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For adults. Based on a true story during the Korean War, an array of hookers and sergeants enlighten three Air Force recruits. Follow the naive Stepanian, bookworm Smith and the burly Petski through a series of misadventures through the South and England. A secret radar station concealed in a tent becomes a base of operations for their escapades. Enjoy their conquests, failures and horseplay with some electronic warfare and 1950's history mixe...

This is a detective thriller, packed with action and suspense, for the young, both boys and girls, the young at heart, and those who wish they still were. Care has been taken to ensure the non-nautical reader won't feel all at sea, so to give these shipmates a hand, the sometimes unusual phraseology is explained. But the author does want you to really feel you are climbing the ratlines, hauling yourself up by your cold hands grasping the greas...

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The familiar tale of the three little pigs and the wolf who huffed and puffed is now presented in this book-and-CD package. Full color.

Christelow's popular story of the bedtime shenanigans of five little rambunctious monkeys is now available in an oversized board book just right for sharing. Full color.

One Saturday while visiting the zoo, Hans tells his brother Patrick all about dinosaurs--neglecting to mention that the great creatures no longer exist--and Patrick's imagination runs wild with thoughts of these towering and scary beasts. Includes an audio CD. Full color.

Like all the other volumes in the Stories collection, this book provides students with a three dimensional picture of the most important cases that are addressed in nearly every employment discrimination casebook and course.

Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship. For scholars/researchers/students in media entertainment, media psych, mass media/mass comm, sports mktg/mgmt, popular comm, popular culture & cultural studies.

Hydraulic Power System Analysis demonstrates modern computer-aided analytical techniques used to model nonlinear, dynamic fluid power systems. Following an overview of fluid power, the authors examine various relevant fluid properties, energy calculations, and steady state and dynamic analysis along with a review of automatic control theory. Turning to modeling, the next few chapters address valves and motors and then apply dynamic modeling to...

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A completely new book, written in response to demand from teachers ofliteracy courses and aimed at adults who are seeking to gain confidence in their writing skills.

Not mighty in size, but mighty in resourcefulness and industry, the ant has crawled the earth since prehistoric times. It has dwelt in rainforest tree trunks and acorns of oak trees, beneath logs, and under sidewalks. It has protected forests by capturing insects, cleared weeds away from acacia trees, and by growing gardens has released important nutrients into the soil. Seed lifters, dirt diggers, social beings, ants have the most advanced br...

A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations

Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the past are viruses that kill bacteria, but not us. Award-winning science journalist Thomas Häusler investigates how these long-forgotten cures may help sick people today.

The day-to-day dealings of life as a cystic fibrosis patient are described through a series of flashbacks to a time when the author was an 18-year-old volunteer at cystic fibrosis overnight camp. From diagnosis to death, this book leaves no aspect of CF untold as it includes a description of the illness, a comprehensive discussion of who gets the disease and why, an explanation of the procedures involved in diagnosing the disease, coverage of ...

Crumley introduces four core areas in contemporary philosophy of the mind: the mind/body problem, mental content (intentionality), mental causation, and the nature of consciousness. The book is distinctive in its further coverage of such fascinating topics as the nature of mental images, theories of concepts, and whether or not computers can think.

In the 1920s, the Campbells move west to the isolated wilderness of northern Alberta to begin a new life of homesteading. With the depression engulfing Canada and the United States, the family struggles with poverty and staying alive under harsh conditions. A neighboring family of Indian ancestry provides needed food and advice. For little Jimmy, this friendship introduces him to wildlife lore and a respect for all the natural kingdom.Jimmy co...

This international and interdisciplinary collection of chapters presents and discusses the many issues and educational practices that are touched on by constructivism. Drawing on perspectives from a range of different fields (ethics, mathematics education, philosophy, social psychology, science education, social studies), this book invites us to reposition ourselves in relation to the major currents that have influenced education in this centu...

Over 50 short stories, poems, and essays by eight caffeine-charged writers whose special brews ought to keep you awake. From the comic to the serious, from the mundane to the contemplative, Brewed Awakenings has something for every taste.

Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship. For scholars/researchers/students in media entertainment, media psych, mass media/mass comm, sports mktg/mgmt, popular comm, popular culture & cultural studies.