Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last.In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the nam[...]

Explains measuring products cut from tree boles, measuring attributes of standing trees, inventorying volumes of forest stands, and predicting growth of individual trees and stands of trees. This work also provides background information on statistical methods, sampling designs, land measurements, a[...]

From the acknowledged master of the "instant boat" this book offers - tips, techniques, and designs for quick-and-easy plywood boatbuilding. Dynamite Payson offers you a new guide to building 15 exciting boats from master designer Phil Bolger. "Instant Boatbuilding with Dynamite Payson" includes pla[...]

Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are [...]

Brings together conceptual and updated empirical material in a systematic way. It provides students with a basis for understanding mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring that are introduced into every session of Congress.[...]

This book presents the task of creating that all-important portfolio for today's print and interactive design fields in a manageable series of steps. "Portfolio Laboratory for Graphic Design "serves as a sourcebook for graphic design students who are planning the design of their portfolio for applic[...]

Proposing religious experience as a legitimate subject for scientific investigation, Maslow studies the human need for spiritual expression.[...]

The answers to many kitchen conundrums in one easy-to-use volume, from the author of the acclaimed culinary classic "On Food and Cooking"
Harold McGee is our foremost expert on the science of cooking, advising professional chefs worldwide. Now he offers the same authoritative advice for food lo[...]

It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and gave cause for the nation's inc[...]

This book, the first of its kind, reviews and discusses the full range of research on religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes. Based on this research, the authors build theoretical models illustrating the various behavioural, psychological, and physiological pathways by which [...]