"This book is mandatory reading for every user & developer of webware." "Provocative & useful."
A report on how, in the name of "national defense," the U.S. military -- including the DoD, military contractors, and the Energy Dept.'s nuclear weapons production complex -- has cast a chemical plague over our country and many of our ...
The ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and...
Consumer demand for local food, including local meat and poultry, has risen in recent years. To sell meat, farmers need access to appropriately scaled processing facilities with the skills, inspection...
Wise, contemplative, and wondrous, Coming of Age is Terkel in high form--compassionate, generous, always insightful--"(a) kind of national prose poem, a chorus of cacophonous voices offering a jagged, emotionally charged portrait of our ...
Discover and record your personal roots and heritage: everything from accessing archives and public record offices to using the internet. This book offers a fascinating and complete introduction to genealogy...
As of May 30, 2015, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administers the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), subsidized about 996,000 flood insurance policies. The National Flood Insurance Act...
Dickson -- the country's foremost authority on American slang and author of the critically acclaimed Slang! -- offers the first comprehensive collection of fighting words and phrases used by Americans at war.
This interim report is part of the Nat. Assessment of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)....
The Dept. of Energy (DOE) is responsible for disposing of commercial spent nuclear fuel. DOE entered into contracts with owners and generators of spent nuclear fuel to begin disposing of...
With Dr. Love's authoritative, comprehensive new book, you'll have the information you need to make the decisions that work best for you. "From the Hardcover edition.
Designed to help train substance abuse treatment counselors to conduct a brief 5-session treatment intervention for adolescents with cannabis use disorders presenting for outpatient treatment. The manual combines 2 sessions...
Chronicles the two-week, covert, Korean War mission of then-Lieutenant Clark to obtain vital intelligence in the wake of firefights, night raids, hand-to-hand combat, and a small naval battle.
Nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, & along the banks of the Potomac, the U.S. suffered...
Stunning color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg capture the exhilaration of the story -- from the pulse of the masses in the palace square to the wrath of the bloodthirsty Usurper who scours the city streets after curfew, to the opulence ...
This book sets forth the basic principles, with drawings, & gives designs that can be used to make masons build fireplaces the right way & the handsome way. Includes a short sketch of Rumford's life, which has been neglected by historians.
Karl Lagerfeld: Off the Record
Prior research has shown that food insecurity is more common among U.S households with an adult who has a work-limiting disability than among other households. To provide more detail on...
This guide was designed by teachers for teachers, & summarizes what researchers have discovered about how to successfully teach children to read.
The incredible story of one man's inward journey through mind and body to heal himself when accepted medical procedures were not enough. Despite being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, Tate remained...