This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning...
What does one do as a Jewish philosopher if one is convinced by much of the Nietzschean critique of religion? Is there a contemporary Jewish philosophical theology that can convince in a post-metaphysical age? The argument of this book is that Rabbi Josep...
In the early 1950s, the Southern Pacific Railroad no longer controls the state of California, as Frank Norris described it in "The Octopus," but in the little town of Dunsmuir it still has the power to force an injured brakeman, Frank Hiller,...
Medical Statistics Made Easyhas been a perennial bestseller since the first edition was published (it is consistently a #1 bestseller in medical statistics/biostatistics on Amazon).
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answersâfor the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applicationsâthis book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and...
Language Review/Self Assessment every second module. Revision exercises where students check their answers and use a feedback guide to choose what they need to practise more
The ever-popular blue jean originated in the Old West frontier of San Francisco in the late 1800s, and here is an extensive look at the entire era of Old West denim. Gathered from collections around the world, it presents never-before-seen pictures of...
Warren Holt has escaped his trailer-trash background through hard work and playing by the rules. But when he is unjustly fired by a Southern California newspaper, punches out a supervisor in a fit of rage and inadvertently kills the man, Holt's middle-cla...
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference betwe...
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answersâfor the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applicationsâthis book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and...
Two spectacularly mismatched young people meet at a halfway house in a Seattle suburb in 1971. Paul Siebert is a reporter, a shy, depressive Vietnam veteran, already chastened by the blows life has dealt him. Maggie Ryan is a wild child, a rape victim,...
Sedona is well-known as a very spiritual place. It is also known as a congregation ground for crystal crunchers, self-proclaimed visionaries, and mystics. There are a few true healers here, but they shun the media and the publicity that others come here...
As one of America's most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, has a long list of stories of the supernatural, such as the story of the first two people hanged in colonial Savannah for the murder of their abusive master. Or James Stark, a tempestuous...
Für ein Studium der Biowissenschaften oder der Medizin sind heute Grundkenntnisse mathematischer und statistischer Zusammenhänge unentbehrlich. Der sichere Umgang mit Zahlen und Gleichungen gehört zum Handwerkszeug und wird bei Studienbegin...