P John: 800 books

The U.S. fertility rate is at an all-time record low. Are we watching the leading edge of a slowly moving tidal wave of infertility? What is causing the current generation of adults of childbearing age to become infertile? What can be done about it? In Part I John P. Thomas looks at some of...

During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school. Education policy expert Edward P. St. John is troubled by this situation and argues that equal access to...

The surgeon who desires an atlas of techniques covering operations on the colon and rectum almost surely prefers a concise volume rather than an encyclopedic compilation of the innumerable procedures that have been described in the literature. This book includes the operations that have proved to...

While we are commonly told that the distinctive method of mathematics is rigorous proof, and that the special topic of mathematics is abstract structure, there has been no agreement among mathematicians, logicians, or philosophers as to just what either of these assertions means. John P. Burgess clarifies...

A poor old man endures a nightmare of unspeakable and unthinkable terror.

Deborah J. Johnson John P. Roach Jr. Debbie and John have traveled around the world together experiencing the cuisine from more than 100 countries. This book contains some of their favorite regional and ethnic recipes that can be prepared simply and served with elegance. They coined...

Interpret diagnostic images accurately with Diagnostic Radiology and Ultrasonography of the Dog and Cat, 5th Edition. Written by veterinary experts J. Kevin Kealy, Hester McAllister, and John P. Graham, this concise guide covers the principles of diagnostic radiology and ultransonography and includes...

With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.’s, public works czar (1871–74) built the infrastructure of the nation’s capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War. The story of Shepherd is also the story...

Todos Santos is a tiny coastal town at the foothills of the mountains on Mexicos Baja California Peninsula that is encircled by the Pacific Ocean on the west and Mar de Cortez on the east. Embraced by an artistic community, Todos Santos offers discoveries at the end of each road, a rich history, and...

The Forumside was an industrial area bordered by about twenty shops and  thirty flats, close to  Edgware’s Station Road and The High Street.  It lay at the beginning of the Edgware Road, which runs for 16 kilometres/ten miles, to Marble Arch in central London.When I was a child, it was surrounded...

Time series, or longitudinal, data are ubiquitous in the social sciences. Unfortunately, analysts often treat the time series properties of their data as a nuisance rather than a substantively meaningful dynamic process to be modeled and interpreted. Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences provides...

As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing...

John Galsworthy alcanzó la fama con la publicación en 1906 de la novela "El propietario", que dieciséis años más tarde se convertiría en la primera de las que componen "La saga de los Forsyte". "El propietario" arranca en su primer capítulo con un importante brío...

The thrilling 1st installment in Pulitzer Prize–winning author John P. Marquand’s classic espionage series featuring Imperial Japan’s most skillful spy Capitalizing on his heroic career as a World War I flying ace, Casey Lee agrees to pilot a plane across the Pacific as a publicity stunt...