Bill Clark and Bob Brechner's Applied Basic Mathematics provides the structure and support that students need as they navigate their basic mathematics class. Like a guidebook for basic math, this text leads your students through the course by asking them to relate, reinforce, and review as they learn. The Clark/Brechner structure encourages ...
A portrait of Philadelphia, its politicians, and its people. Bissinger, a journalist for "Vanity Fair", went to Philadelphia shortly after Edward Rendell was elected mayor in 1992. Granted extraordinary access to the mayor's office, he was able to observe the behind-the-scenes efforts to avert bankruptcy and stave off the closing of the naval ...
A history of World War II, and an examination of its causes, how it was won and lost, and its far-reaching consequences for humanity. In tracing the key events of both the European and the Far Eastern wars, R.A.C. Parker outlines the strategies of the participants, the economies and societies that underlay them, and the strengths and weaknesses of ...
Essays explore how interpretations affect casuistry, and cover issues related to abortion, reproductive technologies, euthanasia, sexuality, race, gender, social justice, the environment, civil disobedience, capital punishment, and war.
For years intelligence analysis has followed a decision-making process that is hierarchical in nature and linear in flow, wherein analysts are insulated from valuable and critical feedback. It's a model that no longer makes sense for today's world. Analysts in all fields work in an environment dramatically changed by technology and greatly ...
Written by a wide variety of experts in Christian education, this volume is designed for use in teacher training classes, and for professional training in Bible colleges and seminaries.
This book introduces you the basics of a healthy Christian education program, then takes you beyond, showing you how to develop a fresh, innovative Christain education program that will revitalize your church, home, or school.
"The Rough Guide to Climate Change" gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 2nd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options- global and personal - for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at ...
Essays by leading ethicists provide students with a comprehensive introduction to ethical thinking. This volume focuses on the ways scholars view the formation of moral theory and norms.
R.T. Rundle Clark gives us an excellent and valuable introduction to the Egyptian mythological world, based upon the most reliable interpretations of their principal myths. In telling the myths, he allows the texts to speak for themselves as far as possible and gives considerable attention to the philosophical ideas that the myths were trying to ...
In this manual, the author demonstrates hundreds of techniques including warm-up exercises, courtesy rituals, how to fall safely and a wide range of skills that students must learn and aim to perfect to ensure progress in this martial art.
In this official manual, the author demonstrates hundreds of techniques through specially commissioned sequence photographs. The book is designed principally for students training for grades from Blue Belt to Brown Belt, but also for higher grade students and coaches. The instruction provided is not only essential to students of jiu jitsu, it is ...
This official training manual of the World Jiu Jitsu Federation covers the black belt grade. The third in a series of three, this book builds on and extends the instruction covered in the two previous books. It presents in detail all the techniques needed to gain the black belt.
Hot Wheels: The Ultimate Redline Guide Companion focuses on Hot Wheels related vehicles manufactured by Mattel from 1968 to 1977. New for this edition are chapters on the 1/43 scale Gran Toros series, Mean Machines, prototypes, and international packaging. This volume also features Chopcycles, Earthshakers, Farbs, Hot Birds, Hot Line, Hot Shots, ...
Marketing experts predict that by 2009, nearly 90% of all cell phones will contain a camera, as manufacturers race to create cheaper, easier-to-use models with more sophisticated cameras, more pixels, flash units and even multiple lenses. Already revolutionizing audiovisual communication, it's a trend that will only grow more explosively--and who ...
Robert Clark recounts his life story plus five centuries of his family's history, which includes one of Henry VIII's courtiers, a doctor who took part in the Salem witch trials, and a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the areas of health promotion, health education and disease prevention. In this second edition, case studies and research examples have been updated and a new chapter addresses cost-benefit analysis. Other new and updated topics include meta-analysis, meta-evaluation, and professional ...
Although not as glamorous as vehicles such as the Panther and Tiger, the Panzer IV formed an extremely important part of the German armoured forces during World War II. This title provides detailed 1/72-scale build articles on a Panzer IV Ausf. H in winter camouflage, a lagdpanzer IV, a late-version Sturmpanzer IV, a final version Sturmgeschutz IV ...
On November 4, 1966, the city of Florence was inundated by the waters of the Arno River. Beyond the human and economic cost, the flood destroyed or damaged hundreds of works from the Western world's greatest collections of art. This work brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present.
"The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse" is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. The reverberations of that event led to the death of the great Oglala Sioux chief in the fall of 1877. Chiefs ...
With more than 1,200 larger-than-life, full-color photos, this in-depth, comprehensive look at Redline Hot Wheels cars manufactured between 1968 and 1977 will keep collectors up to speed.
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