Rebooted into a fresh new film franchise (2012) directed by Marc Webb and starring up-and-comers Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, and having debuted in its first ever Broadway appearance in March 2011, Spider-Man is back in the spotlight. Reaching out to millions of devoted fans, The Spider-Man Vaul[...]

How did a scrawny black kid--the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton--become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of World War II, went to Howard University on the G[...]

Prehospital care is a growing area in medicine, and emergency treatments are becoming more sophisticated as the potential to save lives grow.
The fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on nuclear and biological emergencies.
Each chapter gives concise[...]

This compact and easy-to-read text by leading experts shows practitioners and students how to recognize the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children and youth and to provide effective clinical interventions and school-based prevention programs. Exposure to IPV is defined using examples[...]

Wright compiles dozens of essays and lectures that attribute the success of "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy to the power of film itself, the power of director Jackson's artistry, and the original power of Tolkien's literary masterwork.[...]

"A Civil War "is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, as a young man, took part in the struggle against Mussolini's fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone's masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period[...]

This is an important collection of black and white woodcut art that documents the influential precursors to the modern graphics of today."Wordless books" were stories from the early part of the twentieth century told in black and white woodcuts, imaginatively written without any text. They are the p[...]