Hardcover Books

Teetering merges original research with stories from real-life "tightropers" and makes the case for urgent action by financial institutions, innovators, investors, regulators, policymakers, and influencers to recognize and change the financial forces that push the American dream out of reach for nearly half of...

Why did Greeks in the late 1800s cross a sea, an ocean and a continent, to start new lives in the United States? Why did they eventually migrate to a small dusty town in the desert Southwest? How did Albuquerque become a center of...

From engagement to honeymoon, this little book will provide you with all the basics to start planning your dream wedding. The moments after accepting a marriage proposal are exciting and romantic, but they can also be overwhelming and sometimes even confusing. Immediately after sharing...

Uplifting quotes and stress-relieving designs will bring you to a whole new state of mindfulness. Author: Racehorse PublishingISBN-10: 1631581368ISBN-13: 9781631581366Publisher: RacehorseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2017Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.60w x 0.50d

If you are a leader or even the face of your company, this feel good transformational story will show you how every obstacle you encounter is just part of your evolution. If you continue to evolve to your fullest potential and take this challenge...

During the turbulent 1960s, the city of New Orleans experienced unprecedented economic growth, racial tensions and desegregation, political realignment, and natural disaster. Presiding over this period of sweeping change was Mayor Victor H. Schiro (1904-1992), an unassuming, moderate Democrat who sought the best for...

ITM Success Package: Manager's Edition (package contains It's The Manager & 12) combines Gallup's 52 Business Top Success Discoveries and reveals how great managers inspire top performance, generate enthusiasm, unite differing personalities to focus on a common mission, and lead teams to reach higher...

Essential oils are becoming increasingly popular, but how do you identify quality oils from the myriad of inferior ones to choose from? And what can you actually do with these little vials of oils? In fact, there are countless things you can use them...

Charitable giving is on the rise in America. Despite the lingering effects of the economic downturn, Americans continue to give generously of their time, talent, and money - more than $335 billion in 2013, a 4.4% increase from 2011. What's more, the bulk of...

What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery of SuperWaves, a singular wave phenomenon whose design generates what we...

With humor and intelligence, this New York Times-bestselling guide takes you through the fascinating intersections of quantum physics and everyday life. Physics might explain why the Earth orbits the Sun, but can it really explain our tendency to put off doing chores? In The...

Approximately four million Americans claim to be Buddhist. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Americans of various faiths read about Buddhism, are interested in its philosophical tenets, or fashionably view themselves as Buddhists. They're part of what's been described as the fastest-growing religious movement in...

One word strikes more fear into a person's mind than any other: CANCER. The physical, mental, emotional, and financial toll that comes with a cancer diagnosis is immense and affects not only cancer patients but also families and entire communities. This year alone approximately...

(Bass Instruction). The term "12-bar blues" has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book and audio package is solely devoted to providing you with all...

Conveying the excitement being generated by this cutting-edge field of specialist genetic inquiry, this wide-ranging survey features contributions from leading researchers and covers many key issues, including the cells' potential use in regenerative medicine.Author: Kyle E. OrwigISBN-10: 1617379727ISBN-13: 9781617379727Publisher: HumanaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2010Pages: 262Format: HardcoverWeight:...

The third edition of Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up deals with the theory and practice of scale-up in the pharmaceutical industry. This thoroughly revised edition reflects the rapid changes in the field and includes: New material on tableting scale-up and compaction. Regulatory appendices that cover FDA...

Whether it's delicious Kransekake (Swedish almond cake with icing), crunchy Knapriga Sirapskakor (syrup cookies), or classic Vaniljkringlor (vanilla biscuits), these desserts represent the finest of Swedish traditional sweets. Swedish pastry chef Cecilia Vikbladh offers eighty of her irresistible recipes, with mouthwatering color photographs illustrating...

Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds--a self described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who...

Author: HomerISBN-10: 1613828764ISBN-13: 9781613828762Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2011Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 10.3Point Value: 24Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 5993 / Odyssey

A New York Times Best Mystery of 2021 Three desperate men converge in the midst of an annual carnival in New Mexico Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass' protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor kid, living on the...

Behind James Baldwin's uncanny ability to evoke a nation's crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin's novels use biblical ideas...

Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse,...

A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American RevolutionRelieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution....

From paintings by an artist with no arms or legs to sculptures made entirely of salt, you'll find some of the most fascinating and unbelievable pieces of art from the Ripley's Believe It or Not! collection. Designed as an elegant art book meets the...

The adventures of John McClane continue in this new explosive comic based on the Die Hard franchise! Thirty years after the release of Die Hard, a retired John McClane is being pulled back into the game by a dangerous foe he never thought he'd...

