The goal of this book is to help the reader understand how the global economy works and the way economists think. Completely up-to-date and full of international data, the Second Edition covers current events as well as many striking historical examples. The information will enable the reader to thi[...]

This title includes a Book, 1 DVD & 1 CD. Learning to play the keyboard is fun with this carefully designed method for the young beginner. The key features include: easy to follow lesson-by-lesson format for the absolute beginner; incorporates a repertoire of well-known children's songs; introduces [...]

While America struggles with a recess ion, oil prices soar, revolution rocks the Middle East, European nations risk defaulting on their loans, and the world teeters on the brink of a possible global financial crisis. This is not a description of the present, however, but the 1970s. In "The Oil Kings[...]

The nations of Scandinavia and Finland, or Nordic Europe, continue to provide living proof that economic prosperity can be combined with social equality and environmental responsibility. This book, written from an Australian perspective, explores previous outside/English-speaking nations' policy int[...]

Neurology - as only Harrison's can cover it. Featuring a superb compilation of chapters related to neurology that appear in "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Eighteenth Edition", this concise, full-color clinical companion delivers the latest knowledge in the field backed by the scientifi[...]

The fully updated and revised fifth edition of this widely-used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field. Updated throughout to take account of major events and developments, such as the Arab Spring, it also includes new material on neo-realism and neo-liberalism, po[...]

There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new businesses is disappointingly high, and the economic impact of most of them disappointingly low, suggesting that enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs and their investors all too often operate under a false set of a[...]

What are professional doctorates? How do they change professional knowledge and improve practice? This book examines the relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and professional practice. It explores contributions made by research on practice to professional development.[...]

Berlin, 1945: Artur Axmann--a trusted member of Hitler's inner circle and leader of the Hitler Youth--witnesses the Fuhrer commit suicide.
But he would not let the Reich die with its leader . . .
Evading capture, and with access to remnants of the regime's wealth, Axmann had enough followe[...]

For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to auxiliary signalman. But he also had a secret . . .
Due to Allied bombing r[...]

Fire and the Earth: Interactions in the Biosphere and Atmosphere transcends individual subfields to bring together our current understanding of this significant topic. This book will go beyond a summary of existing data to provide a foundation for an interdisciplinary field of Fire Research.[...]