The classic and still authoritative grammar guide gets a quirky, lovely makeover by acclaimed artist Maira Kalman, whose flat, colorful artwork illustrates several of the sentences used as examples in the book. A two-page spread featuring a couple observing a lush vista and a traveler walking along a mountain trail demonstrates the sentence, "The ...
Study the meaning of biblical words in the original language--without a single lesson in Greek or Hebrew. This classic has helped busy people dig deeper into the meaning of the bibical text by explaining over 6,000 key biblical words. It is organized so it can become at once a dictionary, a commentary, and a concordance. Recognized as an essential ...
This comprehensive overview of office procedures and concepts introduces the effects of technology on the office of tomorrow. By focusing on the skills necessary for office workers at every level, evolving technologies are examined and the interpersonal skills vital to a successful career are highlighted.
A national bestseller when it was originally published in 1942 and the subject of a 1945 John Ford film featuring John Wayne, They Were Expendable offers an account of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three's heroic actions during the disastrous Philippine campaign early in World War II. The author uses an unusual and effective format to tell the story ...
This is a new and expanded edition of an old standard that has served Bible students for many year. The new edition is coded to other Greek and Hebrew study aids, resulting in significant time savings for the user.
One of the most unforgettable personality of his age, a gifted writer, highly admired journalist, politician, friend of presidents, White's life history spans from the time of buffalo and wild Indians in his native Kansas to the age of FDR.
Appropriate for advanced undergraduate or graduate engineering and engineering management courses emphasizing analytical investment decision methodologies.Practical and comprehensive, this well-received text offers a balanced and clear presentation of topics essential to understanding the basics of engineering economy. It has been completely ...
The discovery of light-sensitive chemicals in mid-19th-century Europe carried large implications - for scientists, technicians, astronomers and for the businesspeople who soon made family portraiture standard tabletop fare in middle-class homes. In this work, the authors begin with a history of the process itself. Tracing the daguerreotype's ...
Alan Moore's "Watchmen" is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes to conceal their identity and fight crime, and an intricate plot to kill and discredit these ...
Spanning the years from 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of pieces written by Hemingway ranges from articles for the "Toronto Star" and the Hearst newspapers to popular magazines such as "Esquire, Collier's" and "Look", and includes Hemingway's vivid eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
The definitive book on the impact of methamphetamine on individuals, communities, and society by two of America's leading addiction and criminal justice experts.
1928. White, a journalist, worked for various Kansas newspapers before purchasing the Emporia Gazette, which he edited for the next 49 years. A staunch Republican, White's Masks in a Pageant is his account of leading politicians including Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and William Hale Thompson.
When the Anne is stopped by a British Royal Navy frigate, Isaac and several shipmates are forcibly pressed into service on the Orpheus, which is actively engaged in England's long-running war with France. Written from the aspect of the fo'c'sle rather than an officer's view and through the eyes of an American, it provides new perspectives and an ...
Americans, it seems, have a history of self-medicating for pain. The high profile and increasingly widespread cases of prescription pain medication abuse that we're seeing today serve as the latest chapter in America's long-standing love/hate relationship with painkilling drugs. In this fascinating, informative, and timely book, Dr. Drew Pinsky ...
In Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, William B. White, MD, and a panel of highly experienced clinicians critically review every aspect of out-of-office evaluation of blood pressure, including home and ambulatory pressure, the relationship between whole-day blood pressure and the cardiovascular disease process, ...
The year is 1814, the final year of the War of 1812. With the Atlantic seaboard closed by the British blockade, Isaac Biggs, Jack Clements, and Jake Tate, fresh from their harrowing adventures in Canada, find berths with Joshua Barney's Gunboat Flotilla in the Chesapeake Bay. These swift and shallow-draft vessels have become a thorn in the side of ...
William Leggett (1801-1839) was the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of Jacksonian democracy. His diverse writings applied the principle of equal rights to liberty and property. These editorials maintain a historical and contemporary relevance.
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