Product Description: Skip’s story is a page-turning mix of tragedy and incredible adventure. He had an extremely disfunctional family and faced many obstacles and failures along the way, but instead of being defeated, he saw God use these things for good to help others...read more

Product Description: This diagnostic history of Argentina's economic prostration is full of timely lessons for readers in the United States about how an irresponsible capitalist elite and cynical politicians can lead a wealthy nation to throw it all away.• 15 illustrations

Product Description: Powerlifting is a sport where strength plays a great part in an athlete’s success, but there are many other factors involed in success in powerlifting. In Powerlifting For Men and Women: How To Lift Like A Champion, Lewis reveals the secrets he has learned about powerlifting in his 20 plus years of coaching the sport...read more

A guide to the pensions minefield that provides the information you need to plan now and avoid worry in the future. This book includes extensive FAQs, comprehensive and authoritative advice on where to get your pension and how to assess its quality, and help on what to do if you've been given bad advice.

The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.

Product Description: In this concise introduction to comparative politics and key dimensions of contemporary political systems a number of prominent political scientists explore these pressing concerns. Vivid case studies bring abstract issues to life in this text.

Economics has become polarised. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use of mathematical modelling. On the other hand, there are economists who believe passionately that in order for economics to be useful it needs to take account of its history, its impact on society and its real world applications.The contributors to this book fix their scholarly glare on the heterodox section of economics, and in particular upon critical realist approaches to the subject. Experts from a variety of perspectives have come together in these pages to examine the impact and usefulness of critical realism in relation to the different spheres within economics.Notable for its contributions from such distinguished figures as Clive Granger, Edward J. Nell and Peter J. Boettke - this book deserves to find a ready audience across the economics spectrum.

Product Description: This volume presents 17 perspectives on CALL and language technology from teachers and researchers connected to the CALL Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching. The book aims to shed light on progress in both theoretical and practical areas of CALL...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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