Product Description: One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board races...read more

Product Description: With record low approval ratings—the lowest poll results since 1974—Congress is a failing institution in the eyes of many Americans. Is public opinion correct in judging the inefficacy of the legislative branch, or is the public mistaken in these harsh criticisms? Congress: A Performance Appraisal teaches students about this critical institution of American democracy by examining how successful the body is in carrying out its key functions, particularly representation, lawmaking, and checking the other branches of government...read more

Product Description: The Republican Party currently enjoys an edge. The advantage can be seen in Congress, state politics, judicial rulings, foreign and domestic policy, party finances, the media, public attitudes, and economic and demographic developments...read more

Product Description: Food Flavor Technology presents a review of the state of the art of flavor technology. It covers flavor generation, flavor delivery, and flavor analysis. The material also discusses the important concept of flavor encapsulation, and it comprehensively analyzes the industrial applications of food flavor technology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Andrew Taylor's book covers all the main themes of economic and political history in modern Britain: the rise and fall of trades unionism, industrial relations, nationalization, modernization and de-industrialization, drawing on much unpublished archive material...read more

Product Description: This text is a guide to interpreting radiographic images of the biliary tree and pancreatic duct. It describes and illustrates normal and abnormal endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatographic (ERCP) findings and correlates these findings with the results of complementary computed tomography, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging studies...read more