This early work is a fascinating look at a vanished era. Contents Include: Building Deadfalls, Bear and Coon Deadfall, Otter Deadfall, Marten Deadfall, Stone Deadfall, The Bear Pen, Portable Traps, Some Triggers, Trip Triggers, How to Set, When to Build, Where to Build, The Proper Bait, Traps Knocke[...]
With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.[...]
An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's leading wine experts.Where do wine grapes come from and how are grape varieties related to one another? What is the historical background of each one? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make? Using cutting-edge DNA an[...]
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, "The Guardian." Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He found himself tailed by men in leather jacke[...]
"Alpha Dogs" is the story of the men behind an enormously influential campaign business called the Sawyer Miller Group, men who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard M. Nixon's to Barack Obama's. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with dreams of a career as[...]
From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image- no matter what the scales say.
When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media. But Harding and Kirby, the leading bloggers in the "fat[...]
He stares down at us enigmatically from the corbels and capitals of churches across Europe -as well as from innumerable pub signs. Leaves and foliage issue from his mouth, or even sprout luxuriantly from his face. He is evoked in the leaps of English Morris Dancers -but he also pops up on the walls [...]
As electricity generators and process industries are increasingly seeking less expensive fuels for the generation of electricity and process heat, there is an ever-increasing industry-led emphasise on exploring the possibility of utilising opportunity fuels. This book considers a range of opportunit[...]
Helps you to create affordable solid fuel blends that will burn efficiently while reducing the carbon footprint. This book includes discussions on such topics as flame structure and combustion performance, boiler efficiency, capacity as influenced by flue gas volume and temperature, slagging and fou[...]
This book helps you improve your critical thinking skills with 148 realistic case studies from all four clinical practice areas: medical-surgical, pediatrics, maternity, and psychiatric nursing. Each case in Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing, 4th Edition covers a common problem, drawn from actual c[...]
This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary and nature inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. Evolutionary computing approaches are introduced in the context of a wide range of manufacturing activities, and through the examination of practical problems and [...]
The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first millennium BC. This book focuses on the material culture remains of the period, and through them provides an inter[...]
John Cole's archaeological work has been a constant inspiration to his students and colleagues. This text is a collection of essays in honour of the inspirational archaeologist.[...]
Brazilian artist Harding Meyer (born 1964) creates paintings evocative of Renaissance portraiture that feature models from our fast-paced, ultra-mediated world.Meyer makes diverse changes to these models using both paint and the computer, creating conceptual multimedia works that blend old and new m[...]