This precalculus text includes chapters on trigonometry which have been written so professors can begin with either the right triangle approach or the unit circle approach. Marginal notes in each chapter relate the two approaches, but chapters can be studied in either order without losing continuity. The authors emphasize problem solving ...
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr. Worldly ...
Watson, the father of behaviourism, was an influential figure in 20th century psychology. This classic work explains the aim of the field of behaviourism, which is to be able to, given the stimulus, predict the response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that produced it.
The author provides the means by which students and interior degigners can learn to draw interior perspectives through the use of a basic formula. He offers an easily accessible and quickly learned method that will serve every interior designer's drawing needs. All that is required is familiarity with plan, section, and elevation drawings and the ...
Four for the price of one! "Oracle Database 10g OCP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide" is the only book that offers thorough exam prep and a great on-the-job reference for both the latest OCA and OCP exams. Also includes the Boson's Oracle self-assessment engine to get experience taking the test in the environment it will be given.
Taking place over twenty-three days in July and across more than 2,100 miles of smooth blacktop, rough cobblestones, and punishing mountain terrain, the Tour de France is the most grueling sports event in the world. And in 2004, five-time champion Lance Armstrong set out to achieve what no other cyclist in the 100-year history of the race had ...
This is a comprehensive exam prep from Oracle Press. This Oracle Press certification exam guide offers detailed coverage of all of the official exam objectives on the Oracle Certified Associate Administration I exam, including installation, management, administration, programming, networking, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and ...
'Inviting School Success' helps readers to see how teachers and all involved in schools can work to make their schools a truly inviting place. It also offers strategies on how to overcome challenging situations by applying class-tested theory in the practice of everyday teaching to students of all ages.
This is the complete exam prep from Oracle Press. This exclusive Oracle Press guide will prepare certification candidates for the newly reintroduced Oracle Certified Associate Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I exam. All exam topics are covered in this guide, including installation, configuration, application tuning, database management, ...
This novel, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle, was purportedly discovered in the safe of a fictitious Minnesota railroad magnate who commissioned Sherlock Holmes to investigate mysterious threats against his life. Watson accompanied Holmes to the United States and faithfully recorded their exciting American adventure with the "Red Demon."
For most chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is hard to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player won't know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which ...
"The Rough Guide to Montreal" is your definitive guide to this delightful city. From the churches and cobblestone streets of Vieux-Montreal to the parks and gardens sprinkled throughout the city, the full-colour introduction highlights all the 'things-not-to-miss'. There are insider reviews of all the best places to stay, eat and drink, whatever ...
For many chess players, opening study is sheer hard work. In this highly acclaimed series, Watson helps players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings by explaining not only the ideas and strategies, but also the interconnections of chess openings in general.
Here is another wonderful Sherlock Holmes Pastiche from the prolific pen of Val Andrews. The author has a vast knowledge of conjuring and of Sherlockiana and in this exciting mystery he is able to combine both of his lifelong interests. The Egyptian Hall, Maskelyne's theatre of mystery, forms the perfect backdrop for this the most exciting and ...
For most chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is hard to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player won't know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which ...
With the passion of a true poet, Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 B.C.E.) expounds the most coherent and eloquent system of materialism surviving from the ancient world. Developing the atomic theory of his master, Epicurus, Lucretius discusses the motion of atoms, natural phenomena, sensation, free will, and the soul's relation to the body. Most ...
A riveting day-by-day account, brimming with both historica and geographic detail, of the 2004 Tour de France, written by a journalist "widely considered to be the best cycling writer in the US "- USA Today . In July 2004, Lance Armstrong will attempt to achieve what no other cyclist has ever done-win a sixth Tour de France. The most grueling ...
Marco Pantani, once Italy's most celebrated cyclist, died alone on Valentine's Day in a hotel, one month after his 34th birthday. It was a sad and shocking ending for this champion who had reached the highest levels of athletic achievement in 1998 when he won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in the same year.
Quirk is unveiling the "Crimes of Dr. Watson", the first completely interactive Sherlock Holmes mystery. This illustrated hardcover book, complete with Victorian era illustrations, contains an original novella in the form of a letter from Dr. John H. Watson. As our story opens, we discover that the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes has vanished ...
Trenchant, sophisticated and cynical Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233BC), a prince of Han, was a representative of the Fa-chia, or legalist, school of philosophy and produced the final and most readable exposition of ...
After a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor with no human passengers--only the dead captain, drained of blood--a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only one man can save the city: the great Sherlock Holmes.
This thorough work on how Nimzowitsch's theories have been refined and synthesized with classical concepts into the modern dynamic understanding of chess will help ordinary players adopt these important concepts in their own games. An in-depth investigation of the concepts that underlie modern chess!
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