Mo: 220 books

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting over forty million adults. Representing almost one-third of the country’s total mental health bill, anxiety disorders cost the United States more than...

Learning to communicate with other people is perhaps the most important learning children do. Children with social communication problems may have trouble picking up the crucial skills of interacting and communicating with their peers, which can have more serious implications later on in life. This...

What's in this book? Open this book and you will... - Improve communication - Foster development - Establish goals - Encourage success Learn how to be a mentor: - Understanding mentoring - The mentoring process - Successful mentoring relationships - Skills for successful mentors and mentees - Common...

In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase...

This volume focuses on developments in the field of group theory in its broadest sense and is of interest to theoretical and experimental physicists, mathematicians, and scientists in related disciplines who are interested in the latest methods and applications. In an increasingly ultra-specialized...

This new book looks at the unique career issues faced by those workers in their mid and late career stages, particularly with regard to the psychosocial dynamics of mid and late careers. With the growth in aging workers worldwide, we need a deeper understanding of the unique challenges and issues...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving health care quality and access. Notwithstanding the unprecedented health system reforms of the past decades, many outstanding problems remain in these areas....

As the complexity and the density of VLSI chips increase with shrinking design rules, the evaluation of long-term reliability of MOS VLSI circuits is becoming an important problem. The assessment and improvement of reliability on the circuit level should be based on both the failure mode analysis...

This book examines the performance of oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converters. It discusses the influence of humid air inside the chamber and changes in the seabed, and also investigates the role of wave energy converters in coastal protection. The authors use a real gas model...

Pensez-vous à ces jours quand l’Inconnu trônait Sur les sommets blanchis de montagnes rocheuses, La tête dans la nue, ou qu’il se promenait Au bord de nos grands lacs, sous les forêts ombreuses ? Rien ne troublait alors son éternel repos. Ses pas foulaient...

Love is not a fairy tale. And Karma is a bitch. Love transcends, resurrects and honestly performs miracles. DJ thought that he had lost his present and future to his father’s past. He had held Eve, the woman he was afraid to love at arm’s length, until one day she disappears from...

Scarpia's Kiss begins at the 1946 reopening of La Scala when Miranda Baltazar and Samuel Krandall, the star singers, fall in love on stage. Concealing their affair from his family, she seeks seclusion for her pregnancy on an isolated Caribbean island, where her aunt is midwife to a Mayan village without...

Ein einsames Haus am Waldrand. Es war ihr Zufluchtsort. Jetzt ist es die Hölle. „Es hört sich an, als würden sie gerade meine Tochter oder meine Frau bedrohen. Ich weiß nicht, was passiert. Jetzt ist es still.“ Vor vierzehn Jahren wurde ein junges Liebespaar brutal ermordet. Der Hauptverdächtige...

Îsle-aux-Coudres, printemps 1759. Jean-Gabriel ne demande qu’une chose: vivre paisiblement sur son lopin de terre qu’il se prépare à ensemencer. Mais un beau matin, son voisin l’avise que des canonniers ont été aperçus au Bic. Les Habits rouges sont là. Pendant qu'on se prépare à affronter...