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In this first history of smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border, Díaz shows how illicit trade evolved from a common practice of ordinary people into a professional, often violent, criminal activity.

Based on the declaration and affirmation that every elder takes, this resource provides new and existing elders with a diverse range of articles by leading figures in the Church of Scotland. They take you through all of the key components of eldership, providing fresh insight into each element of the elder's commitment.

Examines the development of nineteenth-century Russian prose and the remarkably swift emergence of the Russian novel. Victoria Somoff identifies an unprecedented situation in the production and perception of the utterance that came to define nascent novelistic fictionality both in European and Russian prose.

A born naturalist, Ian McTaggart-Cowan grew up exploring the woods around his North Vancouver home and went on to embrace his passion and energize others with his enthusiasm and knowledge. He greatly influenced conservation and scientific documentation of nature within the province and beyond.Ian McTaggart-Cowan contributed significantly to the Royal BC Museum's natural history collection, and as a gifted and caring Professor of Zoology at UBC...

A look at the timeless aspects of soceity with a story as relevant today as it was at its first conception. "It is rare when an author's first play is a drawing-room comedy. It is (even) more rare when that play is a success. But that is the story behind...For Better For Worse."-Jack Kapica, Montreal Gazette August 15, 1974. "For Better For Worse ... can be read and performed as a highly relevant social commentary about the lingering effects o...

The Parents' Guide to Perthes is a reassuring guide for parents learning how to handle their child's condition. Written in everyday language, this book explains the stages of Perthes, including how the age of the child affects the course of the disease. Illustrations and x-ray examples show the effects of Perthes in the hip joint for different children. The book describes how doctors diagnose Perthes and develop a treatment plan. It also inclu...

Maxi Toddler Play, 2 Years - 3 Years, follows the first book Maxi Sensory Play, Birth - 24 Months. Maxi Toddler Play is for parents/childcare workers wanting to know what play activities are needed to stimulate a toddler's learning across the milestone spectrum. What is different about Maxi Toddler Play is that it has over 600 play activities that sequentially follows developmental expectations and has over 130 stimulus worksheets which have b...

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Ready, Set...Risk! will leave you embracing professional risk taking as an energizing road to realizing your professional and personal potential!" -Catherine Moy, Chief People Officer, BDO USA, LLP "Levitt probes the challenges that are unique to women as they face decisions in their lives, and provides warm insights and encouraging anecdotes to help guide us through those decisions." -Kathryn Hayley, Former CEO, Aon Consulting Worldwide "Dani...

Reformulating risk in its application to the study of international relations and foreign policy, this volume promises new insights into the analysis of contemporary foreign policy in East Asia and Japan's post-Cold War international relations in particular.

Offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety. This book looks at the ways reforms have developed in 30 countries, and specifically the impact national reform initiatives have had on the quality and safety of care.

Re-assessing generations of Dickens scholarship, the author covers the formative history of Great Expectations' early years, analyses the extent and significance of its global reach, and explores the ways in which it has functioned as literature and stage, TV, film and radio drama from its first appearance to the latest film version of 2012.

As the open-source and free competitor to expensive software like Maple™ and MATLAB®, Sage offers anyone with access to a web browser the ability to use cutting-edge mathematical software and display his or her results for others. This book is an introduction to Sage for undergraduate students toward the end of Calculus II or higher-level course work. The audience of the book is not only math majors, but also physics, engineering, finance, sta...

The environmental quality and popularity of any tourist destination is the outcome of sustained development, shaped by the socio-economic and physical dimensions of the local environment.¿ Protecting the ¿living landscape¿ requires recognizing, promoting and developing the links between economic, social and environmental objectives. This book therefore examines the tourism business in terms of ¿greening¿ the local economy, people and environme...

What was it like to use and live with Etruscan pottery? Characterising that experience of Etruscan pottery is the concern of this book. More specifically, this volume aims to unpick both the physical encounter between vessel and hand, and the emotional interaction between the user of a pot and the images inscribed upon its surface.

Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more material things, masses of the population were w

Las teorías y pruebas que Darwin expuso en 'El origen de las especies' son definitivas en la comprensión de la naturaleza y en el sustento de los estudios biológicos. Desde su publicación, los conceptos de evolución, adaptación y selección natural se han incorporado a todos los estudios científicos. La resonancia de la obra de Darwin ha impregnado todos los campos del saber, incluidos los de filosofía y religión.

This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of international space law, including the fundamental principles and the legal regimes governing space applications. Uniquely it deals extensively with the international law of space communications and the legal issues related to space safety both of which have been largely neglected in earlier manuscripts. Covering the most recent material International Space Law deals with both the theoretical and...

Para la cultura hispánica el Cantar de mío Cid es la primera expresión artística, amplia y depurada, que se nos presenta como referente histórico, estético e idiomático. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el nuevo héroe castellano, que ya en vida andaba en cantares y romances, es el protagonista de un cantar épico, hijo de la necesidad de reivindicación de la honra personal, del derecho consuetudinario y de una nueva relación entre señores y vasallos. Par...