Today's conservatives support the idea of limited government, but they have increased government's size and power to new heights. They believe in balanced budgets, but they have boosted government spending, debt, and pork to record levels. They believe in national security but launched a reckless, i[...]

The author was a New York City DJ when he met Stefani Germanotta, then a struggling artist, in 2006. She was a go-go dancer who had bigger ambitions - she wanted nothing less than to take over the music world. In this portrait of the budding star, the author describes afternoons sitting with Gaga on[...]

Pretty Little Liars meets Beautiful Creatures in this steamy southern suspense novel about a group of powerful teen voodoo queens who will do anything to get what they want.Eveny Cheval has just moved back to Carrefour, Louisiana--a town she left fourteen years ago in the wake of her mother's suicid[...]

The seventh edition of "Urban Economics" continues to be the market leading textbook due to its thorough content and concise writing style. The new edition continues to cover urban economics as the discipline that lies at the intersection of geography and economics. "Urban Economics" incorporates th[...]

Solution Selling has been one of the most popular selling methodologies in the country for more than a decade. It is the chosen method used by more than 500,000 sales professionals worldwide. Evidence abounds of the continued popularity of "Solution Selling"[registered]: the original book, published[...]

Security Smarts for the Self-Guided IT Professional "Get to know the hackers--or plan on getting hacked. Sullivan and Liu have created a savvy, essentials-based approach to web app security packed with immediately applicable tools for any information security practitioner sharpening his or her tools[...]

A compendium of the representative papers from a group of Elsevier's structural engineering journals, including: "Journal of Constructional Steel Research"; "Thin Walled Structures"; "Engineering Structures"; "Computers and Structures"; "Construction and Building Materials"; and, "Journal of Wind En[...]

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then[...]

Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies focuses on immunodeficiencies in children and adults. This book covers the many advances in the study of immunodeficiency. Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies includes 62 chapters covering topics such as newly described syndromes, genetic diagnosis, molecular abnormalities, ne[...]

For one semester Principles of Economics courses.
Questions that drive interest, applications that illustrate concepts, and the tools to test and solidify comprehension.
Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will gain a better understanding of the economy around them.[...]

For Principles of Economics courses.

Questions that drive interest, applications that illustrate concepts, and the tools to test and solidify comprehension.

Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will gain a better understanding of the economy around them. Unfo[...]

Extensively updated to reflect the latest changes in the healthcare system, EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN NURSING, 8/e will help both practicing and student nurses manage successfully in today’s challenging, resource-limited healthcare environments. The most up-to-date and complete lea[...]

The start-to-finish guide to virtualizing business-critical Oracle Software and Databases on VMware vSphere Virtualizing large-scale Oracle software and databases on vSphere can deliver powerful scalability, availability, and performance benefits. Recognizing this opportunity, thousands of organizat[...]