The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics - that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens - but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat between individual heroe[...]

Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
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Cato s second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro s Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural [...]

Bring the spark back into your bedroom and your relationship with gutsy and effective advice from bestselling author Michele Weiner Davis. It is estimated that one of every three married couples struggles with problems associated with mismatched sexual desire. Do you? If you want to stop fighting ab[...]

The most valuable, most collectible Mustangs will be covered in this 101 Projects book. Although, this book will primarily focus on restoration techniques and maintenance tips, it will also cover high-performance modification procedures and high-performance restification (high-performance modificati[...]

Based on the Tarascon Pharmacopoeia Classic and Deluxe Editions, the Tarascon Pharmacopoeia: Signs & Symptoms Edition contains the same award-winning content, but is organized by symptom. Each symptom contains an in-depth breakdown of signs, symptoms, differential diagnoses and more. Just as all oth[...]

In 1921, when he would have been thirty-three, Jouve met Blanche Reverchon, nine years older than he and a doctor and practicing psychiatrist. They married in 1925; that year he rejected as unsatisfactory, as not worth preserving everything he had published until then: about twenty different works, [...]

Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachat. Having returned to Paris, Catherine seeks new relationships that will give her life meaning, but she finds that no one is who he or she appears to be. In an emotional tumult, events -- both real and imagined -- spiral out of her control, and Catherine [...]

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over [...]