With its inclusive view of American history, Created Equal, Brief Edition, Volume One, emphasizes social history--including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country--while delivering the basics of political and economic history. In this streamlined version of Created Equal, the authors ...
With its sweeping, inclusive view of American history, Created Equal emphasizes social history--including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country--while delivering the familiar chronology of political and economic history. By integrating the stories of a variety of groups and ...
Im on top of the world, shouted NBA Defensive Player of the Year Kevin Garnett after the Boston Celtics clinched their 17th NBA championship over their arch rival, the Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers. Indeed he was on top as were his teammates as the most illustrious franchise in NBA history won their first championship in over twenty years. ...
In its comprehensive and inclusive view of American history, Created Equal provides an accurate, broad, deep, and compelling view of the nation's past. Emphasizing social history--including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the country--Created Equal also delivers the basics of ...
The Boston Celtics have won sixteen NBA cham pionships, but the last one of these was in the 1985-86 seas on. This book looks at the 85-86 team, which many consider t o be the greatest NBA team of all time. '
Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on his hands. She has a broken life behind her, a lonely future dedicated to her profession in front. He has survived two decades of violent change by marrying himself to a career which now promises, at last, to bring him the ...
In its comprehensive and inclusive view of American history, Created Equal provides an accurate, broad, deep, and compelling view of the nation's past. Emphasizing social history--including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the country--Created Equal also delivers the basics of ...
Beijing detective Li Yan travels to the capital of China's economic revolution to investigate, and finds the most horrifying catalogue of killings ever uncovered in the Middle Kingdom. American pathologist Margaret Campbell arrives to conduct the autopsies, only to discover her relationship with Li threatened by the policewoman leading the ...
Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazines 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team. Mulkey went on to win ...
Gil Petty, the worlds number one wine critic, goes missing during a tasting tour of the little-known wine region of Gaillac. Four years later, his body is discovered strung up on a cross in the vineyards of southwest France.
What has happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher who trained some of France's best and brightest at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration as future Prime Ministers and Presidents vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. Talk about your cold case. The mystery inspires a bet, one that Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse ...
Enzo MacLeod, a Scot who is teaching forensics at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two crimes. But the third is far from his mind at the moment. He's just been ...
Li Yan and Margaret Campbell, Chinese policeman and Chicago pathologist heroes of THE FIREMAKER, meet again when Margaret's unique skills are required once more to investigate a series of ritual executions in Beijing. The first victims are drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded. But the fourth ...
This is a quirky book for wine lovers of all descriptions - and the only book of it's kind on the market. It features reproductions of over 100 unusual labels, and contains amusing commentary, a glossary and notes on where to buy the featured wines. It is great for businesses, special sales, wine shops, staff giveaways, as well as general trade. ...
Beijing detective Li Yan, now based at the Chinese embassy in Washington, is dispatched to find out how his fellow countrymen suffocated in a sealed refrigeration unit in southern Texas - only to find himself face to face with the woman who walked out of China, and his life, to return to the U.S. Tasked to work together again to find out who is ...
This work addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative versus coercive environmental management, through a focus on the ...
Addressing a broad range of issues, this volume emphasizes the need for alternatives that are economically viable and ecologically sound. It challenges the conventional assumptions and assertions that most economists make, aiming to balance economic and ecological goals.
With its sweeping, inclusive view of American history, Created Equal emphasizes social history-including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the country-while delivering the basics of political and economic history. This new text acknowledges and reflects the diversity of class, culture ...
Transform an ordinary backyard garden into a true showpiece with the help of this idea-packed book and its 15 garden design projects, all having water features. Plant and fish directories. 200+ full-color illustrations.
Water transforms a garden into a haven giving movement and peace, as well as a focus. Yet, water gardens are often considered too ambitious a feature. This practical book places water gardens firmly within reach of all gardeners and gives a wide range of design ideas from a modest fountain feature or bubbling rock to a full-scale waterfall or pond ...
Written by the same author as "Knickerless Nicola" which won the Acorn award, this book shows boys how to recognize different types of girls and the flip-over gives advice to girls on different kinds of males from the yob to the new age greenie. Most importantly it shows how to cope with them.
Algebraic topology is a basic part of modern mathematics and some knowledge of this area is indispensable for any advanced work relating to geometry, including topology itself, differential geometry, algebraic geometry and Lie groups. This book provides a treatment of algebraic topology both for teachers of the subject and for advanced graduate ...
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