A unique training book containing over 100 culture awareness exercises, dialogues, stories incidents and simulations that bring to life Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of culture. These dimensions are: power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainly avoidance, and long-term versus short-term ...
These titles in the Fun with Phonics interactive series of early reader books are designed to develop literacy and sound-recognition skills through repetition within a meaningful context. Each book includes picture clues and a wheel of beginning letters to spin and spell through die-cut pages. Full color.
Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans ...
Wouldn't it be great if you could have two of the world's most accomplished Photoshop and Web design experts sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate the infinite possibilities of Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady? How to Wow: Photoshop CS2 for the Web is the next best thing. Two Photoshop and ImageReady powerhouses--Jan Kabili and Colin ...
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker ...
In this tongue-in-cheek training guide for aspiring James Bonds, Agent Ace and his gadget expert, Charlie, show readers all the tricks of the espionage trade. In preparation for their first mission, young spies will follow a simple seven-day plan that explains how to go undercover, gather information, break codes, carry out switcheroos, and watch ...
This interactive book takes readers on an exciting journey. Children can sing along with the classic title tune while spotting the characters and exploring the scene on each spread. Includes 20 fiber-optic lights on the wheels and a sound module. Full color.
It takes a little magic to return to Ancient Greece--but that's what kids can do, if they pull the tabs. Suddenly, all the wonders of the classical world appear, and the everyday things too, including pottery, water clocks, and coins. Of course, you'll get to visit all the important sights, like the Parthenon, but the brilliantly colorful spreads ...
Presents a month-by-month guide to raising a healthy, well-adjusted puppy during the first year of its life, covering such topics as housebreaking, obedience school, finding the right veterinarian, and emergency care.
In this important study, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism. Instead, through an examination of 255 village and small-town communities distributed throughout England, Professor McIntosh demonstrates that concern with wrongdoing ...
This book gives condemned people in the United States the chance to speak for themselves - to talk about their existence in the hidden world of death row. Consisting of letters and other writings from inmates to members of LifeLines, an organization of pen friends based in the United Kingdom, "Welcome to Hell" conveys daily life on death row.
Get to the bottom of what's at the bottom of the sea. When children accompany Mr. Baker's science class to the aquarium, they'll meet and find out all about a variety of fascinating underwater life. A simple pull of the tab reveals the skeletons of such ocean creatures as the spiny, stinging lionfish; the giant 8-foot-long, 1,500-pound sea turtle; ...
A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with ...
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural manufacturing which arose throughout Europe before factory industrialization. But although the ...
Children love finding out about themselves; they're curious about what lies beneath the skin. With a pull of some tabs, and the cool images here, they can find out how oxygen circulates, about the digestive process, and what makes up the inside of a cell. The mysteries of the skeleton, skull, teeth, brain, heart, and more are revealed to ...
The sixth edition remains the pioneering text for the practising physician confronted with the unique problems of an increasingly elderly population. Dr William Reichel's formative text is designed as a practical and useful guide for health specialists from medical students to practicing physicians. This book is not a collection of subspecialty ...
Kids will feel as if they stepped right into the past as Abdul the guide leads them through the marvels of Ancient Egypt. The tour takes in everything, from the Pyramids to fascinating artifacts from 5,000 years ago, from the River Nile to the famous temple at Abu Simbel. A pull of the tab reveals a pyramid's interior; the details of a dhow, or ...
This book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries. She explores the epidemiological causes ...
Disillusioned following the break-up of her marriage, Claire finds her sexuality reawakened by the mysterious Stuart MacIntosh. He draws her into a sensual intrigue involving one of his rich clients, and her best friend. Then Claire's ex-husband appears on the scene. Who can she really trust?
Printing projects for all - home, holidays, families, sports, hobbies, cards and stationery, photos and crafts and more! This book is a colorfully adorned, indispensible encyclopedia of fun and challenging printing projects. This book brings to life hundreds of fun and exciting projects that will allow readers to colorfully, playfully and ...
This study redresses the North and South imbalance of much work on economic and social history by focusing on the lives and economic impact of the building trade in the major urban centres of the North during the early modern period. The period 1450-1750 witnessed substantial changes in England: to the size of national population, the range of ...
From the time of Malthus, the insufficient supply of food resources has been considered the main constraint of population growth and the main factor in the high mortality prevailing in pre-industrial times. In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, mortality and population and determining its ...
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