Discusses various aspects of AIDS prevention, from epidemiology, molecular immunology and virology to the principles of broad-based public health prevention interventions. This book identifies trends in HIV/AID epidemiology and their impact on creating and implementing prevention interventions. It i[...]

Biogeochemistry considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth - from atmosphere to soil to seawater - have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion [...]

Osteogenesis Imperfecta is the first translational reference professionals can turn to for a source of comprehensive information on this disorder. Although several reviews of the field have been published in various journals, there is no other single source for a compendium of current information. S[...]

Describes phase and state transitions that affect technological properties of biological materials occurring in food processing and storage. This book covers the role of water as a plasticizer, the effect of transitions on mechanical and chemical changes, and the application of modeling in predictin[...]

Forty years in the making, Management of Organizational Behavior is a readable text that makes behavioral sciences come alive through real life examples and progressive ideology.[...]

For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Organizational Development. Forty years in the making, Management of Organizational Behavior is a readable text that makes behavioral sciences come alive through real life examples and progressive ideology.[...]

For freshman/junior-level courses in Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy. This is the first available text/reader in applied social and political philosophy - i.e., decision-making in difficult, complex, and urgent matters in which everyone's interests are at stake and, in which - at the sam[...]

Set alongside "The Analects" and "Mencius", these two texts make up the 'four books' of Chinese Confucian tradition. Their depiction of the 'Way of Great Learning' focuses on the moral tenets of Confucian thinking, establishing a universal framework that links individuals with the cosmos. By drawing[...]

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence. '"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. - And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell t[...]

With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this is the first authentic account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history. Described by Churchill as the 'secret weapon' that 'won the war', the men and women o[...]

This third volume provides further information on American architecture, profiling various architects.[...]

These eleven essays look at the current state of sociology in Britain from a number of intriguing perspectives. How important is it for British sociologists to be aware of the historical development of their subject in this country? How is British sociology seen by British scholars working in relate[...]