Tells how to prepare one's home for a pet cat, discusses cat characteristics and behavior, and offers advice on solving behavior problems

An account of the murder of Candy Short describes how investigators were initially unable to collect enough evidence against Candy's husband, John, and how George Brejack, a homicide detective, finally solved the crime. Original.

Product Description: What basic hardware and software is needed for technical services workstations? What cataloguing are available on the Internet? How can a workstation be planned that will improve cataloguers' productivity? The answers to these and other questions can be found in this comprehensive guide to successful technical services workstations (TSW) for cataloguing and authority control...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A historical novel that highlights the passion, politics, and class relationships in Boston prior to the onset of the American Revolution, told from the point of view of a woman.

Product Description: Internationalization with Visual Basic is designed to get the Visual Basic developer into the realm of applications that can run in different locales and even process data from multiple locales. Internationalization with Visual Basic explains how to create a Visual Basic application that will support the international marketplace...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In work environments worldwide, the ways in which people think, do their jobs, and interface with other human beings grow out of their experiences in the groups of which they are a part. How these influences affect their performance and human interfacingin work environments throughout the world is the subject of cultural ergonomics. In this volume, scientists explore these cultural influences in relation to significant current concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include scientific-philosophical considerations, aircraft safety, maritime safety, cross-national training, effective use of the world-wide web, multinational decision making, Third World industrial development, implementation of technology transfer, and the functioning of multicultural teams.

A guide to the essentials of living takes the advice of experts in a vast majority of fields, from Donald Trump on the best time to haggle to Johnny Ramone on the best time to learn to play guitar, making each entry as entertaining as it is informative. Original. 50,000 first printing.

A colorful look inside the world of high-stakes poker charts the history and development of poker and offers profiles of some of the game's top players--including Doyle Brunson, 'Amarillo Slim' Preston, and Chris Moneymaker--and their personal insights, how-to advice, and professional tips on how they win.

A layperson's sojourn into the realm of probability evaluates statistical information for a wide variety of arenas, from poker and politics to weather and war, in an account that profiles numerous men and women who use the forces of probability in creative and revelatory ways. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

A colorful look inside the world of high-stakes poker charts the history and development of poker and offers profiles of some of the game's top players--including Doyle Brunson, 'Amarillo Slim' Preston, and Chris Moneymaker--and their personal insights, how-to advice, and professional tips on how they win. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Cultural ergonomics is an evolving field that stems from the broader parent disciplines of ergonomics and human factors. Under the umbrella of these parent disciplines, it has come to stand beside such sister subfields as macroergonomics, cognitive ergonomics, and industrial ergonomics, as well as other traditional areas of ergonomic research and practice...read more

Product Description: Unter Computeralgebra versteht man den Grenzbereich zwischen Algebra und Informatik, der sich mit Entwurf, Analyse, Implementierung und Anwendung algebraischer Algorithmen befasst. Entsprechend dieser Sichtweise stellt der Autor einige Computeralgebra-Systeme vor und zeigt an Beispielen deren Leistungsfähigkeit...read more

Product Description: Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in a staggering variety of ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher interest rate when a pretty woman's face was printed on the flyer? Why did one poll on immigration find that the most despised foreigners were from a group that did not exist? Why does giving someone power make them more likely to chew with their mouth open and pick their nose? And why is your sister going out with that biker dude? In fact, our cognitive, logical, and romantic failures may be a fair price to pay for our extraordinary success as a species--they are the necessary cost of our adaptability...read more

Product Description: (Berklee Guide). Learn twelve classic bebop guitar solos from six of the greatest bebop artists. Each solo includes a technical introduction with analytical insights and references to its classic recording. The transcribed solos include: All the Things You Are (Tal Farlow) * Four on Six (Wes Montgomery) * Have You Met Miss Jones? (Jimmy Raney) * I'll Remember April (Grant Green) * Oleo (Joe Pass) * Stella by Starlight (George Benson) * and more...read more