Designed for first-year developmental math students who need support in intermediate algebra, the Fourth Edition of Intermediate Algebra owes its success to the hallmark features for which the Larson team is known: learning by example, accessible writing style, emphasis on visualization, and comprehensive exercise sets. These pedagogical features ...
This is an introductory text to archaeological method and theory. It provides: a brief life history of eight well-known archaeologists; a look at the role of women in archaeology; and it looks at urban archaeology in America.
Reflecting the combination of traditional, formal scientific technique and the postmodern humanistic approach that defines archaeology in the late 1990s, this text emphasizes the importance of ideology and cognition. It shows by example the range of theoretical options available to the archaeologist, and addresses both strengths and weaknesses in ...
This text pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names: Robert L. Kelly and David Hurst Thomas, who together have over 70 years of experience leading excavations. The fifth edition of ARCHAEOLOGY reflects the most recent research and changes in the field, while covering core concepts in an exceptionally student-friendly fashion using ...
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 ...
Developed to prepare students in the combined elementary and intermediate algebra course for a college-level curriculum, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra owes its success to the hallmark features for which the Larson team is known: learning by example, accessible writing style, emphasis on visualization, and comprehensive exercise sets. These ...
Data collected over the last five years is used to provide access to the methods and techniques of the world's best companies in cutting costs and increasing profits. Data shows how the businesses have a track record in developing processes that are customer-responsive, time-efficient and cost-effective.
El autor de 'El caballero de la armadura oxidada' nos ofrece aqui una recopilacion de cuatro cuentos que recuperan al nino que hay dentro de todos nosotros y nos senala algunas ideas importantes que hemos perdido en nuestro viaje por la edad adulta. Los personajes de este libro son un buho y un pato que no saben pronunciar lo que se supone que ...
Written by experts, historians, fire chiefs, and officers, this book features firsthand accounts of courage in the face of danger; essays on urban and wildland firefighting; a look at training, trucks, and apparatus; and an overview of the history of U.S. fire departments, beginning with Ben Franklin's Union Fire Company in Philadelphia in 1736. ...
This illustrated history of the Civil War is made up of the graphic work--drawings, maps, illustrations, etc.--of a Union soldier who was captured and sent to Andersonville, the infamous Confederate prison where thousands died. Sneden survived the war and wrote a memoir, THE EYE OF THE STORM.
Consulting continues to be a lucrative, growing industry, practiced by large and small consulting companies and by thousands of solo practitioners. Consulting applies to every occupational field and profession. This author's book is the best and most comprehensive book on the subject. Hailed by the critics in its original edition, the book is now ...
Last year, Tibet received 1.8 million tourists. By the end of this decade, China predicts it will be getting more than five million a year. This guide includes: new History chapter by historian Tsering Shakya, author of the "Definitive Modern History of Tibet"; now includes dual script (Tibetan and Chinese) and pinyin (Chinese, to aid ...
This is a novel of a Divided Self, which lives separate existences that never meet until the very end. The 'Other', in this case, is oneself. "The Book from the Sky" is a journey into the outer space of the inside of the mind, which Robert Kelly explores with a surprising familiarity, as if he clearly sees into the dreamlike terrain of the ...
This reference provides systematic and detailed coverage of the traditional crime families of America, the important individuals, significant events and explanatory terms. Figures such as Al Capone, John Gotti and Sammy the "Bull" Gravano are listed.
Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role that violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on ...
The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange ...
Business writing has been transformed in our era from long, leisurely letters to fast faxes, instant e-mails, crisp memos, and concise letters. Your reader doesn't have time to waste. And neither do you. That's where The Encyclopedia of Business Letters, Faxes, and E-mail can help. Here you'll find the most complete and up-to-date collection of ...
A pioneering casebook, "Child, Family, and State" was one of the first books to explore the full range of legal questions relating to children - not just custody issues, but also the economic relationship within a family, abuse and neglect, medical treatment, state-enforced limitations on liberty, and juvenile delinquency. Meticulously revised ...
Updated to include the 1997 election, New Labour and the Tory Party under William Hague, this covers all aspects of the major British parties - their history, ideals, organization, finances, electoral prospects, and impact on British society. The likely effect of a more intrusive EU is included.
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