The cowboy of the open western range flourished from 1865 to about 1885. Despite his brief heyday, he made a permanent impression that has been perpetuated by dime novels, wild west shows, and horse operas. But the picture portrayed in popular media is often historically incorrect. Don Rickey Jr. re..
This absorbing narrative history brings into sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victoria's golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the 'war to end all wars', with England knowing that an er..
This is for the person who wants to learn what COBOL is, what programming is, and how to use COBOL in typical business data processing applications. Assumes no previous background in programming. Hands-on programming begins in Chapter 1--each chapter is based on one or more example programs applicab..
Clyde Fant, Donald W Musser, Mitchell G. Reddish Author: Mitchell G. Reddish Publisher: Abingdon Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0687084563 ISBN-13: 9780687084562..
An Introduction to the Gospels is designed to be a textbook for courses on the Gospels, for use at the college and beginning seminary level. Reflecting the most recent scholarship and written in an accessible style, the volume covers all four of the Gospels, including a survey of "the world of the G..
Completely updated for its Fourth Edition, this atlas provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on procedures performed in the neonatal intensive care nursery. In an easy-to-follow outline format, with more than 450 drawings and clinical photographs, the book presents clear, current information o..
This text is intended for use in a junior/senior/graduate level course in Commercial Bank Management or Financial Institution Management taught at most four-year schools out of the finance department. The authors aim to present the institutional setting of banking in a framework that recognizes the ..
Benedict's Rule: A Translation and Commentary is the first line-by-line exegesis of the entire Rule of Benedict written originally in English. This full commentary - predominately a literary and historical criticism - is based on and includes a new translation and is accompanied by essays on Benedic..
Church and Society in the Norman Principality of Capua, 1058-1197 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Author: Loud, G. A. Publisher: Clarendon Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0198229313 ISBN-13: 9780198229315..
This introduction to electronic mass media balances coverage of cutting-edge new technologies with the history, regulation, and programming topics that are equally important in providing students with a strong foundation for future careers. The text offers broad-based coverage of business structures..
Engineering and Technical Handbook Author: McNeese, Donald G. Publisher: Prentice Hall Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0132774348 ISBN-13: 9780132774345..
Although they are two aspects of the same subject, environmental toxicology and environmental chemistry are usually presented as though they are entirely separate from one another; even their practitioners often seem unaware of the connections. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is the first tex..
Documents the story of the first human heart transplant and the competition between four top surgeons to master the necessary techniques to make heart transplants possible, in an account that describes the difficult challenges that were faced by each doctor. 40,000 first printing. Author: McRae, Don..
William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that "he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction." In Forty Stories, the companion volume to Sixty Stories, we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, Captain Blood, modern courtship, marria..
Challenging classical histories of the French Revolution, this revisionist work argues that any history and analysis of the period must give as much weight to counterrevolution as to revolution itself. Sutherland demonstrates that the effects of the Revolution varied greatly according to regional ec..
From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of the American landscape following European settlement. It starts with "virgin" forests and grasslands of the central and northeastern United States, and successively documents the clearance and fragmentation of the region's woodl..
From Language to Communication focuses on the structure of texts and on the social and psychological aspects of language. Utilizing current thinking and research, this volume provides an overview of issues in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognition, pragmatics, discourse, and semantics as they coal..
A look at the career of Vo Nguyen Giap, based on interviews with the Vietnamese general, reveals how an army so poor in material resources accomplished so much militarily, discussing Giap's early days as a resistance fighter and more. Author: MacDonald, Peter G. Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Bindin..
I Hear What You Say, But What Are You Telling Me is a fascinating, original, and invaluable tool kit filled with practical information and techniques for mediators who want to use nonverbal communication to their strategic advantage. Employing a proven process, Barbara Madonik--communication expert..
To make a computer do a calculation, however simple, you must describe every step of that calculation in a language the computer can understand: this description is called a program. This book presents a popular and widely available language called BASIC and explains how to write simple programs in ..
This book provides an introduction to programming in Pascal for the complete beginner. It starts with the fundamental concept of a stored program and works through to the manipulation of records in dynamic storage. The style of presentation is pictorial, with well-chosen illustrations replacing leng..
Lays out the plan for a collection of readings from Scripture designed for the needs of seekers and the unchurched.The church has used lectionaries-lists of scriptures to be read on particular Sundays throughout the year-across its long history. Yet most lectionaries are inward-looking: they presupp..
This new translation of the first volume of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy includes material not available to Haldane and Simson when they made their translation nearly 100 years ago. Indispensable for the student of Hegel, it can also serve as an introduction to Hegel's conception of..
Studying the development, expansion, and eventual collapse of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through 1945, Beasley here discusses the dynamic relationship between a successful industrial economy and the building of an empire. Author: Beasley, W. G. Publisher: Clarendon ..