Comprehensive, yet concise, this updated and expanded best-seller in the proven question-and-answer format of the Secrets Series[registered] covers virtually every area of orthopedics in its approximately 100 chapters. It is perfect for clinicians as a refresher or for students as a review for oral [...]
Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem[...]
In this gripping, first-hand account, Dan Green tells the story of U.S. efforts to oust the Taliban insurgency from the desolate southern Afghan province of Uruzgan. Nestled between the Hindu Kush Mountains and the sprawling wasteland of the Margow and Khash Deserts, Uruzgan is a microcosm of U.S. e[...]
This is a contemporary, fact-filled resource on the historical, legal, medical, and political aspects of a wide variety of sexual crimes. News coverage of sexual violence is everywhere, but maybe statistics tell the real story; according to researchers, it is possible that up to 90 percent of female[...]
For the millions and millions of fans of the smash-hit video game "Borderlands", a lingering question exists: how did the Vault Hunters get on the bus with Marcus in the first place?Find out how Roland got on the bus with Mordecai, Lilith, and Brick in this exciting look at the soldiers of the Crims[...]
A powerful portrait of loss, love, and survival in Nazi Germany.
Kafka's great love, Milena Jesenka, to whom he wrote his most passionate letters, was a beautiful, politically committed, talented free spirit. At one time Kafka's translator, she later became a celebrated journalist. Milena took a[...]
Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920 while the events were still recent history. He was able to draw on his own experience and his contacts to compile a large number of perso[...]
Presents account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps. This book explores the behaviour of the guards, supervisors, police and secret police and compares and contrasts Stalin and Hitler's methods of dictatorship and terror.[...]
From 1935, the author and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political refugees in Moscow. In April 1937, Neumann was arrested by the secret police. She was arrested in 1938. This book describes the two years of suffering she endured in the Soviet prisons and in the Central-Asian concentration [...]
Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the conference table, the ministerial office and the press conference. This book is framed as a discussion on wh[...]
This encyclopedia, containing more than 2800 colour illustrations, is the most comprehensive guide available to international product design of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Now fully revised and updated, it includes more than 300 entries on influential designers and studios and the most[...]
The author of more than one hundred books and a world renowned Vietnamese Buddhist thinker explores the origins of terrorism and offers step-by-step instructions for overcoming fear, creating a safe living environment, and building community. Original.[...]
Having worked together for ten years, the two Zurich architects Barbara Neff and Bettina Neumann can now look back on a compact oeuvre, which includes five larger public and private buildings. Each of the buildings is characterised by an innovative allocation of space in the floor plan and the verti[...]
Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture. The volume outlines different models, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts an[...]