Experience Iceland's amazing diversity and many attractions the way the locals do. Frommer's Iceland is a complete guide to everything Iceland has to offer, from cosmopolitan city Reykjavik to outdoor activities like taking a dip in natural thermal pools.[...]
Featuring a highly practical, hands-on approach ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION is the only textbook on the subject written specifically for users with no prior enterprise system experience. With its broad coverage of topics, the text introduces readers to important principles of integrated systems, and dem[...]
Experience the joy-and profits-that come from managing your own bed and breakfast
Whether you already know the magic that comes with owning a B&B or you are at the planning stage, the fourth edition of Open Your Own Bed & Breakfast-now updated with everything you need to know about online market[...]
This book examines the structure and organization of the agricultural industry, then discusses basic micro and macroeconomics principles as they apply to agriculture. Principles of economics are used to demonstrate to the reader that theory actually makes reality more understandable. The book is at [...]
Provides an examination of the structure and organization of the agricultural industry. This work discusses the basic micro and macro economic principles as they apply to agriculture, and covers the effects of economic alliances on Agribusiness.[...]
Classic modern design never goes out of style: it is merely retired or subtly adapted to its given place and time. "New Modernist Type" is a collection that reveals how a graphic language of simplicity and economy has impacted contemporary design. Hundreds of modern examples by international designe[...]
Virtually anything can be used to make original typography: flora, fauna, foodstuffs even mens underwear. Whats more, once you start looking, it is impossible not to see letters everywhere, in natural, artificial and urban environments. A celebration of the world of letters, The Typographic Universe[...]
Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graphic design. Written and compiled by the worlds leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed [...]
This is the fabric and textile directory that dressmakers and fashion designers have been waiting for. This book is like having your own personal shopper able to recommend fabrics to suit the effects you want to achieve, show you how the fabric will perform, and recommend ways of using it. Each fabr[...]
'This book, better than any I have seen, provides an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II...from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Or[...]
This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor,[...]
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh[...]
In the acclaimed first edition of Hopper's Places, Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester, and Cape Cod to demonstrate how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and how he sometimes made intentional[...]
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s[...]
A course in learner training which enables students to become more effective learners and take on greater responsibility for their own learning.[...]
This book explores why dust forms around stars, and how to model stellar dust formation and dust-forming environments consistently.[...]
A level 1 reader in the Scholastic Discover More program.
Meet the most adorable animals--and pet them This book includes cute and intriguing information about sheep, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and even miniature ponies. Remember to wash your hands when you're done A free downloadable digita[...]
A level 1 reader in the Scholastic Discover More Reader series.
PLANETS guides beginning readers on a journey of exploration through the solar system, showing how planets were formed, their attraction to stars, moons, and satellites, and how we humans explore our space neighborhood--the Milky Wa[...]
What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bach[...]