The poetic books of the Old Testament--Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon--are often called humankind's reach toward God. The other books of the Old Testament picture God's reach toward man through the redemptive story. Yet these five books reveal the very heart of men and women st[...]

Managing the behavior of young children can be a real challenge, and this book provides you with 100 tried and tested ideas for the long, medium, and short term. It tells you how to select and adopt the right approach, how to analyze, reflect on, and modify your own practice to ensure that you are c[...]

Appealing to both graduate and upper-level undergraduate course in psychology, sociology, social work, political science, and many interdisciplinary areas, Women and Poverty provides a social psychological analysis of social class and class-based inequity, specifically in terms of women's poverty.[...]

In this title, the authors argue that the primary exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations. While such 'institutional voids' present challeng[...]

The barriers to entry in your market just vanished. Unexpected competitors are swarming in. Are you ready? You always knew digital was going to change things, but you didn't realize how close to home it would hit. In every industry, digital competitors are taking advantage of new platforms, tools, a[...]

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murder[...]

Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven), continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In "Sugar Baby," Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the[...]

This Daily Practice series helps your students use their skills, so they won't lose them. There are five problems a day, every day, for 36 weeks. The practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week's problems are based[...]

Written specifically for students training for the NVQ level 3 in hairdressing, this title uses step-by-step instructions to show each stage involved in creating hair extensions.[...]