Most enthusiasts will admit - although sometimes reluctantly! - that they lose more than they win at their racing. That's because there is often more madness than method in how they choose to place their money. While there's no such thing as the perfect winning strategy, David Duncan has the formula[...]

Objective-C is an exciting and dynamic approach to C-based object-oriented programming; it's the approach adopted by Apple as the foundation for programming under Mac OS X, a Unix-based operating system gaining wide acceptance among programmers and other technologists. Objective-C is easy to learn a[...]

"Victory in Iraq: How America Won" is a history of the Iraq War. The book takes the reader from the initial invasion of 2003, through the tough times of the occupation, to the turnaround in 2007, and the final victory over the Mahdi Army in 2008 that reflected a successful American stand-up of Iraq'[...]

"The Nietzsche Reader" brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas. It includes selections from all the major [...]

Health promotion is an increasingly important part of the work of most health professionals. Yet health promotion is qualitatively different from traditional health care activities. This book will be a focused introduction to, and exploration of, ethical issues in health promotion. It aims to provid[...]

The political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decision making is the subject of this book. It attempts to integrate the American approach to law, a balance of commitment and skepticism, with the Continental tradition in social theory, philosophy and psychology. The centre of this work is t[...]

Published to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery. This catalogue traces the artists' development over several decades and assesses their contrib[...]

Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the 'other side of Zen', by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding ligh[...]

Now in its fifth edition, the internationally acclaimed "Foundations for Practice in Occupational Therapy" continues to provide a practical reference tool which is both an indispensable guide to undergraduates and a practical reference tool for clinicians in the application of models and theories to[...]