This book provides timely, practical, and high-interest information about marriages, families, and intimate relationships, in an engaging format that is easy-to-use and learn from. Feature such as "Popular Culture and the Media," "Practical Action," and "Numbers that Matter" help grab and keep readers' attention. The new edition has been updated ...
On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
SARS, West Nile virus, avian influenza, and bioterrorism-related anthrax are among the many infectious diseases that dominate the discussion among public health professionals and policy markers today. This timely revision of Infectious Disease Epidemiology has been thoroughly updated to cover these and many other contemporary issues in the area of ...
Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of first amendment ...
In his eighth book of poems, Williams continues to develop the possibilities of the long line for which he is so well known, but he includes some short lines here as well, recalling the work of his early books. The poems here often investigate consciousness--both in the psychological sense of the word and in the sense that suggests awareness of ...
This text presents a comprehensive coverage of general surgery, with new key information boxes in addition to core material. Extensive four colour illustration reinforces clinical messages, and the book's famous aphorisms and biographies of prominent pioneers of surgery are entirely updated for the new edition.
The authors have written the book not only for traditional on-campus students but also for the growing number of part-timers, parents, working students, commuters, and other nontraditional students. The book provides a practical philosophy based on action. The book's goal is to help students be the best in college by showing students how to master ...
Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery remains one of the world's pre-eminent medical textbooks, beloved by generations of surgeons, with lifetime sales in excess of one million copies. Now in its 25th edition, the content has been thoroughly revised and updated while retaining its traditional strengths. Under the stewardship of the eminent ...
The experts at Williams-Sonoma show how easy it is to prepare wonderful, fresh, and delicious meals for one with this collection of 46 great recipes. Color photos.
Records cataloging the healing powers of natural substances - plants, minerals, and animal byproducts - date back more than 4,000 years. There is no denying the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine, yet - until recently - the roots of this knowledge were largely lost in superstition and folklore. However, the use of herbs as an ...
"Collected Poems" brings together nearly four decades of C.K. Williams's work: more than 400 poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook.
Speaking directly to the needs and issues of proprietary, vocational-technical and career and certificate programme students, the text shows students that by mastering the academic and personal skills needed to succeed in school - such as time and money management, memorization and how to deal with stress - that they are learning the skills needed ...
Whether your tastes run to the traditional or more adventurous, this Thanksgiving can be the tastiest one ever with the help of this Williams-Sonoma cookbook. From first course to last, cooks will find everything they need for a delicious holiday gathering.
Each of the 50 states boasts a special claim to fame--from its history and natural beauty to its unique contributions to American life. Those great and unusual features are highlighted in this book full of fun questions, quizzes, and riddles.
"Using Information Technology, 5/e" covers the fundamental computing concepts that are part of the digital age, including software, hardware, data, people, and procedures. The text centers on educating today's technology consumer, using themes of ethics, the Internet, and communications to demonstrate how the changing world of technology ...
Over three decades, C. K. Williams has claimed as his own a world of startling anecdotes and complex inner states, rendered in precise, daring language. The Vigil -- which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and, in the United Kingdom, the Forward Prize -- brings Williams's poetry to a new pitch of intensity. The poems have ...
This memoir may help fill in the background for the vivid, often uncomfortable poems for which C. K. Williams is well-known. In this book, Williams recounts the excruciating tensions that kept him and his parents simultaneously locked together and pushed apart, and he comes to resolution about the ways his family shaped him and the gifts they gave ...
For his Selected Poems, C. K. Williams has chosen from three decades of his work - ranging from his early poems to a group of new poems - to produce a volume that represents every aspect of his remarkable career. The book opens with poems from Lies (1969) and I Am the Bitter Name (1971), which introduced Williams as one of the most gifted poets of ...
New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of "Repair" . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me there's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world to us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself. --from "The World" The awards given to C.K. Williams' two most recent books--a National Book ...
C. K. Williams's work has won an essential place in contemporary American poetry. The long lines that have characterized his style since the mid-seventies have allowed him to make ever more radical forays into what Edward Hirsch, writing in The New York Times Book Review, has called "a unique and inclusive poetry of consciousness". Williams's new ...
This memoir may help fill in the background for the vivid, often uncomfortable poems for which C. K. Williams is well-known. In this book, Williams recounts the excruciating tensions that kept him and his parents simultaneously locked together and pushed apart, and he comes to resolution about the ways his family shaped him and the gifts they gave ...
Although there are numerous technical-scientific books on breast cancer in the global bibliography, such books deal exclusively with the nature of the disease in majority populations of the Western societies, with little or no reference to the nature of the disease in the minority populations in such societies. Similarly, the nature of breast ...
Culled from the entirety of Williams's career, the poems here are recontextualized to illustrate the intensity of his gaze on the subject of love. Williams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.
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