Inspired by lightning bolts, spider webs, peacock feathers, and other patterns, these 31 circular illustrations float right off the page when you follow the easy coloring instructions and put on the enclosed 3-D glasses. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display.[...]

Short chapters, great stories, and tons of study tools! Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and loaded with review features so you'll be u[...]

Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against[...]

The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case - filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery - preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar fig[...]

This book contains an introduction to hyperbolic partial differential equations and a powerful class of numerical methods for approximating their solution, including both linear problems and nonlinear conservation laws. These equations describe a wide range of wave propagation and transport phenomen[...]

Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary parties form governments, deriving from the political and social context of such government formation its generic sequential process. Based on their policy preferences, and their beliefs about what policies will be[...]

Tackles the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework for risk management.[...]

Addressing the practical, hands-on field experience that every student in human services is required to explore, this book goes beyond a basic orientation to field coursework by focusing on more in-depth skills.[...]

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and lo[...]

In the last months of World War II, Hitler ordered destruction across Europe on a massive scale: wrecking towns, ports, industries, museums and railways. Yet a brave few, many of whom paid with their lives, disobeyed Hitler's orders. This book explores some of the great untold mysteries of the war.[...]

Randall Munroe describes "xkcd" as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. While it's practically required reading in the geek community, "xkcd" fans are as varied as the comic's subject matter. This book creates laughs from science jokes on one page to relationship humor on another.

"Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell's famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but [...]