Product Description: Intended for the general reader, this masterful compilation probes the psychology of suicide, revealing the latest research and spotlighting global efforts to reduce the million suicide deaths each year.• Breaks new ground in drawing together current research on the incidence of suicide, theories as to why suicide occurs, cultural differences, and efforts at prevention• Explains and analyzes the effectiveness of prevention programs from psychotherapy and suicide prevention centers/hotlines to programs in schools, restriction of lethal methods, and national and international campaigns and programs • Includes cultural, religious, philosophical, and medical/psychiatric/psychological views on suicide• Discusses the ever-controversial topic of assisted suicid...read more

Do you want to know about the Sub-conscious mind? How it works? How it controls the way you interact around others. How it affects the way you think and respond to crisis? How it creates images in your visual mind that make you see positive and negative images which can cause you to love, hate and believe just about anything. Our Sub-conscious mind has the ability to take in so much information and later uses it to shape and form the way we see and act towards life's many challenges. The Sub-conscious mind is a remarkable master piece that has a storage capacity that only the universe can contain. But once you read this book, you will begin to feel the power of having knowledge that many have search for but only a few have acquired. Come, touch its core and master the power of new sources of information called your Sub-conscious mind.

Product Description: Drawing on a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than 50 images, this collection of grisly tales explores the shadier side of Harrogate's past.  Among the cases featured here are a police constable stabbed in Pateley Bridge in 1831; a wife who poisoned her husband in Dallowgill in 1834; and two children murdered by their father in Ripon in 1837...read more

Product Description: This book offers a comprehensive review of all basic mathematics concepts and prepares readers for further coursework. The arithmetic is presented with an emphasis on problem-solving, skills, concepts, and applications based on "real world" data, with some introductory algebra integrated throughout...read more

Product Description: This text offers a comprehensive review of all basic mathematics concepts and prepares students for further coursework. The arithmetic is presented with an emphasis on problem-solving, skills, concepts, and applications based on "real world" data, with some introductory algebra integrated throughout...read more

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Product Description: Early formal specifications of natural language syntax were quite closely connected to the notion of abstract machines for computing them. This provided a very natural means of gauging the relative difficulty of processing various constructions, as well as offering some insight into the abstract properties of the human language faculty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A novel of fast lives and fast food, set in the greedy 1980s. The author of War and Peace in Milton Keynes and A Dog's Life assembles a cast of petty crooks, wide boys and hoodlums who frequent luxury yachts and Harvester Inns, motorway cafes and mock-Victorian pubs.

Product Description: This new ADVANTAGE SERIES, one-semester prealgebra text smoothly bridges the gap between arithmetic and beginning algebra and is suitable for a variety of course formats, including lab (both supervised and self-paced), lecture, group, and a combination of all three...read more

The first dictionary of its kind revitalizes more than two thousand cliches and tired phrases by revealing the history of the origin behind each one

Paul, a Machiavellian boy, manipulates the lives of the adults and children around him, in a novel that follows him from a precocious eight year old to his college years