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Experienced teachers share innovative, classroom-tested content, methods, and resources for presenting the Cold War in college and high school classes.

Vladimir A. Tsesis, MD, was born and grew up in the Soviet Union, and became a pediatric doctor there. In 1974 he emigrated to the United States, where he continued to practice for another thirty years. Presently he is retired and lives in River Forest, IL. His books include Children, Parents, Lollipops: Tales of Pediatrics and Who's Yelling in My Stethoscope?

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Removing the shroud of complexity that  had engulfed the field of menopause research and management for more than a decade,   this unique, case-based resource discusses a range of topics relevant to the reproductive health of the aging female. The opening section includes chapters covering the symptomatology, epidemiology and impact of the menopausal burden, and reviews in depth the most current evidence on the efficacy, risks and benefits of ...

This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance. Far from being merely carried along by global forces, cities have become active players in making and maintaining the networks and connections that give shape to contemporary globalization. Exploring examples from Europe, North America and beyond, the authors reconcile the two separate, yet complimentary, theoretical and analytical le...

Featuring world-class collections of the Science Museum, this tells the stories about the wide range of people involved in mathematical activity over the past 400 years.

Course Book, Workbook, and Audio Materials on the website The Road to Success consists of two volumes and covers the levels A1 to B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages. It is suitable as exam preparation for official Tests of Russian as a Foreign Language. THE ROAD TO SUCCESS offers . A clear structure and layout . Communication training . Authentic materials . Careful selection of language materials . A great variety of training...

This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths of children. Child death was the great equaliser of the early modern period, affecting people of all ages and conditions. It is well recognised that the deaths of children struck a...

It looks at the personal and the interpersonal, at theory, meta-theory, and everyday life. It observes how the mind's habits mould the human condition, and investigates its ability to free itself from their domination. It examines the potential of this liberation: to be in touch with reality as it is and live a less reactive, more ethical life.

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This volume offers a tool for High Performance Computing (HPC). A brief historical background on the subject is first given. Fluid Statics dealing with Pressure in fluids at rest, Buoyancy and Basics of Thermodynamics are next presented. The Finite Volume Method, the most convenient process for HPC, is explained in one-dimensional approach to diffusion with convection and pressure velocity coupling. Adiabatic, isentropic and supersonic flows i...

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim. To remedy this problem, the book calls for abandoning the concept of crime as an infringement of a state’s criminal laws and inst...

There are an estimated 32 million people with onychomycosis in the United States alone, making it the most common nail disease seen and treated, but also quite misunderstood.  With the sole focus of this book devoted to onychomycosis, the reader is provided with insight into the diagnosis and management of this nail infection. Onychomycosis includes chapters on how fungus infects the nail unit, the types of nail fungus, diagnosis from a gross ...

The thoughts and ideas penned in this book is an outcome of a process of discovery that was unfolded by the author while attempting to understand the mystery that surrounds 'Water'. The book highlights the water issue at the global level and the numerous intricacies that cause a resultant conundrum needing immediate global efforts. The book also discusses the complexities specific to the Indian Sub-Continent which needs immediate focus because...

Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from industry insiders on topics such as breaking in, pitching, developing and nurturing business relationships, juggling multiple projects, and more. Writing for the Screen is an ideal companion to screenwriting and filmmaking classes, demystifying the ind...

Between 1942 and 1944, at least 36 French women were recruited by British, French, Soviet and American intelligence agencies, trained as organisers, wireless operators, couriers and saboteurs and infiltrated into France by boat or plane from Britain and Algeria to help the French Resistance in their attempt to liberate their country. This books tells the stories of Anatole', Francine Fromont, Yvonne Rudellat, Andrée Borrel, Odette Sansom, Mari...

Eoin Madden is captain of the Junior Cup team, training with Leinster and aiming for Ireland's Under 16 World Cup team. He also has to deal with grumpy friends, teachers piling on the homework - AND a ghost on a mission that goes back to the very origins of the game of rugby. Books, crooks and rucks - it's all to play for this term!

Unser Sozialsystem ist am Ende. Reformieren lässt es sich nicht, sagt der Hamburger Ökonomieprofessor Thomas Straubhaar. Aber revolutionieren: durch das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen. Wenn alle Menschen, vom Säugling bis zum Greis, ein Grundeinkommen erhalten, so entmündigt sie das nicht, sondern befreit sie zu Selbstständigkeit und eigenen Entscheidungen. Und der Staat investiert nicht länger in die Verwaltung des Mangels, sondern in eine ge...

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman”, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyses both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced.

American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings-all taking p...