Product Description: It attacks through foods, animals, and innumerable chemical combinations. It is among the most common and potentially lethal afflictions known. It is the allergy, the subject of Mark Jackson’s fascinating chronicle.Jacksoninvestigates how the allergy became the archetypal “disease of civilization,” as it transformed from a fringe malady of the wealthy into one of the greatest medical disorders of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: This book is a whimsical tale about Doggy and Kitty musicians that get together for a parade. The book comes with a catchy song version of the story on a CD in the back of the book, so kids can read and sing along, dance and march, while they listen to the song...read more

Product Description: Luke Morgan is in prison serving time for a trumped-up firearms charge when he learns his family is facing danger from an impending political upheaval that will dissolve the government of the United States. After he breaks out to help his family flee the perils, he is called on to join the Patriots’ desperate fight against the Elitists and their Chinese mercenaries...read more

Product Description: Over five million workers in health care related fields are at risk to exposure to bloodborne pathogens, such as the HIV virus and hepatitis B virus, as well as tuberculosis. This book was created for students and empoyees who have potential for occupational exposure.

Product Description: Best-selling quick reference to chemistry. Chemistry essentials for students just beginning in chemistry or as an excellent reference throughout higher-level courses. 4-page laminated guide includes: • atomic structure • nuclear chemistry • atomic quantum numbers/orbitals • electronic atoms • types of matter/reactions • physical processes • nomenclature/stoichiometry • chemical interactions/bonding models • gases/thermodynamics/theories • and much more...read more

Product Description: The latest addition to our popular line of chemistry titles. This guide is packed with useful and up-to-date information.

Product Description: The history of infanticide from the 16th through to the late 20th century is the subject of this volume. Collectively, the contributions explore how the concealment of pregnancy, birth and death, particularly by unmarried women, became a central preoccupation of witnesses, doctors, courts and legislatures concerned with suspicious infant deaths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents how boats, planes, space vehicles, and cars work through an examination of the mechanical principles, complete with cutaway artwork, diagrams, and photos. Original.

Product Description: Feeble-mindedness was a late Victorian and Edwardian obsession. Unlike madness, idiocy has not been much written about, but it has its own tragic story. This book examines both how and why certain children and adults were labeled as "feeble-minded" and segregated into special schools and colonies in late Victorian and Edwardian England...read more

Product Description: Book by Jackson, Mark, Jones, Leif, McCoy, Angel

Product Description: Book by Jackson, Mark

Product Description: This text concerns women who were accused of murdering their new-born children in the 18th century. It explores why certain women were suspected of murdering their children at birth and how they were subsequently treated by their neighbours, families, friends and the courts...read more

Product Description: This 12-chapter text presents a concise first course in microeconomics which is suitable for both MBA and upper level undergraduate programmes. No previous knowledge of economics is assumed. "MBA Economics" covers the key areas of microeconomics - how the interactions of producers and consumers in product markets produce powerful tendencies towards efficiency and equality when self-interest is harnessed within purely competitive markets, as well as how rent-seeking activity can alter this conclusion and how human-capital investments can increase the productivity and wages of workers...read more

Product Description: Book by Jackson, Mark

Product Description: Labor Economics: Choice in Labor Markets by Don Bellante (Author), Mark Jackson Professors of economics at Auburn University.