Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce ...
This fifth edition covers the basics of marine biology and takes a global, non-regional perspective to emphasize that the world's oceans and seas are an integrated system that cannot be understood by looking in any one person's own backyard. For many students this is a new perspective. One aspect of this global approach is the deliberate inclusion ...
As both the Web itself and the browsers used to navigate it mature, work-arounds that compensate for the myriad factors that affect Web page appearances no longer cut it. Users expect Web pages to look beautiful regardless--and with the fifth edition of this popular Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can make their Web pages comply. By following the ...
The post-war worlds longest-serving and most storied head of state presents a compelling chronicle of his life. Drawing on more than 100 hours of interviews and including never-before-seen photographs, this work is the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
In this beauty book, a famous nutritionist offers women information about hormonal imbalances, vitamin deficiencies, and toxins that may affect the physical appearance of hair, nails, and skin. Taking a mind-body perspective, she also discusses the ways in which negative emotions may reduce one's attractiveness.
This alphabetically arranged guide offers homeopathic remedies for everyday health problems, describes ten case studies, and discusses the dos and don'ts to follow when treating an illness.
Perl is one of the most popular scripting languages for adding powerful interactive features to Web pages. Perl lets you place forms on your site that collect and process user input such as comments and product orders; enables visitors to search for information; and can integrate a database into your site, among its many other capabilities. Perl ...
No period in a woman's life is as filled with special concerns as pregnancy and new motherhood. Among the many discomforts and ailments treatable with the homeopathic remedies explained in this book are: "For the mother": anemia, back pain, breastfeeding problems, constipation, exhaustion, hemorrhoids, insomnia, morning sickness, post-partum ...
Two murders have occurred on an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to investigate, but must do nothing to implicate the hosts, who hold the power to obliterate humankind. Original.
This is a guide to the use of homeopathy in treating a wide range of complaints. The book includes treatments for: coughs, colds, flu and sore throats; childhood illnesses, such as mumps, measles and chicken pox; food poisoning, diarrhoea and constipation; a variety of accidents and injuries; and toothache, earache, headache and menstrual cramps.
This book offers a review of Microbiology for USMLE. It features real-life clinical cases for the basic sciences and USMLE Step 1. Clinical correlations are increasingly emphasized in the teaching of basic medical science. Students, therefore, need exposure to clinical cases to pass course exams and ace the USMLE Step 1. This book presents 50 real ...
In Mickey Mantle, we see America's romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its comfort in power during a time when might did make right. But if his life symbolized the great expectations of America in the 1950s, it also epitomized the dashed dreams of a troubled generation in the 1960s and its unrealistic hopes for achievement. ...
Georgia O'Keeffe's career spanned much of the history of modern art in America. Here are more than 100 paintings, many of which have rarely been exhibited or reproduced, photographs of O'Keeffe, and a text richly documented with letters and interviews. All this reveals O'Keeffe's legacy as an artist and the force of her intriguing personality. ...
Mass-market edition of a brand new novel which follows super hero Spider-Man as he tries to put a stop to The Gentleman's (the leader of the Sinister Six) plan to destroy all the financial markets in the world. Spider-Man battles the most dangerous Sinister Six line-up ever: Doctor Octopus, Electro, Mysterio, the Vulture, the tragic but deadly ...
Brazil is at the forefront of the travel boom in Latin America, with over 5 million visitors in 2006 generating an estimated US$4.4 billion in earnings (WTO).
Ruy Castro's biography of the rise of bossa nova is an inside look at the origins of a smoothly seductive musical form that for most North Americans means the music of Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Arising from a yearning for something more subtle than the strident sambas of Carnival, bossa nova was not only a new beat and sound--it also ...
As both the Web and the browsers used to navigate it mature, work-arounds that compensate for the myriad factors that affect Web page appearance no longer cut it. Users expect Web pages to look beautiful regardless--and with the Fifth Edition of this popular Visual QuickStart Guide, you can make your Web pages comply. By following the generously ...
[There is a new edition of this book: XML, Second Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide by Kevin Howard Goldberg (ISBN: 0-321-55967-3)] Web-maven Elizabeth Castro, who has penned Peachpit books on HTML,Perl and CGI, and Netscape, now tackles XML--an indispensable tool for creating personalized, updated content for each visitor on your site. Whether ...
Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air--the feeling of a city on fire.
Creating beautifully coded HTML Web pages that perform predictably and consistently across all browsers and platforms can be a daunting task, but best-selling authorElizabeth Castro knows that most readers don't need an encyclopedic reference, just simple instructions for creating their first Web page. This compact guide delivers! Rather than ...
This is a fascinating, hopeful new book that demonstrates how may childhood disorders can be treated successfully without pharmaceuticals. This is very good news indeed. Neurofeedback is effective 80 percent of the time; there are none of the side-effects associated with drugs commonly used to treat various childhood ailments; and it is a non ...
In this guide to treating Attention Deficit Disorder, two authors in the field advocate neurotherapy, or brainwave biofeedback, as a safer alternative to the much prescribed drug ritalin. They tell how biofeedback works, and how it can develop, increase, and maintain the brain's activity, and they include information on nutrition and lifestyle, as ...
Few publications cover the full span of the history of revolutionary movements in Latin America. In Revolution and Revolutionaries, editor Daniel Castro examines all aspects of guerrilla warfare-from revolutionary programs to the repressive tactics used by various governments to rid themselves of the threats presented by revolutionary movements. ...
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