Alan and Denise Jackson's life seemed like a fairy tale: high school sweethearts marry young and leave small-town Georgia to pursue big dreams in Music City. They pay their dues, work hard, weather deep disappointments. Then their dreams come true. In fairy tales, the Jacksons' material success?plus[...]
From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book-the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia-H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the histor[...]
Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States..[...]
Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give students a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with [...]
Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give students a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with [...]
Presents the developments in the field of nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing. This title provides comprehensive information on mixed scale manufacturing, silicon-based nanomechanical devices, lithography, chemical vapor deposition and environmental aspects.[...]
...an intimate look inside the relationship between Michael Jackson and his real Billie Jean, Ms. Theresa J. Gonsalves, as she reveals what the others didn't!
Her letter writing brought them together, now read the details in ...[...]
This companion to the PBS series provides deep insights into the need to improve our built environment, while providing tools for readers to effect similar positive change in their own communities.[...]
Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, he's managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he's in middle school, avoiding reading isn't as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy McGibney decides that h[...]
Examines the security dilemma which confronted President George W Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they could wound even the greatest of military powers. This book views that the response was influenced by neo-conservative exaggeration of the efficacy of military power and belief in the US a[...]
From a leading authority in the design-build movement, this practical, multi-disciplinary guide brings you all of the fundamentals that constructors, architects, and engineers must understand in order to mitigate risks, optimize results, and be successful in the design-build arena. Design-Build Esse[...]
Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, he's managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he's in middle school, avoiding reading isn't as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy McGibney decides that h[...]
Charlie Joe Jackson, the most reluctant reader ever born, made it his mission in the first book to get through middle school without reading a single book from cover to cover. Now he's back, and trying desperately to get straight A's in order to avoid going to academic camp for the summer. In order [...]
J. Randy Taraborrellis store Michael Jackson-biografi har altid været betragtet som den mest troværdige og mindst sensationsbetonede bog om fænomenet Michael Jackson, og den beskriver detaljeret og uhyre velskrevet hans utrolige liv, både på scenen og udenfor, som kunstner og som menn[...]
Demonstrates that studying the history of intelligence enriches our understanding of its role in international relations today Intelligence has never been a more important factor in international affairs than it is today. The 9/11 commission in the US, and the Hutton Report in Britain, have placed i[...]
Ordinary citizens the world over have long paid the price for the swashbuckling behavior of the corporate and political elite. We've seen the reigning establishment widen the gap between rich and poor, champion endless growth on a finite planet, wreak havoc on developing nations, and ravage ecosyste[...]
Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time withTHE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY: to 1500. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a [...]