This guide takes the form of a sourcebook, combining reprinted contextual and critical documents with extensive introductory comment and annotation by the volume editor.[...]

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is thu[...]

One day Archie is amazed to see the most extraordinary sea creatures as he is playing on the pier. When he looks closely he finds that these are not like any other creatures he has seen before. Soon more mysteries are revealing themselves all around him and he is pitched into a danger-filled battle [...]

This book includes many new, enhanced features and content. Overall, the text integrates two success stories of practicing instructional designers with a focus on the process of instructional design. The text includes stories of a relatively new designer and another with eight to ten years of expe[...]

At first glance, "Beloved" would appear to be the only "ghost story" among Toni Morrison's nine novels, but as this provocative new study shows, spectral presences and places abound in the celebrated author's fiction. Melanie R. Anderson explores how Morrison uses specters to bring the traumas of Af[...]

Early recognition and control of weeds invariably leads to considerable savings in the cost of herbicides used on crops and in gardens. This atlas is a full colour photographic guide to the 40 most common weeds afflicting arable farmland and gardens.[...]

This book is written in the belief that a proper understanding of Greek civilization in antiquity requires some knowledge of its background of seafaring. A knowledge of nautical practice is required for an understanding of some passages of Greek poetry and prose writing, and for a correct interpreta[...]

The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a comprehensive and authoritative 2005 handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, individual chapters summa[...]

Equips you to evaluate the available evidence alongside of practice guidelines, so you can provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. This book uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine.[...]