Product Description: Sooner or later everyone who ventures out on the water will encounter strong winds and confused seas, fog, thunderstorms, or heavy rain. This book acquaints boaters with the forces that shape weather, allowing them to predict what changes can be expected...read more

Product Description: This new accessible revised and updated paperback version of The WI Complete Christmas is packed with over 130 failsafe recipes and ideas for Christmas from traditional favorites such as Buttered Roast Turkey with Chestnut Stuffing, Gran's Christmas Pudding, Star Mince Pies, and Jeweled Christmas Cake, to modern variations, including a Rosti Topped Halibut with Smoked Salmon and Avocado, Quail's Eggs with Sea Salt and Chili Dip, Italian Plait, and Banoffee Tarts...read more

Product Description: 52 complete lessons for adults of all ages. 8 pages in each lesson, includingverse-by-verse exposition, learning activities, and discussion starters.Special helps for teachers, including pronunciation guides, reproducible student pages,and more...read more

Product Description: Book by Williams, Margaret, Grinnell, Richard M., Jr.

Product Description: The struggle to achieve the primary and unchanging aim of foster care - to care for abused, neglected and abandoned children from every race and culture, wherever they may be - can be assisted by facilitating a greater international sharing of problems, experiences and innovation...read more

Product Description: A beautifully realized historical novel set at the turn of the twentieth century in New York's Hudson Valley, where a town of immigrant brickworkers is on the brink of disaster and a young Canadian woman, in a loveless marriage, struggles to find herself.

Product Description: In November 1990, Joe Clark's brother was shot to death as he slept. Joe shot and killed two of the three men responsible, but he remains haunted by memories of the bloody night. Six years later, Joe runs into an old associate, Benny Schroeder...read more

Product Description: Setter Irlandés (excellence) Margaret Williams Esta nueva obra de la colección Excellence. Razas de hoy proporciona la más actual y completa información sobre los orígenes, estándar, temperamento y características del Setter Irlandés...read more

Product Description: The survivors of an attack on a nuclear power plant in the Virginia countryside find themselves wondering if they are awake or asleep and praying it’s only a dream.

Traces the history of the breed, describes breed standards, discusses care and grooming requirements, and includes information on training.

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As one of the few groups in the Greco-Roman world to resist cultural assimilation, the Jews remained an object of fascination throughout antiquity. Greek and Roman writers devoted much space to them, but few bothered to learn the facts about Jews, preferring to report stereotypes and rumor. Evidence does exist, however, to show what real Jews were like in antiquity and how they interacted with the Greeks and Romans, both pagan and Christian. In The Jews among the Greeks and Romans, Margaret Williams assembles, assesses, and contextualizes literary and archaeological evidence relating to Jewish communities outside the land of Israel. The sourcebook covers the period beginning with the Diaspora that resulted from the chaos of Alexander the Great's death in 323 BCE and concluding with the demise of the Jewish Patriarchate around 420 CE. This was a time which saw, first, the rapid opening up of opportunities for Jews and then, in the century after Constantine, the gradual but inexorable raising of barriers against them. Newly translated from the Greek and Latin, the documents cover a broad array of topics, including religion, customs, festivals, repression, citizenship, military service, economics, intermarriage, and conversion from Jew to Gentile and Gentile to Jew. While previous collections have concentrated on literary texts, the present volume gives prominence to papyrological and epigraphic source material. Composed in accordance with Greco-Roman epigraphic conventions but written by Jews, these texts--some only recently discovered--constitute an extraordinarily rich source of information about the values and practices of Jews in antiquity.

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Product Description: 'Top Down Programming using Turbo Pascal' is for those who are new to programming or those with some knowledge who wish to learn a structured approach to the discipline. This book uses a series of fascinating case studies. The key concepts of programming design are introduced with programs which are fully structured from the start...read more

Product Description: This is an international reference study which describes the role and structure of foster family care systems in 30 countries. Each chapter describes the foster system in a particular country and is written by an expert from that country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The results of research carried out in the UK, Holland and Spain, this study assesses the impact upon child welfare services of perceptions of stigma associated with such services by providers and consumers. Funded by the European Commission and conducted in Wales, the Netherlands and Catalonia, the research undertaken aimed to assess the success or otherwise of present policies with respect to providing services in a non-stigmatizing way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Designed specifically for African-American women--who are more prone than white women to diabetes, hypertension, obesity, systemic lupus, and fibroids during pregnancy--a comprehensive reference provides sound medical advice and reassuring wisdom. Original.

Product Description: The Children Act of 1989 was heralded by the Lord Chancellor as the most far-reaching reform of child care law in living memory. This book reports findings from a study undertaken on the implementation of the heart of the Act: provisions for helping children in need and their families...read more