This historical survey aims to balance social and cultural issues with political and diplomatic. It sets out to help the instructor to organize his or her course in many different ways, confident that the text will support the topics discussed in class and provide students with the ideal book for self-study. This edition includes historiographical ...
"Principles of Corporate Finance" is the worldwide leading text that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Throughout the book the authors show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do. ...
The battle at Guadalcanal marked the first American offensive of World War II and was fought on land, at sea, and in the air. For six months the Americans and the Japanese clashed in brutal warfare that escalated to unimagined levels of sustained violence. 50 photographs; 30 maps.
Examines the relationship between obesity and adult-onset diabetes and provides a step-by-step process by which patients can readjust their sugar levels to normal.
Told from contemporary accounts on both sides, this is the definitive story of how the war in the Pacific ended with the controversial use of the atomic bomb.
An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses the origins of the First and Second World Wars in one single volume, drawing on a wide range of material, including original sources. In concise chapters, Frank McDonough surveys the key issues surrounding the causes of the First and Second World Wars ...
"The Futures Game, 3rd Edition", helps traders prepare for trading today and well into the 21st century. This revised and updated edition of the classic future's traders' guidebook provides valuable, accurate knowledge of: today's important markets - from interest rate and foreign currency futures to worldwide petroleum markets, discover high ...
The "Student Companion" includes the following for each chapter: Chapter Summary; Learning Objectives listing key concepts for each section of the chapter; Self-Test problems that include multiple choice, short answer and matching questions that help students test themselves on the chapter material, including answers; problems that challenge the ...
As the current recession ends, many workers will not be returning to the jobs they once held - those jobs are gone. In "The New Division of Labor", Frank Levy and Richard Murnane show how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition to the new job market. The book tells stories of ...
While there are numerous studies of Karl Barth's theology, this isthe first book to explore the political side of Barth's work throughoutall the phases of his long life. As Frank Jehle shows, Barth's political views are not onlyfound in his formal writings but were also made clear in his activelife. Jehle here portrays Barth as a courageous man ...
Wallace Stevens' unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called the "essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative volume.
In this well-written and well-researched social history F.R. Cowell succeeds in making Life in Ancient Rome alive and dynamic. The combination of acute historical detail and supplementary illustrations makes this book perfectly suited for the student preparing to explore the classics, as well as the tourist preparing to explore twentieth-century ...
Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their families, and their caretakers. Dr. Frank empowers patients by unlocking the mysteries of the ...
Understanding Capitalism provides an introduction to economics with extensive attention to the global economy, inequality, the information revolution, the exercise of power and the historical evolution of economic institutions and individual preferences. Its three dimensional approach focuses on competition in markets, command in firms, ...
Through four editions, "Juran's Quality Planning and Analysis" has provided students and professionals with an authoritative treatment of the subject that goes beyond statistical techniques. The fifth edition of this highly regarded classic book on managing for quality, Juran's "Quality Planning and Analysis for Enterprise Quality", combines the ...
A virtual encyclopedia that covers every aspect of futures trading from market analysis and trading standpoints. There are trading comments and separate chapters on each individual market. This is likely the most comprehensive, all-inclusive book to be found on futures trading.
The last half century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in the understanding of mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability new user-friendly treatments. Although these changes have made things better for those ...
An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. In this innovative new study, Frank McDonough provides a clear account of opposition and resistance towards the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 and presents the historical debate surrounding this important aspect of the history of Nazi Germany. The book concentrates on ...
Complete and unabridged, this collection features "The Discourager of Hesitancy" (the rare and hard-to-find continuation to "The Lady or the Tiger"), "The Griffin and the Minor Canon", and "The Bee-Man of Orn".
Combining two of the most comprehensive and accessible AutoCAD books , Paul Richard and Jim Fitzgerald's Introduction to AutoCAD 2009: A Modern Approach, 1/e and Frank Puerta's AutoCAD 2009 in 3D: A Modern Perspective, 1/e, this book embraces the full capabilities of this powerful program and is the most complete guide to learning the current ...
This monograph presents a survey of mathematical models useful in solving reliability problems. It includes a detailed discussion of life distributions corresponding to wearout and their use in determining maintenance policies, and covers important topics such as the theory of increasing (decreasing) failure rate distributions, optimum maintenance ...
This funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions includes the story of how he created the "magic square" -- a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers add up to the same number, including on the diagonal! A "Step into Reading & Math(" title. Full-color illustrations.
The "Harvard Guide" has a long and distinguished history in the annals of reference works. First prepared in 1896 by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Charming, it was a unique scholarly tool. Revised in 1912 by Hart, Charming, and Frederick Jackson Turner, the Guide carried its entries through 1910 and became the standard text. In 1954 the ...
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