Notable for its streamlined style and deco details, the ’40 Ford has gained in popularity among today’s classic car nostalgists and hot rodders who remember the models as monsters of the drag strip and as affordable first cars or hot rod platforms of their youth.In this illustrated history of the ’4..
Witness the evolution of the American auto factory beginning with the basic hand-built assembly of cars built in the earliest part of the twentieth century, through the age of the assembly line, up to today's robotically-operated lines. Large photographs of the assembly lines in action send readers ..
Here's the real plumber's friendThis fully revised guide gives you plumbing essentials, illustrations, tips, shortcuts - the lowdown on brazing, soldering, pipe fittings, commercial water coolers, automatic bathroom systems, and more.All this and much more* Includes tables, diagrams, and working dra..
Major General Joseph P. Franklin (ret.) believes almost everything that he is as an adult can be traced back to his days at West Point, where he was not only a cadet but an instructor, football coach, and eventually Commandant of Cadets. U.S. Military Academy graduates are found at the highest level..
America is now in the second generation of debate on school choice. The first was prompted by the provocative voucher proposal conceived by Milton Friedman in 1955 and brought into the mainstream by Chubb and Moe's seminal book Politics, Markets, and American Schools (Brookings, 1990). It introduced..
Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political, and economic stucture. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by the terrible corpse-..
Exploring Personhood examines the metaphysical underpinnings of theories of human nature, personhood, and the self. The history of western philosophy provides the framework for broaching critical questions pertinent to these three topics. The book explores philosophical anthropology on its most foun..
Affective states have a highly important, yet little understood influence on how people think about, remember, and respond to social situations. Contributions from leading psychologists in the field review and integrate the most recent work on the role of affect in social life. They offer new insigh..
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda kept a diary throughout his time as a member of the Nazi Party and this covers the period of the last weeks of WW2 from February-April, 1945. Author: Joseph Goebbels Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0399..
From 1971 to 1982, researchers at the RAND Corporation devised an experiment to address two key questions in health care financing: how much more medical care will people use if it is provided free of charge and what are the consequences for their health This book presents a comprehensive account ..
Americans have been trying to redesign the American high school since it was first invented. One of the latest approaches-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and can be replicated in others. The authors of this book..
This book offers a comprehensive review and integration of the most recent research and theories on the role of affect in social cognition and features original contributions from leading researchers in the field. The applications of this work to areas such as clinical, organizational, forensic, hea..
This work combines a collection of data on phonological acquisition with close attention to Optimality Theory. It blends the studies of linguistics, psycholinguistics and speech-language pathology in reference to phonological development. The book also contains a linear phonology, second language ac..
Java is a language many aspiring programmers are eager to learn because of its versatility, extensibility, and ever-increasing popularity among employers. "Java Programming for the Absolute Beginner" teaches beginners the fundamental programming concepts they need to grasp in order to learn any comp..
Book by McCarthy, Todd n Charles Flynn [Editors] Author: McCarthy, Todd;Flynn, Charles, eds.re: William Castle;Edgar G. Ulmer;Joseph H Le Publisher: E. P. Dutton Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0525140905 ISBN-13: 9780525140900..
Shows the ways in which we thwart the child from learning all there is to know about his world and suggests approaches to recovering our genetic capacity for creative intelligence Author: Pearce, Joseph Chilton Publisher: E. P. Dutton Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0525150358 ISBN-13:..
This new edition explores how the insights and techniques developed by philosophers can help illuminate and resolve moral issues. MORAL REASONING develops reasoning skills necessary for understanding and applying ethical theories. It approaches ethics from a philosophical point of view and develops ..
An insightful exploration of the link between music and language. "How is music like language, and so what if it is " Using this double-barreled question as a starting point, Joseph P. Swain takes us to the fascinating crossroads where the philosophy and theory of music meet the worlds of linguistic..
This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Blac..
A history of the disability rights movement discusses the ever-growing struggle of disabled people to challenge discrimination and explains how the disabled used their political clout to gain passage of the Americans With Disabilites Act. 25,000 first printing. Author: Shapiro, Joseph P. Publisher: ..
People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century. Author: Shapiro, Joseph P. Publisher: Crown Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0812924126 ISBN-13: 9780812924121..
The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period of time, for the nec..
An analysis of teaching in which the author examines the classroom environment, the conceptual domains of research, the complex layers of public policy, and the language of educational discourse and polemic. He looks at what teachers do, how they learn, and how they cope. Author: McDonald, Joseph P...
Technological forecasting for decision making Author: Martino, Joseph P. Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0444007229 ISBN-13: 9780444007223..
Probably the greatest natural disaster to ever curse humanity, the Black Death's lethality is legendary, killing between a quarter to over half of any given stricken area's population. Though historians suspect a first wave of bubonic plague struck the Mediterranean area between 571 - 760 C.E., ther..