What makes Property such an ideal casebook? - a unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness - engaging structure that encompasses cases, text, questions, problems, visual illustrations, and examples - modular organization makes the book highly adaptable to a range of syllabi and equally well suited for use in property courses with ...
This clear, learner-friendly text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. The text covers all the basics of critical thinking, beginning where students are, not where we think they should be. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting ...
"Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer", now in its fifth edition, continues to provide a unified treatment of momentum transfer (fluid mechanics), heat transfer, and mass transfer. This new edition has been updated to include more coverage of modern topics such as biomedical/biological applications as well as an added separations ...
Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also come to know through Dorothea Lange's unforgettable photos of migrant families struggling to ...
An account of how the author was Nelson Mandela's gaoler for over twenty years. Despite opposing political views and Gregory's initial dislike of Mandela, the two gradually formed a firm friendship, becoming each other's confidant and source of comfort. Gives insight into the character and political beliefs of Mandela.
Destined to be one of the most controversial books of the century, and a sure-fire bestseller, this true story by the convicted assassin of Dr. King will reveal the conspiracy and coverup which has tormented America, and one solitary man, for more than 20 years.
Examining the two basic components of scholarship competition - essays and interviews - this vital guidebook offers practical advice and real-life examples to guide students through the entire application process. A roundtable panel of judges and applicants supply inside information regarding the winning qualities sought after by award-giving ...
In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story broke and the world began to learn about the extent of the horrors that occurred there, the US Army despatched Col. Larry James to Abu Ghraib with an overwhelming assignment: to ...
James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy edit a collection of essays on four views of atonement: the healing view, the Christus victor view, the kaleidoscopic view and the penal substitutionary view. This is a book that will help Christians understand the issues, grasp the differences and proceed toward a clearer articulation of their understanding of the ...
This volume of the landmark "Diagnostic and Surgical Imaging Anatomy" series combines a rich pictorial database of high-resolution images and lavish, 3-D color illustrations to help you interpret multiplanar scans with confidence. The book brings you close up to see key structures with meticulously labeled anatomic landmarks from axial, coronal, ...
Talks about the southern exodus and its impact on American life. Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of black and white migrants, James N. Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora ...
Often called "the bible of fundraising," this text is also being used as a desk-top reference for the professional, including the organization's CEO. It is designed to add weight and credibility to the ideas that the most successful development executives emphasize to their volunteers.
In the "Best of Branding", branding pioneer Jim Gregory publishes - for the first time ever - findings from his revolutionary Corporate Branding Index[registered]. This index, which for more than a decade has compiled branding results from more than 1,000 companies, is today's most influential and exhaustive database on what works, what doesn't, ...
Colloquial Cantonese is a practical course in everyday Cantonese requiring no prior knowledge of the language. It is ideal for anyone seeking to develop a sound command of contemporary Cantonese whether studying independently or with a teacher. The book is divided into 15 lessons which introduce you to the core functions you will need to ...
The pendulum: a case study in physics is a unique book in several ways. Firstly, it is a comprehensive quantitative study of one physical system, the pendulum, from the viewpoint of elementary and more advanced classical physics, modern chaotic dynamics, and quantum mechanics. In addition, coupled pendulums and pendulum analogs of superconducting ...
In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The result was his now classic work, presented here in an English translation. Unlike many other intellectuals of the 20th century, Rank maintains a place for the soul rather than dismissing it ...
Powder room, comfort station, privy, loo, dunny the infinite variety of names we invent for this universal necessity, the toilet, is matched by an extraordinary variety of designs worldwide, from miniature log cabins in the Canadian wilderness to state-of-the-art cubicles in Japan, and from huts on stilts in the Caribbean to solar-powered sanitary ...
The advent of the Java programming language has made the corporate computing world take notice. Java offers businesses many benefits, including the secure deployment of distributed business applications. Yet for all of its strengths, Java is still largely a mystery to professionals charged with mapping corporate computing strategy. Mission ...
This book provides students with the essential background to the English Civil War and to the historical debates surrounding its causes.Historians have argued about the causes of the English Civil War for over three centuries and recent revisionism has focused on the question of whether short-term or long-term changes could account for the war. ...
New Englanders talk more about their weather than any other subject. Anyone who has scampered for shelter during a summer shower or shoveled a path through snow in May knows that bending to the weather's whims is a way of life in New England. But what do you actually know about New England's weather or climate? Combining a scholar's appreciation ...
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