Stairway to Heaven is an incredibly broad ranging new study that stretches from ancient Egypt and Babylon to Jewish and Christian Kabbalists, Chinese Daoists, Hindu Tantra and Haitian Vodun and finally to 19th and 20th century European occult societies, uncovering a hitherto unrecognized common myth[...]

This revised text retains a number of elements from the first edition while incorporating new topics, new research, and an explicit organizational focus on the three dimensions of grammar: form, meaning, and use.[...]

Vertigo and Dizziness: Common Complaints, Second Edition revises and updates the first edition to reflect the advances that have taken place in this field. Valid epidemiological studies are now available on the prevalence and incidence of these illnesses. There have been improvements in diagnostic c[...]

This Book provides easy to use format, alphabetical listings in both languages, and a perfect resource for tudents or travelers.[...]

Uses the example of a famous sea-monster from Greek myth to offer a new way of understanding mythical symbols.[...]

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this 2009 book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of cor[...]

Integrating a unique conceptual- and skills-based approach, HELPING PROCESS: ASSESSMENT TO TERMINATION presents the methodology of the helping process as it is practiced in the human service field. It is thoroughly grounded in strength-based helping. Featuring a multicultural emphasis throughout, it[...]

The fully updated single-source guide to creating successful packaging designs for consumer productsNow in full-color throughout, "Packaging Design, Second Edition" has been fully updated to secure its place as the most comprehensive resource of professional information for creating packaging design[...]

The daughter of a British wartime spy and an Austro-Hungarian baroness, Marianne Faithfull epitomised the perfect English rose~immaculate bone structure, long blonde hair, angelic features and a cut-glass accent. An icon of the Sixties, she is remembered less for the beautiful songs she performed ba[...]