My eight-year-old son is the only boy in his class who doesn't have a Gameboy. I don't want him to be ostracized for not having one, but I worry that it's addictive. What do you think?

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Presents a comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation that offers advanced students of Spanish a practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with explanations of the theoretical issues involved. This title addresses such translation issues as: cultural differences register [...]

There are five ways of organising: the hierarchical, the egalitarian, the individualistic, the fatalistic and the autonomous. Each approach is a way of disorganising the other four: without the other four, it would have nothing to organise itself against. In Organising and Disorganising, Michael Tho[...]

Granicus River was Alexander's first great victory over the Persians, where he demonstrated the heroic style of active and decisive leadership that was the hallmark of his career. In the initial engagement, Alexander's 5,000 cavalry, supported by archers and javelin men, routed a force of 20,000 Per[...]

Helps students prepare for academic listening, placing emphasis on practice with extended listening passages and also on continued language development through four main areas: Language focus, Listening for production, Listening for meaning and Vocabulary focus.[...]

What determines the number and size of the seeds produced by a plant? How often should it reproduce them? How often should a plant produce them? Why and how are seeds dispersed, and what are the implications for the diversity and composition of vegetation? These are just some of the questions tackl[...]

Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law provides an essential collection of key primary and secondary materials which are fully interlinked and explained in the authors' incisive commentary. The book is an indispensable companion for the student of public law.[...]

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of Americ[...]

Already considered the preeminent text in MR physics, this new edition explains the physical principles of magnetic resonance imaging design and implementation using consistent nomenclature and notation. This book provides the most comprehensive yet approachable introduction to the physics and appli[...]

* A fresh and exciting new textbook that will be an indispensable and dynamic entry point for students of gender. * Pays full attention to the recent move towards recognizing intersectionality and the way gender interacts with other forms of privilege and oppression.[...]

Georg Luk cs stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences[...]