How to Create Your Own Good Fortune. Build your motivation, drive, enthusiasm, persistence and will to succeed. Hone your strengths, focus, determination and commitment. Develop your self-awareness, conquer your demons and dismantle your barriers as you learn to spot the wealth of amazing opport[...]
On Our Own offers a comprehensive narrative history of American society, culture, politics, and institutions during this remarkable decade. The volume includes the Kennedy administration, the civil-rights revolution, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the Movement, and then concludes with three[...]
The Landsknechts were German mercenaries who served during the reigns of Maximilian I and Charles V in the sixteenth century. Having signed up, these Landsknechts were read a very detailed code of conduct, organized into companies, paid one month in advance, and sent into battle! Their major weapon [...]
During the 14th and 15th centuries military tactics in Europe underwent a period of sustained transformation of which the outcome was the rejuvenation of the footsoldier as the major tactical unit. One nation alone stands principally responsible for this development - the Swiss Confederation. For ce[...]
In the 1520s, a war broke out in Germany when insurgent groups rose to overthrow the power structure. The movement took as its emblem a peasant's shoe and the title "Bundschuh", and this became known as the Peasants' War - although the rebel armies actually included as many townsmen, miners, disaffe[...]
From the author of Central Park, An American Masterpiece and Seeing Central Park comes a book about the most visited spot in Central Park and one of the most popular tourist attractions in New York City-Strawberry Fields. Countless tourists and fans flock here every day to gather around the world-fa[...]
With its unique, singular focus on the clinical aspect of cardiac arrhythmias, "Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease" makes it easy to apply today's most up-to-date guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. An expert author team provides clear, clinica[...]
A drug-induced disease is the unintended effect of a drug, which results in mortality or morbidity with symptoms sufficient to prompt a patient to seek medical attention and/or require hospitalization. Since the first edition of this book was published in 2005, numerous drugs have been withdrawn fro[...]