Trench art is the evocative name given to a dazzling array of objects made from the waste of industrialized war. Each object, whether an engraved shell case, cigarette lighter or a pen made from shrapnel, tells a unique and moving story about its maker. For the first time, this book explores in-depth the history and cultural importance behind ...
Combining cinematic drama and a sprawling historical narrative, this gripping history is the first book to document the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history - his military genius and flamboyant personality have perhaps never been surpassed. But despite our long-held fascination with ...
Combining cinematic drama and a sprawling historical narrative, this gripping history is the first book to document the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history - his military genius and flamboyant personality have perhaps never been surpassed. But despite our long-held fascination with ...
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Great War stands at the furthest edge of living memory. There are a handful of men alive who fought in the trenches of the Somme and Flanders. Within their own lifetimes, their memories have become epic history. Hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made along ...
It is called the "silent killer", and 60 million Americans are affected by it. High blood pressure is a serious disease, and this book presents the important, up-to-date facts concerning detection, diet, medical tests, and drug therapy.
Revised and updated, this is the essential guide to high blood pressure covering everything from causes to cures. Three of America's top experts in the field provide the latest facts on the number-one preventable cause of stroke, heart failure, and kidney failure.
This single volume provides information needed by doctors and nurses caring for the terminally ill. The general structure of the book remains unaltered, all chapters being updated, including a section on running a home-care team. Where great advances have been made, some sections have been replaced. There are additional sections on the wider ...
Trench art is the evocative but misleading name given to a dazzling array of objects associated mainly with the First World War and the inter-war years (191439). Many items are recycled battlefield debris, notably artillery shell cases, often decorated with Art Nouveau motifs. Other objects, made from bullets and shrapnel, include letter-openers, ...
In AD 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled across the Americas while searching for a route to the spice rich Orient. This was a unique moment in world history, akin to an encounter with alien species in our own time. What Columbus, and his successors encountered was an unsuspected continent, a New World, full of civilizations strangely different ...
Less able readers can explore how energy is used today while learning key content about energy including: how energy can be transformed from one state into another, the conservation of energy, and renewable energy resources. Reports, fascinating facts, examples, diagrams, and quotations engage and motivate the reader. Each title is structured into ...
Nursing offers flexibility, room for growth and the satisfaction of helping others. There is also a desperate need for nurses and demand is expected to exceed supply for some time. This book provides an overview of 101 different types of nursing career, including a basic description, educational requirements, skills needed, compensation and ...
Every aspect of Judy Garland's career is celebrated in John Fricke's collection of over 600 photogrphs. They range from movie stills to behind-the-scenes rarities, portraits and posters, candid shots with co-stars Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Barbra Streisand, and her daughter, Liza Minnelli.
Here's a quick, complete, and handy reference to the spelling and hyphenation of medical terms specific to the cardiology specialty. This book includes the most current terminology that cannot be found in standard references - all in alphabetical order for quick and easy access.
Written by doctors from a major children's hospital this book is a clear, thoughtful and objective guide to help parents raise a newborn and covers a broad range of topics thoroughly and in easily understood language.
This book is aimed at addressing the most pressing needs of health professionals working around health issues with men. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 - Mens Health, the context for practice, brings together issues around the policy and statistical background to why mens health is an urgent priority, and begins to explore why mens ...
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost ...
The travel book which pays for itself several times over in even one use-covers more than 1,300 hotels, motels, inns, and resorts available at 50 per cent off any time of the year.
A high-ranked but dissolute character invites to dinner the funerary statue of a nobleman he killed in a duel after dishonoring his daughter. Thus the stage is set for the most dreadful of punishments, arguably the central moment in the life of Don Giovanni - one of the most fertile and suggestive myths of Western culture. The celebrated character ...
In AD 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled across the Americas while searching for a route to the spice rich Orient. This was a unique moment in world history, akin to an encounter with alien species in our own time. What Columbus, and his successors encountered was an unsuspected continent, a New World, full of civilizations strangely different ...
This series uses common or well-known elements to look at the groups of the periodic table, emphasizing the similarities and differences between elements. Each book presents the full periodic table and then zeros in on the group being covered.
Having been touched by tragedy of an almost Shakespearean nature, Prince William has faced near-insurmountable odds. In this biography, royal expert Nicholas Davies probes the many sides of Prince William's character - from the gilded child who has been given every opportunity in life, to the serious, caring man that Diana had been guiding him ...
This series uses common or well-known elements to look at the groups of the periodic table, emphasizing the similarities and differences between elements. Each book presents the full periodic table and then zeros in on the group being covered.
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