This companion workbook to "1-2-3 Magic for Christian Parents" takes parents carefully through the program to immediately manage troublesome behaviour with reason, patience, and Christian compassion. This successful, straightforward program has guided parents through the difficult task of raising co[...]

This long-awaited second edition of the successful introduction to the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis is now completely revised and updated. Written by internationally acclaimed experts, this textbook includes fundamentals of adsorption, characterizing catalysts and their surfaces, the sign[...]

Based on author T.W. Ward's eight and a half years in Los Angeles conducting participant observation with MS-13, Gangsters Without Borders: An Ethnography of a Salvadoran Street Gang takes an inside look at gang life in the United States and in a global context.
Taking us through their journey f[...]

This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically[...]

As the guarantor of international security, the United States must commit to a long-term military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what are the tools necessary to succeed on the new battlefields of the Long War? In this volume, a group of the foremost U.S. military officials and national securi[...]

The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the compl[...]

Basic information on solving the difficult problems encountered in this line of work. Pocket size. Illustrated with detailed diagrams.[...]

Complete, up-to-date coverage of the operation, maintenance, and overhaul of aircraft powerplants

Boolean functions are the building blocks of symmetric cryptographic systems. This book shows how Boolean functions are used in cryptography. It helps in the successful design or implementation of cryptographic algorithms or protocols using Boolean functions.[...]

Master predictive analytics, from start to finish Start with strategy and management Master methods and build models Transform your models into highly-effective code-in both Python and R This one-of-a-kind book will help you use predictive analytics, Python, and R to solve real business problems and[...]

The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" ("The New York Times")
This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar wi[...]