Metalworking Through History provides a comprehensive, historic overview of the subject of metalworking while exploring it within its cultural context. It is written from the perspective that the crafting of objects in metal is a unique way of understanding a particular time and culture. As a broa[...]

* What does 'social structure' mean? * What are the principal ways in which societies are 'organized' or 'structured'? * How can structural ideas be used in sociological analysis? Despite the importance of the concept of social structure, sociologists have not agreed on how to define it and discussi[...]

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.

Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. Bu[...]

What do baby gorillas like to do in the jungle? They swing in the trees, and play tag in the bushes. They even get piggyback rides from their mothers. You can find out all about gorillas in this exciting book[...]

""Antes de recibir mi diagnostico, andaba por la vida sin proposito, sin una razon de ser. Lo que me ha tocado vivir me hacia falta, necesitaba vivirlo. Tenia que pasar por esas experiencias dolorosas para poder ser la mujer que soy hoy dia, una version mejorada de mi misma." "
Adamari Lopez, l[...]

This book focuses on the coupling of plastics and biocides, with particular concentration on natural biocides and the nanofabrication of biocides, and of their final properties and activity. Chapters address the key technologies employed to impart antimicrobial behavior to polymers, including chemic[...]

Erotic Journeys is a fascinating, revealing, and respectful examination of the romantic relationships and sex lives of the fastest-growing minority group in the nation. In a series of in-depth interviews, Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez investigates the ways in which sixty heterosexual Mexican women and men l[...]

Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia Lopez conducted a series of intimate int[...]

Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages.

Offers a critical-thinking approach to teaching multimedia. This text explains and reinforces design software concepts and skills through case-based, problem-solving pedagogy.[...]