A thoughtful, careful effort to enlarge the empirical, factual base in an issue which was been noteworthy for emotion and outrage rather than rational study." --Robert Kirsch
A thoughtful, careful effort to enlarge the empirical, factual base in an issue which was been noteworthy for emotion and outrage rather than rational study." --Robert Kirsch
Ein flirrend heißer Sommer 1989 im Osten Deutschlands. Adam arbeitet als Schneider und Fotograf, seine hübsche Freundin Evelyn ist Kellnerin. Ihren Urlaub wollen die beiden am Balaton verbringen. Nur lieben die Frauen Adams schöne Kleider und manchmal auch ihn. Als Evelyn Adam mit einer anderen erwischt, fährt sie ohne ihn mit einer Freundin und deren Westcousin nach Ungarn. Um die Beziehung zu retten, steigt Adam in seinen betagten Wartburg u...
Are you tired of hoping that those beholden to the wrong people will do the right thing? Decades of electoral work and activism have failed to bring us sustainability, peace, or a just society. Blessed Disillusionment shows that there is a reason: the political system operates to absorb discontent while averting the fundamental change we urgently need. This short book (140 pages before appendices) explains why the crises and upheaval we see in...
The Spirit of Animal Healing provides listeners with the most up to-date tools and knowledge they need to keep their dogs and cats healthy and prevent disease from occurring in the first place, instead of just treating their animal companions when they are sick.
Vision is more than the ability to see 20/20. It is comprised of eye movements, eye alignment, focusing, visual processing, and much more. When you have a vision problem beyond glasses, we call that a Functional Vision Disorder. With Vision Therapy for Home Study, Dr. Goldstein reveals therapy techniques to enhance your vision function and to treat symptoms of Functional Vision Disorders. This book contains the same techniques Dr. Goldstein ha...
This thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of a time-honored text provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) for elemental microanalysis, electron backscatter diffraction analysis (EBSD) for micro-crystallography and focused ion beams. Students and academic researchers will find the text to be an authoritative and scholarly resourc...
The Battle of the Bulge - when Hitler sent his troops crashing through the Ardennes to split the Allied forces - was one of the most critical engagements of World War II. This is the illustrated history of the bitter struggle in which the German demand to surrender Bastogne was met with Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe's emphatic refusal, "Nuts!" Such stalwart resistance ultimately brought the German offensive to a standstill. Nuts! The Battle ...
Jacob ('Jack') Goldstein was mid-upper gunner in a Lancaster bomber when it was shot down by a German night-fighter during Bomber Command's final WW2 mission to Nürnberg. It was the night of 16 March 1945, just a few weeks before the war ended. He was the only member of the seven-man crew to be killed. The title of the book derives from the simple entry 'Shalom!' that Jack's widow, Sadie, poignantly wrote in the book of remembrance at the Dürn...
This World War II classic is the first comprehensive photographic record of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the prolific team of Dr. Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, and J. Michael Wenger, it contains over four hundred photographs of the U.S. preparations for the attack and of the two cities and their people before, during, and after those fateful days. Many are U.S. government and Japanese photographs never before s...
Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the 1989 Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing and its relation to the changing nature of work in composition. Stemming from an investigative project to strengthen the Statement with data culled from national r...
Writing Program AdministrationSeries Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot SovenLabored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the 1989 Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing and its relation to the changing nature of work in composition. Stemming from an investigative project to strengthen the Statement with data culled from national repor...
This text provides students as well as practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray microanalysis. The authors emphasize the practical aspects of the techniques described. Topics discussed include user-controlled functions of scanning electron microscopes and x-ray spectrometers and the use of x-rays for qualitative and quantitative analysis. Separate chapters cover SEM sample pre...
In November of 1998 The Journal of the American Medical Association devoted an entire issue to alternative medicine for the first time in its publishing history According to survey results reported in the journal, 83 million Americans used some form of alternative medicine to preserve and maintain their health in 1997, a sharp increase from the 61 million who turned to alternative forms of care in 1990.Michael S. Goldstein's Alternative Health...