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At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeas...
$8.61
Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why - given the oppressive alternative of home life in ..
Beam: The Race to Make the Laser
$42.02
Beam is the story of the race to make the laser, the three intense years from the birth of the laser idea to its breakthrough demonstration in a California laboratory. The quest was a struggle against physics, established wisdom, and the establishment itself.In 1954, Charles Townes invented the lase..
Cacti & Succulents
$12.21
Provides information on the care of cacti and includes tips on propagation techniques Author: Hecht, Hans Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0806905492 ISBN-13: 9780806905495..
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co
Calculus for Electronics
$20.74
Former library book, barcode on cover but pages are in great condition. Author: Hecht, Gary W. Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 007052355X ISBN-13: 9780070523555..
Communicating Prejudice
$12.46
A new integrative conceptual model of prejudice - the layered perspective of cultural intolerance - is presented in the volume. This model is used to analyze the communication of prejudice in a variety of guises such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and classism. Drawing on multidisciplinary pe..
Containing Nationalism
$9.08
Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the world today. Scholarship has provided scant guidance for containing the dark side of nationalism--its widely publicized excesses of violence, such as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Based on fundamental theoret..
Copyright (Interactive Casebook Series)
$30.85
This interactive casebook provides a comprehensive and provocative introduction to copyright doctrine, policy, and the contemporary controversies that animate the field. Numerous callout boxes provide students with direct links to a wealth of online resources, including, for many of the cases, audio..
Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's Fir...
$11.01
Even as a child in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Herman Mudgett was considered a lad with a future, a boy who professed filial devotion while secretly fantasizing his parents' deaths. By age eleven he was conducting secret experiments on small animals and strays, becoming skilled at disabling his subjec..
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Mos...
$15.28
LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early t..
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Mos...
$15.95
From Simon & Schuster and Harold Schechter comes Deranged, the shocking true story of America's most fiendish killer. Schechter brings his expertise to the shocking true story of a murderer in the early 20th century.Deranged reveals the true story behind the life and crimes of Albert Fish, a grandfa..
Discoveries: 50 stories of the quest
$10.98
Book by Harold Schechter n Jonna Gormely Semeiks Author: Harold Schechter & Jonna Gormely Semeiks Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Pub Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0672615630 ISBN-13: 9780672615634..
Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest
$10.84
Reflecting today's growing emphasis on multiculturalism, the second edition of this remarkably successful anthology offers twelve additional contributions from the new generation of writers currently revitalizing the short story form, including Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, R.K. Narayan, Stephen Milha..
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Leg...
$8.57
In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from So..
Fatal : The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Kill...
$12.30
In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.AN ANGEL OF MERCYIn 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a private-duty nurse. Selfless and good-natured, she beguile..
Group Counseling and Psychotherapy With Children a...
$12.63
Many children and adolescents face developmental or situational difficulties in areas where they live most of their meaningful experiences-at home, at school, and in the community. While adults who struggle with life events and stressors may look to professional help, young individuals are quite alo..
How to Make Money with Commodities
$12.33
Generate steady returns in one of the world's hottest marketsHow to Make Money with Commodities offers proven strategies and tactics to help individual investors capitalize from the commodities market as global demographic shifts drive prices up."How to Make Money with Commodities sets out in crysta..
Intellectual Property: The Law of Copyrights, Pate...
$17.46
This work provides a comprehensive treatment of all three major branches of intellectual property law, surveying basic principles and emerging issues. The book summarizes what is clear, identifies what is unsettled, and offers concise views on how some open issues might be sensibly resolved. This te..
Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American Histor...
$13.54
Latin American history-the stuff of wars, elections, conquests, inventions, colonization, and all those other events and processes attributed to adults-has also been lived and partially forged by children. Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half ..
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditio...
$28.31
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions presents chapters that focus on specific musical cultures including: Mexico, Central American, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru and more. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and includes specific examples from the contributor's fieldwor..
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditio...
$10.28
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions presents chapters that focus on specific musical cultures including: Mexico, Central American, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru and more. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and includes specific examples from the contributor's fieldwor..
MY BRAIN IS OPEN: The Mathematical Journeys of Pau...
$8.69
Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to prove and conjecture. His work in the United States and all over the ..
Nathan the Wise: By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing with ...
$15.95
Nathan the Wise is a play published in 1779. It is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. Its performance was forbidden by the church during Lessing's lifetime, Author: Ronald Schechter Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0312401523 ISBN-13: 9780312401528..
University of California Press
Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in Fran...
$78.60
Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power In this unusuall..
Optics
$72.69
Accurate, authoritative and comprehensive, Optics, Fourth Edition has been revised to provide readers with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader for over a decade, this book provides a balance of theory and instrumentation, while also including the necessary classical background...
Optics, 2nd Edition
$9.83
Optics, 2nd Edition Hardcover - May, 1987 by Eugene Hecht (Author) Author: Hecht, Eugene Publisher: Addison-Wesley Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 020111609X ISBN-13: 9780201116090..