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The sexy page-turner picks up where the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollywood Wives left off showing Jackie Collins at her "ultra-celeb, super accessorized, bestselling best" (Publishers Weekly).Power. Sex. Money. Fame. The new Hollywood wives have it all. And if they don't have it—they want it. And whatever these women want—they get. Ambitious, young, smart, and lethal, the Hollywood wives are back with a vengeance, pushing their way to the...

From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startling array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas A. Cooley, what unites these seemingly disconnected cultural fragments is the governing model of "psychology", as it was just then coming to be called, that shaped the American unde...

More than fifty years ago, Professor R. S. Rivlin pioneered developments in both the theory and experiments of rubber elasticity. These together with his other fundamental studies contributed to a revitalization of the theory of finite elasticity, which had been dormant, since the basic understanding was completed in the nineteenth century. This book with chapters on foundation, models, universal results, wave propagation, qualitative theory a...

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of major advances, emerging trends, and projected industrial applications in the field of multidisciplinary optimization. It concentrates on the current status of the field, exposes commonalities, innovative, promising, and speculative methods. This book provides a view of today's multidisciplinary optimization environment through a balenced theoretical and practical treatment. The contributors are t...

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Five of Hitchcock's most significant films were unavailable to the public for as long as two decades before their release in 1983-84. This highly readable volume collects the most important essays written about Hitchcock and the rereleased films since that time. Covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and theory, these studies demonstrate Hitchcock's centrality to an understanding of how culture shapes film and how film shapes...

This is Dr Loase's fifth book on sigfluence. He created the new word sigfluene, which means significant, long-term, positive influence, seventeen years ago. Since then Dr Loase has delivered workshops and lectures on sigfluence at national and international conferences across North America, including seminars at Harvard, U of California-Berkeley, Mensa and Clark Univeristy. This book explores our long-term influence from many perspectives incl...

The distribution of the gramophone and the birth of popular music, including jazz, as a part of nation-building and modernity in China.

The distribution of the gramophone and the birth of popular music, including jazz, as a part of nation-building and modernity in China.

The Last Comeback is the story of Frank Shannon and his quest for greatness, to make a difference, to leave a mark. It is a story that will appeal to all those who once in their own lives believed they were destined to do great things.

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Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. Dr. Plumb's impressive and provocative narrative is accompanied by contributions from leading historians, including Morris Bishop, J. Bronowski, Maria Bellonci, and many more, who have further illuminated the lives of some of the era's most unforgettable ...

An Introduction to Digital Video covers the essential fundamentals of digital video: from video principles, to conversion, compression, coding, interfaces and output. Written for television professionals needing to apply digital video systems, equipment, and techniques to multimedia and/or digital TV applications, as well as computer system designers, engineers, programmers, or technicians needing to learn how to apply digital video to compute...

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What is emotional intelligence? What difference does it really make? And what is the best way to promote it in the workplace? In The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace, two renowned experts on the subject and a stellar group of contributors offer their perspectives on how to measure emotional intelligence, use it as a basis for selection, and improve it at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Cary Cherniss and Daniel Goleman-author...

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Informed by current debates in social theory, Identities, Borders, Orders brings together a multinational group of respected scholars to seek and encourage imaginative adaptations and recombinations of concepts, theories, and perspectives across disciplinary lines. These contributors take up a variety of substantive, theoretical, and normative issues such as migration, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, democracy, and security. Together, ...

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Although women have unprecedented opportunities and options today, their lives are still often filled with the mundane, the difficult, the downright tragic. And the challenges of life become even more difficult when there doesn't seem to be any purpose for them. Without a sense of purpose, our lives can become unmanageable and unfulfilling. These studies will help you discover God's purposes in your life--in your creation, your salvation, and ...

Bestselling author, keynote speaker, success coach, and seminar leader Debrena Jackson Gandy has helped thousands of women access their inner power and live more joyfully and boldly. In her national bestseller, All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life, she reveals the steps that will help you undergo the transformation of a lifetime. This engaging, thought-provoking book shows you how to:* Discove...