Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, March 18, 2013"

Advance from overwhelmed to empowered with Alan Blankstein's Failure is Not an Option, used by more than 350,000 educators to create schools that sustain success for every student.

Fully updated and expanded, this new edition provides readers with an accessible introduction to marine chemistry. It highlights geochemical interactions between the ocean, solid earth, atmosphere and climate.

From appeasement to the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War, David Mayers examines the complicated interaction between policy, as conceived in Washington, and implementation on the ground in Europe and Asia.

This book tells the full inside story of the Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Putting the Battle of Manchuria into the context of the military and political struggles fought, Harold M. Tanner casts light on all sides of this historic confrontation and shows how the outcome has been, and continues to be, interpreted to suit the needs of competing visions of China's past and future.

This book brings together some of the foremost historians, geographers, political scientists and legal scholars on modern Asia to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders.

An expert on Cambodia examines the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge, the regime responsible for the Cambodian genocide from 1975 to 1979.

These essays debate a variety of issues surrounding the war in Afghanistan, including the success of the United States involvement, corruption in the Afghan government, and the impact of the war on soldiers families.

Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters. Dear Mark Twain collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world--children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates of mental institutions, con artists, a former president, and more.

Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English words and sentences.

With its lyrical writing, strong characterization, and enduring themes, The Glass Menagerie remains one of the most often-produced American plays of all time. The essays in this book explore family dysfunction in The Glass Menagerie as well as in twenty-first-century America.

This volume explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully selected content representing a variety of perspectives.

These essays demonstrate Hemingway's unique ability to dramatize a war in a country that was close to his heart--Spain. They depict Hemingway as a truly imaginative artist, one who subordinated his personal beliefs about a war to his greater desire to present all sides of a complicated conflict.

This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same, and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings.

This book examines ethics in biology and the issue of using genetic engineering and other methods to create 'designer' babies.

This text examines the health implications of the world subsisting on a western style diet.

Peggy Parks describes the causes and symptoms of depression in teens, how it is treated, and what life is like for teens suffering from depression.

This book provides clear, careful explanations about West Nile Virus--what it is, how it is spread, treatment for and living with the disease, and prevention and control of the virus.

This engaging introduction to Islam examines its lived reality, its worldwide presence, and the variety of beliefs and practices encompassed by the religion. The global perspective uniquely captures the diversity of Islam expressed throughout different countries in the present day.

Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789.

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut figure and proposes instead to conceptualize the name Scylla as a combination of three concepts—sea, dog and woman—whose articulation changes over time.

You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick—and you finally reach your goals.

Classified is a fascinating account of the British state's long obsession with secrecy and the ways it sought to prevent information about its secret activities from entering the public domain.

Here is an in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding congressional ethics, providing an insight into the function of the American government in the twenty-first century.

From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman--and third American woman--to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams takes the reader through the ups and downs of her tumultuous and remarkable life.

What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or invented.

This book is about power. The power wielded over others--by absolute monarchs, tyrannical totalitarian regimes and military occupiers--and the power of the people who resist and deny their rulers' claims to that authority by whatever means.

This up-to-date edition covers standard introductory topics, such as electrostatics, magnetism, circuits, electromagnetic waves and electric and magnetic fields in matter.

The chapters in this book offer insights on adoption around the world, the joys and dangers of trans national adoption, on racial and indigenous issues of adoption, on the role of gender in adoption, and finally on the rights of all the parties.

The debate over the complexity of alcohol regulations and restrictions continues to unfold in the United States. This text examines the minimum drinking age and its impact on society.

Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Benn Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's

Business and Community is a historical narrative which also highlights emerging critical issues and the achievements as well as deficits of Indian Corporate Social Responsibility.

In this book, Andy Molinsky offers the tools needed to simultaneously adapt behavior to new cultural contexts while staying authentic and grounded in your own natural style.

Using examples from a wide range of companies such as Pfizer, Lonza, Go Travel, Prehype and others, Innovation as Usual lights the way toward embedding creativity in the DNA of the workplace.

This Opposing Viewpoints Series book discusses what factors put today's teens at risk, how substance abuse impacts teens, and how society should deal with teen discipline and teen crime.

The authors of The US Deficit explore the vastly differing approaches to the various causes and proposed solutions to the budget deficit.

The viewpoints in this book consider the benefits and consequences of the twenty-one-and-over drinking age, why teens want to drink, what measures could help them approach alcohol more safely and responsibly, and what role schools and parents should play.

Wall Street Values chronicles the transformation of Wall Street's business model from serving clients to proprietary trading and explains how this shift undermined the ethical foundations of the modern financial industry.

Ronald D. Lankford, Jr. explains how certain factors greatly complicate gaining an accurate picture of the future of the US economy, but makes clear that the US will have to consider these influences when making economic policy.

Lauri S. Scherer explores the issues surrounding artificial ingredients. She presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance.

Focusing on today's major fuel resources--ethanol, biodiesel, wood, natural gas, petroleum products and coal--this book discusses the formation, composition and properties of the fuels, and the ways in which they are processed for commercial use.

This book offers an introduction to landforms and the language of its design, and explores the site engineering concepts essential to practicing landscape architecture today.

William and Rosemarie Alley provide an engaging and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding disposal of nuclear waste in the United States, with reference also to other countries around the world.