The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years; yet in that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world's imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to protect their hunting grounds from the inevita[...]

'Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.'Michael JohnsonFrom a living icon of the Olympic Games - as both an athlete and now as a BBC broadcaster - Gold Rush is a compelling analysis of the fascinating combination of psychological and personal qualities, as well as internal and external factors, t[...]

A significant barrier to successful juvenile intervention is misconduct committed against juveniles by the persons employed to help them. This book explores the nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its consequences, factors that increase its occurrence, and potential solutions to the [...]

A guide to the design, construction and operation of water supply systems. It places emphasis on environmental aspects of water supply, in particular the critical issue of wastage reduction and conservation of supplies. It includes details of US, European and WHO standards and practice.[...]

The Unreliable Account of a Student and His Pet Dodo. In 2008 a diary was discovered amongst books donated to a charity bookshop in Oxford. It was a most remarkable book, supposedly written over 300 years ago by a student, describing his life and unusual pet, a dodo. Everyone knows the dodo, a comic[...]

The federated Iroquois tribes were absolutely central to the long struggle between the British colonists in eastern North America, and the French and their client tribes. They fought many exciting frontier campaigns, and were generally loyal allies of the British for 200 years from the late 16th cen[...]

Michael Söderlundh framträdde som konstnär under det 1960-tal som översköljdes först av estetiska experiment och avantgardism och sedan av politiska paroller och trosvisshet. Han fångade upp de nya signalerna. Men han gjorde det på sitt eget sätt, betonar Torsten Ekbom i sin perspektivrika [...]

Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide - either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating the [...]

Competing in a Service Economy is a hands-on guide to creating services, with illustrative examples from service-oriented companies including Disney, Ericsson, IKEA, National Association of Convenience Stores, Ritz Carlton, Scandinavian Airline Systems, Sterling Pulp Chemicals, and Telia Mobile. Th[...]

For the sixth edition of this classic dictionary, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated. With over 10,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including [...]