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This book explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and the world's relationship to the region.

The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishing, both online and in print.

Ask most preteens and teenagers about life after high school and you're likely to get bored shrugs. Spark excitement and help kids feel motivated about staying in school by making the college or career connection come alive with this indispensable resource that takes the guesswork out of career awareness counseling.

Research shows that activities associated with the arts can enhance creativity, problem-solving, memory systems, motor coordination, and analytical skills. David A. Sousa and arts educator Thomas J. Pilecki demonstrate how arts education is integral to the development of the brain and to students' overall academic achievement.

Elisa MacDonald offers a skillful approach to team leadership rooted in values, mindset, intelligence, and skill. Readers will learn from reality-based examples illustrating common team hurdles in collaboration, shared leadership, goal setting and attainment, rigorous discourse, and continuous improvement.

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transitional, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship.

This book offers a detailed account of Inca history, society and culture through the lens of archeology, written documents and ethnographic accounts of native Andeans.

This edition describes how the United States became a global power--economically, culturally and militarily--during the period from 1913-1945, from the inception of Woodrow Wilson's presidency to the end of the Second World War.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations describes the causes and dynamics of United States foreign policy from 1865-1913, the era when the United States became one of the four great world powers and the world's greatest economic power.

This book offers a radical new approach to understanding the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BCE) and imperialism more generally. Through a wide array of textual, visual and archaeological material, the author shows how the rulers of the empire constructed a system flexible enough to provide for the needs of different peoples within the confines of a single imperial authority.

Colin Shindler's remarkable history of Israel traces the nation's developments from 1948 to the present day.

Morocco is notable for its stable and durable monarchy, its close ties with the West, its vibrant cultural life and its centrality to regional politics. This book, by distinguished historian Susan Gilson Miller, offers a richly documented survey of modern Moroccan history.

Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule.

David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon--the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war--captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.

The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to one of America's most celebrated living novelists most difficult and provocative works.

A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines has been brought together to examine language development and language evolution to help readers better understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language.

Laura Rothstein provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the major federal laws--and judicial interpretations of those laws--that apply to the education of children with special needs.

This volume brings together controversies and debates to reflect further on the current state of international law regarding fundamental issues.

Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times.

In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory.

In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behavior. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups and networks, into the traditional mainstream economic view.

The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter offers an engaging exploration of a celebrated seventeenth-century French philosopher's world and work--Rene Descartes.

This book explores the role of divine severity in the character and wisdom of God, and the flux and difficulties of human life in relation to divine salvation.

It is clear that nature is undergoing rapid changes as a result of human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries and urbanization. What effects do these activities have? This book will examine this question.

In this book, Stephen James O'Meara makes a detour beneath the southern skies, presenting a fresh list of 120 deep-sky objects for southern hemisphere stargazers to observe.

Fully updated throughout, including revised illustrations and new images from NASA missions, this new edition provides an overview of Earth's history from a planetary science perspective.

This book provides the first advanced-level, one-stop resource examining the physics of volcanic behavior and reviewing the state-of-the-art in modeling volcanic processes.

Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics and cosmology, helps astronomers reveal our universe's most fascinating phenomena.

Now in it's second edition, this book explores organic, organometallic, inorganic, solid state, and materials chemistry, demonstrating how common molecular orbital situations arise throughout the whole chemical spectrum.

The authors of this book provide a concise and practical guide to understanding and using PLS structural equation modeling.

Stochastic calculus provides a powerful description of a specific class of stochastic processes in physics and finance. However, many econophysicists struggle to understand it. This book presents the subject simply and systematically, giving the reader a better understanding and enabling them to apply the methods in practice.

The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool behavior of animals. This book is a comprehensive assessment of the cognitive abilities and environmental forces shaping these behaviors.

The authors of this book argue that we can have a safer and healthier banking system without sacrificing any of the benefits of the system, and at an essentially low cost to society.

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among low-income, inner-city men.

In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions--no matter where you are in your career.

This book is a wonderful, valuable and truly important contribution to the field of qualitative research. The author has updated, innovated and altogether advanced the insights and wisdom of practice of Miles and Huberman in such a way as to amplify the value of their work while making it even more usable and inspiring to researchers concerned with engaging in rigorous, reflective, systematic and reliable empirical research.

Here is a step-by-step guide to reinventing you... Are you where you want to be professionally? Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, the goal is clear: to build a career that thrives on your unique passions and talents.

With a clear and upbeat voice, this thought-provoking overview of social problems challenges readers to understand and recognize social problems in their communities and inspires them to become part of the solution.

In this indispensable book, the author shares a specific and actionable approach to defining your own success and reaching your potential. Drawing on years of experience, Robert Steven Kaplan proposes an integrated plan for identifying and achieving your goals.

Women, Politics, and Power provides a clear and detailed introduction to women's political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and regions. There is simply no other book that offers such a thorough and multidisciplinary synthesis of research on women's political power around the world.