As early as the 1840s, French settlers brought their knowledge of wine to Washington's Walla Walla Valley. The highly fertile soil and abundant water were perfect complements to their Old World winemaking traditions, halted only by Prohibition and the historically unmerciful weather conditions. A ce[...]

This is an illustrated directory of 500 fuchsia varieties, including those suitable for growing as standards, trained structures and summer bedding, plus hardy fuchsias, container candidates and unusual types. All the most popular cultivars are featured, such as 'Brookwood Belle', 'Cecile', 'Golden [...]

This popular book clearly and concisely de-constructs the boilerplate clauses commonly used in commercial contracts.[...]

Drawing on many years'experience of teaching discrete mathem atics to students of all levels, Anderson introduces such as pects as enumeration, graph theory and configurations or arr angements. Starting with an introduction to counting and rel ated problems, he moves on to the basic ideas of graph t[...]

In the summer of 1944 a family from Perugia, Italy, finds itself in a desperate situation that will shape their lives for years to come.
"A Mindful Death" takes a group of disparate people on a journey to New York at the end of World War II, via Marseille France.
The patriarch of the family h[...]

A unique case-based approach to learning how to interpret gastrointestinal images Gastrointestinal Imaging Cases features more than 150 gastrointestinal cases grouped according to organ system. Emphasizing clinical application, each case includes presentation, findings, differential diagnosis, comme[...]

Anderson builds the book around a framework of understanding, creating, and delivering value.

Viewed from an international perspective--rather than a purely American one--Business Market Management draws upon best business practices, allowing readers to understand cultural and regional di[...]

Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America's Army, through both the internet and its recruiting offices. Is there any scientific evidence to support the claims that violent games contri[...]

In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good--or equally poor--health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian [...]

Covers the physical and mathematical principles of electric methods in applied geophysics.