This Comprehensive Owner's Guide to the Lakeland Terrier serves as a complete introduction to this unique British terrier breed known for its prowess at seeking both quarry and comedy. The Lakey, as the breed is affectionately known, is a free-thinking little devil, smaller than most of the other lo[...]
Making Sense of Children's Thinking and Behavior offers parents and professionals a tool for understanding children with neurological differences. These children have an atypical view of the world, unique to their particular disability, which can make their behavior confusing and, at times, challeng[...]
An illustrated fan's reference to Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century features contributions by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists, previously unpublished Emerson journal essays, cultural data on Victorian social mores, and new information about the series' characters.[...]
Jan Wilde's much-needed vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia, is anything but restful. Here in this historic restored colonial village, her sleep is invaded by strangers from two centuries in the past. They seem so close, so real--and when Jan awakens in the morning, their lives and loves and the secr[...]
Includes chapters on process synthesis, computer-aided design, and design of chemical reactors. Emphasising on computer use in design, economic evaluation, and optimization, this book contains numerous real examples, including computer or hand solutions, and often both. Concepts, strategies, and app[...]
Using step-by-step instructions, the author shows amateurs and more experienced bakers alike how to decorate over 30 cakes: a Faberge jewellery box for Mother's Day, an intricately woven Christmas wreath, or a many-tiered wedding cake draped with delicate lace.[...]
No birthday celebration is complete without a birthday cake, and no one makes more astoundingly beautiful or imaginative cakes than Colette Peters, cake decorator extraordinaire. Here are cakes for every month in the year and every sort of birthday celebrant. Each month has a sign of the zodiac cake[...]
STRENGTHEN SOFTWARE SECURITY BY HELPING DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY EXPERTS WORK TOGETHER Traditional approaches to securing software are inadequate. The solution: Bring software engineering and network security teams together in a new, holistic approach to protecting the entire enterprise. Now, four hi[...]
Is graduate school right for you?
Should you get a master's or a Ph.D.?
How can you choose the best possible school?
This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for less money, and with less troubl[...]
IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.
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* Equips the individual investor for financial success through dividends * The topic is split broadly into three elements: income, information, and independence.[...]
Once more the "unconventional" Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A "must" read for every business person.[...]
The year is 1143, and once again Brother Cadfael is forced to abandon the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of human nature to solve a murder- this time frighteningly close to home. When a newly ploughed field, recently given to the Abbey yields that body of a young woman, Cadfael[...]
Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the services of clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted by two [...]
Outside the pale of the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, Brother Cadfael's attention is turned on Meriet, a proud, secretive, nineteen-year-old novice who has been deli[...]
"Parry's beautifully written narrative encompasses the international scope of the Civil War conflict and never loses sight of the brutality of war and the deceitfulness of politics." --"Booklist"Won the Hammett Prize for best mystery of the year, given out by the North American Branch of the Interna[...]
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.[...]
Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, screenplays or poetry, or simply trying to keep a more compelling journal or blog, this invaluable volume will get your creative juices flowing. Beautifully designed with a cloth-bound cover and ribbon place marker, it's filled with 365 inspiring quotati[...]
Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics and the Aims of Education reassesses British philosopher Richard Stanley Peters' educational writings by examining them against the most recent developments in philosophy and practice. Critically reassesses R. S. Peters, a philosopher who had a profound [...]