Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, June 2, 2014"

This book will give readers at all experience levels a clearer understanding of the standards and debunk the myths surrounding them. Some people call it Common Core-in reality, it's common sense. Downloadable digital content includes customizable forms and over 300 pages of matrices for unpacking all of the standards at all grade levels.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies.

Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on.

For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era.

Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York.

A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West. In this illuminating new history, Keith Hitchins explores Romania's struggle to find its place amidst two diverse societies.

The basic framework used in this book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and identifies several factors(both internal and external)that condition Russian policy.

This book examines Zimbabwe's precolonial, colonial and post-colonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.

Mao's Little Red Book brings together a range of innovative scholars from around the world to explore the fascinating variety of uses and forms that Mao's Quotations has taken, from rhetoric, art and song, to talisman, badge, and weapon.

This book studies the lives and the images of youngsters in the Latin West and Greek East in the Roman period.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind.

This Companion presents fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost.

This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women.

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language.

This third edition of Slavery and the Founders incorporates a new chapter on the regulation and eventual (1808) banning of the African slave trade.

Cancer Stem Cells builds systematically from coverage of the basic research stage to an advanced research level, from clinical relevance to therapeutic potential, and will be a valuable resource for professionals in the fields of cancer research and stem cell biology.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the ways that health policy has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment of the United States.

This volume is for all those studying the philosophy of life and death, for readers taking applied ethics courses, and for those studying ethics and metaphysics more generally.

Intended principally for scholars of Late Antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research.

The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought but also the children who suffered war's consequences.

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless.

This new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings including results from Cassini's Saturn System, Equinox and Solstice missions, and the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter.

Blood Brotherhoods is a book of breathtaking ambition, tracing for the first time the interlocking story of all three mafias from their origins to the present day. John Dickie is recognized in Italy as one of the foremost historians of organized crime.

Capabilities, Gender, Equality will interest a wide range of readers and policy-makers interested in new human development policies.

This economical text is intended for use as a universal supplement in introductory econometrics courses for undergraduates or students in professional programs. It provides a student-friendly introduction to econometrics and economic forecasting, with an emphasis on the proper application and interpretation of regression results.

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely.

The book retraces the politicization of Riyadh youth and shows that, far from being a marginal event, car drifting is embedded in the country's social violence and economic inequality.

The development of patent markets should allow for better circulation of knowledge and more efficient allocation of technologies at a global level. However, the beneficial role of patents has recently come under scrutiny by those favouring 'open' innovation.

A captivating and beautifully-illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty-rules.

The tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.

This book will give readers at all experience levels a clearer understanding of the standards and debunk the myths surrounding them. Some people call it Common Core-in reality, it's common sense. Downloadable digital content includes customizable forms and over 300 pages of matrices for unpacking all of the standards at all grade levels.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies.

Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on.

For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era.

Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York.

A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West. In this illuminating new history, Keith Hitchins explores Romania's struggle to find its place amidst two diverse societies.

The basic framework used in this book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and identifies several factors(both internal and external)that condition Russian policy.

This book examines Zimbabwe's precolonial, colonial and post-colonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.

Mao's Little Red Book brings together a range of innovative scholars from around the world to explore the fascinating variety of uses and forms that Mao's Quotations has taken, from rhetoric, art and song, to talisman, badge, and weapon.

This book studies the lives and the images of youngsters in the Latin West and Greek East in the Roman period.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind.

This Companion presents fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost.

This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women.

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language.

This third edition of Slavery and the Founders incorporates a new chapter on the regulation and eventual (1808) banning of the African slave trade.

Cancer Stem Cells builds systematically from coverage of the basic research stage to an advanced research level, from clinical relevance to therapeutic potential, and will be a valuable resource for professionals in the fields of cancer research and stem cell biology.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the ways that health policy has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment of the United States.

This volume is for all those studying the philosophy of life and death, for readers taking applied ethics courses, and for those studying ethics and metaphysics more generally.

Intended principally for scholars of Late Antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research.

The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought but also the children who suffered war's consequences.

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless.

This new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings including results from Cassini's Saturn System, Equinox and Solstice missions, and the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter.

Blood Brotherhoods is a book of breathtaking ambition, tracing for the first time the interlocking story of all three mafias from their origins to the present day. John Dickie is recognized in Italy as one of the foremost historians of organized crime.

Capabilities, Gender, Equality will interest a wide range of readers and policy-makers interested in new human development policies.

This economical text is intended for use as a universal supplement in introductory econometrics courses for undergraduates or students in professional programs. It provides a student-friendly introduction to econometrics and economic forecasting, with an emphasis on the proper application and interpretation of regression results.

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely.

The book retraces the politicization of Riyadh youth and shows that, far from being a marginal event, car drifting is embedded in the country's social violence and economic inequality.

The development of patent markets should allow for better circulation of knowledge and more efficient allocation of technologies at a global level. However, the beneficial role of patents has recently come under scrutiny by those favouring 'open' innovation.

A captivating and beautifully-illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty-rules.

The tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.