How a prominent magazine shaped nineteenth-century American literature and culture During the 1870s, the organization and stewardship of American culture by the upper classes began to take hold on a mass scale, due in part to the founding of museums, municipal libraries, symphony halls,...

Most Americans suffer stomach problems. Many lead lives of utter misery. Whether you call it heartburn or acid reflux, this painful affliction is also associated with throat cancer. Shockingly, the problem may not be too much stomach acid, but too little! And antacids and...

Dreams are often laden with emotion. Not only do the dreams themselves contain emotional triggers, but a frightening dream can leave us stressed and shaken in waking life. We might also be anxious about the possible recurrence of a bad dream. The Dream to...

"My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India s best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of...

Author: U S Government Printing OfficeISBN-10: 1598040227ISBN-13: 9781598040227Publisher: Government Printing OfficeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 1177Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.39lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.15w x 1.59d

Author: Us CongressISBN-10: 159804639XISBN-13: 9781598046397Publisher: CongressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2012Pages: 1253Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.77lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.00d

Author: Us CongressISBN-10: 1598047310ISBN-13: 9781598047318Publisher: Claitor's Pub DivisionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2014Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.75lbsSize: 9.30h x 5.90w x 2.00d

Today color photography is so ubiquitous that it's hard to believe there was a time when this was not the case. Color Rush explores the developments that led us to this point, looking at the way color photographs circulated and appeared at the time...

This is the story of two centuries-old hospitals, Roper and St. Francis. They were neighbors that supported one another, where generations of doctors treated patients from the Civil War era through the civil rights era. Then the 1980s and 1990s changed the landscape in...

The Remarkable History and Reconstruction of the First Operational Submarine At the onset of the American Revolution, the British expected to quell the rebellion quickly with a show of overwhelming force. In an experiment in asymmetric warfare, David Bushnell created the first submarine vessel...

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his voyage aboard the fishing boat, Viking. When the Viking fails to return and is feared lost, a bottle is found with a note for Hulda and a...

In two previous books, Osama's Revenge and The Al Qaeda Connection, this seasoned investigative reporter revealed the alarming potential for nuclear terrorism on U.S. soil and the sinister connections among organized crime, illegal immigrants, and al Qaeda. Now, he broadens his focus beyond al...

In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer William Sheehan - who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Science Writing - and award-winning geographer John Westfall take us back through the centuries to chronicle the intrepid explorations of scientists and...

What, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. But though a unified response to the question can no longer be taken for granted, how we answer...

In the late eighteenth century, the French Republic evicted religious orders from their monasteries and forced them back into secular life. Regulars and the Secular Realm is a detailed account of the monks' plight, chronicling the injustices perpetrated by government officials as well as...

With DVD containing narrated footage of examination techniquesThe complex structure of the shoulder, with its variable pathological conditions of rotator cuff disease, degenerative joint disease, and Type II SLAP lesions, makes clinical examination and assessment difficult for both new and experienced practitioners. With this...

Without the extraordinary efforts of the editors and authors of this book, three of the four lion tamarin species (golden, golden-headed, black-faced, and black) would most likely be extinct. The contributors' hard work set international standards and became the model for the preservation of...

Progressing from the fundamentals of quantum mechanics (QM) to more complicated topics, Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a comprehensive examination of many applications that pertain to modern physics and engineering. Based on courses taught by the author,...

Preeminent Experts Update a Well-Respected BookTaking into account the regulatory and scientific developments that have occurred since the second edition, Design and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies, Third Edition provides a complete presentation of the latest progress of activities and results in bioavailability...

Reviewing the theory of the general linear model (GLM) using a general framework, Univariate and Multivariate General Linear Models: Theory and Applications with SAS, Second Edition presents analyses of simple and complex models, both univariate and multivariate, that employ data sets from a variety...

Is learning disability determined from birth? Psychoanalysis has always striven to reconstruct damaged human subjectivity. However, with a few exceptions, people with learning disabilities have long been excluded from this enterprise as a matter of course. It has been taken for granted that learning...

Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of psychoanalysis to whom we owe the first studies of this complex question, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca...

Personal relationships concern us all, they are essential to our becoming who we are and constitute our most vital experience of what it is like to be alive and human. This book proposes a new approach to understanding who we are based on the...

Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural problems. Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood is a strong challenge to this way of thinking.Sami Timimi uses...

This book is a unique volume in which leading clinicians and researchers in the field of cognitive therapy for psychosis illustrate their individual approaches to the understanding of the difficulties faced by people with psychosis and how this informs intervention. Chapters include therapies focused...