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Leilani Nishime is an assistant professor of communications at the University of Washington and the coeditor of East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture.

Explains and illustrates the enormous advances in the use of artillery that took place between 1914 and 1918, the central part artillery played in World War I and how it was used throughout the war, with particular emphasis on the Western Front.

Focuses on the conflicts that traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. This book assesses how the wars have torn apart the fabric of Chechen society and their impact on Russia itself.

Federal Tax Practitioner's Guide (formerly Federal Tax Course: A Guide for the Tax Practitioner) offers the knowledge and knowhow needed to deal effectively with all current developments in federal tax. This easytouse guide is written by Susan Flax Posner, one of today's most effective communicators on the tax law. The Guide presents a complete picture of the federal tax law for today's busy practitioners with clear and easytounderstand explan...

CCH's Guidebook to Ohio Taxes is the perfect resource for concise and reliable information for practitioners working with state taxation in Ohio. Designed as a quick reference work, the Guidebook presents succinct discussions of state and local taxes, describing the general provisions of the respective tax laws and regulations and highlighting significant cases and administrative rulings. This annual publication is useful to tax practitioners,...

With 18 states that have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes, more Americans are curious about medical cannabis: How can it help me? What illnesses does it alleviate? How do I procure it? The Medical Cannabis Guidebook: The Definitive Guide To Using and Growing Medicinal Marijuana is the most exhaustive guide to medicinal cannabis produced to date, with information regarding the types of illnesses and diseases that can be helpe...

Remediation of ground water is complex and often challenging. The passive remediation technology, currently in vogue, is based on permeable reactive barriers (PRB) that allow water to pass through while the fence/barrier made of reactive materials remediates the contaminants. Although PRB has been in operation for over a decade there are limited published books available. This book covers in one single volume all the information needed to plan...

Data availability is surpassing existing paradigms for governing, managing, analysing, and interpreting health data. This volume provides frameworks, use cases, and examples that illustrate the role of big data and analytics in modern health care, including how public health information can inform health delivery.

LOVE AND LET DIE... After a savage lycan attack destroyed her parents, Kit March has ignored the rules saying only men can be hunters and dedicated her life to destroying lycans. Her profession is hell on her love life, but she's been resigned to the lack of romance until she meets sinfully sexy European werewolf hunter Rafe Santiago. Unfortunately, Rafe is a man with a mission: eradicate rogue hunters from the American branch...and the foremo...

How do individuals perceive the experience of aging? Can this perception predict such developmental outcomes as functional health or mortality? The 35th volume of ARGG encompasses the most current and fruitful research findings about the subjective experience of aging and describes how they fit within a theoretical framework. It reflects a new and advanced stage of development in the discipline of subjective aging and will be a building block ...

In this collection of five short stories, three of which are events that happened in the author's life. A near death experience in "18 and Life." Three childern an unlocked car and a unexpected joyride in "Summer of '69." That first kiss in 'First Kiss." A park bench, a tree lined gravel path, a young boy all alone in the night and something evil hiding in the trees in "Scream Wolf" a dream Steve had when he was eight years old that he has nev...

In the not-too-distant future, the United Regions of America has formed. Governors hold territories instead of states, and while Washington, DC, is gone, the government has more control than ever before. For fifteen-year-old Vivica Wilkins, the daughter of a governor, this is life as usual. High school seems pretty much the same--until one day, that controlling power steps right through the door during study hall.When Vivica speaks out to defe...

A Penny for a Hundred is beloved children's book author Ethel Pochocki's timeless tale of culture shock in rural Maine during the Second World War. A young girl's family enjoys a memorable Christmas Eve with a group of German POWs, and even amid the hardships of war, they find much to give each other.

In this Lupine Award-winning book, Ethel Pochocki has created a hero and heroine of timeless appeal, and Mary Beth Owens's energetic watercolor illustrations infuse them with radiance. What Rosebud and Red Flannel find within themselves-and in each other-will warm every heart.

Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet on the second Sunday in May, we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservation to honor our mothers, all because of her. Anna Jarvis organized the first official Mother's Day celebration in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908 and then spent decades promoting the holiday and defending it from commercialization. She designed her Mother's Day celebration around a sentimental view...

Better Understand the Relationship between Powertrain System Design and Its Control Integration While powertrain system design and its control integration are traditionally divided into two different functional groups, a growing trend introduces the integration of more electronics (sensors, actuators, and controls) into the powertrain system. This has impacted the dynamics of the system, changing the traditional mechanical powertrain into a me...

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Un fil noir traverse la littérature alsacienne. La littérature alsacienne, ce n'est pas une excroissance folklorique insignifiante. Ce n'est pas essentiellement un ensemble de légendes et de contes traditionnels. Il ne s' agit pas davantage d'une production exclusivement composée en dialectes. Non, c'est un ensemble dont nous nous attachons à montrer la cohérence, qui est réelle, et qui affleure ou éclate surtout dans la période 1890-1965, pou...

Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extra-ordinary in its scope and on its impact on its students. Like the course, the Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perspective look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application scientific method to the social sciences. He poses a division of culture i...

Beekeeping - Volume 1. Ron Brown OBE B.Sc. From the archives of the Beekeepers Quarterly for a new generation of beekeepers. Edited by John Phipps. 2014.