A unique guide provides readers with all the information they need to start and maintain a backyard purple martin colony and offers more than one hundred color photos, plus a historical perspective, of this popular bird. Original. 25,000 first printing.[...]

"In this updated and expanded edition of her excellent telecommunications primer, Lili explains in just the right detail everything you need to know to become fluent in this most important and fascinating industry. Besides including a satisfying amount of expert technical detail, the book also discu[...]

Focuses on the human factors behind the invention of the transistor, highlighting the pride and scientific ambitions of the team who spawned the epoch-making technology[...]

An essential reference for architects, engineers, planners and environmentalists involved in designing and planning projects and schemes in the built environment. Covering the terminology of sustainable design, this illustrated dictionary provides over 600 definitions and explanations of ecodesign t[...]

A practical and savvy guide.
-- Gavin de Becker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Fear
"Understanding nonverbal language is the essential skill in any profession that involves communication. This book is the best primer on the topic of nonverbal communication I have ever re[...]

The author has created is a safe, painless and effective treatment for renewing the face and the body. It is a safe, painless and effective treatment for renewing the face and the body. This book supports the program, and can be used as a self-contained course in the skills covered. Constitutional [...]

Myths reflect, reinforce, and sometimes subvert gender ideologies and so have an influence in the 'real world'. This is true in the present no less than when the Greek and Roman myths were created. The struggles to redefine gender roles and identities in our own time are inevitably reflected in our [...]

This third edition blends emerging ideas from the organizational, behavioral, and management sciences with nursing as it should be practiced. It includes a completely new look at the world of nursing administration, which is rapidly becoming recognized as the professional level of nursing. This indi[...]

An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.[...]

In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In "Visions of Power in Cuba," Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations expla[...]