Describes the 1904 disaster aboard the General Slocum, a steamship chartered for a daytime excursion in the waters surrounding Manhattan, the fire that swept through the ship, and the more than one thousand people who died as a result.
For courses in Intermediate Spanish, 3rd/4th semester. Portales is a content based text that helps students develop connections to the world around them by further developing their Spanish language skills as they study other high-interest disciplines. Featuring a student-centered approach to the learning and teaching of Spanish, this National ...
Daniel O'Donnell is a phenomenon in the history of music and entertainment. Now, at last is the ultimate book for fans - Daniel's first illustrated book. Daniel opens up to provide an intimate look at his life based on his private and professional photo collections and the archive of his creative consultant Michael McDonagh. The book has a ...
"The Last Days of the Titanic" takes in the full sweep of the liner's celebrated departure from England and Ireland, from boarding the special "Titanic" rail car at Waterloo Station, to port activity at Queenstown, and ultimately to final photographs of the ship as it disappeared from view off the coast of Ireland. A photo essay by Browne, titled ...
Complete yet concise, and beautifully documented with more than 100 historic photos, there is no better tribute to Irish-American history, a cultural cornerstone of our nation. High school & older.
Contents: what is a werewolf; werewolf metamorphosis compared with other branches of lycanthropy; spirits of werewolves; how to become a werewolf; werewolves and exorcism; werewolf in the British Isles, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Balkan Peninsula, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Lapland, Finland, Russia and ...
For courses on web development that focus on more than one application. Platinum Edition Using XHTML, XML & Java 2 is a complete Web programming reference guide that covers each of the technologies and shows how they can work together. It teaches students the features and benefits of each technology. The coverage includes XHTML, XML, JavaScript, ...
The second edition of "An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis" is designed to be a general introduction for those who wish to study efficiency and productivity analysis. The book provides an accessible, well-written introduction to the four principal methods involved: econometric estimation of average response models; index ...
Using images as primary historical evidence, "Visions of America "brings history alive for a generation of visual learners-and shows how conflicting visions of America have shaped our nation's past. "Visions of America "recognizes the value of using images to engage students in serious inquiry about the historical development of the United States. ...
Here is the most comprehensive reference available on HTML, Web page creations, and new Web programming techniques and technologies. The two CD-ROMs include the most complete set of HTML tools, including editors, Java tools, code samples, plug-ins, plug-in development tools, and more, plus tools for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX, along with a ...
Day is done and bedtime is here, but one little girl isn't ready for sleep. "Sing me a night song", she begs her father. This enchanting lullaby, lovingly illustrated, will sing any young listener into the soft shadows of sleep. Full color.
Simon and his family are moving, and Simon expresses all his own fears by projecting them onto his younger sister, Maggie. According to Simon, Maggie doesn't want to leave the local playground, her favorite teacher, or the family's much beloved house. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text.
This volume explains what qualitative research can do, when it is sensible to use or commission it, and (most crucially and controversially) how to tell good work from bad. The text is amply illustrated with examples of qualitative health care research studies. Further, the authors share a common ground with quantitative colleagues in rejecting ...
Ghosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series which relates ghost stories from Great Britain.
In fall 1995 leading academics joined politicians, entrepreneurs, union leaders, and other civic leaders at the University of Notre Dame to discuss the present and emerging challenges in resolving issues of poverty and inequality in Latin America. The resulting multidisciplinary approach integrated good analytical work with sound advice in the ...
Paralleling the organization of the main text, the Manual de Actividades provides meaningful practice and review for students outside of class. This manual offers additional practice of each chapter's vocabulary and grammatical structures through form-based exercises including sentence-building activities, completion exercises, fill-ins, and ...
Post-Licensing is written from a real-life point of view. You'll learn practical ways to approach every aspect of your new career in real estate. From "Professionalism, Ethics and the Law" to "Closing the Transaction", Post-Licensing follows the sales transaction. What you should know about new trends in real estate is here - including computer ...
This work covers the maximal and prime ideals of the incidence algebra, derivations and isomorphisms, radicals and additional ring-theoretic properties. Combinatorial discussions include a study of the Mobius function, reduced incidence subalgebras, and the coalgebra approach to incidence algebras.;College or university bookstores may order five ...
"Latent Destinies" examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates, the paranoia that has characterised the period ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II HOW SPIBITUALISM TBIES TO DISTORT THE OLD TESTAMENT The center of Spiritualism, as is the case with the centers of most creeds and cults in this country, ...
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