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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew mothers and fathers will find much-needed relief and insight in this perceptive and outrageously funny account of what it truly means when you bring home your very own bundle of joy...Jenny McCarthy's hilarious, no-holds-barred personality has made her an instantly recognizable TV personality and a bestselling author. In Baby Laughs she examines the full range of challenges that new mothers anf fathers face, in...

Hailed as "exhilarating, "* " passionate and hot, "** USA Today bestselling author Angela Knight's supercharged romances combine heated passion with non-stop action. And she's back with more werewolves and vampires-in a story too hot to handle… Jim London is outraged over the death of his friend, a fellow bounty hunter and werewolf-and thinks the police department of nearby Clarkston cooked up a phony story about Tony's murder. The only way to...

Based on the latest scientific information, and including practical advice on the best nutrition, exercise, and medication, Strong Women, Strong Bones is an essential guide for any woman who wants to know more about the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Includes:A one-hour-per-year plan for healthy bonesA self-test to assess risk factorsFacts on the most accurate bone-density testsTips on supplements beyond calcium, plus new findings o...

During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit for the independent and almost simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Yet few people today know much about Wallace. "The Heretic in Darwin's Court" explores the controversial life and works of this Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist.

Dictators are not new phenomena, but within the past two centuries they have dramatically proliferated not only in Europe, which witnessed the rise and fall of fascism and communism, but also in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where military as well as ideological dictators have emerged. This concise one-volume encyclopedia provides entries on most if not all of the dictators who have emerged worldwide since the time of Napol...

Ingrid de Kok's first book to be published in the United States is also the first volume to demonstrate the variety and continuity of de Kok's work over the last 25 years. In South Africa and internationally, readers have recognized and responded to de Kok's deeply developed sense of compassion. South Africa's most lucid and composed voice in contemporary poetry, she shares her ability to interweave the intensely personal world with the politi...

Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, humorous, often bewildering collection sheds a whole new light on our rebellious century.From political icons Martin Luther King Jr.and Angela Davis, to A-list celebrities Hugh Gran...

Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler's (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum fie...

Although educational research advocates the perspective of the learner, who or what is it advocating against? The governments of all European Union countries give learning the most prominent place on their policy agendas, the European Commission wants Europe to become a knowledge based society, companies across the European Union are no longer interested primarily in profit, but want to be learning organisations, social scientists detect the e...

Putting privately owned Russian pharmacies and pharmaceutical factories under state control in 1918/1919 did not improve the output and the distribution of soaps, disinfectants, hormones, vitamins, and medicines. Newly available archival records show that managers appointed by the Soviet government to run sequestered factories employed business methods common to market economies to make the Soviet pharmaceutical sector profitable and productiv...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar takes readers on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States--a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and unexpected ways.

Der Band setzt sich in vielfältiger Form mit den Arbeitsweisen, Widerständen und Überraschungen auseinander, die theatrale Lernprozesse für Spielleitung und Gruppe bereithalten. Die Autoren befassen sich mit den Begriffen des Lernens und den - auch in der Theaterpädagogik - verbreiteten Bildungsvorstellungen. Sie beschreiben Kernbegriffe theatraler Lernprozesse (Experiment, Stillstand, Mimesis, Aleatorik, kommunikatives Vakuum, Gegenwartsident...

Google.com is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and is used around the world by millions of people every day. Sure, you know how to "Google it" when you're searching for something--anything!--on the Web. It's plenty fast and easy to use. But did you know how much more you could achieve with the world's best search engine by clicking beyond the "Google Search" button? While you can interface with Google in 97 languages and glean re...

Expanding upon students' intuitive understanding of the concept of probability through use of examples and clear explanations of mathematics behind this fascinating science, this guide is packed with real-life examples and includes sample problems with a minimal reliance on complicated calculus.

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Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true "painter's painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images w...

Former police chief Holly Barker joins an elite CIA task force tracking a man who kills his political targets for sport in Woods's follow-up to his "New York Times" bestseller "Blood Orchid." Available in a premium-sized format.

In this third entry in the "New York Times" bestselling series, the Monkeewrench gang tracks a serial killer deep in the northern woods, far from civilization. But after witnessing a double murder, they find themselves running for their lives.

The idea that current methods of food production are not sustainable in the long-term is a controversial topic. This book provides information that will advance a form of livestock production that meets the long- and short-term goals of human food production, minimizing degradation of natural resources. Important concerns regarding food safety, particularly antibiotic and chemical residues in meat, milk and other livestock foods, have stimulat...