Thoroughly illustrated with maps, charts, and photographs, this anecdotal history of the U.S. Navy examines the impact of innovation and technology on the service as it chronicles the Navy's colorful and sometimes controversial past

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"Understanding Abnormal Psychology" appeals to professors who teach an applied multicultural approach that is more rigorous and integrative (as compared to the Essentials version that addresses the need for a lower level, less expensive text). The strengths of this comprehensive text lie in its multicultural coverage, research and promotion of critical-thinking skills. The Eighth Edition has been updated and refreshed, and the technology program has been completely revamped and upgraded with the addition of new Abnormal Psych in Film videos, CRS and BB/Web CT content and revised student CD-ROM and PowerPoint program. The pedagogical hallmarks that continue to support this market-leading text include: Mental Health and Society and Critical Thinking boxes, Myth vs. Reality discussions and Case Studies that tie the chapter content to real-world examples.

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Product Description: This volume provides a discussion of the education of four- to six-year olds, based on a recognition of the complexities of being an early-years teacher. Anning begins by reviewing the historical and ideological traditions of British infant and primary schools, tracing how we have reached the position where teachers feel themselves to be torn between child-centred and utilitarian demands in educating young children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Currently in its fifth edition, Merchandise Buying; is a comprehensive text for students interested in the art and process behind retail merchandise buying. A standard in the field, this book also works well as a review of basic buying and merchandising principles for the practitioner and those already in business wishing to strengthen their entrepreneurial and managerial skills...read more

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Graduate macroeconomics courses are becoming increasingly technical. Students must learn the tools of dynamic analysis and they must be able to apply these tools to the wide range of different models that constitute the body of macroeconomic theory. This text presents a unified treatment of these approaches by showing how all of the models are related to the microeconomic paradigm of general equilibrium theory. It particularly complements Blanchard and Fisher's "Lectures on Macroeconomics" by filling out the technical material omitted in that text. Farmer proposes that the general equilibrium model most appropriate as a basis for macroeconomics is very different from the microeconomic paradigm. In the context of macroeconomic models, he observes, it is often the case that the welfare theorems that capture the idea of "the invisible hand" will fail to hold. Farmer explains the consequences of this failure for the properties of dynamic economic models. Farmer argues throughout that the model of macroeconomics that is the best tool for understanding the facts is one in which the self-fulfilling expectations of individual agents can have important effects on economic activity. Several chapters present new research showing how the ideas presented in the first part of the book can be used to provide new insights into old problems. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This social history of Iranian carpets traces their production, use, and exchange from the fifteenth century until World War II, highlighting in particular the carpet boom from 1873 to 1914. Over these five centuries, the Iranian hand-knotted, piled carpet shifted from an object made primarily for the Islamic Middle East to a commodity that by the twentieth century constituted Iran's largest nonpetroleum export to the West...read more

An expose of the modeling industry recounts the stories of the top models and reveals the ugly convergence of sex, wealth, drugs, obsession, and death behind the glamour