Product Description: Six full practice tests with tips and training for the 2015 revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE). Advanced Trainer Second edition offers six practice tests for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced exam combined with easy-to-follow guidance and exam tips...read more

Product Description: Six full practice tests with tips and training for the 2015 revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE). Advanced Trainer Second edition offers six practice tests for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam combined with easy-to-follow guidance and exam tips...read more

Product Description: Description This book tells the story of my battles within the mental health system over the last fourteen years. I have, from a psychiatrist's perspective, variously been diagnosed as hypomanic, schizophrenic, manic depressive and as having schizoaffective disorder - and in that order! But from my point of view (and as an ex-journalist I decided to investigate the mental health system from the inside out!), I have simply been on an extraordinary spiritual journey, meeting the spirits of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, meeting a spiritually persecuting Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, meeting the ancient queen Cleopatra herself, meeting the devilish spirit of Dr...read more

Product Description: Modern microprocessors make use of speculation, or predictions about future program behavior, to optimize the execution of programs. Perceptrons are simple neural networks that can be highly useful in speculation for their ability to examine larger quantities of available data than more commonly used approaches, and identify which data lead to accurate results...read more

Product Description: How it all Started It all started, or I guess you could say it did, on the last week of summer when most kids would be ending their vacations at the beach or getting back home from visiting their relatives, and, of course, dreading the thought of the comi

Love does not suffer from ignorance, injustice, or prejudice—but young lovers often do. Codey’s Place chronicles the struggles of Christine, the white daughter of a plantation owner, and Codediah, the black son of the plantation manager. Born in segregated South Carolina, they must overcome societal traditions to fulfill their love. Can Codediah’s uncompromising sense of his identity and understanding of his place in the world save their love from extinction?

Product Description: This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the sustantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book--the writing and editing processes, where Jessie Chambers and then Edward Garnett made decisive interventions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on the Cambridge Edition of Lawrence's letters and works, this is a systematic study of his neglected early novels and short stories. Michael Black considers that these should be taken seriously as a representative part of Lawrence's entire output and demonstrates how they show originality...read more

Product Description: This second volume of Michael Black's commentary on Lawrence's prose-works concentrates on the extraordinary sequence of non-fictional texts written between 1913 and 1917: the 'Foreword' to Sons and Lovers, Study of Thomas Hardy, Twilight in Italy, 'The Crown', 'The Reality of Peace'...read more

Product Description: In the past 20 years, there has been a revolution in plant sciences, as new methods of molecular biology and biophysics have been applied to investigate environmental stress, particularly desiccation tolerance. Today, there is a good level of understanding of how plant cells cope with extreme water stress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the sustantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book--the writing and editing processes, where Jessie Chambers and then Edward Garnett made decisive interventions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The recent publication of Lawrence's early letters, and corrected texts of his fiction have prompted a new assessment of him. This systematic study accordingly concentrates on the neglected early novels and short stories and reveals a new relationship between his art and thought...read more

Product Description: This second volume of Michael Black's commentary on Lawrence's prose works concentrates on the extraordinary sequence of nonfiction texts written between 1913 and 1917: The "Foreword" to Sons and Lovers, Study of Thomas Hardy, Twilight in Italy, "The Crown," "The Reality of Peace...read more

Product Description: The enticement of easily obtained, richly vivid and infinitely diverse dreaming on demand is something to die for—or kill for. On his journey to restore his sister’s health, Jon Dean pursues a medical miracle—a DNA doorway. His path leads through adventures as unpredictable as recombining DNA...read more

Sustainable development has become the primary focus of national and international environmental policy. Designed as a common global strategy for industrial and industrializing countries, some see it as offering environmental protection without sacrificing economic growth. But sustainability has become a hotly contested concept. As its critics point out, sustainable development seeks to achieve environmental protection without confronting the tough choices facing modern corporate-industrial society and its consumption-driven way of life. To what degree is the existing system itself responsible for the environmental crisis? Can we achieve a sustainable future merely by tagging environmental requirements onto the existing industrial order? Or must we address the political-economic system itself? Broadly committed to the goals and values of a green political perspective, the chapters in this book show the environmental crisis to be essentially a political-economic crisis. The pursuit of sustainability cannot proceed without significant changes in our economic enterprises, public institutions and personal lives. Reaching beyond the contradictions of sustainable development, the authors explore the kinds of political arrangements needed to throw open sustainability to wide-ranging debate, both national and international. They advance alternative environmental policy-making processes designed to forge a genuine political consensus around these questions, as well as institutional, cultural and behavioural strategies capable of translating it into effective policy solutions. Fundamental to these strategies, a progressive commitment to participatory democracy is seen to provide the surest footing for both the articulation and realization of a sustainable future.

Product Description: This concise yet comprehensive handbook covers the essentials of anesthesiology with topics ranging from basic principles of pharmacology to pre-op evaluation, airway management, pain management, outpatient surgery, and patient recovery...read more

Product Description: Written during and immediately after the 1914-18 War, Lawrence's major fictions - notably The Rainbow and Women in Love - trace the growth and contemplate the state of industrial England in the twentieth century. Michael Black's introductory chapters show the theoretical interest of Lawrence's writing-method, and how in discarded draft material he was seeking the narrative modes of the great novels which followed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to health for gay men features discussions of finding good health care, alcohol and drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, bereavement, HIV and AIDS, stress, and more. Original.

Product Description: For decades, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma intersect, has been infamous for its opium and heroin production. But in the 1990s, the drug gangs in the Golden Triangle began to produce methamphetamine, a synthetic narcotic that is not dependent on an unreliable crop like the opium poppy...read more