Featuring a four-step, behind-the-wheel training plan, this text provides parents with an hour-by-hour blueprint to help improve their teen's driving awareness, instincts, driving tactics, and skills.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original painter who led a short and violent life. The powerful realism of his figures upset many of his contemporaries, and their power to shock remains undiminished. This book, providing a biography, presents all his most famous masterpieces, each with a commentary. The introduction ...
Cotton's Renaissance is the story of one of the more remarkable feats in the annals of enterprise. At its center, the book shows how U.S. cotton growers lost half their market share in the 1960s and 1970s and then won it back through highly innovative marketing and organization. To place this unprecedented achievement in perspective, the authors ...
This is a lively history of one of America's oldest publishing houses, published in conjunction with Wiley's bicentennial. Founded in New York City when Thomas Jefferson was president, Wiley has been a significant player in the publishing industry for two centuries. Now, on the occasion of Wiley's bicentennial, a distinguished team of authors ...
"Valerian" is a saga that every fan of "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" will identify with and love. It features Valerian and his beautiful, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued partner, Laureline. This title features live adventures set against visually stunning backgrounds: complex architectural inventions, futuristic machines, otherworldly landscapes, and ...
This casebook covers both amateur and professional sports as well as issues common to both industries and is suitable as the primary text for either a two- or three-hour sports law course. "Sports Law and Regulation: Cases, Materials, and Problems" takes a penetrating look at the regulation of interscholastic athletics, intercollegiate athletics, ...
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is the standard for directory information access and is the underlying protocol for a variety of email systems, Web systems, and enterprise applications. LDAP enables central management of users, groups, devices, and other data, thereby simplifying directory management and reducing the total cost of ...
The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important? This decade was the perfect time for the establishment of these national parks. Five Civil War battlegrounds--at Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburg--were ...
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