Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the "New York Herald Tribune" and later for "The New York Times" traversed the world of sp[...]
Peter feels compelled to help a wounded German pilot, but he doesn't want to be a traitor--especially not to his father, who is off fighting the Nazis. A moving story about the moral dilemmas of war.
Summer 1941: For Peter, the war is a long way away, being fought by his father and thousands of [...]
A fully revised, expert guide on how to successfully design and implement wireless solutions
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature - displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting - or more infamous, more misjudged - t[...]
Daniel has been ordered, along with the other subjects of King Darius's Persian Empire, to pray to no other god or man but the king for a whole month. But Daniel continues to pray to God, ignoring the official edict and making King Darius quite mad. Determined to see Daniel pay for not following his[...]
How did Steve Jobs achieve such success? What were his methods? This book reveals the philosophies and carefully honed skills Jobs used in his journey to the top. With his thoughts on innovation, how to find inspiration, presenting an idea, advertising and much more, you can learn how to view the wo[...]
Denna bok behandlar teori och internationella standarder inom området externredovisning och är avsedd att användas på fördjupningskurser i företagsekonomi vid universitet och högskolor. Den förutsätter att läsaren har grundläggande kunskaper i externredovisning motsvarande en introduceran[...]
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was an influential and provocative twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an alternative to the image of thought found in traditional philosophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy by some of his most influential interpreters. The[...]
Global economics have never been more newsworthy. This book helps you understand all the nuances of the world of finance from the International Monetary Fund to company pensions. It answers all the questions you're too afraid to ask, such as how inflation affects interest rates, or how national debt[...]
An inquiry into hearing voices-one of humanity's most profound phenomena
Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill- understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. In the age of modern medical science, we have relegated this experience to nothing more [...]
Shows students how politics and government differ between states and communities. This text focuses on what social scientists know about the effects of rules and institutions on politics and policy. It covers the core concepts students need to gain an understanding of state and local government.[...]
E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after oil. But scams are also a central part of Nigeria's domestic cultural landscape. Corruption is so widespread in Nigeria that its citizens call it simply "the Nigerian factor." Willin[...]
A collection of 50 articles produced in the field of sport and exercise psychology. This book is for those interested in the development of the subdiscipline. It is useful for courses in sport and exercise psychology. It is also useful as a supplemental text in undergraduate and graduate courses in [...]
This title includes 17 essays by one of the world's leading commentators on the work of Gilles Deleuze. The articles in this volume have become frequent references for students and scholars working on Deleuze. In response to academic demand, we are now making them available in a single convenient vo[...]
Sherlock Holmes remains as popular, and as fascinating, now as he ever did. Now, in this beautiful and lavishly illustrated book, Daniel Smith explores Sherlock Holmes and his world in every engrossing respect. The Sherlock Holmes Companion, a witty and informed text, provides plot summaries of ever[...]
"Advanced Satellite Communications".
Anxiety once paralyzed Daniel Smith over a roast beef sandwich, convincing him that a choice between ketchup and barbeque sauce was as dire as that between life and death. It has caused him to chew his cuticles until they bled, wear sweat pads in his armpits, and confess his sexual problems to his p[...]