Hairdresser David Wagner, a self-proclaimed "Daymaker," explains how he helped prevent the suicide of one his clients by just spending an hour chatting with her and making her feel good about herself. In this book, he admonishes readers to become Daymakers themselves by sharing their time with those in need of kindness.
"Basic Virology" is an introductory text for the student or for the researcher who needs a solid foundation in virology and its relationship to modern biology, focusing on the fundamentals of virology while stressing the basic concepts of molecular biology and immunology. This second edition features thoroughly updated material on HIV treatment, ...
Do you take the shortest route instead of the side roads when you're trying to get somewhere? Do you choose the streamlined model instead of one loaded with gizmos and gadgets? Do you value ease over extras? WordPerfect 12 is practical software designed to help you create great-looking, readable documents. Whether you're a recent convert from ...
Equally valuable as a semester course for non-majors or an introduction for general readers, this text uses only a minimum of science and mathematical background to explain the physical principles of light. It emphasizes color: the properties of light and materials that give rise to it, how it is described and analyzed, how it is produced in ...
From the Library of Congress and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kennedy comes this lavishly illustrated fascinating collection of essential information on World War II. 200 b&w photos and maps.
In this book, 30 couples who have been together for over 30 years are profiled through interviews and photographs. Couples as widely varied as Holocaust survivors and former 1950s American teenagers share their experiences in this celebration of lifelong commitment. Inspired by the movie "For Better or For Worse".
Lycon was the greatest of the beast hunters who fed the bloody maw of Rome's Coliseum. He had trapped tigers, lions, and other exotic creatures, but the beast he hunts now comes from a distant star. The thing's ferocity had been obvious from the first. And when it escaped, Lycon followed its trail of slaughter from the grimiest tenements of Rome ...
The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year.. } The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 ...
What is Tachyon energy? Not only is it a method of holistic healing, but a lifestyle that leads to greater spiritual awareness. This book includes case studies to demonstrate how Tachyon can be converted into a biological energy that allows the body to heal itself, and may even reverse ageing.
When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled 'a very dangerous citizen' by Harold Velde, a congressman from Illinois. Lawyer, educator, novelist, labor organizer, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, ...
This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, ...
"Hide in Plain Sight" offers a powerful examination of the effects of Hollywood's blacklist era, taking up the question of how blacklistees fared after they were driven out of the mainstream. A good number entered careers in television, with many finding work in children's and family programs, writing for shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle, Lassie," ...
Get up to speed on all your basic word processing skills. Use styles and formats, add borders, create form letters, even put pages on the Web. Remember when life was simple - you typed something, and it ended up on paper? Simplicity is back! This book tells you how to do what you want to do - produce great-looking documents. Of course, if you ...
During the past decade, homelessness became a widespread phenomenon in the United States for the first time since the Great Depression. The public frequently blamed the poor for their plight. Journalistic and academic accounts, in contrast, often evoked pathos and pity, regarding the homeless primarily as objects of treatment and rehabilitation. ...
An insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Observing that the United States has the weakest public social welfare system in the industrialized world, What's Love Got to Do With It? explores the extent to which the huge charity enterprise industry legitimates and supports this state of ...
Drugs are everywhere--on our streets, in our homes, and in our schools--but straight facts about drugs are not. Drugs: The Straight Facts fills this void with candid discussions that emphasize a historical and scientific approach to learning about drugs, their use, and their effect on the user's health. A historical perspective on tobacco, this ...
A young child looks out a bedroom window seeing the backyard as it would have looked if she had seen it during various historical and geological periods.
A new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter challenge the possibility and indeed the desirability of aspiring to create totalizing theories. Postmodernists contest the view of science as an ...
Drugs are everywhere--on our streets, in our homes, and in our schools--but straight facts about drugs are not. Drugs: The Straight Facts fills this void with candid discussions that emphasize a historical and scientific approach to learning about drugs, their use, and their effect on the user's health. A comprehensive guide to the second most ...
The war on drugs the campaigns against smoking cigarettes v-chips to control what children watch on TV censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans adsbipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex constant warnings about food and fat all are examples of what David Wagner terms the New Temperance. The New Temperance contrasts the new ...
Drugs are everywhere--on our streets, in our homes, and in our schools--but straight facts about drugs are not. Drugs: The Straight Facts fills this void with candid discussions that emphasize a historical and scientific approach to learning about drugs, their use, and their effect on the user's health. Learn about alcohol's effects on the brain ...
Outfitted in a well-researched, academic garb, this investigation of the Hollywood people named in the congressional hearings during the late 1940s and early 1950s as "subversive," digs up extensive biographical information about several blacklisted screenwriters whose tarnished careers have received little previous attention, such as Michael ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2008, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2008. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. Addressing all current foundational, theoretical and research aspects of cryptology, ...
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