This is the only book to provide straightforward advice, tips, and techniques to the thousands of new parent/volunteer coaches who each year are charged with introducing the sport of soccer to preschoolers and kindergartners in school, club, and parks - and - recreation programs across the country. [...]
The second edition of Microbiology of Waterborne Diseases describes the diseases associated with water, their causative agents and the ways in which they gain access to water systems. The book is divided into sections covering bacteria, protozoa, and viruses. Other sections detail methods for detect[...]
Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. Programme management is a new approach to maximize the likelihood of successful change management. While being based around a set of techniques, this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills and[...]
He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer. Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base in the country. He had personally piloted prime ministers, dignitaries, and members of the British royal family, and was one of the mos[...]
Probability theory is nowadays applied in a huge variety of fields including physics, engineering, biology, economics and the social sciences. This book is a modern, lively and rigorous account which has Doobâs theory of martingales in discrete time as its main theme. It proves important result[...]
Now available in paperback, this celebrated book has been prepared with readersâ needs in mind, remaining a systematic treatment of the subject whilst retaining its vitality. The second volume follows on from the first, concentrating on stochastic integrals, stochastic differential equations, e[...]
Now available in paperback, this celebrated book has been prepared with readers? needs in mind, remaining a systematic guide to a large part of the modern theory of Probability, whilst retaining its vitality. The authors? aim is to present the subject of Brownian motion not as a dry part of mathemat[...]
This groundbreaking single-authored textbook equips students with everything they need to know about biomaterials science.[...]
Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams addresses the premise that humans are a biological species stemming from the long process of[...]
There is a long tradition of telling the story of the life and death of a saint in a written biographical account known as a hagiography; such accounts have often been seen as providing the basis for what we know about saints. "Saints Alive" advances the discussion of conceptions of sainthood by arg[...]
The Final Execution kicks into high gear, as what's left of the battered and beaten X-Force goes up against the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants...for the last time. Can the team come together in time to rally themselves and survive this brutal assault, or will dissension in the ranks lead to the dea[...]
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.[...]
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to[...]
Learning to draw can be intimidating, but all you need is a good teacher. This step-by-step, project-based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing teaches you in the easiest way possible. This all-new guide uses color to show the progression of strokes and techniques for completing 50 fun d[...]
During the late 1920s and early 1930s three pairs of unique and innovative passenger liners emerged from France, the UK and the US designated as cabin-class liners: the Lafayette and Champlain, Britannic and Georgic and the Manhattan and Washington - three steamships and three motorships. Born at th[...]
For decades, "Transformers" fans across the globe have marveled at the mighty clashes of Megatron and Optimus Prime, and speculated about their arrival on planet Earth. Now, in "Transformers: Retribution, "the prequel to the "Transformers "animated series, the epic odyssey of these two great warrior[...]
Days before Chad Williams was to report to military duty in Great Lakes, Illinois, he turned on a television and was greeted with the horrifying images of his mentor, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, being brutally murdered in a premeditated ambush on the roads of Fallujah, Iraq. Steeled in his resolv[...]