A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.
A psychologist offers insights into the reasons why stepfamilies succeed or fail, based on a 10-year longitudinal study. The author describes several types of stepfamilies, and shows the stress points and obstacles that occur over time. He also describes the periods when life is more peaceful, and offers substantial advice for all.
This in-depth guide to practical issues involving the management of patients with Dysphagia is written from the perspective of the swallowing team. Chapters have been written by internationally recognized specialists. Medical and non-medical management issues are addressed along with different approaches to diagnosis. Each subject is covered in a ...
Meta-heuristics have developed dramatically since their inception in the early 1980s. They have had widespread success in attacking a variety of practical and difficult combinatorial optimization problems. These families of approaches include, but are not limited to, greedy random adaptive search procedures, genetic algorithms, problem-space ...
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary, the world's premier builder of customized V-twin motorcycle engines and components commissioned custom motorcycles from fifty top custom builders, and this book showcases the splendid bikes built to meet this challenge. Featuring a four page spread on each bike built, showing working progress explained by the ...
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