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Come journey with shen Brevard-from winter of '98 to summer of '05. Seven years 13 essays One snippet from a storybook reverie Saunter and weave through significant musings inspired by: east Asia's techno mega-city: Tokyo, the Atlantic seaboard's (brash with class) NYC with Brooklyn-n-Queens, northern Pacific's famed sophisticated 'City by the Bay' (San Francisco) and the Golden State's venerable yet sprawling hiptropolis: Los Angeles. From a ...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Der Begriff Service-Level-Management bekommt momentan eine immer wichtiger werdende Bedeutung vor allem im IT-Bereich. Folgendes Zitat aus dem AMR Research Report (03/2003) spiegelt die enorme Wichtigkeit dieser Thematik für Unternehmen wider: ¿Die Einführung von Service-Level-Management nicht nur für IT-Güter sondern auch für IT-Dienstleistungen ist die Grundvoraussetzung dafür, die IT mit den Unternehmensziele...

Darwin's Harvest addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. With contributions from evolutionary biologists, geneticists, agronomists, molecular biologists, and anthropologists, this collection discusses how economic development, loss of heirloom varieties and wild ancestors, and modern agricultural techniques have endangered the genetic diversity needed to keep agricultural crop...

Mozarts enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference book functions both as a starting point for information on specific works, people, places and concepts as well as a summation of current thinking about Mozart. The extended articles on genres reflect the latest in scholarship and new ways of thinking ab...

During the nineteenth century, American artists, writers, and philosophers collaborated in the formation of a culture devoted to the country's natural splendors and the meanings these might harbor for its citizens. Arguably, the earliest and most influential of such pictorial and literary mergings took place in the Hudson River School, the subject of the essays gathered in this volume from the Trout Gallery of Dickinson College. The artists an...

This non-fiction book is a report on the different types of fruit the children like to eat. Labelled mouth-watering photographs of melons, oranges, strawberries growing in their natural environment are accompanied by simple captions.

Lt. Rusty Naille (callsign Baggy Zero Four) is a Forward Air Controller. From the cockpit of his propeller-driven plane, he experiences the terror and futility of war in Vietnam. After dodging bullets for months, he faces almost certain death when a patrol is surrounded and only he can save them.

This collection of Burgess's public talks and writings offers a unique insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century. Architectural history, the impact of the Arts and Crafts and Modernist movements, the meaning of domestic architecture, and the connection of architecture and town planning to everyday life figure prominently in this collection. A contemporar...

Marc Lynch draws on interviews conducted in the Middle East and analyses of Arab satellite television programs, op-ed pages, and public opinion polls to examine the nature, evolution, and influence of the new Arab public sphere. According to Lynch, the days of monolithic Arab opinion are over, and the way in which Arab governments and the United States engage this newly confident and influential public sphere will profoundly shape the future o...

It's midnight, and the guinea pigs are not in their cage! In this humorous story, two guinea pigs stray from their cage to a park before returning home again in time for breakfast. Their night-time adventure is told through a series of illustrations with very simple repetitive text.

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Crafts & Hobbies

Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still live here today. Explore the terrifying, giant, strange ancestors of everyday creatures, in this captivating information text, illustrated with realistic imagery by Jon Stuart.

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This simple non-fiction text recounts a girl's journey by bicycle using symbols, maps and directions depicted by an engaging illustration-photo montage effect.

The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing "is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers, Depression-era health programs, general medical care in the southern United States at mid-century, people with HIV, AIDS, and polio, along with their caretakers ...

Our knowledge of the circadian clock in plants has advanced considerably in recent years and we now have a clearer view of the biochemical processes making up its mechanism. Recent work provides insight into the central role played by the circadian system in the regulation of many aspects of metabolism. The multiple systems involved in photoreception have been determined, leading to an understanding of how light entrains the internal biologica...

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Readers / Intermediate

Hope and Healing Are at Hand Extraordinary emotional pain cries out for something more than a Band-Aid, a pat on the shoulder, or a greeting card cliché. When the wounds go deep, real help, honest encouragement, and tangible healing may be hard to locate. But it is there to find, and the search is worth the effort. Compassionate and experienced counselors Dr. Steve Stephens and Pam Vredevelt, LPC, have walked alongside women in pain for years-...

`Paul James has written a magnificent account of the world's current condition, one that highlights the complexities and contradictions with which people, communities, and nations must contend and that does so in a compelling and creative style. Stressing the interaction between global and local forces, his writing style is lively and compelling as well as peppered with a wide range of citations, from Woman's Day to the Cambodian Daily (on the...