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“A dark and fascinating tale . . . illuminated by Nguyen’s story of escape from Communist tyranny to the United States in 1990, and by his honesty and integrity, which shine through on every page.” —Historynet.com This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man’s experience of...

Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice! Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms...

What's keeping you from slimming down? It may be Fattitudes! Fattitudes are the thoughts and feelings that sabotage your weight--loss goals. Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilbert and his wife Norean, who have had personal and professional experience fighting the war against fattitudes, tell you how to stop self-sabotage. Learn...

Una tienda de autoservicio, la habitación de un departamento y una oficina de interrogatorios son el escenario en el que una actriz-cajera, un carpintero-escritor, un detective, una mujer despechada y una anciana se relacionan entre sí para ofrecer un notable ejemplo de lo redituable que es lucrar...

Living in the present, each day to its fullest is one way to live well until the very end of life.  Using the present to decide and plan for how you want the future to unfold adds to your happiness in the years ahead and to the legacies you can give yourself and share with others during those years and leave behind when you die.

When asked by students of medicine to name a reliable, readable and adequately comprehensive text book of clinical paediatrics we have, in the past, been forced to recommend the least unsatisfactory among the large number of not quite good enough books on the market. Those available always seemed...

"Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves the day at the last minute. The author describes him...

Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.

Three hundred years ago San Antonio was founded as a strategic outpost of presidios and missions on the edge of northern New Spain, imposing Spanish political and religious principles on this contested, often hostile region. The city’s many Catholic missions bear architectural witness to the time...

This book discusses equi-quantile values and their use in generating decision alternatives under the twofold complexities of uncertainty and dependence, offering scope for surrogating between two alternative portfolios when they are correlated. The book begins with a discussion on components of rationality...

This book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determination...

Can a mother's love heal the deepest wounds of a daughter's heart? That's the challenge for Dolly Devereaux a thirty-something divorced mother from Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Dolly has spent twenty years fighting tooth and nail to break free from the grasping tentacles of her poor rural...

Before the sands of the Nile were ever seen by the great-grandfathers of the great-grandfathers of the men who built the pyramids, there rose a great civilization, whose history became the fodder of some of the greatest myths known. Although sands overtake all of the grandeur that man makes, their...

Explore Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 with this fully updated resource After a quick review of the of introductory topics of Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5, this book moves quickly into advanced topics such as data access with ADO.NET, security, ASP.NET web programming with Visual Basic, Windows...