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Clinical psychologist Mardi Allen and James Dickerson, a former social worker who has placed hundreds of children into adoptive and foster homes, have combined the best of psychology and social work experience into a definitive guide for screening adoption and foster home applicants.

In Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments, Miki Caul Kittilson examines women's presence in party politics and national legislatures, and the conditions under which their entrance occurs. She theorizes that parties are more likely to incorporate women when their strategy takes into account the institutional and political "opportunity structures" of both the party and party system. Kittilson studies how women pressed for greater representati...

Closely examining five French operas, this book reveals how and why grand opera sought to bring the past alive.

P. Roy Vagelos grew up during the Depression as a wise-cracking son of Greek immigrants. He left his family's small restaurant to become a doctor and went on to master three professions and become the Chief Executive Officer of the multinational pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. Medicine, Science, and Merck follows Vangelos' life from childhood to retirement, from his academic years at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University's Medi...

This book provides essential background knowledge on the development of model-based real-world solutions in the field of control and decision making for water systems. It presents system engineering methods for modelling surface water and groundwater resources as well as water transportation systems (rivers, channels and pipelines). The models in turn provide information on both the water quantity (flow rates, water levels) of surface water an...

By any standard, the Centennial Buckeye Cook Book was the most important cookbook to have originated in Ohio in the nineteenth century. It included more than three hundred pages of good recipes for jellies and jams, soups and sauces, fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry and fish, and confectionary, cakes and pastry, and many more. It was, however, much more than just a cookbook. Some editions featured information about medicine and the chemis...

Here's the voice of Mozart's canary, a psychic in crisis, a naturalist stunned by another species more beautiful-and more human?-than our own. Here are poems of friendship and travel, the ravages of the epidemic, love and fear for aging parents, an elegy for the handsomest of hairdressers. David Bergman's compassionate book gives shape to the occasions of life." -Mark Doty, author of My Alexandria: Poems "Some of the best AIDS literature of an...

Das Kerngebiet des idyllischen Artlands - die Gemeinden Badbergen, Menslage, Nortrup und Gehrde sowie die Stadt Quakenbrück - ist geprägt von einer besonderen, alten Architektur, vor allem den typischen Artländer Bauernhöfen und Fachwerkbauten. Heinrich Böning, Leiter des Stadtmuseums Quakenbrück und Autor zahlreicher regionalhistorischer Publikationen, zeigt in diesem eindrucksvollen Bildband über 210 historische Fotografien und Postkarten au...

Extensively revised and updated, the new edition of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Abdominal Surgery provides a ready source of practical information for veterinary surgeons, students, nurses and technicians. *Includes detailed surgical procedures, laid out in step-by-step Operative Techniques in an easy to follow and practical way *Notes on patient positioning and preparation, instrumentation and postoperative management *Specially com...