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Published for the first time in the United States, "The Little Green Handbook" is a unique reference work that illustrates the most important global developments facing us today, explains them, and suggests area for positive change.

Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, this book takes the reader on a journey into the wedding industrial complex. Anne Kingston looks at "wife backlash, " and the new wave of neo-traditionalism that urges women to marry young, explores the apotheosis of abused wives and the strange celebration of wives who kill, and muses on the fact that Oprah Winfrey an...

This book introduces students to the basics of structural equation modeling (SEM) through a conceptual, nonmathematical approach. The few mathematical formulas presented are used in a conceptual or illustrative nature. Featuring examples from EQS, LISREL

This conference proceeding includes 18 papers.

This volume includes 46 contributed articles from the Advanced Ceramic Coatings for Structural, Environmental and Functional Applications and the International Symposium on Advances in Ceramic-Metal Systems symposia. Topics include processing and microstructure design, mechanical and thermal properties, advanced testing and non-destructive evaluation, wear, erosion and corrosion behavior, functional properties and modeling. A significant porti...

An archeologist unearths an ancient manuscript written by the Roman centurion whose servant Jesus healed. He studies Jesus' teaching with skepticism, but his doubt is eventually replaced by belief.

William Wilberforce is now remembered mainly for his leadership of the two great crusades to abolish the Slave Trade and later to free the slaves. He took up their cause when he was in his twenties and received the news of their freedom on his deathbed at the age of seventy-three. Abolition was the most famous of his causes but there were many others. He sat in Parliament for nearly fifty years, where he voted and spoke entirely as his conscie...

Gardening for Food and Fun is a practical book for gardeners of all types-from the beginner to the proficient, from young people to retired persons. Advanced gardeners will find this book helpful as a refresher and as a reference source.There are four sections in this Yearbook: Introduction to Gardening, Home Garden Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts, and Home Food Preservation. The last section tells how to preserve and store your garden produce at ...

The Trouble with Plants is unique. Out has gone the traditional recipe for a garden plant guide, plant directory or plant encyclopaedia of compiling a plant's cultural details into a dry and dusty list, decorating with a stock colour photograph, and repeating for 10, 000 plants. Instead here's a book that pioneers a radical new recipe for each of maybe 200 popular plants from 100 or so genera. To a simple base of cultural details add the autho...

The Enlisted Experience: A Conversation with the Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force offers a vivid, candid, and highly personal account of military life by four of the first five Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force. Their recollections, captured in a 1989 interview at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., cover a period of over thirty years-from the early 1940s to the late 1970s. The position of Chief Master Sergeant of the Air ...

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Within a short time of the first flight of the Wright brothers in 1903, the United States government recognized the importance of fostering development in the new and critical field of aeronautics. NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), was chartered by Congress in 1915 specifically "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution." This became...

CONTENTS:IntroductionThe Release of Sexual RestraintsWar Wives and ImmoralityEroticism of NursesSensuality in the TrenchesVenereal DiseasesWomen Soldiers and Female BattalionsHomosexuality and TransvestitismRegulation of Army BrothelsProstitution Behind the LinesLust in the Conquered AreasCivilian Debauchery Back HomeGenital Injuries, War Eunuchs, Etc.Sex Life of War PrisonersAmatory Adventures of Female SpiesEroticism Behind Military DrillPro...

World War II remains the defining experience for the U.S. Army in the twentieth century. It has had a lasting impact on the nation and its place in the world and on the Army and the way it organizes and fights. Although historians have written numerous volumes concerning this global conflict, some gap in the literature remain. In particular, the subject of an American field army headquarters and its organization and role have attracted little ...

Americans seem to be increasingly concerned with decisions about death and dying. Why is a subject once thought taboo now so frequently aired by the popular media, debated in academic forums and professional societies, and litigated in well-publicized court cases? Perhaps it is because death is less of a private matter than it once was. Today, dying more often than not occurs under medical supervision, usually in a hospital or nursing home. Ac...

CONTENTS:Introduction. The Principles of Wood BendingSOLID BENDINGThe Selection and Preparation of Bending MaterialQuality - Species - Trees - Moisture content - MachiningSoftening TreatmentsSteaming - Other heating methods - Chemical treatments - Compressed woodHand BendingCold bending - Hot bending (unsupported) - Hot bending (supported) - Simple "U" bend - Two-plane bends - Re-entrant and "S" type bends - Chair leg bends - Transverse bendin...

James A. Michener (in The Floating World) has called De Becker's notorious study and history of Tokyo's brothel quarter an "unorganized collection of astonishing facts." De Becker, a lawyer, was one of very few naturalized Westerners living in Yokohama, he wrote numerous works on Japanese law, economics and language during the period 1897-1928. He treats his subject seriously and in detail, providing information on modes, manners, laws, archit...

Wood bending is an ancient craft that is of key importance in many industries today, especially in those that manufacture furniture, boats and ships, agricultural implements, tool handles, and sporting goods. Of the several methods commonly used to produce curved parts of wood, bending is the most economical of material, the most productive of members of high strength, and perhaps the cheapest.Long experience has evolved practical bending tech...

High blood cholesterol is a serious problem. Along with high blood pressure and cigarette smoking, it is one of the three major modifiable risk factors for coronary heart disease. Approximately 25 percent of the adult population 20 years of age and older has "high" blood cholesterol levels-levels that are high enough to need intensive medical attention. More than half of all adult Americans have a blood cholesterol level that is higher than "d...

There is a large demand for a textbook on the history and doctrines of the Presbyterian Church, to be used in the Sunday Schools, Pastors' study classes, and the study classes of Young People's and Women's Societies. In casting about for such a book the Presbyterian Committee of Publication found ready at home that charming little book The Creed of Presbyterians, by the Rev. Egbert Watson Smith, D. D., Executive Secretary of Foreign Missions o...