Proof that truth is stranger than fiction! A wildly entertaining compilation of lists featuring public documents (court transcripts, FBI files, contract riders, morgue and police reports, etc.) that hilariously illuminate some of the important, scandalous, or bizarre news stories that have captured headlines worldwide in recent years. You'll learn ...
The Fifth Edition of the world's most comprehensive operative hand surgery reference features a completely new organisation and hundreds of new illustrations. A new team of international contributors, carefully selected for their particular expertise and ability to offer broad perspectives in a given subject area, describes a complete range of ...
In this companion to World Religions in America: An Introduction, renowned contributors explore the importance of religion in the lives of people, communities, and nations. Their concern is not with particular doctrines within the various religious traditions, but with how real people ive these traditions today and the impact this has on the ...
Since they first took to the skies, military aircraft have been variously daubed, camouflaged and personalized. This overview spans the history of this fascinating art form, showing more than 100 aircraft from World War 1 to present. Finely detailed profile drawings combine with nose art and emblem blow-ups, all in full color and extensively ...
Listed alphabetically by manufacturer's name, this aviation history features 1700 aircraft. Every fighter that has ever been designed, built and flown is included, with full technical details and a photograph, colour profiles, detailed three-view drawings and cutaway artworks.
All the magnificence of ancient Rome, depicted in 41 captioned, finely detailed illustrations: defeat of Germanic invaders, crushing of a slave revolt, assassination of Julius Caesar, more.
The perfect complement to your core rulebooks, the Advanced Player's Manual gives your characters all new capabilities. Like other books in Green Ronin's Advanced Rulebook series, this book is all about options, expansions, and moving your games in new directions! With new race flexibility, variant magic classes, mass combat rules, and more, you ...
While Jews in the land of Israel in ancient times shared much in common - scripture, reverence for the Temple and its cult, some traits as one 'Orthodox' Judaism. Diverse 'Judaisms' flourished, each with its particular way of life, world view, and definition of the social entity, or 'Israel'. Because there was no single, unitary Judaism, there ...
The hepatitis B virus causes an estimated one million deaths each year worldwide, and despite the availability of a hepatitis B vaccine, a combined lack of awareness and educational resources has turned this virus into a deadly epidemic. Author William Finley Green, who has lived with hepatitis B for almost twenty-five years and has become an ...
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this success to a combination of a fragmented polity, consensus politics and incremental policy ...
This is a study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century. William A. Green draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the West Indies on the eve of emancipation in 1830; the second explores the politics and society of ...
This exam measures the ability to design, write, and understand programs written in language version 1.4 of the Java 2 Platform. The programmer's exam concentrates on the language basics. This book is not intended to teach new material. Instead it assumes that you have a solid foundation of knowledge but can use a refresher on important concepts ...
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