Provides a guide to the basic steps of Scottish reels and country dances, all broken down into bullet points and illustrated with diagrams. This title also offers hints on the social niceties of reeling, the conventions of the dance and the timetable of the Scottish social season.

Product Description: Research on Agents and Multi-agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to presents and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer...read more

Product Description: One of todays big issues in the light of exploding growth of diabetes, organ transplantation, is examined in how science is bringing new opportunities, change, and sometimes questionable progress to daily life. Features include Face the Issues, What Do You Think?, and Get the Facts Straight time lines and sidebars...read more

Product Description: One of todays big headline issues, cosmetic surgery, is examined in light of how science is bringing new opportunities, change, and sometimes questionable progress to daily life. Features include Face the Issues, What Do You Think?, and Get the Facts Straight time lines and sidebars...read more

Product Description: This compact and concise book is a detailed guide to prehistoric life. More than 2000 bulleted facts are accompanied by hundreds of illustrations, diagrams and photographs. An extensive index allows for easy navigation of facts.

Presents the geography, history, economy, population, customs, and politics of Ethiopia.

Product Description: Un estudio completo y actualizado sobre grupos de animales que pasan la mayor parte de su vida en entornos acuáticos.Magníficamente ilustrado, con centenares de esquemas, dibujos y fotografías.Excelentes mapas de localización que muestran la distribución de todas las especies...read more

Discusses what invertebrates are and how they are classified, and provides information about size, key features, habits, diet, habitat, and distribution for such invertebrates as earthworms, bedbugs, and oysters.

Introduces the animals that make up the food chains in rivers and lakes.

Introduces the plants and animals that make up the desert food chain.

Product Description: The Oxford Handbook of Strategy is a two-volume set on the key subject areas and issues currently under discussion in the field of strategy. It unites a team of contributors who are all authorities on the topic of their chapter. The handbook will be of considerable value to researchers, graduate students, and teachers whose interest in the subject area has advanced beyond that of the traditional textbooks, and to managers and consultants who seek an authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date discussion of the fundamentals of strategy...read more

Product Description: This book provides a rich resource of information with maximum impact and minimum clutter. Exactly 1000 facts are covered by 100 topics, each with 10 key points that provide a simple but memorable handle on the subject. Fascinating information panels as well as extended captions amplify this quick fire approach...read more

Describes what and where wetlands are, the plants and animals that live in wetlands, how people benefit and threaten wetlands, and how these threats are being addressed.

Product Description: Conventional wisdom tells us to try harder, be more innovative, take more risks - and almost every company tries. Only a tiny percentage of management teams settle for sticking to their core businesses and declining gracefully as their business matures...read more

Product Description: A fascinating look at our threatened world habitats and what's being done to save them

This illustrated catalogue of water animals from dolphins and whales through marine and freshwater fish to corals and other primitive life includes descriptions of physical characteristics, life cycles and reproductive behavior, and survival status.