Flash is one of the most engaging and innovative, and versatile technologies available allowing the creation of pretty much anything from simple slideshows, animated banners and icons and cartoons, to Rich Internet Applications, Interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, except ...
This comprehensive review covers both basic science and clinical topics in anaesthesiology. It includes 997 multiple choice questions to aid learning. The first section involves basic science topics including physics, respiratory physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry as well as a section on the anaesthesia equipment. The second section is ...
This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of ...
Many Confederates believed that Abraham Lincoln himself was the sponsor of the Union army's heavy destruction of the South. With John Wilkes Booth as its agent, the Confederate Secret Service devised a plan of retribution--to seize President Lincoln, hold him hostage, and bring the war-weary North to capitulation. The code word for this stratagem ...
This Companion offers a one-volume, alphabetically arranged, encyclopedia introducing the main lines of American law, from the institutions, people, events, and cases to the doctrines and concepts. Produced under the editorship of a board of five noted scholars, headed by Kermit L. Hall, it comprises of approximately 500 entries, each written by ...
Based on the Guodian Bamboo Texts, a recently uncovered set of ancient scrolls, the author have revised the classic Daoist (or Taoist) scripture, featuring the original Chinese text along with an English translation.
This secondary source reader centers around the age of exploration and its resulting encounters between cultures, particularly around the Atlantic Ocean. It examines the varying historical viewpoints on the extent of European domination in the Atlantic World and includes chapter introductions, essay introductions, timelines, and an annotated ...
This title offers 199 tips for getting your PhD and surviving and thriving in your first years of teaching. Irreverent, but serious, this is the guide to what higher education institutions are really like. It is illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to life. Just landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and ...
Embraces unusual attractions like the rock forests of Meteora, Samothraki's sanctuary of the great gods and the tower settlement of the Mani. Special section on the art and architecture of Greece and offers a fascinating insight into contemporary Greek culture. Guide to island hopping with clear, up-to-date ferry information.
This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document for the first time the extensive Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut, witch-hunt of 1692-1693. Here one encounters witch-hunts through the ...
"Illuminating Video" is the most comprehensive collection of essays on video art, as well as an essential text for the general reader interested in new visual forms. It is a significant resource for anyone who is involved in new media, video art, art history, or contemporary social theory. The volume offers insights by several prominent artists ...
When national food writer and cookbook author David Ricketts was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001, he became a member of the "reluctant brotherhood" forced to make life-altering decisions to beat this life-threatening disease. After surgery, Ricketts used his journalistic skills to research the food and lifestyle changes that can help ...
"Puritans in the New World" tells the story of the powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an "errand into the wilderness." It presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders, who contended against them ...
"The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural ...
Designed specially for postgraduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics students, Innovations in English Language Teaching is a TESOL reader which provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed, developed and evaluated. The commissioned and classic texts place ...
The Antinomian controversy--a seventeenth-century theological crisis concerning salvation--was the first great intellectual crisis in the settlement of New England. Transcending the theological questions from which it arose, this symbolic controversy became a conflict between power and freedom of conscience. David D. Hall's thorough documentary ...
A collection of essays that reconsider American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to specific social contexts. Contributors include Robert Orsi, Anne S. Brown, Michael McNally, and Eric Schmidt.
This book is an unrivaled showcase of talent in the world of poetry for 1989. Included are seventy-five poems published in literary periodicals and magazines in the preceding year.
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