"A growing movement to replace charmless suburban sprawl with civilized, familiar places that people love." So wrote "Time Magazine" in a recent article about Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Peter Calthorpe, leaders of the dynamic urban design revolution coming to be known as the New Urbanism. Their breakthrough planning concepts propose ...
Produced biennially, "The World's Water" provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. The 2008-2009 volume features overview chapters on: - ...
This book illuminates what is really happening in the American workplace. The contributors explain how the widespread restructuring of American firms-usually resulting in a reduction of the workforce to cut costs-has had a profound impact on the lives of workers. The book explains how the new relationship requires high skill levels, but does not ...
Written by radiologists but for clinicians, and meant for consultation in the 'heat of battle' (the busy-sometimes hectic-clinical setting), this one-of-a-kind little book guides you through the most cost-effective and direct imaging route to a diagnosis. Unlike all other books by radiologists, it does not try to teach image interpretation. Rather ...
This standard text offers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of childhood infections, with direct and to-the-point options for their management and treatment. In this 11th Edition, classic clinical descriptions of the major childhood exanthems and other infections are combined with new descriptions of emerging and re-emerging international ...
A history of the Merkava, or Chariot - the first tank designed and built by the Israeli Army. It was heavily armoured and packed a powerful 105mm main gun backed up with a digital fire control system and laser range-finder. The Merkava first saw action during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
This posthumous edition of Dr Walters' The Text of the Septuagint provides a valuable working tool for specialists in Hellenistic and Classical Greek and the Old and New Testaments. The book is directed first to the practical task of producing a critical edition of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. Byzantine and Renaissance ...
The birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer, Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and dynamic figures of the twentieth century. Volume 2 chronicles Sanger's efforts during the Depression years to legalize contraception. These significant and engaging letters and writings, constructed to be read as biography, tell the story of ...
In a hilarious parody of the most popular songs from The King himself, Elfis inspires his fellow elves through his gift of music--and in the process saves Christmas, too. Full color.
This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the changing political and ...
The main topic of this book is the deep relation between the spacings between zeros of zeta and $L$-functions and spacings between eigenvalues of random elements of large compact classical groups. This relation, the Montgomery-Odlyzko law, is shown to hold for wide classes of zeta and $L$-functions over finite fields. The book draws on and gives ...
This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the changing political and ...
Provides fundamental economic principles behind international trade, will familiarize the reader with some of the technical terms, and offer insights into some of the controversies surrounding international trade policy both in the United States and abroad.
Tells how 47 museums and their well-known or obscure exhibits came into being and discusses how these and other museum collections serve as graphic introductions to art, science, history, and nature.
Delineating its usage in separation, purification and detection processes across a variety of disciplines, from industry to applied research, this work discusses the principles, techniques and instrumentation involving HPLC within a detailed framework. Over 100 tables present previously scattered experimental data.
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