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The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec. A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world’s great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloyd’s agent for the St. Lawrenc... More

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end of the Holy Roman Empire.<P><P> This new biogr... More

Moviemakers provides profiles of the 50 greatest film directors in cinematic history. From D.W. Griffith to the iconic films of Quentin Tarantino, the range is wide, featuring not only the Hollywood greats, but also a full complement of European and Asian directors. Author Ian Freer writes with infe... More

By the Year 2000: CELEBRATE!What have you resolved to do by the year 2000?Talk! Pillow talk. Small talk.Double talk. Baby talk. Can we talk?Kara Taylor has a few questions when it comes to men. Why won't they talk about their feelings? Why can't they admit they're wrong? And what is it about The Thr... More

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Women Who Dare "Jan Freed writes with spice and flair! An exciting new voice in contemporary romance."-Susan Wiggs She'd forgotten about Texas men.... It took brains, independence and nerves of steel for "The Nutcracker" to get where she is today, CEO of her own company. But nobody does it better th... More

HOME ON THE RANCH "Jan Freed writes with spice and flair! An exciting new voice in contemporary romance." -bestselling author Susan Wiggs The H&H Cattle Company, near Gonzales, Texas Scott Hayes-He's the owner. Scott's a hardworking cattleman who's got a reputation with the ladies. Not that he has a... More

"Jan Freed writes with spice and flair! An exciting new voice in contemporary romance."-Susan Wiggs It's My Fair Lady in reverse! Catherine Eliza Hamilton and her fiancé have a bet on. At stake? Catherine's professional future. To win, she needs to pass of a man of her fiancé's choosing as a wealthy... More

According to Laura Hayes, Alec McDonald is "a pompous bigot who considers hankies standard issue for his female employees." But while these are negatives in a boss, Laura doesn't intend to remain his employee for long.Within twenty-four hours of their first meeting, Laura and Alec are partners. Equa... More

Cameron Malloy is handsome, successful and single... But Elizabeth wouldn't have him if he were the last bachelor in Texas. It doesn't matter that she's loved her boss for years - he takes her for granted. If she's ever going to have a family, now's the time to move on. Of course, that doesn't stop ... More

Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists. Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by which doctors and other health care prof... More

The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population. In the UK, the quality of care costs less at an annual cost of $1000 per head of population, although care is sometimes delayed through a la... More

This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of H... More

Every supply manager's essential desktop tool with in-depth, authoritative coverage of each topicLeaving no stone unturned in covering all aspects of the procurement and sourcing functions, The Procurement and Supply Manager's Desk Reference, Second Edition is filled with everything every organizati... More

Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. Climate change resulting from an increase in greenhouse gases is perhaps the greatest threat to our planet's future. Here, Fred Pearce examines the causes and dramat... More

A cognitive psychologist and an industrial design engineer draw on their own experiences of cognition in the context of everyday life and work to explore how people attempt to find practical solutions for complex situations. The book approaches these issues by considering higher-order relations betw... More

From the dead constellation of Andromeda flashed continuously a long and intensely complicated message. Picked up during the testing of the world's most powerful radio-telescope, it proved to be a blueprint of a computer so advanced that it made all earth-built computers seem like children's countin... More

In July 1973, a gunman stepped from behind a tree and fired five shots, point blank, into Josef Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. Sixteen-year-old Fred Burton was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out, Alon wasn’t just a pilot and... More

Freed documents the network of marriage practices among ministerials in the archdiocese of Salzburg and in the process reconstructs an important and previously unexplored chapter in the rise of the German principalities.... More

Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or BenjaminCue Derri... More

A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted.Over the past three decades, U.S. immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned a network of ... More

A new radio telescope picks up from the constellation of Andromeda a complex series of signals which prove to be a programme for a giant computer. After the computer is built it begins to relay information from Andromeda. Scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to mankind,... More

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In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction. The Andromeda Anthology contains the acclaimed duology A for Andromeda and The Andromeda Breakthrough, co-written with John Elliot. The close-knit g... More

This work identifies some of the major messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and shows their New Testament fulfillment in Christ.“THE MOST AMAZING DRAMA that ever was presented to the mind of man—a drama written in prophecy in the Old Testament and in biography in the four Gospels—is the narrati... More