A parody of the long-standing bestseller, full of tongue-in-cheek guidance for the expecting father. A two-time veteran of both childbirth and humor-book writing, Hill covers everything from the latest technology and literature to politically correct rituals and behavior. An essential book for the father-to-be.
This is the nation's No 1 drafting text - first published in 1919. The twelfth edition combines basic drafting elements and concepts with modern advancements in the technologies of the industry. It empowers students to move successfully from school to work by helping them visualize in three dimensions, build imaginations, think precisely, and ...
This text provides a presentation of managerial accounting. Ingram presents managerial accounting as a key communication process for management decision making. Additionally, students learn that service-oriented as well as product-oriented organizations apply similar approaches to gain accurate, timely information. Managerial accounting is viewed ...
This innovative, contemporary, and relevant text focuses on the use of accounting information for decision making and places students into situations where management decisions need to be made. Students learn both when and why accounting information is key to communicating important information within an organization, so that as managers they can ...
Ultralight canoes and small boats are things of beauty, their apparent delicacy concealing great strength. They are lapstrake-constructed from marine plywood planks, each plank overlapping the one below it in a gracefully curved hull. Epoxy glue along the laps gives the hull structural reinforcement, minimizing the need for framing and permitting ...
From the ultimate authority on classic television comes a wide-ranging, often hilarious compendium of all the stars, shows, and stories that have made TV the reigning pop culture king for more than 50 years.
This collection contains one of Hardy's best stories ("The Distracted Preacher"), as well as other stories whose main theme is the consideration of the problems arising from class prejudice in Victorian England.
This stimulating collection of essays in ethics eschews the simple exposition and refinement of abstract theories. Rather, the author focuses on everyday moral issues, often neglected by philosophers, and explores the deeper theoretical questions which they raise. Such issues are: Is it wrong to tell a lie to protect someone from a painful truth? ...
Green is remembered primarily through his contribution to the idealist movement in Britain, his resurrection of the Hegelian way of treating philosophical subject-matter, his criticism of, and lack of sympathy towards, empiricism and its separation of man from the world. But he was also very influential as a liberal political thinker. Though one ...
"Respect, Pluralism, and Justice" is a series of essays which sketch a broadly Kantian framework for moral deliberation, and then use it to address important social and political issues. What does it mean to respect humanity in a diverse world? Must respect be earned, and can it be forfeited? How, and why, should the state punish law-breakers? ...
In this follow-up to his bestselling "What to Expect When Your Wife is Expanding", the author, creative director for Nick At Night and TV Land, takes new fathers on a whimsically detailed journey through the wonders of child-rearing--from the male perspective. Line drawings.
Thomas Hill, a leading figure in the recent development of Kantian moral philosophy, presents a series of essays that interpret and develop Kant's ideas on ethics. The first part of the book focuses on basic concepts: a priori method, a good will, categorical imperatives, autonomy, and constructivist strategies of argument. Hill goes on to ...
This volume is the result of an Advances in Econometrics conference held in November of 2002 at Louisiana State University in recognition of Halbert White's pioneering work published in Econometrica in 1980 and 1982 on robust variance-covariance estimation and quasi-maximum likelihood estimation. It contains 11 papers on a range of related topics ...
A great gift for your Sweetheart, this book contains 24 pages full of pictures and thoughts to relive and remember. This perfect gift also contains a CD with 3 all-time favorite love songs and a place to write your own note of romance and love. "Where did you go on your first date?" What song reminds you of your Sweetheart?" Questions such as ...
This book contains the political writing of T. H. Green and selections from those of his ethical writings which bear on his political philosophy. Green's best known work, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, is included in full, as are the essay on freedom and the lecture 'Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract'. There are also ...
Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore and Washington, DC, are struggling to recreate their failed school systems and many more cities are likely to follow. City leaders need more than new superintendents. They need stable ...
In the early 1970s Paul Hill and Thomas Cooper carried out an extraordinary series of interviews. More than 20 photographers participated, including Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andres Kertesz, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, George Rodger, Robert Doisneau, Herbert Bayer, Henry Holmes Smith, Helmut Gernsheim, Brett ...
The first set of worksheets to accompany the Giesecke series. This book will feature "traditional" problems, emphasize hand drawing, and not contain descriptive geometry.
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