case analysis. Also new to this ...
This brief, spiral-bound style manual is designed to help reduce the number of errors made by students in their formal academic writing. The manual is an inexpensive supplement to whatever text is in use for a course. It contains condensed versions of the two most commonly used writing styles (MLA and APA) and several full text examples written by ...
Written by a leading breast cancer expert, this guide provides up-to-date information on the disease and its treatment. It is a must-have for women recently diagnosed with the disease.
John Carey--one of Britain's most respected literary critics--offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. He debunks claims that the arts create better people or that judgements about art are anything more than personal opinion.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-four," George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in ...
An interactive CD-ROM updates this bestseller with sample letters and templates to help readers get all their correspondence done quickly and painlessly.
Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. "The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious" explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts ...
"Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook" is a comprehensive A-to-Z drug reference designed for nursing students. The book contains chapters on drug therapy and the nursing process, essentials of dosage calculations, drug administration routes (illustrated), and drug administration safety. This student guide also has a section of monographs on common ...
Today's school counselors are under enormous pressure to document their effectiveness by engaging in data-based decision-making and producing quantitative accountability reports. However, the majority of counselors do not have training in these areas. Advocating for a shift from the historical best practice orientation to an evidence-based one, ...
This practical handbook focuses on the practice of multicultural counseling in K-12 school settings. Noted authorities in multicultural counseling contribute chapters that cover important topics such as promoting academic achievement, individual counseling, group counseling, family consultation, career development, violence prevention, training, ...
This brief, spiral-bound style manual is designed to help reduce the number of errors made by students in their formal academic writing. The manual is an inexpensive supplement to whatever text is in use for a course. It contains condensed versions of the two most commonly used writing styles (MLA and APA) and two full text examples written by ...
The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers. The time span reaches from ancient Greece - Thucydides' account of Athens stricken by plague - to February 1986 when James Fenton in the Phillipines, joins the crowd rampaging through President Marcos's palace. There ...
In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men and mutant kind still lies in ruin. With Magneto depowered and Xavier gravely injured, it seems their reign as the preeminent mutants has ended. But neither of these old soldiers is willing to go gentle into that good night! Fresh off a groundbreaking run on Messiah CompleX, writer Mike Carey ...
In this title, Professor Carey mixes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and literary heavyweights (Joyce, Lawrence, Eliot and Woolf) with more popular authors such as Kingsley Amis and John Updike. He discusses such works alongside lesser known titles focusing on the inspiration behind them.
Covering hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos, this anthology plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of accounts by scientists themselves - astronomers, physicists, biologists, chemists, psychologists - who talk about their moments of ...
First published in the 1960s, this guide has been revised to include recently-introduced species, and incorporates changes in taxonomy, nomenclature and geographic range. Identification of 250 trees is by leaves, flowers and fruits in summer, or by twigs, buds and bark in winter.
A six-book series featuring all aspects of the popular Star Trek: The Next Generation universe in a complex and gripping adventure, now collected in one single omnibus volume. For over a decade unknown enemies have unleashed a string of deadly biological weapons throughout the Alpha Quadrant. Not only the Federation is at stake. The plague ...
This fully revised and updated volume provides a state-of-the-science overview of the most common sexual dysfunctions and the full range of assessment and treatment approaches.
Legislative term limits are the most important electoral reform on the political agenda in the United States. Term Limits and Legislative Representation tests the central arguments made by both supporters and opponents of the reform by examining the experience of Costa Rica, the only long-term democracy to impose term limits on legislators, and ...
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