Consulting is entering the era of the guerrilla client-buyers with a glut of information at their fingertips and doubts about the value consultants add. Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants is the first book to reveal how guerrilla marketing can transform today's challenges into golden opportunities [...]
This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are[...]
Provides information on analyzing, designing, and writing object-oriented software.
A guide for Java programmers explains how to use XML to build Web-based enterprise applications incorporating platform independence, extensibility, reusability, global language support, and universal standards.[...]
This book describes the theory and applications of discrete orthogonal polynomials - polynomials that are orthogonal on a finite set. Unlike other books, "Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials" addresses completely general weight functions and presents a new methodology for handling the discrete weights c[...]
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as "Cosmicomics," "Invisible Cities," and "If on a Winter's Night a Tr[...]
The use of ultrasound in emergency medicine has proved invaluable in answering very specific, time-critical questions, such as the presence of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, or of blood in the abdomen after trauma. Unlike other imaging modalities (e.g. CT scan), it is a rapid technique that can be br[...]
This comprehensive and up-to-date resource focuses on correcting malocclusions using the MBTT philosophy, widely accepted as one of the most reliable and effective treatment methods in orthodontics. Extensively illustrated with line diagrams and color photographs, it describes mainstream thinking an[...]
A highly illustrated, practical manual for orthodontists and oral surgeons which explains how to plan a position for the jaws and teeth which will optimize the facial profile for each individual.[...]
Proven instructional strategies for the outdoor educator
(Transcribed Score). This book contains John's own "miniature scores" to 28 classic Mahavishnu songs. Titles: Awakening * Be Happy * Birds of Fire * Celestial Terrestrial * Commuters * Dawn * Dream * Earth Ship * Eternity's Breath * Faith * Hope * Meeting of the Spirits * Miles Beyond * Noonward Rac[...]
The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today in context with contemporary issues: the perks and the risks of the job; the tendency for western journalists to take sides in civil conflicts like Bosnia and Kosovo; the media politics of international intervention in humanitarian [...]
A special anniversary edition of the classic cookbook provides hundreds of recipes for appetizers, soups, pasta, main dishes, vegetables, salads, breads, and desserts, and includes tips on planning menus and entertaining, from Manhattan's celebrated gourmet food shop. Simultaneous.[...]
'In an era when government policy emphasizes 'scientifically based research' (No Child Left Behind), this book provides an important resource in understanding what this means' - Diane Browder, Snyder Distinguished Professor of Special Education, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. 'This is a su[...]
Introduction to Language Development, 2nd Edition, provides the essential terms, concepts, theories, and observations that define our understanding of language development. This text integrates the foundational elements of language development including biological maturation, cognitive development, [...]
In the search for the causes of and solutions to social problems, no social institution has been allocated such a central role as the family. This volume examines how 'the family' is constituted both in explanations of social problems and in modes of state intervention. The contributors consider som[...]
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing. This book incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of perspectives. It also examines key themes, including: the core purpose of contemporary policework; the recon[...]
This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politic[...]
This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by h[...]