One of the decisive battles of the Second World War in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as "The most savage and most cost...
How do hurricanes form? Where is the worlds hottest location? Which American city has the largest average snowfall? Readers can find facts on major hurricanes and typhoons of recent decades and the tr...
Contemporary Issues in Occupational Therapy: It includes chapters on: the profession of occupational therapy, how it has developed and what is involved in being an occupational therapist the idea of o...
When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Weste...
Middleware is the bridge that connects distributed applications across different physical locations, with different hardware platforms, network technologies, operating systems, and programming languag...
A good compositor must be both an artist and a technician. Digital Compositing for Film and Video is a hands-on, how-to guide that addresses the problems and difficult choices faced by the professiona...
In the Foreword to this book Justin King, Group Chief Executive of Sainsbury's is quoted as saying "no other sectors within the UK food and drink sector are growing at the rates of organic and fair tr...
Based on Dr. Wright's classic major reference, Handbook of Pediatric Retinal Disease outlines the latest findings in diagnosing retinal disorders in children's and the best available treatment options...
When you apply for a job, your CV is compared to hundreds of others. You've only got the time it takes the employer to scan the pages to show how brilliant you are. How do you impress them when you do...
Mustang, the legend created by Lee Iacocca and launched by the Ford Motor Company in 1964, continues to this day. From the wild and wooly Boss 302s and Boss 429s, Mach Is, and Shelby GT500s, Mustang h...
Never before published, the final work of one of America's greatest writers A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during a ...
This book is a warning. It aims to warn policy-makers, industry, academia, civil society organisations, the media and the public about the threats and vulnerabilities facing our privacy, identity, tru...
This excellent new textbook covers the range of aero elastic and dynamic loads topics (whilst also providing an understanding of the principles involved) without the inclusion of complicated mathemati...
* The current national debt is approximately $8.6 trillion * Wright has written for Barron's, Forbes.com, and other prominent publications and has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and the BBC * He is the auth...
In 1943 the island of Beito in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, had boasted that 'the Americans could not take ...
Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright venture forth on a Royal Enfield motorbike to discover the delights of traditional home cooking. In this work they have gathered together their favourite ...
A comprehensive guide to managing communication within organisations, the Handbook recognises Internal Communication's continued growth as a management discipline. It is aimed at leaders who want insi...
A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. ...
First (and Second) Steps in Statistics, Second Edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the main statistical procedures used in the psychological and social sciences. The rationale and pro...
"UIQ3" is a major tool to help programmers grasp the new features in UIQ3, and also to explain and simplify the processes necessary when porting from UIQ2 to UIQ3, and from other platforms. After a br...
"Modern Architecture" is a landmark text - the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of...
Both of these voice-over artists have already agreed to be interviewed for the new book. There will be many more. Women In Animation has a number of animation voice-over artists and recording studio o...
This adorable and silly story tells of the importance of letting a lion nap. Filled with repetitive text and zany full-color illustrations.
An entirely new kind of biography, "Oscar's Books" explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading. For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experi...
This book contributes to our understanding of the process of spin-off creation and development in environments outside the high-tech clusters of the US. It explores the process of spin-off creation an...
Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the ver...
Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, 3rd Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to the role and work of the occupational therapist in the fields of mental health and learning disability. Th...
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech give...
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